• SeeFerns@programming.dev
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    1 minute ago

    So it listens to you and you can “permit it” to read emails and all that shit? I didn’t even know this kind of thing existed let alone that anyone would CHOOSE to allow this. Crazy.

  • whalebiologist@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I compared Bee’s version of my day with my diary entry. I wrote about trying Paddington Bear-themed marmalade sandwiches in our office kitchen. (Not a fan. I did, however, note that the strawberry-flavored shortbread cookie was excellent.) I wrote several paragraphs about a sensitive text conversation I had with a friend. Bee never picked up these moments because memorable things aren’t always spoken aloud. It made me wonder: in a hypothetical future where everyone has a Bee, do unspoken memories simply not exist?

    I liked reading this part because I had not considered that consumers of these products would have an expectation of their device to document their thoughts.

    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.

    • FatsoJackson@lemmy.ml
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      5 hours ago

      my private fan theory is that the Borg are actually the good guys but we only ever hear the gReAt fEdErAtIoN’s POV

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Journalists? Probably just to see how it will go wrong and report about it so we don‘t have to.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 hours ago

      If it actually worked, it would be really useful for a lot of people (it’s me. I’m a lot of people)

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          Fully providing every single need to their people in an attempt to create the most efficient worker possible? It just so happens that their “work” is assimilating people into the hive, but… The methods surrounding their work are pretty nice.

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          6 hours ago

          Do you? The Borg are a collective consciousness, it’s the most democratic government in the galaxy.

          My only problem with the Borg is they have a queen.

          • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Democracy isn’t that everyone is being forced to be of the same opinion. They don’t vote for their actions, the hive mind overrides each personality with the overarching Borg characteristics, mean assimilation of every worthy race, eradication of danger. There is no individual left in this. If you think that is democracy or socialism then I don’t know what else to tell you.

  • Rose56@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    I find it stupid yet somehow helpful.
    It records everything you say, it also takes your time after to read the scripts, which could can be helpful at some point.
    It’s a no from me.

  • happydoors@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    I like how they put in italics “it listens to all your conversations” and yet it’s still third in the list. Reminds me of how most mass media approach mass surveillance!