Boredom and not taking anything seriously?

well, the finest newspaper in the country recommended it!

jwz.org/blog, for obvious reasons.

re #7, I hope they are also saying no ‘secret questions’ to reset the password?

When your first notification about the change is a Mastodon post telling you to look for a pre-checked checkbox that wasn’t there before…

Previously.

That’s not an EV issue that’s a modern car issue.

One of the worst privacy risks was Buick who didn’t even make EVs.

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Human drivers have done this before. Navigation system says “turn right”, they don’t realise it means after the level crossing.

That, and hosting & domains got expensive. It used to be a trivial cost to have a website, now the prices are all “introductory offers” with asterisks.

Once several different instances have downloaded the same video, they could share information on which segments are the same?

Ads would change for each download based on all the factors used in the automated ad auctions.

Had a “pay as you go” contract since 1997 (not with T) - they told everyone that you need a new SIM for a network upgrade which required deactivating the original SIM. New SIM didn’t work in normal (Nokia 1110) phones. Then they sent SMS saying that they weren’t going to honour the original PAYG phone contracts.

In English is this why we say fifteen instead of tentyfive?

Can you add a banknote or EURion symbol somewhere to dissuade image-processing software?

Arguably that may be related - cryptocurrency people needed a new thing to prop up their Nvidia shares, and “AI” fills that niche.

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Or even Ami Pro’s keyboard settings, where each function key was mapped to a paragraph style. F2 = body text. F5 = bullet list. F6 = number list. F8-F12 = heading levels 1-5 (from memory, it’s been a while). Function keys in Word are so useless that I can’t even remember what they do (except for F9 which is super broken).

Example: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/local_council_tech_struggles/

Maybe if they collectively owned a software company it would be more responsive.

Jeff’s solution is pihole not firefox? I thought ad blockers did way more complex and subtle stuff than the DNS approach of blocking entire domains?

“Also this strikes me as a very lazy reviewer. Which makes him profoundly qualified to review printers”

😂