#US tech updates

[themorningnewsinformer]

Amazon’s Ring Adds AI Video Descriptions to Boost Home Security

Amazon Ring, a leading smart security device brand, has announced the rollout of its first major AI-powered feature: Video Descriptions. This new capability allows users to receive real-time text notifications about motion activity captured by their Ring doorbells and cameras. The feature is currently available in beta for Ring Home Premium subscribers in the United States and Canada. Amazon…

[bogkeep]

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dungeon Meshi: The RPG

[beebfreeb]

I don't think Senshi would play Cooking Mama. He would think it's a great game for the kids to have but it wouldn't appeal to him like the real thing. He wouldn't play any actual cooking sims, either. He would play Tetris and Candy Crush.

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[in4newz]

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[cookinguptales]

why is so much of my job now figuring out how to turn off AI for every single program we use

I hate this, my time is fucking valuable and so is the proprietary information we work with

[nando161mando]

CEO's are so out of touch with the rest of us. 60 hour a week=no life.

[cursedslimecicle]

Sometimes the ask box looks like this, and I have to wonder if we’re all part of a hivemind or something

[hightensileyoyo]

was anyone going to tell me tom turner in the US version of skeleton key is named glen carver and is someone who actually laughs at alex's jokes or am i just going to have to keep stumbling on other things they completely rewrote

[steevejr]

truly so baffling to me to hear people complain about their electronics like my coworker was complaining that her 2017 Mac was so slow its barely functional and it’s like what do you MEAN your 8 year old Mac is dead? mine is from 2013 and runs flawlessly?? what are you doing to your $1000 machine ??? filling it with peanut butter and TikTok viruses?????

[pebbles-scatter]

assorted dakota hcs (50% me #projecting other half is me having fun)

- 5'5

- adhd & ptsd

- depression but specifically dysthymia.

- i have no set hc for why he eats. i find a lot of the concepts interesting but i just think hes italian

- sunglasses r for photophobia (heterochromias a fun hc but not my personal one)

- in his 30s...somewhere. probably. time travel makes age messy.

- speaking of which, i have a funny hc abt cav & his ages.

basically: by year, dakota is older. not by much, but older. but due to time travel (mainly Mississippi Purchase) shenanigans dakota is, by years actually lived, younger. they are both simultaneously younger and older than each other.

- afro italian (ethiopian & southern italian specifically)

- trans guy (i have already talked abt my trans hcs for him but he realized in his late teens. 15-17)

- i have no set sexuality for him tbh

- raised catholic (i am fond of the jewish hc but my personal one is catholic)

- obv not religious atp but he probably keeps a crucifix/cross necklace on

- poor asf growing up. doesnt help what with the Mississippi Purchase

- MP timeline he comes from was pretty awful. not dystopian post-nuclear bad but pretty bad.

- like any good italian he has so many siblings

- hmmm a lot of hcs have him raised by a single mother. not super attached to that specifically but i do have ideas abt his mom

- ok so his mom. is...basically my mom.

har har har jokes aside

- his mom smokes. obviously. and drank a bit. a bit rough around the edges. not very trustworthy of the world. she wants to strengthen her kids but is pretty torn up herself. (this is only marginally better in the non MP timeline)

- one time dakota or one of his siblings took her cigarettes to prove she didn't need them and she picked them up and shook them in the air

- he loves his mom so damn much. she calls him everyday

[catwire]

people need to learn how to adapt when better and more reliable tech options are “harder to use” and gain some basic tech literacy. companies make things easier to use so you’re deterred from options that actually don’t restrict you, you just need to learn how to use them. it’s not hard to learn, especially when search engines that aren’t google exist.

[lesbiancarat]

plybe partnering to sell V3 caratbongs at select targets... why do I feel like they still have a big stock of V3s that they haven't been able to sell until now 😂

[quicksilversquared]

So the "down" arrow hasn't worked on my computer since September, but I've been too busy to be able to spare my computer for several days while being fixed, so I've just been working around it. Until this morning, when I discovered that the program that I now need to use for my research (....because the old version of it relies on a program that's been discontinued) requires that I scroll through options with the arrow keys, and I can't just scroll up and loop around. Which... is lovely.

My advisor's solution, while I'm trying to find a place that will do a fast repair: connect an extra keyboard to my laptop. Pretty sure I can hear my remote sensing prof (who has already criticized my laptop for being old, my external hard drive for being outdated and slow technology, and my mouse for randomly turning off) screaming in the distance.

[heyclickadee]

Anyway operator theory idea where the batch eventually finds, saves, and recovers Tech, and Tech is dealing with the fact that they “killed” or nearly killed (if the CX operatives all survive) him five separate times. He brushes it off as them doing what they had to do in a fight to the death, but he still has a very hard time looking down the business end of a blaster.