Online dating apps sell us hope by exploiting our needs, desires and insecurities.

True for pretty much all social apps.

Explains the Monster cable ‘gold-plated banana.’

Alex Ziskind on YT tests a number of on-site AI devices: https://youtu.be/QbtScohcdwI

Here are the specs on the HA voice Preview: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

And a breakdown of one of the lowest-end Alexa devices: https://www.briandorey.com/post/echo-dot-5th-gen-smart-speaker-teardown

The HA device runs on an ESP32-S3 with two microphones. A Seedstudio variant uses a Raspberry Pi CM4, also with two mics: https://iotbyhvm.ooo/home-assistant-voice-kit-by-seeed-studio-a-comprehensive-guide/

The Echo dot runs on a custom AZ2 processor with a built-in neural edge processor and three microphones. Echoes used to have as many as seven mics, but advanced Digital Signal Processing techniques let them get away with fewer input signals (and lower BOM cost).

The difference is with three or more mics you can do what’s called ‘beam-forming’ (https://dspconcepts.com/sites/default/files/voice_ui_part2.pdf) to isolate outside noise. This gets you cleaner wake-word recognition and faster response. Also, having an on-device neural processor chip means you can offload a lot of the filter processing.

The upshot is, until HA switches to a more custom audio-processing system, it’ll always lag behind a cheap $30 Echo or Google device. The HA unit is good for dev experimentation, but for day-to-day use folks might want to consider something from the ReSpeaker line: https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2024/10/16/smart-home-assistant-speakers/

When that thing fails, it’ll be…

That Prince was telling the truth. All his inheritance money WAS locked up in an account. Now he can get to it and everyone will get reimbursed.

Strawberry.

Just tried it.

Yup, does what the post says, plus more.

Wonder if ‘just walk out’ not scaling up had anything to do with it:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-ends-ai-powered-store-checkout-which-needed-1000-video-reviewers/

It takes twice as much electrical energy to produce energy in the form of gasoline.

We lose money on every sale, but make it up on volume!

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https://lemmy.world/post/41640680

If you download and install untrusted code extensions, you’re screwed. Not like it’s rocket-science.

Smart move. Now you know who to blame if Siri tells you to put glue on your pizza.

Subscription unlocks ability to also run in slow motion.

A long time ago, I turned a PC in my basement into a web server. No DNS. Just a static IP address. Within 15 minutes, the logs showed it was getting scanned.

SSL encrypts traffic in-transit. You need to set up auth/access control. Even better, stick it behind a Web Application Firewall.

Or set up a tunnel. Cloudflare offers a free one: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/connectors/cloudflare-tunnel/