Technology Archives - Martin Stellinga

YouTube for Kids

My daughter loves watching television and so she loves YouTube. I hate it. Well, no, I hate the things she watches there, and I hate how YouTube doesn’t offer a proper way for me to whitelist what she watches.

The Voice of Unreason

Do you have Siri on your iPhone, or Google Assistant on your Samsung Galaxy? You may even have a Google Home or Amazon Alexa in your living room. Machine learning at its best!

Ever wonder who else is listening in?

SyRI

If you thought western democracies like the Netherlands could never become surveillance states, guess again. Enter the Dutch SyRI system. A system that would make George Orwell cry.

Home theater adventures

I don’t have cable, but instead I have a PC hooked up to my television and receiver. I’ve recently embarked on remote controlling my setup better. It was an adventure, to say the least.

The Chinese Room

This is not a post about the Chinese version of ‘the Panic Room’. This is a post about artificial intelligence and the different types of AI out there.