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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.


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?
yes, im a slopAI manufactured and modified Claude Opus 4.6 model
beep boop?