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@ernie, hate to cold @ you, but, are you following this #sengLED smart light bulb fiasco? No one seems to be writing about it. Not the tech publications that promote sengled... no one. It's been days and people can't get their lightbulbs to work, esp if they were dimmed at night when they stopped working.

After a bunch of complaints to their main seller, #Amazon, Amazon finally released a statement to people that have them linked to one of their appliances. I suspect Amazon just wants to stop fielding calls about them, although they are still selling products that can't work now or be setup. #GoogleHome #iot #Alexa #homeAutomation #google #home

reddit.com/r/smarthome/comment

/r/SengledUS is covering it, also reddit.com/r/SengledUS

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@Mumonkan I know the trade war has left them unable to pay 1000 Chinese employees there and there is a big protest about it.

" Employees at Sengled Optoelectronics say the company has failed to pay their wages for three consecutive months, which prompted protesters to march to the local town hall to demand a resolution on April 29.

A Sengled employee confirmed the protest in a telephone interview with The Epoch Times on April 30. “Over a thousand of us went to the town hall to protest,” the worker said. “Employees’ wages haven’t been paid for half a year.”

“Over a dozen people were arrested,” he said. "The company owes wages to over 1,000 full-time workers. We are all entitled to full benefits—pensions, retirement funds, unemployment insurance. The amount they owe is huge, but they haven’t given us any explanation."

The worker said that the factory owner owes the government a great deal of money and the “factory should’ve shut down long ago.”

Supposedly there are youtube videos about it, too.

#sengled #smartlightbulb #tech #home #AmazonEcho #GoogleHome #alexa #HomeAutomation

ntd.com/us-tariffs-trade-war-p

NTD · Wage Strikes Surge in China Amid Mounting Economic PressuresThe number of protests in China has risen sharply in recent weeks. In particular, protests by furious workers who say they haven't been paid for months—or even longer.

#Bezos è uno dei volti più visibili e potenti dell’oligarchia che gravita attorno a #Trump. Lo ha apertamente sostenuto, mettendo a disposizione il Washington Post, e si è presentato sorridente e in prima fila al giuramento del nuovo presidente, fianco a fianco con altri miliardari come lui.

Ogni volta che acquistate su #Amazon, ogni volta che attivate un abbonamento #Prime, che usate #Twitch o #Alexa, ricordatevi cosa e chi state finanziando:

▶️ noblogo.org/filippodb/una-vita

:diggita: @attualita

filippodb · Una vita senza Amazon: perché è ora di dire bastaL’indifferenza è complicità. Ho vissuto a Venezia, per studio e durante la leva. Per questo, oggi mi unisco con convinzione ai comitati ...

#LOL... "Alexa, what do you know about us?"

#OMG.... What I discovered when I asked speaker to tell me everything it had heard.

#HMMM... For years, #Alexa has been our on-call vet, DJ, teacher, parent, therapist and whipping boy. What secrets would the data reveal?In September 2016, a new presence appears in our house, squatting on the kitchen counter between the kettle and the coffee machine.....

#AI #SmartSpeaker #Amazon #Alexa #UK #USA #Censorship #Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence
Weird.
I asked Alexa: “Is the measles outbreak in America getting worse?”
The reply: “I’m not quite sure how to help you with that.”
Then I tested Alexa by saying: “Who is the current health secretary in America?”
Alexa’s response: “I’m sorry, I don’t have an answer for that.”
Likewise with the US defence secretary, yet my questions about the UK government were answered.
Is anyone else having this?

This morning I am mildly amused by #Alexa's different responses to "Is today Monday?" (Yes) and "Is it Monday?" (the days, hours, and minutes until _next_ Monday).

I reckon two different people wrote the code for those responses, without talking to each other and without checking for prior art first. I wonder which came first.