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Cake day: May 11th, 2026
  • makeshift0546@lemmy.todaytoDeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•Google is always listening???
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    19 hours ago

    Guys, ten or hundred of thousands security researchers have been going at this for years. Google isn’t secretly listening to you.

    These things work with 2 mics, and 2 different circuits. The recording mic is one, while the detection mic is another. The second mic is only capable of pattern matching.

    So yeah it’s on but only capable of hashing a 5 second recording and matching it to your voice (this shit works a lot like rsa keys if that’s helpful) to serve as a wake word. Maybe flag a simple response.

    All that’s happening is the device heard a loud sound and knows it wasn’t a match or what’s expected.

  • makeshift0546@lemmy.todaytoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees
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    3 days ago

    Meh, right now, and only if you’re trying to replace the work force. At is current state, on a $30 a month Copilot plan you’ll already see a huge gain in efficiency with supervised coding and agents doing minor chores and maintenance.

    The average coder isn’t better then opus 4.6. No, is not ready to run production code bases unsupervised. Yes, it’s absolutely ready to do many many simple tasks autonomous and more complex coding with supervision.

    If you take even a week to try out this shit with an eye for what’s possible currently and have an ounce of common sense, I fail to see how folks don’t realize this will absolutely change how software is delivered. Yes humans will be involved but there will be much much less direct coding and a lot more supervision over multiple concurrent tasks that have had the time to delivery cut significantly.

  • makeshift0546@lemmy.todaytoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Iowa man sues Nintendo after being denied ‘Pokémon Professor’ statusEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Not at the show I frequent. When I say I’m close with store owners, our kids have sleep overs. So I assume you in getting their full opinions because I’ve brought this up with the new my little pony tcg. It’s overwhelmingly adults. Even for my little pony. Sold out in a day to adults, every single one. The majority of those guys open in store.

    The kids aren’t in tournaments for the most part, you get one or two sometimes in a big one. The trade shows are mostly adults. They aren’t buying boxes off of eBay for $300 a pop. They aren’t buying from stores.

    Maybe it’s different outside the US 🤷‍♂️ but we someone with close ties to owners and a wife spending 6k a year on cards I fail to see more than a paltry amount and I have never seen the kids at school playing Pokemon or any other tcg outside once playing mtg. I just feel like I would have seen some modest population of kids at some point.

  • makeshift0546@lemmy.todaytoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Iowa man sues Nintendo after being denied ‘Pokémon Professor’ statusEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Can we stop pretending this is made for children? It’s a way to control inventory and force owners to play by their rules and control the brand. I have been to tournaments and the wife spent 4k on it already this year. MAYBE 2% of people I see are children and every single one has a parent with them. Given the opportunity the two shop owners I know would happily forgo this garbage and keep their events 18+ or just handle safety themselves.

    Stop giving feel good excuses for card companies to continue to turn this shit into fomo crazy events and telling people where they can fucking play and with who.