I would scroll a bit after someone linked me a video. Content was fun, but after like 3 minutes, I could feel something wrong in my brain. Like just the nonstop influx of content with no breaks. You might think one video was faked, but you didn’t have enough time to contemplate it before another shows up in its place.

I have some friends who spend hours on it. I can’t imagine deciding to participate in that for so long.

Maybe if there were like 2 employees in the store, people would feel less comfortable stealing shit.

The Joann fabric near us has these speakers that will say something like “ask an associate if you need anything” when you walk near them. They put them near the expensive shit.

Clearly, it’s an attempt to alert staff when someone is walking near the expensive stuff, but like…the store has 2 employees and when they’re not checking people out, they’re trying desperately to keep up with the boxes of unloaded freight clogging up the aisles.

Nobody is watching you steal stuff.

“it is said”

Wanna provide a link or whatever?

I mean not the best argument against nicotine, plants make all kinds of wacky stuff to deter pests that we eat up. Capsaicin, caffeine, etc.

Good video on the topic https://youtu.be/khH_o9TfJyE

Woof.

They injected internet ads into search

They did? Like filesystem search? I don’t see that.

I just went full linux on my daily driver about a year ago after running a headless linux media server for a few years.

Can someone explain to me why Ubuntu is so terrible? Is it not difficult enough to use or something?

Goretex

depending on the size of the secret, it helps to have people download it ahead of time.

Also, it acts as a time stamp proving that you knew the secret at a certain time if that’s useful.

Encrypt secret. Post it publicly. Configure a web server to email the private key to any number of addresses if you don’t log in every week.

That’s why my coffee shop hands out Gabriel’s Horn shaped cups. Bottomless, but finite volume. What a scam.

I once closed my account with BoA in person and they paid me out in cash. This was 2009.

I got a letter a few months later stating that they overpaid me and I owed them 19 cents.

I told them I had an FDIC notice that I no longer had an account with them and they could fuck off. They said that they’d “let it slide.”

I worked as a consultant at a product development firm. One of our clients had us making a kitchen appliance that would take a “pod” of some kind (like Keurig).

Their little ad video that they made before involving us had a little CG video showing the pod floating into the receiver and sliding down into the machine.

When we showed them the prototype, the first question we got is if the pod receiver thing was motorized.

Like…no. You push it down. Takes 1 second.

Anyway replacing a phone battery does not need to be automated.

Yeah, but raspberry handhelds are chonky at best.

That article covers a pitch deck by an ad agency with absolutely zero detail of how it works.

If this is happening, it should be easy to test.

Do you connect to company WiFi?

You are in the same geolocation as other people and they are searching for the stuff you’re talking about. Try whispering to your phone alone in a closet.

Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World

I got to vote against Elon’s insane bonus package. It passed, but felt good to vote.