apparently so far the research disagrees with the productivity claims https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html

Dan has mentioned some time ago that he was thinking about making the videos delete themselves after some time, but I’m not sure if he ever followed up with that.

the app in question was

1. on Apple App Store
2. for Vision Pro

so your alternatives might not be the best fit here.

they haven’t owned it for that long yet

they acquired it in 2012.

not invisible, but the Surface Duo line was pretty much that.

Lawnchair https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.lawnchair.play

They’ve more or less already done that with Proton and DXVK.

no, that’s making software made for the platform that everyone’s running work on another platform. it’s, like, the opposite of what the previous person was talking about.

91 million 0

91.0 million

for me it works most of the time, and I don’t hear the speech being played at all while it’s being solved. and it the rare cases when it doesn’t detect speech, requesting another puzzle usually fixes it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver

it switches to the accessibility version of CAPTCHA and uses speech recognition to solve it.

the fate worse than quenching.

and now I’m imagining Siri speaking in a very high-pitched voice.

the website is hideous and unusable

huh?

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

Gab and Truth.social are Mastodon instances, just defederated by everyone else in case of the former, and not federating and pretending they’re their own thing in case of the latter.

a collective like Nebula

FYI, Nebula isn’t a collective: https://scribe.rip/@cameron-paul/who-actually-owns-nebula-952a1c12d9c0

For example you could ask it a question and it would search the web

no it wouldn’t.

or search its databases

no it wouldn’t.

for Workgroups.

https://lemmy.world/post/19963993

I don’t think some mass “waking up” event is going to occur, but every time another headline about it shows up, it gets more difficult to ignore or not care about it. and every time someone who’s on the fence about the issue will pay more attention to it, and perhaps use the offending platform less. baby steps.

besides, I wouldn’t say people don’t care, they do when they get offered a choice: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-out-of-app-tracking-in-ios-14-5-analytics-find/