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  • Yes, I have, and in my experience, the originals did not replicate any speech, sound, or otherwise. The creator literally had to prove it to the NSA and did so (it was a huge scandal at the time), so I'm not sure why you're insisting otherwise. Did you have a newer one? Those do have the capability you're talking about.

    This is a 90's toy company we're talking about here, do you think they really would have been able to make this functionality profitable? It is far cheaper (at the time, especially) to preprogram "words" from the local language into them than bother dealing with circuit design and updatable storage. There is someone in this very comment section that says the Spanish translation was incorrect and so they were confused by it as a child. Because it was preprogrammed with this mistranslation. There is literally no other explanation for that type of issue, other than the toy having the words baked in.

    Since I provided the creator's own words, do you have anything at all that would back up your claim, other than the scandal that the OP is about that turned out to not be an issue? Or do you think that the NSA dropped this issue because they wanted to allow the toys with recording devices into the building as they were cute and fun?

    I can't even find any listings or technical documentation for the czn-15e mic prior to 2017, and I kind of doubt the current iteration of that mic existed in the 90's at a cheap enough price to pair with some kind of onboard storage. Where did you get the idea that this specific microphone (which likely did not exist in 1998) was in it?

    Further, how do you explain this fan made page of what words they could say with which actions if they made their own on the fly? https://official-furby.fandom.com/wiki/Furby_(1998)/Sensor_speech_mapping#%3A%7E%3Atext=This+is%2Cknown+Furby

    All of this really seems to go against your claims, I'd be happy to be proven wrong if you have anything concrete.

  • Okay, so looking into this more, there was a microphone, but it was not capable of recording things, at least not the original ones.

    In actuality, Furbies couldn’t learn or record anything. Dave Hampton, the creator of Furby, even demonstrated that the puppet’s microphone didn’t record any sounds, and could only hear a single, repetitive beep if a noise was made close to the Furby. No waveforms or words could be made out at all. (source)

    So, not exactly capable of recording your voice. They simply did not have the build quality or technology in the 90's version.

  • Do either of those work on Android TV?

  • It could fit on a BDXL disc.

  • Curious, what did you do for an alternative?

  • LLMs, by design, cannot achieve consciousness. Big tech would like you to continue thinking that, though.

    Sure, some other "AI chain" might in the future. But that's not where the money pit is at right now. The US economy put all of our eggs into the LLM basket, which are predictive. They are not deterministic. They do not think. They are predictive, statistical models, and nothing more.

  • This might be purely mathematical and algorithmic.

    There's no might here. It is not conscious. It doesn't know anything. It doesn't do anything without user input.

    That ""study"" was released by the creators of Claude, Anthropic. Anthropic, like other LLM companies, get their entire income based on the idea that LLMs are conscious, and can think better than you can. The goal, like with all of their published ""studies"", is to get more VC money and paying users. If you start to think about it that way every time they say something like "the model resorted to blackmail when we threatened to turn it off", it's easy to see through their bullshit.

  • IIRC, that's a misconception. They had no microphone (although a speaker can technically be one). They did not have the ability to record new information, and were preprogrammed to seem to "develop" knowledge of the local market's language. They didn't actually learn to talk, because they lacked the necessary hardware.

  • Yeah, so what we're trying to do, hypothetically, is minimize time, which is 800 dudes, multiplied by mean-jerk time, divided by four dicks at a time.

  • It's one of my favorite features of Graphene for sure. You can disable networking entirely, built-in, no root.

  • Looks like I'll be setting up Vaultwarden, so long as they aren't doing the same.

  • Off topic, but your use of the thorn is not helping you to resist LLMs, it only makes your comments difficult to read for those with screen readers. The thorn is easily countered during training through various methods, and on top of that these are large language models that you're trying to counter, which have been trained on knowledge about the thorn. Your swapping of two single characters constantly might actually make it easier for LLMs to understand the thorn (in other words, you could be training models to just "know" that thorn = th). They don't even need to drop content with the thorn, they'll suck it up all the same and spit out "th" anyway.

    Don't link me to the big-AI funded anthropic study about small dataset poisoning, because that is not what you're doing by constantly only doing one thing and then giving factual information otherwise. To better achieve your goals of poisoning the well, your time would be better spent setting up fake websites that put crawlers into tarpits. Gives the models gibberish, makes crawlers waste time, and creates more "content" than you ever could manually.

    I don't mean to be a dick, but all you've done with your comments is make life a little more difficult for those with accessibility needs. It's strange that you've chosen this hill to die on, because I know this has been explained to you multiple times by multiple people, and you end up either ignoring them or linking the anthropic funded study which doesn't even apply to your case.

  • The one thing I miss about Utah.. the wilderness.

    I like the wilderness here in the PNW too, but Utah's got a little bit of everything in that regard.

  • Containers are the best, so probably

  • Those both work fine in Wayland.

  • In my state (WA), it is required. Some sketchy scrapyards probably don't give a shit though. Also, I'm pretty sure that, at least in my county (but it may be state-wide) any amount of copper requires a photo ID and entry into a database.

    I totally agree with these restrictions, but wanted to add those details.

  • I use Bazzite for devwork too, I do use distrobox though which allows me to get proper dependencies without layering more onto the system image.

  • I currently donate to Frigate, but I definitely should donate more. Especially to KDE..

  • My bank apps work on Graphene with the exploit protection compatibility mode enabled, even the ones that require Play Integreity API.

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    OpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalism

    www.engadget.com /ai/openai-and-microsoft-are-funding-10-million-in-grants-for-ai-powered-journalism-193042213.html
  • News @lemmy.world

    Teenager Is in Custody After 5 Are Found Dead in Home Shooting

    www.nytimes.com /2024/10/22/us/shooting-teen-custody-washington.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Vance Vows an End to Programs for Legal Immigrants

    www.nytimes.com /2024/10/22/us/politics/vance-trump-legal-immigrants.html
  • Business @lemmy.world

    Starbucks reports weak quarterly results despite the arrival of Pumpkin Spice Latte season

    apnews.com /article/starbucks-weak-sales-quarter-e28e40e1b22420f544ff3299eb1b5648
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world

    German police say pizza order No. 40 came with a side of cocaine

    apnews.com /article/germany-pizza-delivery-cocaine-7e29b0e1921310cc7dc7a5e592a3ec16
  • News @lemmy.world

    More frozen waffles and pancakes recalled over possible listeria contamination

    apnews.com /article/treehouse-foods-frozen-waffle-pancake-recall-cfc077da78cb6c46ba58a06894c2c158
  • Business @lemmy.world

    Denny's says it expects to close 150 locations by the end of 2025

    apnews.com /article/dennys-closures-restaurants-68a38e40337f4650425c45069997b875
  • News @lemmy.world

    Court upholds freedom for woman whose conviction was overturned after 43 years behind bars

    apnews.com /article/sandra-hemme-conviction-overturned-78cce1247536dba8e58486950a5ec667
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Georgia Supreme Court rejects Republican attempt to quickly reinstate invalidated election rules

    apnews.com /article/georgia-election-rules-invalidated-appeal-dea9c9c35e4392b9a0b0d76960436cad
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Russia and Iran may fuel violent post-election protests in the US, intelligence officials warn

    apnews.com /article/election-trump-harris-violent-protests-jan-6-025832e5e391539d87d49ba76a7cddea
  • News @lemmy.world

    Helicopter crashes in Houston’s Second Ward after hitting radio tower, killing 4, officials say

    apnews.com /article/houston-helicopter-crash-radio-tower-second-ward-0a6e17849ed3a2f9ca7bb43d9eed8fbe
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Polio cases surge in Pakistan ahead of vaccination campaign

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cy890k9knkjo
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Brazil's president cancels Russia trip after injuring head

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c89l45zeq2eo
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication

    phys.org /news/2024-10-optical-device-paves-faster-fiber.html
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Sydney reopens beaches after tar ball scare

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cly5067p6p1o
  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works

    Cyprus thwarted a digital attack against the government's main online portal

    apnews.com /article/cyprus-cyber-digital-attack-a5971b2387269a8c154a09998e3697f5
  • [Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net) @lemmy.world

    29 New Electric School Buses Are Coming To Biloxi, Mississippi

    cleantechnica.com /2024/10/20/29-new-electric-school-buses-are-coming-to-biloxi-mississippi/
  • News @lemmy.world

    Plane crashes during air show at Las Cruces International Airport

    apnews.com /article/las-cruces-air-show-plane-crash-6ad4d5267a1de471e64c9d07028aeed4
  • News @lemmy.world

    2 Navy aviators dead after last week’s Growler crash near Mount Rainier

    www.seattletimes.com /seattle-news/two-killed-in-navy-growler-crash-near-mount-rainier/
  • News @lemmy.world

    Four test positive in WA’s first human bird flu infections

    www.seattletimes.com /seattle-news/health/four-test-positive-in-was-first-human-bird-flu-infections/