It’s been published by multiple sources at this point that this happens because of detected proximity. Basically, they know who you hang out with based on where your phones are, and they know the entire search history of everyone you interact with. Based on this, they can build models to detect how likely you are to be interested in something your friend has looked at before.

The way that “Hey Alexa” or “Hey Google” works is by, like you said, constantly analysing the sounds they said. However, this is only analyzed locally for the specific phrase, and is stored in a circular buffer of a few seconds so it can keep your whole request in memory. If the phrase is not detected, the buffer is constantly overwritten, and nothing is sent to the server. If the phrase is detected, then the whole request is sent to the server where more advanced voice recognition can be done.

You can very easily monitor the traffic from your smart speaker to see if this is true. So far I’ve seen no evidence that this is no longer the common practice, though I’ll admit to not reading the article, so maybe this has changed recently.

So, I can’t easily find the name of the ship in Chinese, but it could possibly be a translation error during naming? New New is xīng xīng in pingying (romanized phonetic Chinese), which is also the same spelling as star… If whoever did the translation was bad at it and did it solely off of the phonetics or romanized spelling.

Get Adobe to port their software to Linux. They’re literally all that’s holding me on Windows. I know there’s some options to replace them, but those seem to be a mixed bag of seemingly deliberately difficult to use, or require way too much setup time to port my existing portfolio (LR to DT).

Tbf, that’s kinda what people thought about leaded gasoline, or greenhouse gas emissions.

In this case, yes, everyone seems perfectly fine, but dilution isn’t the solution to everything when the body you’re diluting into is finite.

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I love my Garmin, but it is a kinda closed system. I’m not sure how easy it is to develop your own apps for it, but the default ones, while very good, definitely have their problems.

I’d honestly prefer they just make the battery thicker to match the camera depth. Solve two problems at once.

Adobe software for creative work. Afaik there’s okay replacements, but not great ones. Also, migrating your Lightroom catalog to a new software is kinda a ridiculous task

I’m a power user as well, and Firefox handles my hundreds of tabs perfectly fine. On Android it honestly handles them better than Chrome, though there are a few UI features missing there, like tab reordering.

I’m glad you never experienced this yourself, and hope you never will. It’s perfectly understandable that you don’t know something like this that you haven’t seen before, but I’m glad that now that you’re aware of the context, you’re willing to adjust your worldview to accommodate the new knowledge.

This entire conversation is honestly very Western centric, but I hope it can be useful to you in other ways as we continue adjusting the English terminology we use around technology going forward.

It was Indiana at the time, as far as getting cars and racism getting mixed together in one experience for me. These days I’m in Texas, but haven’t engaged too much with the car culture here yet.

Edit: btw, sorry for my tone in my previous comment, I was honestly getting pretty worked up going through the comments in this post.

Hi. Targeted minority here. I do not, and have not ever wanted to reclaim this term. I’d argue against calling it reclaimable at all, since to reclaim would require the term to have ever had a valid use to begin with before it became a racist perjorative.

I don’t want to see this used, because it hurts me to see it. This is due to the deep pain that racism has caused to me, even in my very blessed life. While I get that you have good intentions, I want to clarify that your actions will only lead to you causing me further pain.

Asian American here who’s into car culture (where the term originated). It has always been a racist term from its inception, and is still used as a racist term today, from my experience.

Hi. Asian American here. I’m offended by this. Please stop deliberately choosing to use terms that are hurtful to me.

Asian American here. It’s racist. It offends me because it is racist, and has always been racist.

I would disagree that the racist meaning is forgotten. It’s still very alive in modern car culture, where I’ve also heard this term used far more than in linux communities anyway.

This term is still offensive to me as a part of the targeted minority. You do not get to dismiss the pain it causes me just because you were ignorant of it until now, and you do not get to tell me that it’s now non offensive just because you want to keep using it.

This word already had that racist meaning from the beginning of it’s use. Just because you were ignorant of it doesn’t make that untrue. And as part of the targeted minority, I will only be offended if you decide to try to force the use of this word on me. You don’t have the right to dismiss the pain that racist terms cause to me and decide to rehabilitate them by your pleasure.

I’m glad you had the privilege of never experiencing that.

A lot of goodhearted people also just seem to be completely ignorant of it too. Plenty of people will say something racist, say they’re not racist when you point it out, and immediately express deeply rooted racist opinions afterwards. But they’re nice to you right now, cause they’re too nice to be racist.