Readit NewsDo YouTubers have any recourse against Google or the faker? Seems like a false DMCA takedown would be a first amendment violation.
I'm not an EE by trade, but I personally wouldn't want to put a CCD in series with an LED with god-knows-what Vf tolerances. Then again, I'd bet that nearly all laptop webcams come as off-the-shelf modules with their own internal regulators for the CCD anyway. So maybe it wouldn't matter.
I'll bet it went something like this: As originally specified, the user need was "LED privacy indicator for the webcam." Product management turns that into two requirements:
1) LED next to webcam.
2) LED turns on and off when webcam turns on and off.
Requirement 1 gets handed to the EEs, and requirement 2 gets handed to the firmware engineers. By the time a firmware engineer gets assigned the job of making the LED turn on and off, the hardware designers are already 1 or 2 board spins in. If the firmware engineer suggested that we revise the board to better fit the intention of the user needs, one of two things will happen:
1) They'll get laughed out of the room for suggesting the EEs and manufacturing teams go through another cycle to change something so trivial.
2) They'll get berated by management because it's "not the engineers' place to make decisions about product requirements."
Of course this is all spitballing. I've definitely never been given a requirement that obviously should have been a hardware requirement. I've definitely never brought up concerns about the need to implement certain privacy and security-critical features in hardware, then been criticized for that suggestion. And I've definitely never, ever written code that existed for the sole purpose of papering over bad product-level decision making.
Nope, never. Couldn't be me.
Could you wire it with a relay/transistor?
samuelg123 commented on NYC Subway Station Layouts projectsubwaynyc.com/gall... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
Make sure to check out the 3D models tab. That’s definitely the most interesting part of the site!
samuelg123 commented on Tell HN: I'm in a terrible Google Maps experiment on iOS · Posted by u/samuelg123
Same here. I actually enjoy the UI change. No performance issues tho.
I'm fine with the UI change, it just seems like something changed under the hood with this that's causing major performance issues.
Interesting that you don't have the perf issues, could be that the two things are unrelated.
The real question is: why haven't OS manufacturers (okay, namely iOS), recognized that there is spam in texts and bring the same mechanisms we have to fight spam in email? Why can't I simply create a keyword filter for all of the current political candidates' names and auto-delete any campaign texts?
iOS exposes an API for this
Here’s a local keyword filtering app that works great: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer
Reminds me of the “Blues Smoke Detector” on Nathan For You: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nhn5n3eyhY
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I am not trying to defend Apple or Siri by any means. I think the product absolutely should (and will) improve. I am just curious to explore why there is such negativity being directed specifically at Apple's AI assistant.
And now that we have ChatGPT with voice mode, Gemini Live, etc which have incredible speech recognition and reasoning comparatively, it's harder to argue that "every voice assistant is bad" still.