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TranscriptHere’s an example that Google’s Josh Woodward, VP of the Gemini app, Google Labs, and AI Studio, shared in a blog post about how Personal Intelligence can work. Google also put together a similar example in a video that I’ve embedded below:

For example, we needed new tires for our 2019 Honda minivan two weeks ago. Standing in line at the shop, I realized I didn’t know the tire size. I asked Gemini. These days any chatbot can find these tire specs, but Gemini went further. It suggested different options: one for daily driving and another for all-weather conditions, referencing our family road trips to Oklahoma found in Google Photos. It then neatly pulled ratings and prices for each. As I got to the counter, I needed our license plate. Instead of searching for it or losing my spot in line to walk back to the parking lot, I asked Gemini. It pulled the seven-digit number from a picture in Photos and also helped me identify the van’s specific trim by searching Gmail. Just like that, we were set.

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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I literally don't have a QR-capable app on my phone, they can direct me to a written menu if they expect me to order something.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    binary eye on fdroid barcodes and qr codes

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Good example of an app that I intentionally do not install on my phone.

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    It's not a technology standard that I want to normalize by acquiescence. QR codes can be used as social engineering anti-patterns, particularly against normies (Encode a shortened URL that sends your phone directly to malware), while the most common brick and mortar uses have been both anti-labor and anti-consumer. They're abused as a marketing tool that pretends to be novel while effictively just adding technological cruft and overhead to everyday life. I already have a URL bar on my browser and I would much rather just type your website into it myself.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    isolate your browser, use urldna.io and binary eye lets you see the link

    if you have a browser that downloads random content or even has download perms, what are you doing man

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    literally doesnt put a dent on the actual insecurity of your browser if it allows you to download random stuff from redirect links

    if youve ever visited a website, if your browser was THIS insecure, it was probably more dangerous than a qr code

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    I think they know their phone better than you do.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    I have multiple different phones, and none of them are capable of doing such. I’ve had to install a 3rd party QR code scanner app.

    All those phones are recent enough to still be used by a significant amount of people, so it’s not even an “ancient” tech thing, only very recently did it change.

    The only mobile device I have that has it built into the camera app is my iPad, for which I have no use case for actually scanning QR codes.

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