rmarques7

Re:How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get? on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:03PM (#50142931)

If the user has a special remote that, when pressed in a certain way, is capable of triggering a nuclear bomb, and if the user has no idea what clicking the buttons on that remote does (they are, after all, just trying to change channels), you’re telling me that the user is responsible for detonating that bomb, and not the company who build the remote (and did not provide detailed instructions on how that remote works, or configure the remote to Not detonate a bomb)?

https://surf-alert.net - Simplified Surf Forecasts

Posted by rmarques7 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:11PM
from the self-post dept.

I am an (amateur) surfer, and for the last two years or so, I check the surf forecast (mostly windguru, sometimes surf-forecast.com) every single day. I also live next to the beach, so I look at the ocean pretty much every day.And, this is why I started to recognize some patterns, and some odd things about the forecasts.First, it's important to understand the context. If you look at...

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Re:The Twelve-Factor App on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:32PM (#49484481)

The worst part is: why are they sending me an SMS when I never agreed to it and didn’t configured that as an MFA option?

Re:The Twelve-Factor App on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:31PM (#49484469)

The worst part is: why are they sending me an SMS when I never configured that as an MFA option?

Re:All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @03:40PM (#49173917)

Curious that an hour ago, this was the top post on hackernews, and now it has been relegated to the 3rd page.

Re:The U.S. Navy's $100M Checkbox (2019) on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @05:34AM (#41298376)

The irony of this happening on an article talking about bad design...

Re:How to summarize YouTube videos using artificial intelligence on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:42AM (#39369633)

I had no idea about this extension. Now I've tried it, and from a quick test it does seem to indeed work. Thank you for sharing.

Re:How to summarize YouTube videos using artificial intelligence on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:41AM (#39369623)

I believe Microsoft has the same opinion as you, and has done similar using Teams: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/meeting-recap-in-...

Re:How to summarize YouTube videos using artificial intelligence on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:40AM (#39369613)

so, I just tried this, and Gemini answered "I don't have enough information to do this". BUT, then I checked the "drafts", and one of the 3 drafted answers actually contains a short summary of the video. What the hell is happening here?

Re:How to summarize YouTube videos using artificial intelligence on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:40AM (#39369610)