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[Giveaway closed. See winner.] 007 First Light officially launched May 27, bringing a cinematic spy experience powered by the latest RTX technologies like DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation. To celebrate, NVIDIA GeForce Philippines has partnered with r/PHbuildapc for a Game Code giveaway*. For a chance to win, comment your answer to this question: What are you looking forward to the most in 007 First Light? Action-set pieces? A modern take on 007? Q's gadgets? Giveaway ends on June 2, 2026. Winners will be announced June 6, 2026. -- ICYMI: There is an ongoing 007 First Light bundle with qualifying NVIDIA GeForce RTX products. Learn more: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHbuildapc/comments/1td08ag/007_first_light_game_bundle_with_new_geforce_rtx/ \T&Cs apply* -- [WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT] Congratulations to u/2ribs! I will be contacting you guys via DM. Thank you everyone for joining! Stay tuned for more giveaway collabs of NVIDIA GeForce PH and r/PHbuildapc! submitted by /u/Tall-Comfort-3273 to r/PHbuildapc [link] [comments]

[Giveaway closed. See winner below] 007 First Light officially launched May 27, bringing a cinematic spy experience powered by the latest RTX technologies like DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation. To celebrate, NVIDIA GeForce Philippines has partnered with r/PHGamers for a Game Code giveaway*. For a chance to win, comment your answer to this question: What are you looking forward to the most in 007 First Light? Action-set pieces? A modern take on 007? Q's gadgets? Giveaway ends on June 2, 2026. Winners will be announced June 6, 2026. -- ICYMI: There is an ongoing 007 First Light bundle with qualifying NVIDIA GeForce RTX products. Learn more \T&Cs apply* -- [WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT] Congratulations to u/Chimptheblimp! I will be contacting you guys via DM. Thank you everyone for joining! Stay tuned for more giveaway collabs of NVIDIA GeForce PH and r/PHGamers! submitted by /u/Tall-Comfort-3273 to r/PHGamers [link] [comments]

After several months of testing and fine-tuning, I think this project is finally complete. It’s a DIY sensor using the latest SFA40 as its core, built on the ESPHOME platform. It appears to be very accurate; we tried to ‘poison’ it with perfume, but it seems to have recovered quickly. All in all, we’ve come up with another new sensor, and we’re going to start sharing it with the world. Yay! Let’s enjoy these latest high-end gadgets. https://preview.redd.it/2m3bn0xaj31h1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11ea6d6f2fb87d401414480ce0cafa006bbb630a https://preview.redd.it/lwlzc1xaj31h1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32dc3575c62b024d76825c544c6ebaea9d078149 https://preview.redd.it/ujdgg1xaj31h1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a89e17647677916f13b6631f7ccd9ab81eaa1aac https://preview.redd.it/ujt44sqbj31h1.png?width=2794&format=png&auto=webp&s=8aa545616cc7e54549456edbc90f262243971fe9 https://preview.redd.it/dhdzuk2cj31h1.png?width=4128&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b2b39685161c5a664862a48e8d662fcf12f4b5a submitted by /u/slboat to r/homeassistant [link] [comments]

Lumia integrates all its technology into a tiny earring back, making it one of the smallest wearables, and lets you pair it with different jewelry styles. More in "10 Amazing Smart Wearable Tech Gadgets" - https://trendsplace.tech/smart-wearable-tech-gadgets/ submitted by /u/lambert-us to r/tech_news_and_gadgets [link] [comments]

https://preview.redd.it/pr16ch5jkbvg1.jpg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3b10cea61e47bdb3afdd64a089a41f440a6ced5 https://preview.redd.it/kizgvbklkbvg1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a776127bebfa20832d5538bd7f6726aa67f45691 Controller Showdown Leadjoy Xeno Plus vs. BIGBIG WON Blitz 2: The New TMR King? The man who built the Blitz 2 just released his first controller under a new brand. Here's how it stacks up. Ray · GadgetHyper --- Ever wonder what happens when the lead mastermind behind a massive hit leaves the company to start their own thing? We're seeing it happen right now. "KMAN," the founder and lead designer behind BIGBIG WON — the guy responsible for the Rainbow 2 Pro and the Blitz 2 — is now the head of LEADJOY. The Xeno Plus is his first major swing under the new banner. For the uninitiated, KMAN's work literally changed the third-party controller scene. Remember when ImperialHal used a Blitz 2 in a pro ALGS match and raved about it? That was KMAN's baby. While Hal has probably moved on to whatever flavor of the month is currently in his mail, the impact remains: these controllers were the first to make hardcore FPS players actually take 3rd-party gear seriously. So, how does the new Leadjoy Xeno Plus ($59.99) stack up against the veteran BIGBIG WON Blitz 2 TMR ($79.99)? Let's get into it. --- Section 01 Ergonomics: Small Hands, Big Comfort https://preview.redd.it/8jaq5mpdlbvg1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a359ddc895b642d5446f6cbbc04c97884025bf2 Both controllers share a similar DNA. Compared to a standard Xbox Series controller, they feel slightly smaller and flatter — and as someone who isn't rocking XL-sized hands, that's actually a preference, not a compromise. The Blitz 2 TMR feels definitively like the "flagship." Rubberized grips, 16 mechanical buttons, and just enough extra heft to signal that "I spent $80" kind of confidence in the hand. The Xeno Plus is leaner — designed to test the market waters, so it skips the rubber grips — but it's surprisingly ergonomic. The contour work is clean. "The Blitz 2 has the luxury build. The Xeno Plus feels like a precision tool. At $20 cheaper, the materials gap doesn't feel like a dealbreaker." --- Section 02 The Buttons: Quality Over Quantity? https://preview.redd.it/3c57c8aplbvg1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d9ecd9063c3c67d2f7a5b06868550a676b66c77 The Blitz 2 is a mechanical beast with 16 switches. But the Xeno Plus makes targeted upgrades where they count most. The face buttons — ABXY — have a noticeably larger contact area, giving you a much better sense of security during high-intensity fights. Less chance of a glancing press registering wrong. The big one for me is the trigger. The Xeno Plus has dual-mode triggers with a physical toggle to switch between micro-switch and linear feel. The Blitz 2, somehow, lacks this despite being marketed as the "FPS King." That's a genuine miss. On back buttons, the Blitz 2's 2-shoulder + 2-back layout remains top-tier for ergonomics, while the Xeno Plus uses 4 parallel backs — snappy and reliable, if slightly less intuitive to reach initially. Blitz 2 Xeno Plus Total mechanical buttons Blitz 2 — 16 Xeno Plus — 16+ Dual-mode triggers Blitz 2 — No Xeno Plus — Yes Back button layout Blitz 2 — 2+2 staggered Xeno Plus — 4 parallel --- Section 03 The Real MVP: The TMR Joysticks https://preview.redd.it/jpwt21jjmbvg1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8e75249873fba7dad21337a5676058213079fb0 Both controllers use TMR (Tunnel Magnetoresistance) technology, but two years in consumer tech is a lifetime of iteration. The Xeno Plus runs the JS13 Pro — a newer module that's generated real buzz in the FPS community for its precision. It's as close as we've come to the tactile clarity of an ALPS potentiometer without the inevitable stick drift waiting down the line. Leadjoy also upgraded the software side. Dedicated algorithms tackle stick jitter, and a separate chip handles dynamic filtering, reducing the computational "smoothing" tax that can make inputs feel sluggish. The result feels raw in the best way — immediate, without noise. "The JS13 Pro is the closest thing we have to ALPS precision without the drift death sentence. That's not a small claim." --- Section 04 Performance: It's Not Just About Polling Rates https://preview.redd.it/j82jmdkombvg1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39902586f5d836617f67ea4e9d23802a271cdbe2 We're currently in an 8000Hz polling rate marketing war, but numbers only matter in context. Wired latency on the Blitz 2 sits around 5.1ms — excellent for a 2024 controller. The Xeno Plus clocks in at 2.6ms wired. While 2.6ms isn't a record in 2026's competitive landscape, it's objectively excellent for everyday and competitive use. But the more interesting story is smoothness. Take the Sony DualSense Edge: it only runs 8-bit (256-step) sampling, but it feels smoother than many 12-bit "pro" controllers. The reason is calibration — tuned for human perception rather than spec sheets. The Xeno Plus hits that same tier of smoothness. No notchy, steppy sensation when making micro-adjustments in a long-range spray. It just tracks. Blitz 2 Xeno Plus Wired latency Blitz 2 — ~5.1ms Xeno Plus — ~2.6ms Joystick module Blitz 2 — TMR (2024) Xeno Plus — JS13 Pro TMR Retail price Blitz 2 — $79.99 Xeno Plus — $59.99 --- Section 05 The "Secret Sauce": AI Curves & Gyro https://preview.redd.it/khrinb92nbvg1.jpg?width=964&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fca3d78627ac913b0d7dd3d848dc61409fec3d5 Leadjoy is leaning hard into AI-assisted tuning here. The Xeno Plus can intelligently analyze a game's built-in input curve and generate a counter-curve that neutralizes it — flattening forced deadzones or wonky response curves you can't otherwise disable. If you've ever tried to replicate clean Apex Pro settings inside a game with locked input options, this feature is a literal godsend. For the gyro crowd — all 1% of us — the Xeno Plus also carries forward the excellent gyro implementation from the BigBig Won era. Flick-shots and recoil compensation feel as snappy as they ever did. The lineage is unmistakable. --- ● Final Verdict The student has officially surpassed the teacher. The Xeno Plus feels like KMAN took everything he learned building the Blitz 2, stripped the unnecessary fluff, and dropped in a better engine. For $59.99, you're getting newer TMR hardware, half the wired latency, dual-mode triggers, and smart AI curve technology. The Blitz 2 is still a legend — but at $20 more, it's a harder sell in 2026. ● JS13 Pro TMR — best-in-class joystick module ● 2.6ms wired latency — half of the Blitz 2 ● Dual-mode triggers with physical toggle ● AI counter-curve engine — game-changer for locked titles submitted by /u/GadgetHyper to r/GadgetHyper [link] [comments]

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The top 5 most requested features for BF6 Server Browser - The community at large wants a dedicated server browser, instead of a split Multiplayer Mode and Portal. Persistent servers - Again, Very similar to the server browser stuff, People want 24/7 servers - I can say with absolute certainty theres hella people who select the same maps and want to play the same maps over and over, and simply turn off the other maps. Destruction and "Levolution" - If your anything like me the severly disabled version of BC2 levolution is kinda cool but theres nothing that screams, Game changing or significant enough to change up the matches. I think a lot of people miss that feel of blowing up a skyscraper and they are afraid to admit it. Classic Systems - The return to classes from specialists was a great idea, Its stuck theres actual roles on the battlefield now, And im going to say that the closed weapon game modes are fun. And i have the most fun in these modes. Classic Battlefield Content - The return of the littlebird is a massive step in the correct direction. But there needs to be MORE. The live service model demands this, People would wait 4-6 months for a Naval Update because they know it would be coming in the next "DLC" and actively be excited about it. The seasonal battle pass model is the complete opposite. The map variety is super mixed in together and theres barely any identity in the maps, They need bigger maps for conquest and escalation and smaller maps for rush and breakrhrough. Okay so we've identified the issues, We've raised our voices since launch, Theres been complaints, Multiple posts all over social medias, Thousands of comments and discord messages. But change is still happening slow? We can kid ourselves with "development time" but they are taking longer to make content, with the best tools available, AI Access, development kits, multiple decades of experience and game testing, Multiple successful games. I for one hate giving the benefit of the doubt when theres millions invested, Huge almost unlimited access to the latest kits and technology, Theres no reason its this bad and slow, Especially for what is considered a live service game. How do the devs remedy it? Give the players what they want. Its so simple. The customer is always right. Make some polls? Do basic customer research? Where are standards? Scrap the current Multiplayer and Portal system. Merge them together. Have official EA servers with rotating maps for the current modes and debloat the modes available. Portal enables free customisation but without a dedicated player base its nothing and its just a massive hick thats getting in the way of servers being hired out - restart the classic server hire so players can just design their own servers again. This was peak BF4. Fits into the above, Get rid of this absolutely bizarre matchmaking system, and get rid of what is ABSOLUTELY the "engagement" system that Call Of Duty has had. I have a single game where I absolutely destroy the entire server going 70-25 or something, And the followed by being put in a team of the most useless bots that could be out played by portal bots. This is clearly an indicator of the engagement live service slop matchmaking system. Check it out, Before the entire playerbase leaves and the games dead in the water. Destruction - I barely notice the destruction because theres nothing you can do thats even remotely significant, There's so many opportunities they have had to have some significant system. Remember the New Sobek City rooftop campers? Why couldn't we just blow the shit out of the building and make them fight on the ground???? Siege of cairo, Defenders have the 3 lanes locked down tight? Why not blow the wall out to carve a new path? I will say, The wall in the new contaminated map was a huge step in the right direction. I think the classic systems are in a good spot, And the only further changes that should be made is moving some gadgets around for balance reasons and to help keep the identity flowing. Example; Give smokes to assault or the new recon gadget to engineer. I get it, Its a live service battlepass, new season, challenges, earn points to unlock the rewards so you can look cool on the battlefield Yeah yeah, But can we have some insight into the future? Like a lot more. What are you intending to do about the dwindling playerbase? Are you guys sitting on your hands over there? Come on, Give the community what they want, Tease it, Get it delivered and then see the playerbase come back. Im so sick of finishing work at 9pm, And I can't even find a full lobby. Its actually atrocious. I really hope theres some change, because it's not looking good Sincerely, A concerned Battlefield Bad Company Player, Yeah Ive been around that long. submitted by /u/Sev3nThreeO7 to r/Battlefield [link] [comments]

Apparently, this isn't the same Snake from the Metal Gear Solid universe, but rather a version from the Rainbow Six Siege universe itself. submitted by /u/No-Protection-49 to r/metalgearsolid [link] [comments]

A few years ago, at the beginning of the AI bubble, I wrote a three part series of essays on why AI won't replace novelists and audiobook narrators. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.) While the bubble hasn't popped yet, and AI boosters still abound, it's becoming clear to the mainstream how, well, bullshit all this shit is. I would have preferred to wait until the bubble actually popped to do a retrospective, because I do not enjoy writing these essays, but... well, it's important, and clearly time again. Fucking yay for me. (My only consolation is a truly delightful chocolate pu'er tea I'm drinking while writing this. Little gimmicky, but delicious.) As usual, this is going to be a long one, fair warning. Social media has been buzzing the past few days with discussion of a NYT article about romance novelists using AI to write their novels. This article is, as many many folks online have pointed out (not least Ed Zitron, whose commentary made me aware of the article in the first place, incredibly silly and credulous. I'm not going to do a point-by-point breakdown of the article, Ed Zitron and the folks in his comments already have this covered. Every book mentioned by the article clearly lacks any sales on Amazon- within ten minutes of browsing the listed titles on Amazon, I found all of them profoundly lacking in reviews, holding rock-bottom sales rankings, etc. There is absolutely no evidence given in the article for the supposed huge sales figures offered, making them almost certainly just bullshit numbers stated by the given "authors" and not fact-checked by the NYT. (Sometimes there's nuance to figuring out how well a book sells online, one that takes more work to figure out and tools that non-authors and non-publishers usually lack. This is not one of those cases.) So why are they pushing themselves out there like that? Because it's a scam, obviously. One of the "authors" in the article is offering to teach classes on how to follow her business model. As countless others have already pointed out, this is one of the platonic forms of scamming, dating back before the internet. This is almost identical to the pre-AI version of the scam, just replacing cheap bottom-tier ghostwriters with AI. Here's the best breakdown of how the scam works that I've found thus far. But, if you don't want to watch an hour-long video on online scammers (which you should, Dan Olson's excellent), well... here's basically how it works. The scammer tells folks they have a way for them to make money online easily, usually in the form of passive income. There are obvious gaps in their plan (we'll cover that in a second, since it's also proof that this is a scam), and those obvious gaps drive away folks that are intelligent enough to see through the scam. (Which is the same tactic used by Advanced Fee scammers- also known as 419 or Nigerian Prince scammers- to filter out intelligent time wasters. Very different scams otherwise though.) Once the scammer has their victims, they use high-pressure sales tactics to get them to spend way too much money on classes that offer general information of dubious benefit to the client. None of it is technically false information, so they're not breaking any laws, just... advertising crap for high prices. They then usually follow that up with various paid supplementary services (sometimes that they offer themselves, sometimes from other scammers they know) to "help" the client further. There's a lot more nuance and detail to how these guru scams work in publishing, but that's the general idea. It's not really that complicated. There's far more people who aspire to be authors or think they can earn decent passive incomes from publishing than there are people willing to do the work to become good writers, let alone those who succeed. Scammers long ago figured out that a great many of those dreamers are desperate, and make for great victims. Why did the New York Times publish this sort of credulous nonsense? ...Look I don't know what you want me to say, it's the Times. They love credulous nonsense almost as much as they love pompous op-eds from egotistical idiots or transphobia dressed up in polite language. So let's talk real quick about the gaps in the actual publishing plan the scam is built around selling. There's a bunch, including but not limited to: AI-written material is non-copyrightable. There have been a ton of court cases confirming this. If the AI "authors" were actually making money from this stuff, why would they want to create more competitors? If you're not actually writing this stuff, why do publishers need authors at all, why don't they just generate these themselves? Ever-growing sections of the reader marketplace hate AI, and are getting better at spotting it. AI written material remains garbage. Better than the garbage from a couple years ago ("the prophecy is real!") but garbage nonetheless. (For, frankly, the exact reasons I claimed it would remain garbage in my prior essays. If you put cake icing on the contents of your trash can, it doesn't make it a cake.) AI books overwhelmingly don't actually sell. The older ghostwriter model had its own set of obvious objections, I'm not going to go into detail on those, watch the Dan Olson video if you're interested. But, despite all those points, and despite this being a very obvious, well-known scam... There are a LOT of AI written or AI cowritten books on Amazon these days. One of my key predictions going back to my earlier essays is that AI won't replace authors, but it will hurt them. (Mostly because capitalism.) And one thing that pretty much everyone predicted that's come true: Readers having to sort through endless seas of AI slop to find new authors certainly aren't helping things. It's absolutely everywhere, and it's all garbage. Hell, there's even at least one obviously LLM-written novel in SPFBO this year, with an obviously GenAI cover and zero reviews on Amazon. (There could be more, I didn't look exhaustively.) One thing that I, on the otherhand, underestimated the prevalence of? Was the number of authors who "cowrite" their books with AI. I guess I overestimated the pride of a lot of other authors in their craft, oof. Most of those authors just use it in the brainstorming phase. I don't like that, and I sure won't use it, but for most authors, ideas are the least important part of the process of writing a book. As the execrable little fascist Henry Ford pointed out "genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." (He was awful, but right on that one.) I, and most authors, certainly aren't geniuses, but it holds true for creation in general. Even for authors like me who gamble on seeking unusual ideas to lynchpin their work, the inspiration part is still absolutely in the low single-digit percents still. (And I think it's arguable that the inspiration percent remains the same, that the research involved still belongs purely in the perspiration category.) Will brainstorming help those authors come up with better, more original ideas? No, obviously not, since LLMs are inherently averages of their training data, and better ideas are always outliers. It will help them come up with decent ideas more quickly, I suppose. Also with a lot of worse ideas more quickly. A few authors use it in the actual outlining and writing phases, unfortunately. As pointed out in the article that kicked off me writing this essay, a couple romantasy authors were caught a while back leaving the prompts in their books. These books are, by the accounts of folks more familiar with the romantasy genre than me, the sort of absolute garbage where most readers just skip straight to the sex scenes, ignoring the interstitial material. So the authors, who had pre-existing reputations before AI, were able to make a good bit of money before being found out, because no one was actually reading the AI-written sections. I've also spotted a decent number of LLM "cowritten" LitRPG and Progression Fantasy web serials on Royal Road over the past few years, and as someone who works in the genre, I can absolutely say "yeah these are utter garbage." Can we say the obvious here? I'm not writing this for a professional publication, after all, so I can be salty. Any writer using AI is just flat-out worse than the rest of us. Most of us don't need it, don't use it, and won't touch it, because we're better at every part of our job than AI is. We earned our skills the hard way, and folks trying to cheat with AI, well... it's like paying someone else to lift weights for you. It's not writing, it's homeopathic voodoo. Using LLMs is for writers without pride, and using it is genuinely deskilling them. Let's switch topics, though, because this one is depressing me, and talk about AI translations. They suck. Look, going into an in-depth post on the complexities of translating fiction would take another post just as long as this one. It's an incredibly complex process, one miles beyond simply translating a menu with google translate. Take puns, for instance. The majority of puns do not directly translate into another language, flat out. So that leaves the translator with a creative decision of whether to ignore the pun, whether to include a footnote explaining what it should have been, or whether to invent a new pun that serves the same purpose in the new language. (Yes, this does mean that Piers Anthony's Xanth series is one of the hardest to translate on those specific grounds. Whether it should be is another question.) Then you have the synonym problem. Technically, "stubborn", "obstinate", and "hardheaded" are all synonyms, but there are some genuine nuances in how you'd choose to use any of them in a story. They're not strictly interchangeable, by any means, offering very different impressions and vibes to readers depending on their context within the prose. Likewise, any language you're going to be translating into will have similar nuances for all of its various synonyms. This gets messy fast, and will result in a LOT of difficult creative decisions for translators. There are dozens of other problems, too. Translation is damn tough! These are all solvable problems for an experienced, skilled translator, but the solutions are all creative, non-mass producible ones. Translating is a genuine art form, and the translator is a genuine collaborator with the author on any translation, even if they never directly speak to one another. LLMs just... aren't going to be able to handle that nuance in the same way, let alone other problems like remembering to use the same translation consistently throughout a story. Mass produced translations do exist, and have existed for years, of course-- most notably in the translated web serial space, where Chinese and Korean web serials are highly popular with Western readers. There is a dearth of translators in the space, so many of the less popular serials get machine translated, and were notoriously awful in the days before ChatGPT. Even today, while slightly improved, they remain the absolute bottom of the barrel- again, putting cake icing on empty tuna cans and dirty diapers does not a cake bake. And yet, major publishers are trying to use AI to do translations. Are Harper Collins and other publishers who are attempting it actually stupid enough to think it will work? Well, I'm sure there's a few idiots in the C suite with business degrees who are, but no. The actual game is much nastier- they're going to use AI to translate, then hire the old translators back at lower rates to "fix" the translations. It's a scam to attack labor, not a serious endeavor. And, as in so many other crafts, fixing a bad piece of work is often much harder and more time consuming than an expert just starting it over from scratch. (Also, there's a certain level of contempt for romance novels and their readers involved, obviously. Never underestimate sexism in publishing.) And of course there's the AI bubble itself teetering on the edge of collapse. None of the tech companies are buying AI startups, none of the AI companies out there other than NVIDIA are profitable (NVIDIA only from chip sales), the venture capital industry is running out of money, none of the major AI companies have any path towards recouping their massive expenditures, the AI companies are lying about their funding and just trading promises to circulate the same dwindling pool of investment dollars back and forth (in a process that to cover my own ass I'll say is legally distinct from wash trading for... reasons possibly involving gnomes), and investors are starting to panic. And given that the Magnificent 7, the big tech companies like Facebook and Microsoft that are investing most heavily in AI, are currently making up over ONE THIRD of the total value of the US stock market... The bubble popping ain't going to be fun. (If you're interested in more of the finance and economics, I highly recommend checking out Ed Zitron's excellent podcast Better Offline. I ain't going in-depth on that here, this essay is already way too long already.) None of the above is the biggest thing about LLMs and GenAI affecting authors day to day, though. No, there's an issue far more pressing, one that bombards every working author multiple times a week, if not a day, one that's become a goddamn relentless scourge discussed in every author social circle and online chat. The goddamn spam emails. Every goddamn day I, and damn near every other working author, gets more spam emails written with ChatGPT trying to scam us in one way or another. Just painfully, obviously written with ChatGPT, and sent out en masse. "Thousands of book clubs would like to cover your book [third book in series/standalone with terrible sales/series compilation/ other author's book] for [generic reasons that don't go in depth on your book!]" "I'd like to help optimize your book's positioning to reach more readers!" "Congratulations on your [unnamed book] being featured [in an unnamed location.] You could be promoting it better, though!" "We'd like to [do some vague thing involving the blogging site Medium]!" "Your book would be great for a [scam/AI generated] screen adaptation! "I'd like to help optimize your book's positioning to reach more readers!" "Hi, we'd like to promote your [non-romance book] to [romance readers]!" "Hi, I'd like to follow up on my earlier [spam message] about [unnamed book]." "I'd like to help optimize your book's positioning to reach more readers!" "I just came across your [book that already has an audiobook] and would be interested in knowing if you'd be interested in producing it as an audiobook with AI!" "Hi, I'm bestselling author [Stephen King/Rebecca Yarros/Charles Dickens], and I'd like to personally make your career bigger than [Elvis/Jesus/Your Mom], random indie author!" "I'd like to help optimize your book's positioning to reach more readers!" "Hundreds of thousands of book clubs are desperate to cover your [third book in series/standalone with terrible sales/series compilation/ other author's book]. They will literally die without your permission to do so!" And last and definitely least, my personal favorite recently was "Help readers discover your book!" The entire contents of the email? A single space, followed by a period. (Buddy, no one has ever done a spam email worse. That is literally the worst anyone has ever done a spam email.) They don't stop. They just don't fucking stop. Every day a few slip through my spam filters, and when I open my spam filters, you know what I see? DOZENS MORE. Same with every other author on the internet. We're all PLAUGED by this shit, all the way up to NYT bestselling authors like John Scalzi. I don't even remember the last time I got a dick pill spam email. I can't believe I'm saying this sentence, but I miss the stupid dick pill spam emails. It. Just. Doesn't. Fucking. Stop. Look, there's always been a lot of dedicated spammers targeting authors and aspiring authors. In any field with such a disorganized labor force and so many folks desperate to make it in, there's going to be rich pickings for scams. But this? This is just relentlessly, unstoppably annoying on a scale none of us have ever seen before. But, for all that... AI hasn't replaced authors. It's inconvenienced us, stolen from us, hurt newer authors, gotten us harassed by weird crypto-bros-turned-ai-bros who resent all artists and folks who actually do productive things. And it most certainly has annoyed us. Lord has it annoyed us. But it hasn't actually replaced us. Nor will it- and not just because the technology can't handle it. Nothing's fundamentally changed from my initial objections in earlier essays. You want to know why LLMs can't write good novels, go read those essays. It's still the same technology as three years ago, with the same fundamental limitations, even if it's had more cake icing slathered on top and had a few weird experiments performed like taping six LLMs together front to back in a horrid robot centipede thing. But there is something still worth talking about here- something I didn't have as fleshed out in my mind when I wrote those earlier essays, something I've spent years thinking about since. What, exactly, allows one technology to replace another? I know that sounds odd, and we're about to go on a tangent, but bear with me here. It's a moderately easy question at times, say when discussing why cars replaced horse-drawn carriages. It's a bit harder when explaining why cars with small inflated wheels replaced cars with giant hard spoked wheels- you have to deep-dive into infrastructural questions, explain that the wide spread of smooth road surfaces suddenly meant that the smaller inflated wheels were now better than the large spoked wheels, whereas before the larger wheels were the better choice, since they were better at handling rough terrain, among other reasons. It gets harder yet when explaining why cars replaced trains in the US, because trains are objectively the better technology in terms of values like energy efficiency per passenger, traffic congestion, etc, etc. To answer that question, you have to start exploring the history of suburbia, the active sabotage of the train system by the automobile industry, political pressure from the oil industry, the rise of the assembly line, and lots and lots of racism. And, of course, even the simplest of those explanations can never be complete. All useful technologies have found and will find unanticipated uses, for instance, which complicate the story of replacements to absurdity. Technologies frequently have unexpected comebacks, partially reversing the replacement, often multiple steps into the process. (See vinyl, for instance.) The true purpose, the true telos, of a technology, is often really hard to explain on top of that. We all know what it's for, but we can't really explain it nearly as well as we'd like. See, for example... a Nintendo Switch. It's easy to say it's for playing games and having fun, but the instant you start to dig deeper, to try to explain what exactly about it makes it fun... oof, gonna be there for a while. Then there's technologies with completely unanticipated benefits that arguably equal or even outweigh the intended purpose- just look at the curb cut effect. (The flipside exists too- we can all point to technologies with massive unanticipated negative consequences, from the cotton gin to the internal combustion engine to, you know, AI.) As if that all weren't frustrating enough, there's the question of where the borders of a technology actually lie, where the definition and classification of a technology begins and ends. When you argue about AI and tech bubbles enough, you're going to start to run into the question of where a specific technology actually ends, in one form or another. Most of the time, it's going to be wrapped up in conversations about how, say, Waymo's self-driving cars are actually driven remotely by folks in the Philippines. Or how AI medical technologies are killing and injuring people at an alarming rate. But essential to all of these conversations are questions of "what are the borders of a specific technology, and what lies immediately beyond it?" You cannot determine culpability for, say, a Waymo running someone over or an AI medical technology injuring someone without making some sort of judgement about where the definitional borders of a technology lie. When you explicitly ask this question out loud online, you will immediately just get low-level tech bros insisting that the borders of the technology stop at the edges of the physical gadget. It has happened to me on multiple occasions. This is, of course, deeply silly, since not all technologies are gadgets. Crop rotation and multi-cropping fields are technologies. Writing is a technology. Democracy is a technology. But the claim the borders stop at the physical gadget, even taking a more expansive notion of what a "gadget is", remains silly for deeper reasons. What about the blueprints for a gadget, be it a Nintendo Switch or plan for crop rotation? What about the expertise needed to design or build that gadget? What about the expertise needed to use that gadget, whether it be a simple consumer device or a complex logistical plan coordinating the efforts of thousands of workers? I think most people would say that most of the above are at least partially within the boundaries defining a particular technology. I go even farther, though. What about the laws and regulations governing said technology? What about the social customs and cultural connotations that rise up around a technology? What about the implications on labor rights, workplace safety, etc, etc that rise up around a technology? I absolutely include those in the boundaries of what defines any given technology. (This, by the way, is getting into the fundamental questions of Luddite philosophy, which is way, WAY more interesting than just "peasants afraid of technology." Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine is a fantastic book about the history of the Luddites, and it's incredibly relevant today.) And understanding the borders of what defines a technology is absolutely essential to understanding why and when I think a lot of you are probably guessing where I'm going with this already. The novel is a technology. And, unfortunately, it's an incredibly difficult one to draw the borders of. Even defining the "gadget" part of it is a nightmarish endeavor. You can't strictly define the novel without excluding outliers like web serials, or epistolary fiction, or ergodic literature, oddities like Horrorstor or Invisible Cities, or heck, just some weird-ass writers like Jose Saramago. Defining the social borders, the regulatory borders, the economic borders? It's damn hard. I flat out cannot do it at a level that satisfies me, and I've dedicated long hours to the problem. But... I have come to a lot of conclusions over the years about it, even if I'm years yet from coming to a conclusion at best. (More likely, I'll never come to a satisfactory conclusion- I'm just too close to the problem. I'll never be able to stop picking at the question, though.) One of the core-most aspects of writing, one that comes up again and again and again in conversations between authors, is the question of resonance. It's not always called that, but it's the question of "what drives readers to a novel?" It's clearly not quality, or a lot of terribly written popular bestsellers would have never taken off. Resonance also isn't the same thing as popularity, however- Dan Brown's Da Vinci code was wildly popular, but I can't particularly say that I've encountered many folks who resonated with it in the same way that folks resonated with Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. You can come up with a few basic rules, of course-- lots of folks will resonate with any book about teens at a school, lots of folks will resonate with specific romance tropes, etc, etc. Certain emotions from characters will resonate, characters struggling with unjust authority will resonate, weirdly hyper-specific symbolism will resonate. (Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, looking at you on that last one.) But it's really blind flailing, overall. One thought I keep coming back to on the problem of resonance is the way small children will just keep relentlessly coming back to the same book over and over, until one day, they just... stop. The book resonated immensely with them for some period of time, until they finally just got what they needed from it and stopped resonating with it. That feels vital to understanding the problem of resonance-- hell, to understanding what resonance even is-- but I haven't been able to connect the dots yet. It's just this annoying mental toothache, this puzzle piece that doesn't seem to fit with the others yet. If the problem of resonance were a solved problem, publishers could probably consistently put out bestsellers. And yet, resonance is clearly close to the core of what constitutes a novel as a technology, nowhere near the borders of the technology. So, at last, we get to the fundamental question of "how can Generative AI, how can Large Language Models, replace the human-written novel as a technology?" Let's look at it through the very specific lens of resonance- how can GenAI serve to replace the human-written novel in the generation of resonance with readers? I did, you might notice, just say that we don't really understand how resonance works. In great detail. So you might question how we can know AI can't do it, when we don't know how people do it. Well... Every time you have a giant mega-hit, publishers immediately try to copy it. Tom Clancy led to a million forgettable military action imitators who are since completely forgotten. Twilight had a billion edgy teen vampire romances that fell flat. Hell, publishers are actively courting authors I know to write ripoffs of a series that's currently exploding as we speak. And whenever this happens, the publishers always push books that imitate the set pieces, the trappings of the books. "Oh, fans love Twilight because vampires!" And every time, it's obvious to countless authors, editors, agents, and other industry professionals, not to mention fans, that the publishers don't actually understand what makes these books work- what makes these books resonate. Because you might have guessed, I lied a little bit about how little we understand about resonance, just so I could make this rhetorical trick work better. Oh, it's still a deeply obscure, overwhelmingly unsolved problem, one that I also doubt can be solved. Because there is one thing that we can absolutely understand. Resonance comes from meaning. It comes from the meanings the authors intended, and the meanings they didn't. It comes from the interpretations readers make, and it comes from the life experiences they bring with them. They aren't always deep meanings, aren't always profound, aren't always fully apparent to readers-- but resonance is always due to some form of meaningfulness. And GenAI doesn't have that. AI is not sentient, it cannot comprehend any meanings. It is strictly and merely a stochastic parrot, a statistical algorithm that predicts the next most likely piece of data in a sequence given a preset of training data to create predictive averages. Any meanings it seems to create are merely randomly generated, necessarily weighted to the lowest common denominators of human creativity. Any meaning found in a reading of AI slop relies basically entirely on the reader doing all the work for themselves, of trying to translate random shadows on the wall as intentional and meaningful. When you stare at the clouds and guess what they look like, it's just you. The clouds aren't taking shapes on purpose. GenAI as a technology can't and won't replace novelists, even for all the other harms it can do them. There are a lot more questions we could raise and explore under this model of "what defines the border of a novel as a technology, and how could AI replace those functions and purposes?" If we use an expansive map of the borders of the technology, one that includes rules and regulations, we also include issues like the uncopyrightable nature of LLM output. But this essay is too damn long already, and I've drank way too many cups of chocolate pu'er today. (It's quite good with dried orange peels, I've found!) So I'll leave you with my gratitude for sticking with me all the way through such a long rant, and a heartfelt plea: Create your own art, folks. Whether you want to go pro or not, whether you're good or not, the process of creating art, the friction of struggling with it and trying to get better, will genuinely be good for you on so many levels. If you're creating your own art in 2026, I'm fucking proud of you. submitted by /u/JohnBierce to r/Fantasy [link] [comments]

With the soon to be released 4.7 update due to hit live servers in March we will be getting the updated Inventory system that we've been wanting for some time. This image gets me excited for whats to come this year along with crafting, new NYX locations and so much more. Roll on Star Citizen in 2026. P.S. the photo is not mine (pulled from facebook) submitted by /u/FabSpatter to r/starcitizen [link] [comments]

The New York Times recently republished its guide to building an emergency kit, complete with curated product recommendations and affiliate links. Reading through the Wirecutter's selection of "essential" items—a $40 folding saw, solar-powered lanterns, water purification tablets—I couldn't help but think of my granny who was 18 years old at the start of the Great Depression and living in Appalachian Virginia. She survived with little technology (like a root cellar, wood cook stoves, captured fresh spring water, garden implements), a few animals (like a few pigs, chickens and a milk cow), and knowledge (of edible plants, where to find them, how to harvest them; animal husbandry; hunting; gardening). She’d laugh at the notion that survival could be purchased from Amazon. The emergency preparedness industry is the monetization of anxiety about our own helplessness. These product lists prey on a fundamental truth that most Americans (consumers more broadly) have become disconnected from basic survival skills that previous generations considered elementary. Rather than addressing this skills and knowledge gap, companies and media outlets have found it more profitable to sell us gadgets. submitted by /u/Psychological-Pie857 to r/collapse [link] [comments]

For the unaware Genshin Impact is a critically acclaimed anime styled, open world, fantasy RPG, gacha game. Most (in)famous for its often toxic and sometimes deviant fandom. As context, the game releases a new region each year, loosely based off an IRL culture or region and corresponding to an in-game element . With the Wind country being inspired on Germany and adjacents, The Earth country on China/Korea, the Lightning country on Japan, the Nature country on India/Persia/the Arab world, the Water country on western Europe, the Ice country on Eastern Europe, and today's topic: Natlan, the Fire Country based off Latin American and a bit of African and Pacific cultures. Recently, the game released the much anticipated Natlan region, already embroiled in drama. However, things truly started to go downhill this week when the official marketing material for the ruler of Natlan, Mavuika, released, and people noticed the presence of highly technologically advanced gadgets. Here a few snippets: Main Subreddit Why are people so butthurt over the natlan criticism? I keep getting posts of people trying to defend and deflect as if the tech topic isn't valid. I can't believe people sometimes. My dude, you have seen/fought walking robots, flying robots, robots that look like dogs, robots that look like giant worms, robots that look like spider turtles, robots that look like a REAL WOMAN that gives you primogems everyday.. This is an unpopular opinion on EN side. Even in social media, if you check JP for example, they are 10x more hyped for mavuika and citatli because they have a different way of approaching things. It's a familiarity anti-bias, since this game is supposed to be a fantasy. - Sorted by controversial. didnt we make a literal weather machine in inazuma? Meme Subreddit This community really has a knack for straw manning the hell out of any kind of negative criticism People do be thinking that here in LATAM we have no cellphones or something God forbid if Deshrets kingdom did not fall genshin will have a nation where people shit on buckets and fking wakanda on the same damn continent lmao bike looks like shit , don't belong in genshin world at all . Leaks Subreddit Was the marketing delayed because of a domestic terrorist attack on China? Full megathread sorted by controversial And many more, the entire community is currently down in flames (lol) submitted by /u/ZaheerUchiha to r/SubredditDrama [link] [comments]

For everyone who thinks we can’t figure out how the new gadgets work. submitted by /u/Ricalg to r/GenerationJones [link] [comments]

I used to really struggle with impulse purchases. When online purchases became extremely popular, this habit of mine became significantly worse. And the worst part was most of the time, I didn't really need the things I would purchase. So here's the tip: Before you actually make the purchase, spend a week pretending you already own the gadget. For example, let's say you're eyeing the latest smartwatch. Throughout the week, whenever you think, "This would be the perfect moment to use that watch," I would make a mental note. My friend does the same thing but instead of a mental note, she writes it down. I thought this idea was crazy when it was first brought up to me, but I realized after doing it for many years that it accomplishes two things: Real Usage Assessment: It helps you figure out how often you would actually use the gadget in your daily life. Sometimes, we get caught up in the hype of new technology without considering its practical application in our routine. Impulse Control: This also acts as a cooling-off period. Impulse buys are often regretted, but by giving yourself time to think about how the gadget fits into your life, you're making a more informed decision. A week later you may even realize that you don't even like how the product looks anymore submitted by /u/urlocalhomie1 to r/LifeProTips [link] [comments]

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I am not The OOP, OOP is u/PatientCurrency8868 Little sister calling me a 'parasitic leech'... Enjoy the Amish lifestyle Originally posted to r/pettyrevenge TRIGGER WARNING: Verbal abuse, emotional manipulation, slurs Previous BoRU Original Post Sept 8, 2023 I'm 28 years old and live in a small town where there is a lack of jobs, and a rising cost of living crisis. I moved back in with my parents since we have a good relationship. I buy all the groceries and pay some of the bills. My little sister (16), however, was not happy. She was saying that I should be a man and move out again. A few weeks ago she started continuously calling me a 'freeloader' and a 'parasitic leech'. My parents are anti-technology - they are not part of a religious cult, they just avoid technology and prefer to live a simplistic life - the only modern technology they use is a laundry machine, a car, a flip phone, and a TV. They don't, however, take away our gadgets if we paid for it ourselves. When I turned 18 and was looking for my first job, I had to handwrite a resume since I didn't have a computer or a printer. It's impossible to get a job while still in HS because of the small job market in our town. Now, my little sister was lucky, I bought her a PC, a smartphone, and a data plan since she was a young child, yet she was continuously calling me all these names. Eventually my little sisters constant name calling got on my nerves and I came up with an idea. I simply 'repossessed' the computer and the smartphone. Now she is having the same childhood I had. Oh, and she stopped with the name calling. Enjoy the Amish lifestyle little sis. Edit: The smartphone is under an installment plan, and the PC was ordinarily kept in the living room and shared between my sister and I before I moved out. I did not steal anything. Update Oct 13, 2023 This is an update to this post. It had been awhile since I took back my smartphone, which I had been lending to my little sister, because she kept calling me a 'parasitic leech' for having to move back home due to the rising cost of living. She has had no access to the internet since, as our parents are pretty anti-technology. I believe that justice should be fair, impartial, and reasonable. Reasonable being the key word here. With that said, I decided to give back the smartphone to my little sister, as she stopped with the constant name calling, was being a bit friendly, and because she was sleeping all day ever since I took the phone. I had already sold the computer though. Life is very short and I don't want to hold grudges with anyone, especially my own sister. So I calmly knocked on her door, with a smartphone and a data plan in my hand, "Hi, little sister" I greeted her, through the closed door. 'F****G WHAT C*T!" my sister yelled. I replied, "Well, I was going to give you back the smartphone, but it seems like you want to be left alone, so I'll leave you be, enjoy the day lil sis." She then came out like a yelping dog, begging for the phone back. I told her that my friend really needed a smartphone, so I was thinking of gifting it to him. She then sighed and went back in her room. She's sleeping now. I think I'll let her buy her own phone this time, hopefully she will mature in the coming years. She was a sweet child a couple of years ago and I hope that she'll be a sweet person in a couple more. NEW UPDATE * Update 2 Dec 27, 2023 Final update to "Little sister keeps calling me a parasitic leech... Enjoy the Amish lifestyle". This is the final update to the original and follow-up post. Background: My sister and I live in an anti-tech household. I bought her a smartphone since our parents wouldn't. I moved out but had to move back in because of soaring rents. My little sister kept calling my a "parasitic leech" for doing so. In retaliation, I took back the smartphone, which was under a payment plan in my name, resulting in my little sister living an 'Amish lifestyle' of sorts. I was going to give her back the phone a few weeks later but she yelled "F*****G What C**T" right after I knocked on her door to give her back the smartphone. I then changed my mind and told her that "I was going to give you back the smartphone but it seems like you want to be left alone". Final Update (On Christmas Morning): After my last standoff with my little sister where a smartphone had become a pawn in our game of household politics, I noticed her demeanor had shifted. She was really respectful, perhaps a sign of an epiphany. But I couldn't resist one final act. For Christmas, I bought my sister a new woolen beanie, but I also dug up another old smartphone from my drawer -- a phone with a shattered screen and a very poor battery life. I wrapped them up in a parcel and left it underneath the Christmas Tree. Her initial excitement quickly fizzled as she seen the phones condition. Later that afternoon, she confronted me, not with anger but with a calm respect. She said she was grateful for the smartphone despite its flaws, and that she loved the beanie. In light of all this, I ordered her a new battery for the smartphone (old smartphones w/ replacable batteries for the win). Unfortunately for her though, she'll have to deal with the cracked screen until she saves up enough money for a new phone. Luckily for her though, she got a job at her friend's pizza joint. I could give her back the original phone but I'm planning to upgrade, and this is r/pettyrevenge after all. Disclaimer: I understand that my initial actions would have hinged on theft if the phone were paid off. I apologize for any offence caused to the Amish community. Emulating these actions with your loved ones may result in estrangement. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT THE OOP submitted by /u/Direct-Caterpillar77 to r/BestofRedditorUpdates [link] [comments]

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I notist a lot of divers are stuck in their old ways so i was wondering what are things that a relatively newish that improved your diving in anyway Can be anything big things that make a big difference to small things submitted by /u/Supremebeing101 to r/scuba [link] [comments]

Hi Reddit! Mantas Sasnauskas here. EDIT: Thank you guys for the interest. I'm going to take a break now. I'll make sure to come back tomorrow and answer remaining comments. So keep them coming. EDIT2: Hey! I’m back and will slowly answer some of the remaining questions throughout this day. I see a lot of you asking about routers (you probably personally use) and their security. We tested Wavlink and Jetstream ones so far so I can’t really comment on other brands. Also, there are quite a few questions about custom router operating systems. Personally, I use pfsense with snort and run pi-hole. I’m an information security researcher hunting for new and emerging threats. I do everything from Threat Hunting to hardware hacking. Commercial gadgets are now cheaper and more plentiful than they’ve ever been. As security researchers, by trying to alter the technology’s behaviour and capabilities, we probe and evaluate the security of technology developed by others to see how much has been done to ensure their privacy and security. In our recent investigation in collaboration with researchers James Clee and Roni Carta we identified hidden backdoors in cheap Chinese-manufactured Jetstream and Wavlink wifi routers sold by Walmart, Amazon and eBay, with evidence that these backdoors are being actively exploited, and there’s been an attempt to add the devices to a Mirai botnet. We found multiple RCE vulnerabilities, that enable bad actors to exploit them We identified backdoors on some of the devices The Wavlink routers also contain a script that lists nearby wifi and has the capability to connect to those networks After setting up a small, trivial honeypot that intercepts the traffic with the router, we immediately saw attempts from a Chinese IP to upload a malicious file containing the Mirai malware which was not made for the specific router, but rather just shows, that malicious attempts are being made on a mass scale, and considering the vulnerabilities and the backdoor on the routers it poses a very real risk, that these might also be exploited. Want to know how the routers were investigated? The vulnerability identification and disclosure process? Or just discuss what such backdoors in wifi routers mean for their users? I’ll be here 3-5 PM UK time today but will endeavour to answer follow up questions over the next couple of days. This AMA is part of our efforts to spread the word about cheap wifi routers that allow spying on its users. Check out the full report here. So far, we’ve managed to contact Walmart about the affected devices, and Walmart has stopped selling one affected router. However, we believe that most or all devices from this brand have the same vulnerabilities. Wavlink, one of the device makers, has released new firmware to address the security issues our research exposed. While we have not yet confirmed these modifications with our own testing, they claim to have removed unnecessary diagnostic pages, deleted tcdump tool, added code to block a CSRF attack, and improved web authentication process. If all of these can be confirmed and reflected in the firmware, it should mitigate all the vulnerabilities we discovered. Proof. submitted by /u/Cybernews_com to r/IAmA [link] [comments]

I can’t believe how far they’ve come, they’re like science fiction gadgets. I can call anyone in the entire world who has one. I can take high resolution photos. I can take high resolution videos. I can navigate across the globe. I can record and mix music. I can listen to music. I can browse the internet. And hundreds of new applications are developed daily for it... I feel like I go through phases of taking it for granted, and then just being totally mind blown by it. Anyone else?! submitted by /u/Alxmrlw to r/NoStupidQuestions [link] [comments]

Hi Reddit, I’m Steve Wozniak. I will be participating in a Reddit AMA to answer any and all questions. I promise to answer all questions honestly, in totally open fashion, even when the answer is that I don’t have an answer to a specific question or that I don’t know enough to answer it. I recently shot an interview with Reddit as part of their new series Formative, in which I talk about the early days of Apple. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrhmepZlCWY The founding of Apple is often greatly misunderstood. I like clearing the air about those times. I like to talk about my ideas for entrepreneurs with humble starts, like we had. I have always cared deeply about youth and education, whether in or out of school. I fought being changed by Apple’s success. I never sought wealth or power, and in fact evaded it. I was able to finish my degree in EE&CS and to fulfill a lifelong goal to teach 5th graders (8 years, up to teaching 7 days a week, public schools, no press allowed). I try to reach audiences of high school and college and slightly beyond people because of how important those times were in my own development. What I taught was less important than motivating students to learn. Nothing can stop them in that case. I’m still a gadgeteer at heart. I buy a lot of prominent gadgets, including different platforms of computers and mobile devices, because everything different excites me. I think about what I like and dislike about such things. I think about the course technology has taken since early PC days and what that implies about the future. I think often about possible negative aspects of what we’ve brought to the world. I try to develop totally independent ideas about a lot of things that are never heard in other places. That was my design style too. I admire good engineers and teachers greatly, even though they are not treated as royalty or paid a fraction of other professions. I try to be a very middle level person and to live my life around normal fun people. I do many things to affect that I don’t consider myself more important than anyone else. I had my lifetime philosophies down by around age 20 and I am thankful for them. I never needed something like Apple to be happy. Finally, I’m hosting the Silicon Valley Comic Con this weekend March 18 - 19th, so come check it out. You can buy tickets here. Steve Wozniak and Friends present Silicon Valley Comic Con http://svcomiccon.com/?gclid=CMqVlMS-xMsCFZFcfgodV9oDmw Proof: http://imgur.com/zYE5Asn More Proof: https://twitter.com/stevewoz/status/709983161212600321 *Edit I'd like to thank everyone who came in with questions for this AMA. It was delightful to hear the questions and answer them, but I also enjoyed hearing all your little screen names. Some of those I wanted to comment on being very creative. I always like things that have a little bit of humor and fun and entertainment built into the productivity work of our lives. submitted by /u/TheSteveWozniak to r/IAmA [link] [comments]

I started a new job today with Walk N'Talk Technologies. I get to listen to sound bites and rate how the text matches up with what is said in an audio clip and give feed back on what should be improved. At first, I though these sound bites were completely random. Then I began to notice a pattern. Soon, I realized that I was hearing peoples commands given to their mobile devices. Guys, I'm telling you, if you've said it to your phone, it's been recorded...and there's a damn good chance a 3rd party is going to hear it. I heard everything from kiddos asking innocent things like "Siri, do you like me?" to some guy asking Galaxy to lick his butthole. I wish I was kidding. Just a heads up Reddit. I've heard more text-to-speech sexting than I care to. (You've never hear something sexy until you've heard a guy with a slight Indian accent slowly enunciate "I want to have sex with you" to his texing app) EDIT: Originally posted in /r/gadgets, but mods made me move it. submitted by /u/FallenMyst to r/technology [link] [comments]