Indeed. Telling a redditor to read the article is about as insensitive as telling a paraplegic guy to throw a basketball. We all need to learn to respect the differently-abled.

Smart way to avoid much larger liabilities.

if you trust the mic switch!

While true, remember we are on Reddit

The Google one at least has a mic switch.

We keep ours off unless we're actively using it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

These days it says, "I'm sorry I can't help with that," but once a few years ago it said, "I can't be sure but the couch is a good place to start."

LOL I bet it freaked people out so they had to remove it.

Everyone kept saying the same thing. “Why did we get this stupid Google home speaker? I hope someone comes and steals it.”

as soon as i can ask one of these speakers a question like that; i might consider getting one

But if they see or hear you smoking weed, those cops will come knocking.

That's the problem, it dosen't, they can say it's a "safety concern" and only sell assemblies making 3rd party repair unprofitable.

God I wish mine was listening. Or watching. Then it could tell me where I put the remote.

NY fucked up the bill by putting the following in it: "...allows for original equipment manufacturers to provide assemblies of parts rather than the original components when the risk of improper installation heightens the risk of injury." The problem is that mfgs will default to saying it heightens injury allowing them to only sell assemblies, which often cost ~75% of the hardware, making repair by 3rd party companies unprofitable.

The fight has been to get access to the constituent compoents like screens (minus the bezel, connectors, etc) or the the individual chips instead of having to buy the entire main board or power board.

So now Hochel and the NY government will pat herself on the back like they accomplished something when they did nothing to improve the situation.

There is an article attached to the post...

Yes thats a thing, seriously look at /r/m43 its an incredible system, especially for travel/backpacking/hiking and when weight and size is a concern.

After I do a shoot in the mountains, i connect to my phone via bluetooth, put a handful across i like there and then, edit them quickly on the phone and upload and save them to a specific google photo album.

The rest i import to laptop later for another look.

Duh

I’m aware. I meant in the comments.

He's literally quoted in the article...

> This makes the bill “functionally useless,” according to Louis Rossmann, a repair technician who has been a fierce advocate of toothy right to repair legislation. Rossmann responded today to the amended bill with a video full of detailed analysis and criticism.

This is really good only if the manufacturer keeps making the parts and sell them to everyone at a reasonable price.

ELI5 what happened to ruin it?

idk how people can have these items in their home and reasonably think they’re not being listened to

What a COMPLETE surprise! No, no, no - this is certainly unpossible! /s

Guugle spying on people??? THEY'D NEVER DO THAT, WOULD THEY? Oh, they will... OK...

That title sucks

It's already been fixed. It was found via Google's incentive program where they pay people to report bugs/vulnerabilities like this.

Bug/vulnerability bounties are a pretty good way to getting results, especially for those hard to figure out ones that deal with a specific issue. Otherwise, there's a much bigger incentive to sell the vulnerability to someone else, or use it for nefarious reasons.