Volts_PC

FSD beta tester since V10.3 🚀
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[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

Automation. Sustainable abundance. Most people don’t get it even if you say it to their face, but they will start to soon.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@PeterDiamandis Working will be optional in the future.

There will be universal high income.

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

This isn’t going to produce a viable class action, and the viral warning collapses under basic scrutiny of how the feature actually works.[](<https://t.co/26ud6YrXjS>)

Live Listen is a long-standing accessibility tool (dating back years before iOS 27) that turns the iPhone into a remote microphone for the *user’s own* paired AirPods, Beats, or Made for iPhone hearing devices. It is not an always-on background listener that records ambient audio and ships it to Apple for ad targeting. Sessions must be started manually (via Control Center, Settings, or a paired device). When active, audio streams over Bluetooth to the user’s headphones; any Live Captions are real-time transcriptions of that session’s mic input, visible only on devices signed into the same Apple Account. There is no documented pipeline sending those streams or transcripts to Apple servers for advertising.[](<https://t.co/sajn36X2zl>)

“Remote Control” does not open the mic to arbitrary third parties. It lets a nearby Apple Watch or another iPhone/iPad on the *same Apple Account* start/stop a session or view captions. A stranger’s device cannot trigger it. Even if the toggle appears enabled after an update, that only permits remote *control* of a session that still has to be initiated; it does not silently activate continuous listening.

For a class action to survive, plaintiffs would need common questions of law/fact, typicality, and—most importantly—concrete injury from a shared practice. Here the claimed injury (Apple secretly harvesting transcripts for ads) does not match the feature’s design or Apple’s documented behavior. Individual variations (whether anyone ever started a session, whether captions were viewed, whether anyone’s conversations were overheard by another device on their own account) would defeat certification. Privacy statutes and wiretap laws generally require interception by a third party or unauthorized recording; streaming audio to the user’s own paired devices under the user’s control does not fit. After the earlier Siri contractor-review settlement, Apple has strong incentives and clear public statements against using voice data for marketing profiles.

The setting is also discoverable and toggleable in Accessibility > Audio & Visual > Live Listen. Visible microphone indicators appear during use. A feature that is documented, user-initiated, confined to the user’s own account and devices, and not used for the purpose alleged does not create the kind of uniform, undisclosed harm that supports a class-wide damages claim. Creative attorneys can file anything; surviving a motion to dismiss or certification is a different matter.

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@bhertzog You should really publish this as an app

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Elon Musk in new interview on @spacexai's data center site in Memphis:

"I insist on doing some of the work myself manually. I've pulled power cables the size of an anaconda. I've done the fiber optic cabling; I try to do at least a little bit of everything so I'm not numb to the pain of the people who are actually doing it. It's not as though I'm sitting in an office and someone has to come to me. I'm walking the floor asking them questions actively."

(via 33rd Annual Baron Investment Conference today in NYC)

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@joseph_h_garvin Did you try @bot

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@MacRumors It’s 2. 2GB

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

We Asked AI To Show America Without Republicans

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@mweinbach Ngl the recaps are pretty shit, shorter than I expected and sometimes can combine two different events if they’re back to back

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@Nicole_Lee_Sch @kpherdel How are oral exams inaccessible?

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@Nicole_Lee_Sch @exyota We should be teaching application, not theory, answering a question with AI is easy, making an actual output isn’t

The fact that a PHD not only isn’t using AI daily but also didn’t come to this realization years ago about his students scares me

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@mweinbach Does the menu for recaps not work for you when you are using the inner screen on the iPhone duo

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@instockradar I got one thanks to you guys! The exact spec I wanted too!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Patrick Stewart has sadly passed away at the age of 86.

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@btopnn Actually it just doesn't even load on windows lol, worked when i tried it on my phone

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@btopnn Are you aware your website is down?

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@WifeOfCloud It lets other Apple device with your Apple ID turn on live listen, it doesn’t actually leave live listen on and it can only be controlled with your Apple ID

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@GarrettEBorn They went quick, seems like they drop 9:30-10:45 every day, at least that’s what it looked like in PA

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@mikepat711 Are you on their beta stack or the public one

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@VadimYuryev Be careful, the sapphire lenses on the camera’s can scratch up the phone’s screens

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@ParkerOrtolani They didn’t add memory they added conversation search

[Volts_PC @Volts_PC]

@xiaomovps I think this is part of the reason why you should have dedicated bots for specific tasks or areas of your life, because it makes it far easier to not have to worry about context management for the lay person while keeping the delegation of tasks understandable