My yearly PIA subscription went through a day or two ago and I considered cancelling the service. If they use some money to fund worthy ventures like this, I feel better about keeping my subscription active.

Linux Journal gave me my first experience programming libSDL, I was bummed out when I heard the news it was shutting down.

by John Le Carre. It's like a sequel to his book from 1963 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Isn't the personal service a large part of why we go out to eat and drink?

No

Those kids who are blaming Cards Against Humanity are going places! Not Harvard.. but places..

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Millenials are being saddled with giant student debt loads at the same time they are being expected to pay forward to social assistance programs that are being utilized by boomers on their slow shuffle off the planet.

The megacorps that own America can't have it both ways -- they can't pressure wages downward with the threat of outsourcing and then expect the oppressed people to cough up for expensive entertainment, whether it's movie tickets, sit down restaurants, or live sporting events. All those industries claim to be suffering but what did they expect? People, especially young people, are losing their ability to spend on trivialities.

The absence of Microsoft from mobile device platforms is really weird.

From what I understand their current CEO is much less of a clown than Monkey Boy Ballmer was. They should be able to break into this market.

They need to stop their cycle of release > fail > abandon. Windows CE > Pocket PC > Windows Mobile > Windows Phone > Windows 10 Mobile

I'm dumb, this was a former CTO and moz is a non-profit

I don't think there will be a new browser war where Firefox or some other competitor re-captures market share from Chrome. It's like launching a new and improved horse in the year 2017. We all drive cars now.

But people still use Chrome???

He's not going to even bother competing with Chrome because he wants to take on Android?!!! Is that what he's saying?!

Any investors in Mozilla should be pulling their money ASAP

Follow-up comment:

I was not trying to troll. This project is right up my alley and I've been using raspberry pi's recently as octoprint servers for my 3D printer. Turning one of my spares into a voice recognition box is interesting to me, which is why I was disappointed that it seemed to be a black box device sending data to "the cloud" in the worst traditions of IoT devices.

A comment defending me mentioned this github:

https://github.com/google/aiyp...

It's clearly not the entire source code for the raspbian distro they are distributing, but it does suggest that there is an "Embedded Assistant API" that might run locally on the pi without internet connectivity.

I'm still reserving judgement until we hear feedback from the brave souls who build this kit.

The theme is to DIY an AI project but all you are DIYing is a box that sends audio to google's servers to interpret and send back. I saw on HackADay that they may have promised you can do it all on-device but nobody has confirmed that. The whole thing seems like they are trying to convince techies/makers that it's a good idea to have an always-on microphone in their home and the tech press is parroting it. The Google Home and Amazon Alexa products are creepy as f**k

I wonder how this case relates to the "diagnostics and usage" option that many software packages ask you to enable. Did they settle just because they never presented the user with that deliberately opaque checkbox?

Because they'll find my child porn?

Thanks, Slashdot

He had to tell the system four times to turn the lights off before it got dark.

Maybe it's his spouse?

"Designed by Apple in California - Assembled in China" will have to become "Made in China"

Google's cloud speech API is a paid service - what does it have to do with this topic?