• lime!@feddit.nu
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    21 hours ago

    and that was, in turn, based on a patent filed by mcdonalds for smart tvs to show ads you had to interact with. “say ‘mcdonalds’ to continue watching”.

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        14 hours ago

        idk if that was technically part of it but the pictures in the application definitely had a person jump up and scream the name.

        actually I’ll go look it up

        Edit: huh, it’s not a mcdonalds patent at all, it’s filed by sony: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en

        but the picture definitely says mcdonalds

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          I was in a company town hall meeting where the C-level executives were making announcements and circle jerking each other with compliments on their success. At one point, the CEO was remarking how innovative they were pivoting the software from a standalone to a SaaS. Truly enlightened times to have such visionaries…