thehatfox
@thehatfox@lemmy.world
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- Comment on The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026 1 week ago:
In a lot of cases “AI” is slapped on as marketing buzzword for anything with even a simple algorithm controlling it.
We got a new “AI” washing machine last month. As far as I can tell it the same as last years model just with some of the auto settings renamed to something AI.
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 1 month ago:
I remember there being a spate of robberies targeting memory chips in the 90s when prices were high then.
History repeating itself again I guess.
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- Comment on Cams, anyone? 1 month ago:
UniFi Protect now has limited ONVIF support allowing various 3rd party cameras to work with Protect.
UniFi cameras can have RTSP enabled also, but it requires UniFi Protect to enable the setting.
- Comment on Apparently homebox allows setting third-party label rendering through an HBOX_LABEL_MAKER_LABEL_SERVICE_URL env var 2 months ago:
What model of label printer is that?
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- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 months ago:
Oh look, yet another reason to use an ad blocker.
- Comment on Illustration from ‘Zen and the Art of the Macintosh - Discoveries on the Path to Computer Enlightenment’, Michael Green, 1988 2 months ago:
Neat.
Reminds me a bit of some of the work of artist Simon J Curd.
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- Comment on Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK 3 months ago:
An enormous opportunity for the state to surveil and control the populace that is.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 3 months ago:
Many places have a “Challenge 30” policy or similar where they ask for ID if you look under 30.
If you still look youthful at 40 it’s possible to get ID’d.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 3 months ago:
I’ve heard rumours they are even going to call it the “Brit Card”.
Say no to Starmer Cards and the surveillance state.
- Comment on Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards 3 months ago:
Well, this will do nothing to hinder illegal migration. So the question is what do they want it for?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
An open source smart glasses platform would be a much better direction.
But that only provides security assurances for the wearer of the glasses. Anyone else interacting with them doesn’t know how they are configured, and what is being recorded and/or shared.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
The core technology is impressive, and has legitimate use cases.
But that doesn’t outweigh the enormous privacy concerns these devices raise. They aren’t being angled as an accessory for specific activities, but as everyday wearables. If smart glasses like these became common they would be unavoidable, creating leave of intrusion that’s concerning even without Meta being involved.
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- Comment on England Trials Smartphone Rail Payment System with Real-Time Phone Location Tracking 4 months ago:
Yup, the UK once again creating a needlessly convoluted and harmful solution to an already solved problem.
I would laugh if I didn’t live here.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 4 months ago:
The figures are the averages for the full trial period.
So it’s possible they were making more queries at the start of the trial, but then mostly stopped when if they found using Copilot was more a hindrance than a help.
- Comment on mkdocs for recipe catalogue 4 months ago:
So far I just keep recipes in whatever I’m using for notes.
Some of these dedicated programs look interesting though. Thinking about it, it would be handy to have some dedicated cooking features, like being able to search for recipes by ingredients.
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- Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trialwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 4 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 34 comments
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