Some states will tell you just about everything about a voter with only their name and birthdate. Not that far feteched

Unlikeable asshole entity tries even harder to get people to like them. Results are mixed

Fisker, due to going bankrupt, arguably is the worst version of this right now

The EU is probably working on that front at the very least. Unfortunately the US side may need regulators to carry it forward

Price Has No Limits™

PayStation ∆◯╳☐

I don’t use windows, stop assuming things about me

Seems a bit silly to comment confidently on changes happening within Windows that you don’t experience then, no?

So glad I didn’t actually go through with opening a Yotta account. Maybe it’s not them directly that screwed everything up, but their money (their customer’s money) just went poof.

The finance system is sketchy enough, Fintech gives me the willies.

Decent chance it’s an img2img conversion using the prompt for a rusty dumpster

An annoying chud who is a game industry vet, with several scandals and mismanaged projects in his wake. Addicted to being an anti-woke Twitter influencer.

Think catturd, but Gamer™.

Considering that the goober on the right is Grummz, and the image on the left is a traditional Japanese illustration of a samurai, I’m going to go with: Yes

♥️ winget my beloved ♥️

He really got that dawg in him

Expecting FaceDeer to not glaze AI is like expecting the sun to not rise.

The fossil fuel industry is dying

Upvote to make it die faster

Why do y’all in Europe have your bank manage your legal ID? Seems a bit backwards

On the low end, yearly OS upgrade compliance.

On the high end, dealing with the Kafkaesque whims of the App and Play stores randomly deciding to nuke your app (and thus business) from orbit as an “oopsie”

That uses a similar approach to the wake word technology, but slightly differently applied.

I am not a computer or ML scientist but this is the gist of how it was explained to me:

Your smartphone will have a low-powered chip connect to your microphone when it is not in use/phone is idle to run a local AI model (this is how it works offline) that asks one thing: is this music or is it not music. Anyway, after that model decides it’s music, it wakes up the main CPU which looks up a snippet of that audio against a database of other audio snippets that correspond to popular/likely songs, and then it displays a song match.

To answer your questions about how it’s different:

• the song id happens on a system level access, so it doesn’t go through the normal audio permission system, and thus wouldn’t trigger the microphone access notification.

• because it is using a low-powered detection system rather than always having the microphone on, it can run with much less battery usage.

• As I understand it, it’s a lot easier to tell if audio seems like it’s music than whether it’s a specific intelligible word that you may or may not be looking for, which you then have to process into language that’s linked to metadata, etc etc.

• The initial size of the database is somewhat minor, as what is downloaded is a selection of audio patterns that the audio snippet is compared against. This database gets rotated over time, and the song id apps often also allow you to send your audio snippet to the online megadatabases (Apple’s music library/Google’s music library) for better protection, but overall the data transfer isn’t very noticeable. Searching for arbitrary hot words cannot be nearly as optimized as assistant activations or music detection, especially if it’s not built into the system.

And that’s about it…for now.

All of this is built on current knowledge of researchers analysing data traffic, OS functions, ML audio detection, mobile computation capabilities, and traditional mobile assistants. It’s possible that this may change radically in the near future, where arbitrary audio detection/collection somehow becomes much cheaper computationally, or generative AI makes it easy to extrapolate conversations from low quality audio snippets, or something else I don’t know yet.

This has gotta be the stupidest (and honestly ugliest) alternative to Reddit awards.

Thanks for the crudely gold-colored-brass up vote, kind stranger.

Damn, I can’t believe such a legend is gone.

404 sprang up from ex-Motherboard writers when Vice Media went bankrupt this year. I think their articles are alright, because paying the bills as a journalist is very hard.