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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The idea that facial recognition was just to determine if someone is in front of the machine is a diversion. A simple occupancy sensor would do the same, cheaper and more simply. The company only invested in the facial recognition because they are getting some other gain from it (presumably, data harvesting).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I don’t really find the Android notification system useful, as there are always a few apps that permanently place an icon in the tray. But I’m not really a mobile “power user” so I’m not the target market for these features.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Mastodon supports polls so what the heck?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

US. I see the same scams on clients without Adblock. Only way they care is if it becomes a PR problem for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Mismanagement and inefficiency must be present everywhere at Google as they do immense amounts of R&D but are constantly beaten to innovation by smaller players.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yup. I’m a web dev. Switched from testing first in Chome to testing first in Firefox a few months ago. And I had been Chrome first for probably 10 years prior. Some of our customers (enterprises) also started deploying/spec for FF by default in the past year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does this even meet the definition of a camera? This is not a projection of a scene that ever existed.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Thanks to stuff I learned about in the comments of previous posts on lemmy, I no longer see any YouTube ads. I’d say their plans are backfiring.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

A great way is by charging for volume of trash produced. My city works that way (pay per bag) and we produce very little trash (sometimes not even filling a trash bag in one week). It also makes you really consider buying something when you include the potential cost of throwing it away, if it is not reusable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don’t hate Google. But some of their services/products are more buggy then the competitors (gmail, chat, chrome) and some don’t have much utility (free form search for products or recommendations, maps) so I use the better competitor products, where it benefits me. And I use the Google product when it offers me a benefit (search for technical documentation or finding a specific URL, chrome devtools). In some cases I’m locked in (gmail) and in that respect, it’s frustrating (but not unique to Google)

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

5.25 billion smartphone users, so they are paying about $5 per user. If you switch the default from Google, you are taking $5 from them!

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