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there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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Fuck, I'm wrong, you're right. I must have spot checked the Gemini fan club or something out of my end users. Still don't know how all our luddite inter-office mail couriers got it.

Looks like Google has added a Gemini options page to Android settings regardless of the app install, which is where my confusion on my own device came from.

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My... tooling? So you don't even understand what MDM means. Ugh. Hope you had fun with the shitposting.

For the crowd, it's mobile device management. In this scenario, it is being used to manage access to company resources (work email) through specific siloed off apps on employees' personal phones. Employee says "I want to read my work email from my phone", we say "sure, just install this MDM that allows us to remotely wipe it from your phone, or to wipe your entire phone, and also lets us track your phone's location and all installed apps".

Personally, as part of the team that admins that system, I don't allow it on my personal device.

It could be used to manage company owned phones and tablets for places that use them instead of point of sale systems, but the general use case is for managing "bring your own" personal devices and their access to work data.

Point is, Gemini is installed on too many of my end-users' personal devices for it to be just something people are choosing to install themselves. Not enough tech savvy people here for that to work out statistically. Our fucking interoffice mail couriers have it (at least the ones with phones new enough to support our MDM).

Plus, it's on my personal phone. I sure as hell didn't go out of my way to install it. It came in through the standard Google Play app updates. Like everyone else but this dingleberry is saying.

there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So, what this seems to be saying, and what is reflected in the settings screens I can access on devices I have at hand, is that Gemini will still have (limited) functionality hooking jnto certain apps even if you've disabled "Gemini App history".

~~The app is being pushed through normal updates via Google Play (by your carrier or Google itself). In some cases the app can be uninstalled by the end user through the normal UI, and in other cases it installs as a system app and requires adb to be used to disable and/or uninstall it.~~

EDIT: FALSE, GOOGLE HAS NOT PUSHED THE APP OUT YET, JUST A SETTINGS PAGE

As always, the most secure way to use android is through a custom locked down ROM like Graphene OS.

there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Edit:

Fuck, I'm wrong, you’re right. I must have spot checked the Gemini fan club or something out of my end users. Still don't know how all our luddite inter-office mail couriers got it.

Looks like Google has added a Gemini options page to Android settings regardless of the app install, which is where my confusion on my own device came from.

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So... it's only an issue for any phone still pulling normal updates through Google Play.

That would still be the majority buddy.

there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Edit:

Fuck, I'm wrong, you're right. I must have spot checked the Gemini fan club or something out of my end users. Still don't know how all our luddite inter-office mail couriers got it.

Looks like Google has added a Gemini options page to Android settings regardless of the app install, which is where my confusion on my own device came from.

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Show proof then.

Then how did it end up on my phone, or on the over 1000 android phones my workplace oversees through mdm solutions?

It's being pushed with normal automatic app updates through Google Play.

All downhill from there in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

I'm sure there's a combination out there that would get what I'm looking for. I just haven't found it yet, and a lot of the scene (especially what gets coverage by youtubers) seem to be focused on increasing difficulty by making individual zombies more threatening (night sprinters, randomizers, adding different "zany" zombie types) or adding environmental hazards (nuclear fallout, airborne virus, eternal winter).

All downhill from there in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can adjust settings, and I do, but once you clear an area if you stay near the area the options are either "randomly spawn in zombies where you've cleared" (ignoring whether a zombie could actually path there or not, last I tested it) or "no more zombies". There's no built in way I know of to simulate a glob coming in from the edges of your safe zone if the edges are farther out than the limit of cells it simulates around you.

I could probably get something together with the horde night mod. Just haven't had time to tinker lately.

Grok, even in its manipulated state, continues to emphasize the facts. And that's hurting the feelings of a lot of Twitter users. in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Respectfully: As I've already stated, none of this exists in a vacuum. You don't get to just declare shit irelevant. Regardless of your mental gymnastics, you are peacocking/gloating about having the right beliefs/voting policy in the aftermath of these children being dead.

Disrespectfully: Your belief that you can somehow claim any sort of moral highground here is absolutely ghoulish. I sincerely hope you never are denied compassion or help in your time of need by someone professing beliefs like yours.

Grok, even in its manipulated state, continues to emphasize the facts. And that's hurting the feelings of a lot of Twitter users. in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

The people? Or the husks in skinsuits we through mass delusion have decided to refer to as politicians?

Grok, even in its manipulated state, continues to emphasize the facts. And that's hurting the feelings of a lot of Twitter users. in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Or maybe they're just upset that you're using the deaths of children to be smug.

There's a lot more going on in politics than "insert vote, recieve outcome voted for". Gerrymandering, simply being stuck in an area where you are the political minority, politicians campaigning on an entriely different platform than the actions they take later while in office... I could go on, but I expect my words would be wasted.

The dead girls weren't even old enough to vote.

In b4 you start running your mouth off about how it's okay to wish death on the bad people because of what they're doing to you/the good people. Two wrongs don't make a right, and even if it did, you're aimed at the wrong targets. Get your scope zeroed in properly.

All downhill from there in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Not really related, but it makes me sad that this isn't easily possible in Project Zomboid. It's the exact sort of feeling I want from it.

Turning every word of Ulysses into a clickable link. What topics would you recommend us to cover? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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

This is just a blatant grift. The link on how to add links just sends to a ko-fi page where you're charging money.

And completely ignoring a whole bunch of reasons that "the million dollar webpage" worked that mean that something like this won't.

Good luck I guess.

How do you mateys and folks deal with the sheer amount of music available out there? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There will always be more content than anyone can keep up with in a single lifetime. I've long since lost the motivation to race along at the front edge of new shit.

I pick up new artists from shows, movies, youtube videos, and games. I also regularly let youtube music (revanced, so no ads) run past the end of my playlists and suggest new stuff. I used to use Pandora for this as well.

On super rare occasions (been over a year now) I'll check out you groove you lose threads on 4chan and discover a few more artists.