JohnEdwa

Just use Intel CPUs and you’ll understand, as they seem to invent a new incompatible socket every five minutes requiring a new mobo.

Mumbling “Hey google, turn the lights off” from bed and the entire house going dark is pretty nice though.

Few of them also could be open, but just don’t advertise it.
IKEA stuff was all ZigBee, now upgrading to add matter support, so you could mix and match them with Philips Hue, Agara, Nedis and quite a few others. Main issue is always software support on the hub or app - Ikea has no smart thermostats, so even though it can connect to them, they don’t show up properly. That’s where Home Assistant shines, as it supports basically everything imaginable.

But you are right, most are proprietary because they want to lock you to their ecosystems. Exactly like cordless power tools and their batteries.

HomeAssistant is the answer.

Or if you want a simple & cheap off the shelf solution, IKEA stuff has being online as an option, not a requirement, and all the devices are ZigBee or matter compatible and not locked to some proprietary WiFi cloud bullshit.

It’s called OpenID and has been a thing for almost two decades.

Maybe? I do kinda doubt that as the original addon was benign and did exactly what it said on the tin to fix a problem one of the founders had themselves - finding and applying coupons automatically, and there isn’t an obvious way or need to monetise that.
But they gained a massive userbase very quickly, which attracted investors like vultures ready to tear profits from those users. So even if they originally didn’t plan to do much more than scan for coupons, after a few years of venture capital greed and tens of millions of investor money, they definitely were chasing profits by any means necessary. Money corrupts, after all.

And by the time Paypal was willing to pay $4 billion for them in 2020, it was blatantly obvious they were doing a lot of shady shit because there just isn’t a way to monetise free users that well while staying above the board.

All of which is a damn shame, because the idea of an addon that scans and tries coupons for you is really simple and very useful :/

We already have a term for “true” AI, it’s AGI - Artifcial General Intelligence.

Both AGI and LLMs are types of artificial intelligence, as are things like OCR, speech to text systems, or chess engines, and a ton of other things, it’s a vast field of computer science.

Honey is a great example of corporate greed and enshittification turned to 11. It started as a simple free extension for collecting and trying discount coupons, and turned to a massive greedy scam with enough financial backing to start blackmailing webshops for profit.

As if having a visa or even being a citizen would somehow guarantee they won’t kidnap and send you to El Salvador anyway.

Here are the permissions used by a calculator app Android tells me has “No permissions granted”.

You can’t deny any of those.

Should companies using computers in general pay a tax for it, a computer used to mean a human that calculated - computed - things by hand, after all?
But alarm clocks replaced knockeruppers, light bulbs replaced lamplighters, cars replaced coachmen, industrial robots replaced blacksmiths, we have no elevator operators, phone switch boards, traffic conductors, pin boys, link boys, ice cutters, scribes - the list of jobs made obsolete by technology during human history is massive.

Generative AI, while widespread and disruptive, is just one more to the long list.

Do you mean the “fuel charge” tax on gas, at 17.6 CAD cents (0.11€) per litre?

Because that’s a rather adorable try.

In Finland, car sales tax and yearly tax are based on the Co2 output, and it worked quite well to keep most cars small, light and efficient. Until hybrid and electric cars arrived on the market, that is…

Would be interesting to know which is actually worse for spread of misinformation, AI summaries, or “news” being shared on Facebook.

You need a Meta account, not Facebook. They are different.

With your personal vehicle access device, aka, the car key. Immobilizers with transponders in the key have been a thing (and in some places a legal requirement) for like three decades.
They’ve just gotten more aggressive now with “keyless” entry and being able to use your phone as your key, so some validate that info in real time - no network, no access. (Up to a point. They won’t immediately strand you just because you ran out of cell coverage obviously, but apparently Porsche did enforce some part of their system to that point)

Because it was the anti theft system and immobilizer.
It would be pretty useless if it could be defeated by putting some foil on the antenna so that it loses network connection and defaulted to allowing you to drive.

It was split with the artists of said wallpapers, and was also kind of a gallery app thing IIRC.
But hey, as a Finnish saying goes, “It isn’t the one who asks who is stupid, but the one who pays.”

The thing is, with LLM code completion in every IDE, AI features and filters in Photoshop and other image editors, video/audio editing software etc, it will very soon be that there are only games made with AI assistances, and games made by devs lying they used tools with no AI.

I’ve made a game using AI features all the way back in 2010 - I used the brand new content aware delete & fill feature in Photoshop CS5 to edit visual novel backgrounds. That was AI.

As I said, I couldn’t find any source that said that. In fact, the best I could find said quite the opposite:

Do I have the same rights if I buy something online from a non-EU website as from an EU-based business?
If you buy the goods from a non-EU website, your EU consumer rights don’t automatically apply. If something goes wrong with an item or you wish to return it, it may be more difficult to get the issue resolved. Check the seller’s website for terms and conditions. -https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/guarantees/faq/index_en.htm

And overall it was “may this” and “possibly that”, nowhere could I find a definite “You are entitled to a 2-year warranty” or “you are not”.