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- Comment on Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years 6 days ago:
Can I use my current google speakers with homeAssistant? Can they still do the ‘grouped speakers’ things? Can I still ‘cast’ media?
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
CF panel? You’re light bulb??
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 1 week ago:
I mean, those are kinda two sides of the same coin. Both ways to limit the compounding of wealth in few hands.
I’m open to all these ideas, and more
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 1 week ago:
Putting the 2 statements side by side implies they are connected. For the media illiterate it can be very misleading.
Initially I wanted to defend the headline because it’s not ‘literally’ suggesting any AI wrongdoing, but I can say that because I know headlines are written to be this way so I know what to dismiss. It’s a manipulative practice and that’s a shame
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 weeks ago:
I’m technophobic. Fucking clankers
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
They’re not issues so much as nit-picks.
On the now playing screen, I try to swipe the album image to skip (like Spotify) but it doesn’t. Yes, the skip button is right there, but when driving it’s needlessly distracting to have to find the small button.
There’s no obvious way to see your play history when it’s on auto play or radio.
You can start a station from a single song, and you can add song variety to a single-song station, and you can let a playlist end and it will autoplay songs, but you can’t create a station from a playlist directly. These seem like the same function but are treated differently.
You can ‘collect’ or ‘👍’ a song from radio/autoplay, and it’s implied that it influences the station to do the latter, but all the 👍 songs go to their own playlist and sometimes a ‘songs you liked from this station’ playlist separate from the station and sometimes in the station page. It can unintuitive.
There’s no API so there’s no way for TuneMyMusic to import my playlists from Spotify.
Adding a song to a playlist often fails the first time, I can mash it but it doesn’t go, but if I back out and add it again it works.
Some of these can be chalked up to user error, I haven’t gotten used to the paradigm change, but the app still feels rigid and “less polished”. Like I said, nitpicks.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
I tried Tidal, and now I’m on Pandora. The ‘radio’ feature of Pandora more closely matches the way I want to listen to music (I feel like playing this, stay in this mood, but vary the artists), but I’m disappointed by the android app. I should also try Qobuz, maybe even Deezer, but the real pain point is that I have literally thousands of playlists on Spotify. I can pay TuneMyMusic again, I guess
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
I used to use and praise Spotify and their algorithm, but I was starting to find that it would insist on playing the same 20 or 50 songs regardless of the playlist I was trying to generate music suggestions from. I read a rumor somewhere that it was a way to decrease the load on their servers and rely more on the cached songs already on the device, and got sick of that enough to switch to Pandora after over 10 years of Spotify
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 weeks ago:
What if their claim was this this site was an echo chamber of tech literate but disagreement.
By denying it’s an echo chamber you prove the point, but then it is an echo chamber and it’s no longer disagreement, so then it can’t be an echo chamber…
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 4 weeks ago:
If you’re doing this through Google or whichever company is facilitating, then I would say that’s the party doing all of the things listed
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 4 weeks ago:
Seems like the underlying tension is wether being surveiled at all is inherently a violation.
If it is, then your partner doing it might feel like a lack of trust.
for my benefit Its not a benefit if you don’t like being tracked
If not, then it’s just a practical tool, might as well use the data if it’s getting captured anyway.
- Comment on Calling something "a joke" feels meaner than calling something "a bad joke" 5 weeks ago:
A bad joke doesn’t necessarily imply [negative attribute], though.
Could just be ironic or surprising amount of [neutral attribute].
So it’s poorly executed but earnest
- Comment on Curiosity has not killed any Martian cats 1 month ago:
What other secrets is Big Universe keeping from us
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 1 month ago:
😏
- Comment on me irl 1 month ago:
Yeah, a ton
- Comment on There is no such thing as truly objective YouTube search results 1 month ago:
Likewise I have the udm-14 added to my Google searches to remove the AI content
- Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building? 2 months ago:
Wake me up when they hit the 2nd Tower
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 months ago:
can you blame them Yes.
“A Republic, if you can keep it”
They can’t do the work because their feelings were hurt? I will absolutely blame them
- Comment on Looking for an html-based secure message service 2 months ago:
This is so sick, great tool
- Comment on tattoo printer 2 months ago:
Fun watch
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 2 months ago:
No no, couldn’t have that, would be a shame
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 2 months ago:
There’s people already, which smoke recreationally and/or advocate for legalization, that already don’t see it in the same category as other ‘harder’ drugs. And, it hasn’t always been illegal federally.
All this to say, it’ll probably end up near alcohol on the spectrum you describe
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 months ago:
The protein-folding ai is not the same as the generative ai. Generative ai is a tool that must be used carefully else the kids will take the easy path.
It’s really unfortunate that the conversation around AI lumps these different technologies together
Generative ai is a tool that must be used carefully else the kids will take the easy path.
- Comment on A shapeshifter standing in front of a mirror for hours making subtle adjustments to their disguises like a gamer in the character creator. 3 months ago:
Plenty of humans desperately want this
- Comment on AI is your money becoming sentient 3 months ago:
You could argue that that price of these things is determined by ‘the market’ which can be algorithmically driven and thus automated to AI potentially
- Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing 3 months ago:
a law And if the company folding doesn’t comply, gonna fine 'em or what?
- Comment on Do it 4 months ago:
))<>((
- Comment on Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage 5 months ago:
The computational capacity of the first gen compared to current gen is huge. As such, there are a few popular projects that try to be an everything-streamer
- Comment on Are you a chicken? 5 months ago:
Don’t mind if I do