Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

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[–] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

My new pebble is on its way to replace my decade old Pebble Time Steel and I am so happy with it

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I snapped up the new old pebble pretty much as soon as it went for pre-order.

    No, it doesn't have OLED screens, or NFC/Tap-to-pay. It doesn't support any native android watch apps.

    And that's exactly how the fuck I like it. Give me my 10 days of battery life, the occasional notification for something, and basic sleep/step tracking.

    This thing is gold.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I got the PT2 and I can't get enough of it. Even though I mess with it constantly, the battery has been going for 3 weeks on a single charge and it still has 35% left. If you like the original Pebble I'm sure you'll love the new one.

    I just realized how much this sounds like an ad but dammit, this thing is so good!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Battery life can be pretty variable. Running step tracking, heart rate every five minutes, and the xDrip watchface, I only get about a week and a half.

    It's so nice to not have to check my phone all the time to know where my blood sugar is at. I'm looking forward to the upcoming rework of how xDrip handles Pebble communication so that I can start playing with my own watch faces. Theirs does its job but isn't stylish by any means.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I switched back to an analog watch this year, I'll never leave them again.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago

    Apple says

    it's lying...

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  • Let's have war. It's like everything is theater. If you don't live in the matrix you're considered batshit crazy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Didn't things like the Amazon echo already establish this? Those things have outsold all Apple Watches combined 2:1. People have been contributing to these corporate survellience nets for years.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    My Casio works great

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I watched the whole event and I’m so disappointed, tiny tweaks and minor improvements and massive amounts of “productivity AI” which ‘we will charge you for at some point’ but we won’t tell you when or how much.

    I don’t need productivity AI in my personal life, I want to enjoy life, forget things, remember things and I want others to do the same. I don’t want to think that someone only ‘remembers something’ because their AI reminded them.

    What a crock of dehumanising shite!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Allez on fait tous semblant que Siri et Alexa n'existent pas depuis 10 ans, comme ça on peut continuer à exploiter encore le narratif anxiogène autour des dangers de "l'IA"... franchement ridicule.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    C'est une transformation de nos vies personnelles en vies d'entreprise. Je m'explique.

    Le but de l'informatique B2B, c'est d'automatiser. Tous les logiciels B2B cherchent à automatiser quelques choses : la facturation, la prise de rendez-vous, les notes de réunion, la création de modèle 3D à partir d'images, etc. L'intelligence artificielle générique qu'on pousse ces dernières années cherchent à s'appuyer sur des outils existants pour pousser l'automatisation encore plus loin. Si on passe outre l'aspect techno fasciste des entreprises qui poussent ça et que l'on vit dans un système capitaliste, c'est une bonne chose : plus d'automatisation c'est moins de travail, moins d'aliénation.

    Mais on voit cette mentalité percée dans nos vies personnelles : plus besoin d'écouter votre enfant, Siri vous fera un récap de ce qu'il a dit. Pas besoin de discuter du programme de la journée : filer votre calendrier à OpenAI et ChatGPT vous génère un podcast résumant tout ça pour qui ça intéresse. Comme si on avait besoin d'automatiser ces tâches parce qu'elles sont aliénantes alors qu'elles sont essentielles : l'humain est un animal social, remplacer toutes ces interactions humain humain par humain machine ce n'est clairement pas une bonne chose.

    Bon et ça pose un énorme autre problème pour les entreprises : si Siri écoute un meeting, les données sont stockées sur un cloud perso. Je vois au boulot que beaucoup d'assistants AI qui se connecte à Teams sont interdits. Quid de Siri ?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Je vois au boulot que beaucoup d'assistants AI qui se connecte à Teams sont interdits. Quid de Siri ?

    Et ton médecin, qui porte une Apple Watch ou te montrer tes radio sur un écran LG ? Est-ce que tes données médicales sensibles restent protèges ? Il faut que ces questions prennent de l'ampleur dans le débat public.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yeah, I kinda hate this. I watched the keynote yesterday, and when they tried to say recordings aren't stored or attributed, I thought, that doesn't much matter.

    The keynote sort of shit the bed twice in the same regard. Once here, and once in the AirPods part, during the bit about live translation, just assuming you will wait for the AirPods to read what (it thinks) the person said back to you in their language and then in your language. And then telling the guy "thank you" in your language and he can't translate back? Okay guys. As for the waitstaff in the Watch thing, that person is not gonna sit there while you appear to read a text on your watch, they are going to excuse themselves and return later.

    Bonus: the Watch has had a microphone for years, but you need to pay $300 for the new one (which is the price for the smaller one aimed at women; the traditional men's size is like $50 more) to get this feature.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    We're all going to become that guy in the robot mask from watchdogs 2 in the next 5 years..

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