chillpanzee
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- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 5 days ago:
Agreed, but Safeway was shitty before 2015.
PE acquisition seems more like kindred spirits finding each other than something bad happening to Safeway.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 6 days ago:
Yeah, Safeway has been shitty for a long time. I’m fortunate like you that we have a wealth of independent grocers and small ethnic markets that are so much better. They’re also a fair bit cheaper too.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 6 days ago:
+1000, but you still see it in places with plenty of money and space to work on cars.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 6 days ago:
I worked at a car repair shop when I was younger. I agree that it’s not most (as in > 50%) but the number of people who knowingly drive very unsafe vehicles is bigger than you’d think.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 6 days ago:
Not to mention the cell phone most of us carry.
- Comment on There's the army, there should be the legy 2 weeks ago:
Not if you’re in the USA. We don’t have a right to Bare Legs.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 2 weeks ago:
It’s subservience, not fear on CBS’s part.
Good on Colbert for bringing a little Streisand effect to the party.
- Comment on Reddit chess 2 weeks ago:
There’s a software dev parallel… tell an engineer “it can’t be done.”
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
It’s sorta the opposite. It’s not that privacy and security are afterthoughts, it’s that oversight and monitoring are baked into everything. They lean into lockdown browsers, mandatory on cameras for assessments, and a whole bunch of anti-cheat tech. Privacy and security are on the mind, they just want none of it.
Worse than that though, it’s a carefully crafted economy where vendors knowingly supply incomplete and broken systems so that they have a continuous need to also sell professional services, training, and technical support. It’s just like textbooks and curricula; crooked AF because they know that nobody is paying attention, and the entire system operates with an expectation of profound inefficiency.
- Comment on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash 3 weeks ago:
Probably. Ring is pretty plain in saying that they cancelled it because it took "more time and resources than anticipated. " Not because it was the wrong idea. And yeah, it’s a carefully coded message that they want consumers to read as “We heard you, we listened, and we won’t do shitty things like that again.” But in reality, it says the opposite. It says they stopped because it costs too much, but they remain committed to the idea. No doubt some of the additional resources were dealing with the flap around the Superbowl ad and the public douchebaggery of the Flock CEO.
- Comment on US deploys three warships to Haiti 4 weeks ago:
Do they even have oil there?
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 5 weeks ago:
Yep. I have 1 app that requires Windows (or Mac) that I use once every 4 or 5 weeks. I run Win 10 in a VM for that.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 1 month ago:
Would be a useful tip in a world where ICE follows the law.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 month ago:
Yeah, pretty much. Any decent display on a TV is gonna have all the shit you don’t want, but you can (at least for now) just not connect your smart TV to the internet. You;'d have a good TV with the “smarts” neutered. But you’re still paying for it.
It’s a bit like the ATSC broadcast stack. You likely aren’t using it, but the industry still makes you pay for it (and it’s not cheap).
- Comment on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 1 month ago:
Its true they force you to use a ms account to complete install
They do, but at least for now, the workaround isn’t hard (passing the localonly param). I just bought a laptop this week and did it.
- Comment on How are people discovering random subdomains on my server? 1 month ago:
it’s not even obscurity; it’s logged publicly.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 months ago:
Maybe they hired the brand team from HBO.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 2 months ago:
A “great” warranty has always been the clearest sign of a shit product, but even so, defects do happen, and plenty of warranties are real and valid.
Our perception of warranties is distorted because we sell purchase protection and breakdown insurance for damn near everything now, and we call it an “extended warranty” rather than the insurance product it is.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 months ago:
I worked for a FAANG company for a lotta years. We always had the fully spec’d laptop/desktop/phone. Its not reserved for just the C-suite. The tech is cheap compared to almost every other aspect of employing expensive labor. Hell, the food we got every day probably cost the company well more than the tech.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
For YouTube, I’ve switched to Grayjay and I just subscribe to creators I like. I ignore the home feed.
This has removed AI slop, ads, and shorts, which is awesome, but I the tradeoff is jot having a useful recommendation feed. Its not as good as YouTube of old, but worlds better than YouTube of the last few years.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 2 months ago:
I ran it on a Pi Zero W for a bunch of years, and it was as stable and problem free as it gets.
Early this year I swapped out my wifi/router for a minipc running OPNsense. I retired the pihole since OPNsense has Unbound built in.
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 months ago:
It happened once
Not even once according to the article. They don’t actually know what happened on that flight, but their simulations can’t test test for cosmic radiation and didn’t reveal any other errors, so they presume it must be the cause. Then made up a story about that being a day of heavy day of solar activity, which the article refutes.
- Comment on If I was to watch the next jake paul fight on netflix, but only watch the first couple fights and turned it off before watching him fight.Would they know? 2 months ago:
Yeah, they know exactly where you stop, and if enough people stop at a key moment (think GoT Red Wedding), they might use that data to inform future decisions, but it’s a really mixed signal in this case. First, they have to be looking for “who stopped before the main event” as some sort of a signal. They might be, or they might look at it in the future, but like the previous person said, you’re counted as a view well before you get to that point. In their eyes, you’ve effectively voted in favor of Jake Paul because the main event is Jake Paul. It’s sorta like ordering a happy meal as a protest to MacDonalds and hoping they notice you didn’t eat the burger patty. There are clearer ways to protest, like not watching it in the first place, or canceling your sub.
Also, it won’t fuck with Jake at all. He’ll get paid either way, and there are probably a hundred other metrics his team will care about more than that one (if Netflix even shares that level of detail). Moreover, being controversial and polarizing isn’t a problem for Jake Paul. I’m sure they expect plenty of this sort of thing.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 months ago:
AdventureLog is pretty cool. Pairs with Immich nicely too.
Paperless NGX is awesome. Of course Immich. I also really like Firefly-iii and Home Assistant.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months ago:
An even funner Southwest PR story is the Malice in Dallas. I don’t have a good resource to point you to, but you can google it. it was an armwrestling match between CEOs to settle a corporate dispute. The two companies holstered their lawyers and settled the grudge with a big PR event.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months ago:
You probably already know this, but for others’ amusement… Southwest’s Pilot Training pathway program is called Destination 225, and I doub’t that many prople even in the airline business get the reference. So if nothing else, they’ve got a branding headstart.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months ago:
I don’t remember where I watched the presentation. I think it might have been one of Brian Schiff’s videos, but I don’t remember. Here’s a link to it I found online. www2023.icao.int/safety/OPS/…/Truenorth.aspx
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months ago:
Fun fact… there is an ICAO effort to “get rid” of magnetic headings for runway numbers. I listened to a presentation they did last year, and as much as I went into it thinking it wasn’t needed, I was a convert listening to them.
Btw, magnetic variation is pretty significant in some places. It’s 13 degrees where I am.
- Comment on Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting 2 months ago:
I don’t think any of them support RCS, for whatever that’s worth to you.
The only place I really miss that is with a fantasy football shit-talking group chat. Otherwise, I’ve tried to move away from SMS/MMS/RCS. It’s hard to pull people away from iMessage.
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 3 months ago:
Most settings on iphone only turn off the capability for you, not apple. Wifi is a good example. There is litereally no way to turn the radio off, and the settting merely prevents your use of Wifi while Apple still continues to use it in the background (for Find My mesh and location traction among others).