No. It may affect some areas where someone would not have paid for dev work, but now they can do it themselves. However, you still will need regular dev work and coders. Like my subject says, just because some new tool is available doesn't mean an entire industry is going to collapse.

It's a dark day indeed when I agree with a Kardashian (Jenner).

Exactly this. There are also the malware attacks that occur because advertisers don't realize that a malicious ad is being delivered. I understand that in some cases it may be hard to detect, but it also feels like they just don't care enough sometimes. In that case, we have to take matters into our own hands to protect us, which means blocking their ad delivery.

We started because I wanted to dabble with smart lights and play with home geekery. We are also always playing music in the background, so she made that much simpler. Then as you add more lights, enjoy the music, you add more devices for more rooms. Then some Sonos. But I understand that if you buy an Echo Dot and it's just sitting there, not sounding very good on its own, doing very little.. I mean.. of course people get bored.

You can also turn off the 'By the way' options but you have to dig into the settings, and to be fair most people prefer to complain. I do hate you cannot turn off the suggestions that appear on a Show, and that I cannot directly write Python scripts to do what I want with it.

I find people do worry about the 'It's always listening to me' but when you try and explain how the hardware/cloud aspects work (I'm a security engineer) it's too much, and they fall back to worry/FUD. Just like most topics, people want a headline, not actual knowledge.

What is this nonsense? I play many games, and have played FPSs forever. If you have players who don't match for skill level, FIX THE MATCHMAKING. Why is some new player being matched with expert players. Why is there such a disparity that you feel the fix is to allow players to pay to kick worse players. Why not allow bad players or new players to kick the player who is destroying everyone because they spend 5 hours a day playing and everyone else is trying to learn the mechanics or just have fun.

I'm sure Apple would do this well, but just because they can doesn't mean they should. I think it would be cool, but I sure wouldn't but one.

We cut the cord but I still have paid for streaming TV services just to get a handful of channels that we still want to keep. If Verizon would get their head out of their ass and finally let us pay for TV but use their app on a Fire Stick, I would gladly pay for Fios TV and not have to hop from PS Vue to YouTube to Sling when channels come and go or go out of business or prices fluctuate. Then I could pay for cable TV, NOT pay for a damn hardware box in every room, and everyone is happy

But as we all know, they are stuck on their old model, and enough people still rent multiple boxes, generating revenue, and that probably won't stop for a while.

I have alternated between Chrome and Firefox for years. It always seems like one starts to get extra bloated and slow, and switching to the other feels much snappier. I remember the Browser Wars (ugh I sound so old), and how great it was after those years that Firefox came out and gave us something refreshing after IE stomped on Netscape. Very sad to see that Firefox may now be on the way out slowly.

Exactly this. I am 44 and grew up drooling over the Nintendo as a kid until I saved up the amazing $99 (IIRC) to buy one. So it makes sense that the market continues to grow as people who were games as kids are now gamers as adults. Sadly I feel more desire to work on my house or various projects than gaming, but I still play for several hours a week.

Really this is 90% focus on normal, earth based issues. There is a reason they are using a different acronym and not UFO. People jump right to this idea of aliens, which is where that remaining 10% goes. Aliens would be cool (or highly scary), but really this is mostly about domestic terrorists and foreign countries doing Bad Things.

It feels like this is trying to lead to a 'everything has been invented' sort of argument. Obviously more breakthroughs will occur, and they may have nothing to do with Moore's Law. In the meantime, developers will have to go back to actually coding efficiently and not just dumping terrible code into a 8 core processor.

I think the growth of what people can do online has fueled this. Playing with your friends can more easily be done online. If your friends are miles away as a kid, you aren't getting there, but you can get home and hop on a console or iPad and 'hang out'. On the other hand, as I've gotten older I realized that yes I am an outdoor person without meaning to be. Snowboarding, mountain biking, running, cycling, beach/camping. People who are interested will discover these things. As a geek I used to, by muscle memory, say 'I hate being outside' until I realized one day that 'huh, I guess I don't'

I would like to think the intent is that 'coding is not magic, anyone can learn to code if they wanted to'. And it's certainly elitist to suggest that a group cannot learn to code. Really it all comes down to the politicians talking in sound bites, and the media feeding it. There is no nuance in short phrases, and additionally you cannot make such sweeping statements about entire groups. Can all individuals code? Most likely not, whether because they lack ability or desire.

But no one wants to think, they want politicians to be on their side, or vilify them to serve a purpose. Give them short sound bites to reiterate at parties so they can sound like they actually bothered to learn an issue.

I find it interesting that devices can meet their requirements but still be considered creepy. They almost need to break these results out better (but that wouldn't generate clicks!) to good security practices vs business practices/potential for abuse. The concern in the wording seems to be that people may review what you've said to your device (Echo Show for example). Perhaps I'm too technical so I understand that, but I find the reviews seem to be a weird mix of technical info and FUD. Why come up with a list of technical requirements, but then still rank it on other components you don't quantify.

Except that I don't think DNS forwarded queries are encrypted. So you still have the same issue that plain text queries are being sent out of your network, and not protected. All you've done is hop to your local DNS server who sends the request out instead of your local computer. DoH is meant to encrypt that traffic so your ISP or people on the network cannot see your DNS requests.