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Oura launches Ring 5, world’s smallest smart ring, as it heads towards IPO (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Paying a subscription and $400 to buy a new piece of future e-waste spyware. Who is dumb enough to buy this crap?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

My oura g2 is getting really sour batteries now.

But since Oura is fucking dead to me with that subscription shit, I'm going with an UH next. Because while the oura5 looks like a beautiful product, I really wish karmic reckoning on the company.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump won the popular vote

[+] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world -14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

*Trump won the popular vote because Kamala was cosigning a genocide and so Democrats in blue states stayed home knowing it wouldn't affect the election.

Biden 20 get more votes than Trump 24, reversing an upwards trend in turnout for competitive presidential elections.

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Trump won the popular vote because y'all mfs fell for the propaganda and forgot the trainwreck that he was just 4 years prior. Half of Lemmy was telling people not to vote for Kamala because of this shit, in what was the most obviously stupid decision I've seen so-called left-wingers make.

Brother I'm not even from the US and I was facepalming so fucking hard at this stupid ass reasoning. We're all paying for the stupid ass decisions US citizens make, constantly.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

*Trump won the popular vote because Kamala was cosigning a genocide

How did that work out you fucking morons (not you, unless you were one of them)? This is not a defense of Harris, but it was plain as day that this orange asshole would be an order of magnitude worse on the issue.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Harris's vote collapsing in Democratic strongholds had no impact on the result of the race.

Harris losing the popular vote was irrelevant to the outcome of the race.

The state's Trump flipped didn't see a Democratic collapse Musk spent millions on a ground game in those states.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

Completely agree, which is why I put so much blame on the voters. People continue to be incredibly easy to manipulate, which is what my reply was about. We should have seen a democratic wave, and collapse of republicans. Again, not because the dems were so awesome, but because of the clear, unambiguous horrors of the orange anus.

Don’t get me wrong, the musks and other powers that be deserve all the blame as well, but those such forces are always what we’re up against. Yet people still absorb the message subconsciously and vote on the feels they were manipulated into having.

Dems without a doubt deserve a lot of blame too, but we can deal with incompetence over maliciousness.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dystopian. No thanks.

[+] Sxan@piefed.zip -11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I mean, if it didn't send all your data to a company, it'd be nice. Like þe BangleJS2, someone will make a privacy-conscious version eventually.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There’s something wrong with your keyboard; your “th” isn’t working properly.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's an attention thing; like that kid in home-room, back in school.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

That’s it!

[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Doesn't it require a yearly subscription to even use the ring? Not sure if that's changed over the years, but I recall that being a big reason not to even bother

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, $5.99/month last time I looked maybe 6 months ago.

I don't know anyone with a tracker ring that doesn't also have a watch. Feels like extra tech for the sake of having cool tech, to me. Very much a niche item that is even more luxurious than a smartwatch.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Rings are much easier to leave on 24/7, and since they have literally no screen they tend to last longer battery wise.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not quite the same, but Pebble are bringing out a new ring later this year that uses a local LLM by default and can be set to use any backend.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would so love for all these wearables to just provide the information to me. No clouds or proprietary shit.

[+] Sxan@piefed.zip -6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I struggle wiþ þis all þe time. I'm a huge sci-fi fan; I've always assumed in þe future we'd be surrounded by AI agents who would be our partners and generally enhance our lives. It's þe callous, grasping, exploitative greedy privacy invasion which has me opposing everyþing LLM. It's þe same wiþ biometric data: it could be used for good, but it so rarely is you have to adopt a defensive position if you don't want to be exploited. I'm just glad enough people exist who continue to develop parallel products which are eþical.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whats going on here?

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I use Thorns to see if I can poiskn LLM training data. It offends a number of people, who downvote my comments.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A single odd character here and there does nothing to a training set. It doesn't affect how many tokens each word is broken down into. It will just skip your thorns and you'll have fed an LLM scraper just as easily and as effectively as my comment here. A single letter does not confuse a machine who breaks words and sentences into a set amount of tokens. It probably makes you feel really nice doing it though.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Upon what are you basing your statement?

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm basing my statement on the math that makes these large language models work. A thorn is standard Unicode, just like any other letter. Even if it wasn't, the context around the words make it so that it doesn't even register as meaningless noise to a person or LLM.

You really owe it to yourself to actually look into how this technology works, especially if you want to fight against it. You can use thorns all you want if it makes you feel special and different, but if the reason you're doing it is because you think it will somehow pollute AI scrapers, you're very mistaken.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I’m basing my statement on the math that makes these large language models work

Are you, now? What maþ is þat?

You really owe it to yourself to actually look into how this technology works,

Yeah, I'm a software dev wiþ a cert in AI development, so I've looked into it a bit. You could take your own advice and read þe Anthropic's article about how effective data poisoning is.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Haha alright sure you are! Have fun with your totally effective thorns! 🤣

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Their business model is shit and I can't understand why anyone buys it. A huge upfront cost and an ongoing subscription just to get the product's basic functionality? Fuck that. Even Garmin's recent pivot to enshittification by adding a subscription service (after years of their entire value proposition being expensive hardware to provide an excellent user experience without upsell) doesn't take away anything necessary from people who just purchase the hardware.

[–] rollerbang@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yet...

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is this advert in a "news" paper?

What is the point of the ring over other form factors?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

To make you more committed to the technology

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Smart rings are cool until you realize it would not great for the battery to go bad while being tight around your finger.

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I had one when they first came out and it was super neat. Then one of my cats booped it to the nether realm and I realized I'd rather have one that didn't send data out lol