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Cake day: November 21st, 2023

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  • Teams/outlook has been doing this for a while. This is likely more for making it easier to see who is in the office to coordinate in person stuff like meetings and lunch.

    If you want to be creeped out by Teams and other similar services, it can

    • Detect if a conference room is in use even when not being used for a teams/zoom call.
    • detect your voice and attach it to a transcript.
    • detect your face to assign you name to a teams meeting in a conference room with other people in the room.




  • Large margins and small supply are a lot easier to deal with though, and mass production is very expensive to set up.

    Honestly we need regulation in this space. Incentivize building a cheap car so the manufacturers will do it.

    Honestly the gov is in a good place to do this. Spec out a vehicle and place an order for a could hundred thousand of the them for general purpose government worker transportation needs. Set a low cost target. Let them build it for normal people too.