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8 votes
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Has anyone been following Mycroft AI (open source digital assistant)?
Video pitch: The world’s first open source AI | Mycroft AI | HT Summit 2017 Fast Company article: Can Mycroft’s Privacy-Centric Voice Assistant Take On Alexa And Google? Kingscrowd review: Top...
Video pitch: The world’s first open source AI | Mycroft AI | HT Summit 2017
Fast Company article: Can Mycroft’s Privacy-Centric Voice Assistant Take On Alexa And Google?
Kingscrowd review: Top Deal: The Secure Open Source Voice Assistant Of The Future
I'm not a techie by any means, but I stumbled across Mycroft AI some time last year, and I'm keeping half an eye on its progress. If ever I get myself a digital assistant, I think it's likely to be Mycroft. (I also love the name!)
I wondered if anyone else had any thoughts about this.
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ArsTechnica's thorough iOS 12 review
16 votes -
Whatever happened to the semantic web?
15 votes -
The European Union versus the Internet
12 votes -
Internet taxes are sweeping sub-Saharan Africa — and silencing citizens
9 votes -
Mastodon is better than Twitter: Elevator pitch
32 votes -
Inside the Dramatic, Painful—and Hugely Successful—Return of Reddit's Founders
22 votes -
Amazon plans to release at least eight new Alexa-powered devices this year, including a microwave, an amplifier, and an in-car gadget
14 votes -
Are there any visually appealing FOSS dialers for Android?
I found a few but they all look somewhat ugly in my opinion. I want to use a privacy oriented dialer but I really don't want to trade aesthetics for that.
8 votes -
We hold people with power to account. Why not algorithms?
12 votes -
Why computer science students are demanding more ethics classes
22 votes -
Why is the phone keypad different than the calculator?
16 votes -
The Bullshit Web
61 votes -
US mobile giants want to be your online identity
11 votes -
The OnePlus 6T won't have a headphone jack, but battery life will be improved
16 votes -
Reddit continues its banning spree, r/GreatAwakening has been banned
This was the QAnon subreddit. I filtered it a while ago so not really sure what they’ve been up to of late, but I expect just more of the same. That subreddit genuinely terrified me honestly.
47 votes -
Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10
66 votes -
Apple event megathread: Impressions, reactions, etc
I figured a big thread might be better than smaller individual threads, so maybe we can centralise the discussion here. What are your impressions of what they've presented today?
27 votes -
Secure, open-source alternative to Google Keep
I was looking to maybe cut down on my Googleness and replacing Keep seemed like a good start. I need something that has a simple interface and most (if not all) of the same features as Keep. Any...
I was looking to maybe cut down on my Googleness and replacing Keep seemed like a good start. I need something that has a simple interface and most (if not all) of the same features as Keep. Any suggestions? Also I'm on Android btw.
42 votes -
Battery saver had been turned on for a lot of Pixel users unintentionally, according to Google employee
21 votes -
Google China prototype links searches to phone numbers
10 votes -
Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you
31 votes -
Share your experiences with smart thermostats
I have used a Nest (gen 1) for many years and recently switched it out for an Ecobee 3 with 3 additional room sensors. The Nest worked as advertised and I was happy with it. I moved my thermostat...
I have used a Nest (gen 1) for many years and recently switched it out for an Ecobee 3 with 3 additional room sensors.
The Nest worked as advertised and I was happy with it. I moved my thermostat location to a higher-traffic area of the house and used Nest Sense to have it automatically determine if I was away. All in all, I was pleased. The only reason I switched to Ecobee was so that I could use my Nest in another home and try something new.
The Ecobee is pretty much the same as the nest. They was you schedule temperatures is to first create Comfort Settings and then you schedule when they should run. It's a little less intuitive than the Nest, but it accomplishes the same task. The additional sensors are a nice touch but I find they are too sensitive. My ~50 lb dog can trigger them, which can run additional air conditioning when I wouldn't otherwise want it to run.
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Google employees are reportedly resigning over China search efforts
30 votes -
Leaving Apple & Google: /e/ first beta is here
14 votes -
Inbox is signing off. Find your favorite features in the new Gmail
36 votes -
How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data
11 votes -
The iPhone franchise
4 votes -
Today, Europe lost the internet. Now, we fight back
10 votes -
Honest diversity in tech report
7 votes -
Watch Your Hack
6 votes -
Controversial Copyright Directive approved by EU Parliament
27 votes -
GCHQ data collection violated human rights, Strasbourg court rules. Spies breached right to privacy in programme revealed by Edward Snowden, judges say
10 votes -
Now that the Copyright Directive has been voted through, I think it's relevant to share what type of MP's voted for this crap...
Original here: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8sizc8/danish_mep_jens_rohde_in_facebook_post_yesterday/ I posted this on reddit a couple of months ago as I felt (and still feel) like it's...
Original here: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8sizc8/danish_mep_jens_rohde_in_facebook_post_yesterday/
I posted this on reddit a couple of months ago as I felt (and still feel) like it's rather shocking how someone so ignorant can have any kind of power over something that they clearly know nothing about. Here's what Danish MEP Jens Rohde had to say about the public response to the directive in a Facebook post of his from ~2 months ago:
Always pleasant when the web communists hack and spam my PC in parliament. 50,000 e-mails just yesterday containing largely identical messages - in difference languages though.
This time because I tomorrow vote in favor of artist copyright is valid on the internet as well as everywhere else.
This is not about mass surveillance.
This is not about limiting freedom of speech unless you steal others' content for commercial use.
This is also not about the so-called link tax in article 11. Bloggers can calmly continue working.
This is simply about active commercial platforms which must pay to use people's content for commercial purposes. All passive platforms, marketplaces, wikis, clouds, closed networks are exempt from this proposition that I've helped create and vote for tomorrow.
Creators can themselves ask that their content is monitored, or they can upload it unprotected. That's their choice.
Technology has NOT been considered in the proposal. That will come later.
And let me repeat for the hundredth time: spam as well as hacking is especially counterproductive to me, if you want to promote your cause.
By the way, I will never subscribe to the communist pirate opinion that FREE internet is the same as internet for FREE - no matter how much you attack my PC.
13 votes -
Ink cartridges are a scam
18 votes -
Reddit has banned the QAnon conspiracy subreddit r/GreatAwakening
15 votes -
Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google
15 votes -
Feedbin goes private by default, explains design desicions to enhance user privacy
10 votes -
100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images.
11 votes -
Facebook punishes liberal news site after fact check by right-wing site
10 votes -
Netflix will now interrupt series binges with video ads for its other series
32 votes -
Nearly 600 Russia-linked accounts tweeted about the health law
9 votes -
St. Louis was the first to use mug shots to capture the bad guys
8 votes -
Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads, and they seem to be working
19 votes -
Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy?
31 votes -
A call for principle-based international agreements to govern law enforcement access to data
7 votes -
Any cryptocurrency investors/enthusiasts in here?
Hey all, haven't seen a thread on this yet. What projects do you folks have some stake in? Any you're interested in but haven't picked up? Thoughts on the market?
14 votes -
Tomorrow, the EU will vote on the future of the internet (again)
10 votes -
Trend Micro says sorry after apps grabbed Mac browser history
6 votes