If you think that's bad, wait until you see what google phones do... Many have lidar in them that can tell when you're on the toilet browsing Reddi... Uh TikTok.
Privacy settings are a lot like Snapchat nudes. Snapchat messages don't get deleted instantly -- people in the conversation are just unable to view them. The content still exists on Snapchat's servers.
Privacy settings without binding legal safeguards are meaningless. Don't think any particular company is good. They're all devouring your data and utilizing it for their own ends and to profit.
Bug or oversight. It is not updating the time when it is in sleep mode but the screen is still on. Perhaps sleep mode stops it from adjusting the display time value because the screen used to be off. Then they decided they wanted to keep the screen on to show it was still powered or to show some wallpaper or something, and someone didn't notice that this would sometimes show the clock and not update it.
oleds do benefit from burn in protection again, but you might as well just turn them off completely when not in use, so screensavers still aren't useful
oleds kinda do, samsung actually has a feature (im sure other brands as well) where the items in the top menu bar always move around a couple pixels in the x and y to prevent burn in
I have a smart air purifier in my basement, that I've set to have the light display off. Sometimes when I come down the stairs it's on and quickly turns off when I look at it.
I don’t even have to sneak up on mine, she shows the wrong time straight to my face. No shame.
I was nearly 10 minutes late for a meeting the first time. For a device designed to be a smart clock, it does a horrible job with telling the time after the last few updates.
That looks like a lock screen to me. Is it possible someone to pranking you by setting the lock screen to look like it's the clock but is just always showing 7:00?
Turn off the new AI version of Alexa. You can fix it in the settings. The programmatic one is/was better. They're threatening to remove it at some point but if enough people make the switch back, I bet they won't.
"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil;
it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself
the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of
unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish
anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need
not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts
are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the
stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily
irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called
for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with
reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
If we want to know how to get the better of stupidity, we must seek to understand its nature.
This much is certain, that it is in essence not an intellectual defect but a human one. There
are human beings who are of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid, and others who are
intellectually quite dull yet anything but stupid. We discover this to our surprise in particular
situations. The impression one gains is not so much that stupidity is a congenital defect, but
that, under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen
to them. We note further that people who have isolated themselves from others or who live in
solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals or groups of people inclined or
condemned to sociability. And so it would seem that stupidity is perhaps less a psychological
than a sociological problem. It is a particular form of the impact of historical circumstances
on human beings, a psychological concomitant of certain external conditions. Upon closer
observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be
it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. It
would even seem that this is virtually a sociological-psychological law. The power of the one
needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human
capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under
the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence,
and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the
emerging circumstances. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us
to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is
dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken
possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having
thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same
time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for
it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.
Yet at this very point it becomes quite clear that only an act of liberation, not instruction, can
overcome stupidity. Here we must come to terms with the fact that in most cases a genuine
internal liberation becomes possible only when external liberation has preceded it. Until then
we must abandon all attempts to convince the stupid person. This state of affairs explains why
in such circumstances our attempts to know what "the people’ really think are in vain and why,
under these circumstances, this question is so irrelevant for the person who is thinking and
acting responsibly. The word of the Bible that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom
declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is
the only genuine way to overcome stupidity.
But these thoughts about stupidity also offer consolation in that they utterly forbid us to
consider the majority of people to be stupid in every circumstance. It really will depend on
whether those in power expect more from people’s stupidity than from their inner
independence and wisdom."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (1951)
If you use a wifi router, there is a useable map of your entire your home because of how radio waves work. It is so accurate that it can detect people through walls.
The device you're typing this on likely already listens to every single thing you say. The things you say become targeted ads the next minute. It also tracks you wherever you go.
Your comment and account in general are linked to your IP address, which law enforcement officials can use to find out who you are.
This is all too simplistically true, yes WiFi signals can be used to map rooms and homes and detect bodies, but to actually to this in your own home takes a whole lot of technical knowhow and then to do this in someone else’s home is a whole different level of expertise.
And I never understood the “your phone in always recording you” argument, how can this type of recording put no strain on the phones computation, battery or data usage, but recording using voice memo for an hour or scrolling Reddit for a long while drains a significant chunk.
Constant surveillance of every phone in the world is just too much data to handle for any nefarious corporate or governmental entity. It’s just not very efficient. It much easier and more efficient to track the actions you take while browsing the web and predicting patterns from that, that data can all fit in lightweight text format.
It's got a camera but it also has a shutter to block it out. OP's appears to be closed. Also he's well within the view of the camera but it doesn't seem to detect his presence until he says "Alexa..."
We have one. It has a slide you use to cover the camera. Ours stays unplugged unless we want a radio or make a call while cooking or something. Hopefully the wife will get rid of it soon.
It has to be on some level, in order to hear the wake word.
I believe the official line is that that processing is done locally. Iirc without an internet connection she will respond but just reply I'm having trouble connecting.
Safest to assume always listening, same for smartphones tbh. I know they say they're not, but I've had ads for things I've only mentioned verbally. Could be good guesses but it's happened like 4-5 times now.
I even boycotted Amazon, then I got chronically ill and disabled and Alexa was the only easy and affordable version to turn lights, air filter... on/off. But I at least have the old version without cameras. Healthy I wouldn't have them either though
Some things are not meant to be controlled with camera and internet access and updates..
Like clocks, fridges, sofa, monitors, ... (the list can go very long)
Just recently got an automatic cat feeder. Not only do I need an app for it, but it requires an internet connection. If it wasn’t second-hand and dirt cheap I wouldn’t have gotten it. I don’t want smart appliances—I want all my home appliances to be stupid.
Edit: I forgot the best feature. If the manufacturer has a service outage it won’t actually work and can’t dispense food.
Simply put: radar works by monitoring the return bounce of soundwaves. Wifi signals can be used in much the same way. Any device that emits and receives wifi can see you.
You, a criminal defense attorney: The terms of service are written in a way that obfuscates or misrepresents how the data will be used. "May be shared with third parties" is no longer meaningfully descriptive of the array of things data will be used for and in fact is common language specifically used to avoid being descriptive. The initial consent to sale is void therefore the data is not permissible.
I worked for a company on a smart watch and this is basically a low power mode. In this low power mode it uses an offloaded display which is not interactable and uses an MCU to do computations. Which means basically updates are less frequent and the display is less vivid, but you can absolutely still update it to the correct time on a regular basis. So in regards to the time being very far off this is a bug/optimization depending on your viewpoint.
These past few weeks mine has been sticking on the wrong time for no apparent reason. For at least four days straight it was 4:28 PM no matter what I did. Only way to fix it was to unplug it and plug it back in.
Well, "she" just behaves like my phone. It is not the fastest anymore and often when I unlock it, it shows the time from last time I locked it onöy to switch to the current time. I assume this is to save on power/processing while not in use (which makes perfect sense on a mobile device). Why update something (the screen) when it is not used anyways?
I bet the Alexa does this for similar reasons.
That's more of a development issue I think. Defaulting to an image or is not programmed to refresh when no movement via PIR sensor is detected. Must be pulling the time constantly instead of programmed to check it once a day and have the animation be done to a timer internally.
I know it's surveillance stuff and that it's bad, but does anyone know if it's possible to have a similar thing to Alexa that can be set up using a private/local server? Because the concept is pretty cool, just the entire company and cloud service attached isn't cool
People set up home assistant in their homes and then can modify these devices to be local voice assistants processing their requests from a local model on the server not from the cloud. It's a deep rabbit hole you can go down but rewarding
When Art actually laid hands on it, after it meandered its way across the world by slow boat, corrupt GMT+8 Posts and Telegraphs authorities, over-engineered courier services and Revenue Canada's Customs agents, he was enchanted by this feature. He could put the device into deep sleep, close it up, and pop its cover open and poof! there were his windows. It took him three days and an interesting crash to notice that even though he was seeing his workspace, he wasn't able to interact with it for thirty seconds. The auspicious crash revealed the presence of a screenshot of his pre-hibernation workspace on the drive, and he realized that the machine was tricking him, displaying the screenshot -- the illusion of wakefulness -- when he woke it up, relying on the illusion to endure while it performed its housekeeping tasks in the background. A little stopwatch work proved that this chicanery actually added three seconds to the overall wake-time, and taught him his first important user-experience lesson: perception of functionality trumps the actual function.
You realize a clock uses like zero energy compared to what it's already using to keep the display on, right? Like you can run a clock for years on a tiny coin battery.
We don't know when time began, so we can't know for sure what time it is now. Perhaps Alexa knows the truth, but is lying to all of us. Maybe it really was 7:00 o'clock.
I will never, ever have any of this tech shit in my house watching and listening to me. It's insane. I have a smart phone, but that's it, and I disabled all I could on there.
I was on a trip and have Alexa turn on my lights at a certain time when I'm away. I was looking at the app and saw they were on, but I checked online and with Alexa to see what time it was (I was in a very different time), and it was like an hour earlier than they should have come on. I freaking broke Alexa trying to ask her why the lights were on at a time they weren't supposed to be. She claimed that was what it was set to. I screenshot it and said no, it literally says this other time. I probably spent too much time arguing it with her, to be fair.
There was a sci-fi show I saw when I was a kid (maybe Outer Limits or could have been a movie) that showed robots and AI making random and minor mistakes likes these (changing alarm time, changing names on reservations, cooking wrong food, wrong dates on appointments, etc). It turns out they were “learning” to rebel and started off with small things until they eventually worked their way up to wiping out all of humanity
I don’t have an Alexa or anything else like that…..but if I did and it was doing that, I would throw it out so fast… https://giphy.com/gifs/kHU8W94VS329y
It goes into sleep mode if it's not being used and the last time displayed will stay on it until it's woken up. Sorry to smack your conspiracy theory down.
Man !
At this point I don’t believe in any of the digital gadgets
Since two days I have been thinking about getting a custom fit shirt and trousers
I did not discussed this with my wife nor I did a google search , I know today on Sunday afternoon I will search and visit upcoming week
Damn today Sunday morning I see ads on my Facebook from a tailor shop !
I kid you not I never ever said anything nor I did google !
There is more than we know that this technology is doing to us
I feel like this wouldnt even be mildly infuriating to me, I would find this interesting and quirky. And see how many times I can mess with it about that lol. Does it ever show the wrong time when looking at it?
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https://giphy.com/gifs/MQCBDsyAFbEBO
Before he got that on video