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Comment Re:Who the fuck (Score 1) 28

Someone got an immediate answer on a subreddit post who said they spent 30 minutes asking ShatGPT for an explanation and not getting one.
Folks who used to go to Google for everything instead of going to a specific shop or Wikipedia are now just using ShatGPT instead.
It's like the people who would type searches into the URL bar before they turned URL bars into garbage.

Comment Re:In other news (Score 5, Informative) 197

If only they were traffic cams, the Flock surveillance scanners provide license plate tracking and/or facial recognition. They aren't for monitoring traffic, they're for searching an individual's travels. They've been repeatedly used for stalking.
And they've been found to be woefully insecure.

Comment Duh (Score 1) 100

A probability pattern matching tool with no comprehension at all obviously isn't going to have "reservations", what an unintelligent premise.
The quote is also surprisingly dumb, AI doesn't understand stakes or anything else, as it's nothing more than a fancy search autocomplete devoid of any "understanding".

I know marketing always wins, but calling LLMs "AI" does such a disservice to everyone.

Comment Property manager here: scams (Score 5, Insightful) 37

Rather frequently in recent years couple prevalent scams have popped up.

The first is someone who has access to a property, like an AirB&B, lists/shows it as a rental and takes application fees, holding fees and initial deposits from people. Then disappears.

The second is someone takes the pictures/ad copy and lists the unit separately at a lower price, then has folks use payment services to send them money. I watermark my ad pics to increase the friction of doing this.

There have been instances of an owner showing up to their property with unknown strangers with moving trucks demanding keys to "their" apartment!

The caution we give in landlord forums to tenants is to meet with the actual person at the unit, be sure they have access/keys, do not send money without corroborating ownership/authenticity. An AI tour might be a complete scam. One benefit as a smaller scope is wanting to meet tenants to initially screen them, get a feel for what type of people they are, their responsibility level, etc. Forming that rapport also enables mutual respect.

That said, I'd love an AI receptionist. Yes please. I can still provide the human touch (touched base with all tenants today regarding parking for a blizzard).

But please be careful and warn folks of scams and discourage processes that obscure validity.

Comment Awesome! (Score 1) 167

17 mph self driving car immediately detects kid and does everything in its power to stop and lessen damage.

Contrast that with a human driver, who rarely can go below 20, typically drive 30+, who wouldn't immediately detect the child, but once they did would have a 2+ second reaction time of panic. If they hit the brake instead of the accelerator (which many do in panic situations, swearing they fully put the brake pedal to the floor), they'd have hit the poor kid with much more force.

These are the types of unavoidable accidents where self driving is a HUGE safety improvement.

A kid knocked down and barely hurt in contrast to broken bones.
A kid with broken bones in contrast to one crippled for life.
A kid crippled for life in contrast to one killed.

Dang fortunate a self driving car was coming along instead of other options.

Comment Re:"Nearly possible to maintain"...? (Score 1) 136

Erm, last time I saw regular computer ownership was probably a decade ago?

For reference, none of my tenants have computers. Leases, PDFs, bills and life are handled via mobiles.
The only folks I know who might have laptops are either provided by work or those enrolled in university.

Many gamers have moved on to consoles or more convenient things like the Steamdeck.

Comment Different perspective (Score 1) 168

When they profit more from the membership fees rather than selling products, the focus is different.

When single, I never even considered the extra cost of buying at those places, and compared with my friends who enjoyed their memberships. But I'm not that much of a consumer.

As a couple, we got memberships for the gas savings alone. Yes, their fuel price difference more than covers the basic (not executive) membership for us. They also let you downgrade your membership and refund the difference before the end of the first year.

Hot dog? Never had it. But the rotisserie chicken, yups.
And have gotten gas there ever since.

Comment Re:Built In Limit? (Score 3, Informative) 57

They explain it and you can see their code toward the end of the linked blog post.

> Each module running on our proxy service has a number of limits in place to avoid unbounded memory consumption and to preallocate memory as a performance optimization. In this specific instance, the Bot Management system has a limit on the number of machine learning features that can be used at runtime. Currently that limit is set to 200, well above our current use of ~60 features.

Submission + - Belkin ending "support" for most Wemo smart devices (belkin.com)

RJFerret writes: "After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to end technical support for older Wemo products, effective January 31, 2026. After this date, several Wemo products will no longer be controllable through the Wemo app. Any features that rely on cloud connectivity, including remote access and voice assistant integrations, will no longer work."

List of devices found in the link (four Thread based unaffected).

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