ok so I've got a furby now,
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@rygorous there's a lot of gems in here
@aeva the wikiquote page lists these per episode so you know what to sample from!
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it was an interesting experience for the hour or so where it seemed to be functioning normally. i quite liked that it has a fortune telling mode. i think all vaguely notoriously haunted toys should include the ability to confer with the supernatural. also there's a guided meditation mode, and a "light show" mode. i get the feeling the target audience is people old enough to buy weed
@aeva Realizing that I did not at all understand what Furbies were for, apparently.
Was the idea to give your kid early exposure to a simulation of being friends with kind of a pushy hippie, way before they're old enough for anyone to possibly invite them to Burning Man?
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RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/115620614043295134
ok so I've got a furby now,
@aeva I assume you're familiar with the midi furby organ?
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@aeva Realizing that I did not at all understand what Furbies were for, apparently.
Was the idea to give your kid early exposure to a simulation of being friends with kind of a pushy hippie, way before they're old enough for anyone to possibly invite them to Burning Man?
@klara @aeva The 80s and 90s liked its toys to be disturbing mockeries of life, mostly because the independent inventors making this stuff were the types who would go to Burning Man, and watch gremlins stoned.
Remember Teddy Ruxpin and the various brands of creepy animatronic baby dolls? There were even animatronic Cabbage Patch Kid dolls for maximum horror factor.
The main market for Furbies today are the people who are actually nostalgic for this kind of nightmare fuel, but also want something that is better at conning them into thinking it is alive.
In short, LLM users.
I still break out into a cold sweat when remembering the demon chanting "u-lah lee loh, u-lah lee loh" in the middle of the night from my brother's bedroom.
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@klara @aeva The 80s and 90s liked its toys to be disturbing mockeries of life, mostly because the independent inventors making this stuff were the types who would go to Burning Man, and watch gremlins stoned.
Remember Teddy Ruxpin and the various brands of creepy animatronic baby dolls? There were even animatronic Cabbage Patch Kid dolls for maximum horror factor.
The main market for Furbies today are the people who are actually nostalgic for this kind of nightmare fuel, but also want something that is better at conning them into thinking it is alive.
In short, LLM users.
I still break out into a cold sweat when remembering the demon chanting "u-lah lee loh, u-lah lee loh" in the middle of the night from my brother's bedroom.
@Mayabotics @klara interestingly the 2023 redesign is very clear that there is no app involved, no internet connection is involved what soever, and the furby is very definitely not spying on you. so I think you are partially wrong, the target audience is someone who *does not* want an LLM in their home
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@Mayabotics @klara interestingly the 2023 redesign is very clear that there is no app involved, no internet connection is involved what soever, and the furby is very definitely not spying on you. so I think you are partially wrong, the target audience is someone who *does not* want an LLM in their home
@Mayabotics @klara imo they did a pretty good job at not hitting the uncanny valley with this guy.
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@aeva I assume you're familiar with the midi furby organ?
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@aeva does it feast from your dark fears or something?
@archiloque blessedly it hasn't woken up again since I took out its batteries
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@Mayabotics @klara imo they did a pretty good job at not hitting the uncanny valley with this guy.
@Mayabotics @klara also consider I did put that on my wishlist, so you are talking shit about me right now whether or not you intended it
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@Mayabotics @klara also consider I did put that on my wishlist, so you are talking shit about me right now whether or not you intended it
@Mayabotics @klara now, I'm sure your first instinct will be to reply "but aeva, you're different, the average person does not see a furby as a raw material for unhinged projects" a quick search on youtube says otherwise
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The argument shouldn't be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you can surveil me,"Instead, it should be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you shouldn't surveil me."
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@ltning @paride5745 I'm usually eating wholegrain pasta when I'm eating at home, too. It's not a medical choice, but I like it and it's easier on the stomach. So it's not a sin - it's something we have in common. And, according to my doctor, I can eat more than normal pasta
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I should probably note that I've been a Mozilla donor and product user for years. I use Vivaldi for my daily-drive browsing, because they support the Fediverse, and Mozilla does not. But I still use Mozilla's VPN (it's pretty good), and I think Mozilla holds an important place in the Web ecosystem.
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@leanderlindahl Me too.
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I send a normal christmas card to my best friend every year and deface it with dicks somehow. This year I brought out the tracing paper for jizz.
Fediverse. Please appreciate my artistry.
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@burnoutqueen You are correct!
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The ‘Hidden’ Microphone inside the Sipeed NanoKVM
Recently, [Jeff Geerling] dropped into the bad press feeding frenzy around Sipeed’s NanoKVM, most notably because of a ‘hidden’ microphone that should have no business on a remote KVM solution. The problem with that reporting is, as [Jeff] points out in the video below, that the NanoKVM – technically the NanoKVM-Cube – is merely a software solution that got put on an existing development board, the LicheeRV Nano, along with an HDMI-in board. The microphone exists on that board and didn’t get removed for the new project, and it is likely that much of the Linux image is also reused.
Of course, the security report that caused so much fuss was published back in February of 2025, and some of the issues pertaining to poor remote security have been addressed since then on the public GitHub repository. While these were valid concerns that should be addressed, the microphone should not be a concern, as it’d require someone to be logged into the device to even use it, at which point you probably have bigger problems.
Security considerations aside, having a microphone in place on a remote KVM solution could also be very useful, as dutifully pointed out in the comments by [bjoern.photography], who notes that being able to listen to beeps on boot could be very useful while troubleshooting a stricken system. We imagine the same is true for other system sounds, such as fan or cooling pump noises. Maybe all remote KVM solutions should have microphone arrays?
Of course, if you don’t like the NanoKVM, you could always roll your own.
Top image: the NanoKVM bundle from [Jeff]’s original review. (Credit: [Jeff Geerling])
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And then Sisyphus was like "hey, at least I don't have to go to that many meetings."
