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Here’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.
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.
Was at a restaurant that couldn’t once I just walked away
binary eye on fdroid barcodes and qr codes
Good example of an app that I intentionally do not install on my phone.
Why?
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.
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
I’m not using QR codes.
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
Are you a bot?
Your camera will do it.
No my camera will not do it. I use Open Camera for photos, it does not have QR capabilities and that’s exactly the way I like it.
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.
No.
Yes.
I think they know their phone better than you do.
You’re right, they probably have a Motorola Razr.
Or numerous thousands of other types of phones. QR code scanners aren’t a universal thing at all.
Maybe.
Not if I don’t let it.