Yeah, I wasn’t going to go and call that case-closed; industry tactics exposed, story at 11:00. It’s a theory and intentional or not (misspellings) I think there’s a definite possibility it’s working as described in some cases.

I like the SaaS theory too, ransomware clearly operates using exactly that model… unfortunately there’s been a few investigations and a lot of it is just the intersection of actual and economic slavery. I suspect there’s some of what you propose as well, why not, right? If we can dream it up somewhere somebody’s probably trying it. But I’d also wager that once you achieve any real proficiency at this kind of low level scam, there’s opportunity in organized computer crime, spearfishing and pretexting scams, operations with more sophisticated planning.

Never even occurred to me but it seems obvious now thst you’ve mentioned it.

Honestly? I like ‘em slightly better in the GW pic you just posted…

LOL 😆

Huh… that sounds a proper bug. I don’t really do anything advanced with HomeKit, just my Hue lights.

I wasn’t having the problem you described, but I did get a few odd glitches after the last update. She would sometimes complain that a light couldn’t be found. Turned out to be an extra space at the end of the names of some bulbs… very hard to see in most UIs, it wasn’t until I just idly renamed one in the Hue app that I realized what had happened.

I’m honestly very impressed with the speech recognition. I played with dragon dictate years ago when it needed “about 2 weeks” worth of training to achieve 98% accuracy.

Thanks for the tips. I think I’m going to see if I can get it to work — with a little practice.

I enjoy going back through my to-do list and trying to remember what I asked for. Generally it’s full of things I keep putting off, so it’s all past due and the occasional miss is easy to spot ;-)

Noice :-) I’m going to have to work on my pronunciation then 😳

Same behavior on my iPad. Although I can’t rule out the mics on my phone going south, it soaks up a lot more abuse than iPad Siri.

Time comes for us all my friend.

I did ponder the possibility of my mics just getting worn out, but clarity is still excellent in audio recording and generally for TTS or questions in straight English. I suspect Apple tweaked the model to exclude some of the phrases I had grown accustomed to using because they were being falsely recognized.

Blame that bit in Mr. Robot where the FBI agent asked Alexa when the universe was going to end. I’m always curious what a system is capable of…

Possibly. Though I patiently tested the sandwich scenario.

Slightly more solid advice ;-)

There are two broad groups of monkeypox virus that cause mpox infections: clade I and clade II.

This is… what even is this? A confusing attempt to destigmatize the diseases name? I think they should have gone with bigpox ;-)

I agree, that’s what I was trying to get at but I didn’t want to detract from the garish humor. I can’t quite tell what triggers it either; I tried a few random (human) anatomy facts, bug related questions… even some answers it pulled from drugs.com didn’t have it.

Bugs me (no pun intended)… though I do appreciate the attempt at subtlety. 

I think they’re called insectoligists, hold on, I’ll ask Siri…

Rest easy friend, the roach in question is safety ensconced under the lid of my ashtray. I’m sure it will be fine, unless they can lift hundreds of times their own body weight or something crazy like that 😅

Fine. You get an upvote for self improvement and being useful for once… but I’m still going to be bitchy about it 😊

I’ve only recently become aware of the issue and that’s the way it feels.

But in the absence of a definitive test I think folks are concerned that they will be stuck with a CPU that continues to degrade prematurely. That seems like a valid concern.