I ran into this at work today. Proposed a very simple approach for something to an architect and an engineering lead. Engineering lead said this was a practical solution that solves a problem that’s been plaguing them for two years. The architect nearly immediately said, “well, the real source is a mainframe that was stood up in the very early 80s. Let’s ignore the fact that changing it takes an act of Congress or that we have multiple modern downstream systems between it and us that are a much better home for this new function.”

It really seemed to amount to, “I didn’t come up with this, therefore I don’t support it.”

Ah, corporate politics.

Aka totally predictable and easily avoidable, which makes this BS unbelievable.

100%. I want to loudly point out that you saying ‘jailing poor people not isn’t fiscally responsible and doesn’t benefit society, the money would be better spent giving people a better shot at success’ is a great example of social liberal (make society better) and fiscal conservative (don’t spend money on stupid things).

Although much of Tesla’s value recently was from a big jump in November (getting a fancy new oval-shaped office will do that for you)

I don’t think many people realize just how big a jump this was.

What’s the error? I had issues trying to upload photos taken on my pixel 3a. They were getting blocked by cloudflare. I traded some messages with an admin and even provided a raw photo. They looked into it, found something, adjusted it, and… still no dice.

I have no issues with my new OnePlus 12. For my 3a, editing the photos in any app, even just to very slightly crop them, would remove whatever was going on.

The old “privacy focused” setting made speech processing local. The new “privacy focused setting” means that processing will happen on a remote server, but Amazon won’t store the audio after it’s been processed. Amazon could still fingerprint voices with the new setting, to know if it was you or your parents/parter/kid/roommate/whomever and give a person specific response, but for now at least they appear to not be doing so.

This all seems like it’s missing the point to me. If you own one of these devices you’re giving up privacy for convenience. With the old privacy setting you were still sending your processed speech to a server nearly every time you interacted with one of those devices because they can’t always react/provide a response on their own. Other than trying to avoid voice fingerprinting, it doesn’t seem like the old setting would gain you much privacy. They still know the device associated to the interaction, know where the device is located, which accounts it’s associated with, what the interaction was, etc. They can then fuse this information with tons of other data collected from different devices, like a phone or computer. They don’t need your unprocessed speech to know way too much about you.

Agree. They also made a post about getting back and their neighbor for making noises at 5am (early, sure) about an hour ago.

I made a bad choice and it’s time to cut my losses

You’ve received some good replies on this question, but I think there’s also another question at play: an offshoot of identity politics. Many people wrap their personal identity around things. If you question the thing, or put restrictions on it, people take it as an attack on their persona since the thing and their person are so interwoven. You can see this with things like guns, vehicles (motorcycles, car vs truck, auto vs manual, brand x vs brand y), video game consoles, physical media, etc.

Will do, thanks! I totally get having the tweaks in your head or written into the family recipe book with a pen. Our better homes cookbook has tons of notes/tweaks written into it now.

I am simply advocating for shoes that fit your feet. 99% of shoes tend to pretend like your longest toe is your middle toe. I’ve always found this weird.

This seems pretty close to what you described: https://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/166041072019596/Suesse-Quarkkloesse.html

It sounds good / I’m thinking about giving them a go. If you find a better recipe let me know.

It could easily be a family recipe. It looks like riffs on this theme are pretty common. Maybe it was a Hungarian recipe? Sounds like a great mystery!

Pics or it didn’t happen!

/fellow 90s kid

Duckduckgo’s browser uses webview as it’s main engine, which means that on a phone it will simply use blink (chromium) on Android and Windows device or webkit on Apple devices.

No problem! That list will contain active headphones that have an onboard DAC, so they look like a USB audio device to whatever you plug them into.

A number of over-ear Bluetooth headphones support usb-audio. rtings provides a list, but I’m sure there are more out there.

I resisted converting to Bluetooth headphones for a while and this route provided a decent bridge. Bluetooth LE audio seems like it will be nirvana between low latency, audio quality, and energy efficiency but not many devices support it currently.

I bought a 12 in December when they were on sale due to the looming 13 launch. The stock OS is pretty good and the hardware is well speced. I came from a Pixel 3a and have owned a number of pixel and Nexus phones over the years.

It’s a bit large physically, which can present some challenges with pockets and single handed operation. It’s roughly the same size as an iPhone pro max for a size reference.

The rounded screen can be love/hate for some. If your son is prone to dropping things, it might be worth looking at a phone with more traditional bezels. Even the more protective cases have lower sides on the two long edges of the screen to let your finger reach the edges of the display.

As for the brand, they are pretty popular globally, but their availability locally really depends on where you live. In the US, you used to be able to buy them in T-Mobile stores, but that stopped a while ago. I don’t know of any brick and mortar stores that you can walk into and pick one up, although Best Buy does have them in their local warehouses and can get you one somewhat quickly.

It looks like I might have a good place to do that, so yay. I’ll try to get something up in a day or three.

Haha, the one where I make a bunch of things and fail numerous times along the way or the one where I keep a running list of “this would be a neat thing to try at some point in the future”?

If you’re looking for an outlet, why not project shop with the aim of making something?

This gives you the opportunity geek out on the gadgets you’ll need to pull off whatever you want to make. More importantly, the journey will continue post purchase as chase the thing you want to make.

You can make both digital and physical stuff. With things like CAD, Arduino/Raspberry PI, and IoT you can also blend the two pretty easily.

A very low key example might be a small garden. I’ve put a bit of time/effort into my seed stating setup, including designing and printing parts for my lighting rig. It seems like the setup iterates a bit every year. In addition, every year I spend a decent amount of time thinking about what I want to grow this year and then diving seed catalogues to find some new-to-me verity of something I’ve grown before.

You can also design from-scratch speakers and go as far down that rabbit hole as you want to - buy vs build (kit) vs design the amplifier, ditto for the actual speaker, etc.

/a person who likes making things