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Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand
  • Fast food will always be at the forefront of enshittification. Ghost Kitchens are yet another innovation that takes advantage of the fact that you, as the customer, have no idea how much of a horror show their operation is because they aren’t a physical presence you can just walk into (I guess you could pretend to be a doordasher). You have to put complete faith in the health inspector.

  • Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3
  • The startup world is almost entirely Apple, maybe a windows box for someone in finance who can’t be assed to learn how to do things outside of excel. If someone tried to take the macs away at any of my last five jobs, there would be riots.

  • Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default
  • Android? I think I’ve heard of it. Bunch of iPhone clones of widely varying quality. I’ve owned several of both over the years (including both original models), worked for manufacturers of both, developed software for both.. the design of the modern smartphone is based on the iPhone, which continues to be most of the best-selling smartphone models in the world. It’s great that there are options in the market, I love that. The iPhone still defines the market.

  • Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students
  • Vending machine company sells facial recognition and temporal location data to a data broker who enriches it to enhance identifiability and this data is sold to a stalker who uses it to murder people. That’s a more extreme, but certainly not most extreme, example.

  • Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default
  • It’s about the training and tuning. If a model is very good at the few dozen things that I’m likely to want my phone to do, and able to recognize when it should ask a remote, larger model for help, that’s pretty excellent and could conceivably fit on a phone. Even better if the system uses my usage data to train the model to be better for me. For example: I ask it to build me a playlist a few times, but never ask it for recipes. Eventually this usage data retrains to better handle playlist building (probably using a RAG because of how specific the data is) and drops all the training needed for making recipes, which it can always call up the chain for.

  • Social Media's Cringiest Conservative Is Running for School Board -- As a Democrat
  • I’m just looking at nces statistics, specifically the percentage of parents that homeschool for moral or religious reasons, and drawing conclusions that may very well be bullshit. Glad it worked out for you, but I can’t help but feel sorry for kids I’ve known who would have benefited from a secular education. It’s pretty embarrassing to explain evolution to a twentysomething.

  • Social Media's Cringiest Conservative Is Running for School Board -- As a Democrat
  • Homeschooling is child abuse, in the majority of cases. Kids need to interact with other kids, and be taught by people who are trained to do it effectively with curriculum that isn’t based on the invisible man in the sky’s alleged preferences.

  • Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros
  • So the quest pro? Foveated rendering only matters if you don’t have the graphics throughput to render it all, so I don’t totally buy that it’s key to a good vr headset so much as helps you get away with cheaper silicon. Maybe enough-lower tdp that it enables slimmer design.

  • Toobin and the Titan

    Is anyone else finding this fight ridiculous? Toobin spends all of his time running directly at the boss who’s trying to self destruct. I’ve beaten this boss three times now, and been stuck because this little bastard has a death wish. Even death ward doesn’t work on him! I dimension door this asshole as far away as possible but he just dashes right at the titan, then his corpse is too mangled for speak with dead.

    Any other options, or do I just have to kill Toobin myself and interrogate his corpse?

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