c/youdontsurf

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I watched that whitehouse mystery thing on Netflix by the brigerton people (that I’ve already forgotten the name of) and, you know what, it was a good watch.

Obviously trying to ride the wave of Knives Out’s success but I’m here for it. First thing I’ve finished on Netflix since… well Glass Onion actually.

MO: Make high cost human low cost human

we are all exactly the same.

I’m not!

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Ah I misread this

It started refunding deposits for the $16,000 extra battery pack.

You are correct. People make mistakes, not everything is “a narrative”.

“Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We’ve kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they’re dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A”

EDIT: deposit was $150. Still shitty but not the same impact

EDIT 2: Or $2000? … tl;dr: shitty

Once upon a time they were the “good ads”. They had an unobtrusive but instantly recognisable ad-format that was reasonably tolerable and text-only. It was once they started showing sponsored search results that it became apparent they were willing to be subversive to get clicks.

Their whole image was built around user trust and the moment they had everyone hooked they 180ed.

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Hi, after seeing the couch I just want to say I’m not interested in purchasing it any more. I’m looking for a blue couch and that one is clearly brown. Thanks.

When you say you got rid of it, is it for sale? I’m in the market for a blue couch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet

The direction of travel is towards “internet” (lowercase), but pedants gonna pedant.

I swear I saw a Tom Scott video about this, but quite some time ago. Possibly same method but different insect…

without pulling out your phone, [doing phone stuff x10]

Ding ding ding.

Everyone is so focused on AR glasses having some killer use case that must justify it’s existence. The use case is simply not pulling a phone out of your pocket; not waiting for face ID, tapping your way to the necessary app, and so on.

Removing these micro inconveniences has always been Apple’s forte (even if a little stagnant in recent years), so it’s no surprise that they will continue to pursue the same.

You don’t have to strap the internet to someone’s face to distort their reality with it, as demonstrated by… Well, gestures broadly

Why is it when I miss a day of Daily Show it’s eviscerated from my feed entirely, but no matter how many Jordan Peterson thumbnails I hastily pass over, they still appear week in week out?

To date I’ve watched one JP video: Matt Dillahunty verbally tearing him a new asshole.

The right wing rabbit hole is real and, even if you’re explicitly against it, YouTube is like “if I can get him to watch just one …”, because they know they’ll have you watching videos like the guy from Clockwork Orange in no time. It’s disgusting.

Pro tip: never press “do not show me this” on right wing videos, just skip over them. That engagement causes the algorithm to mark you as emotionally triggered by politics and they’ll just shovel more of the same in your face. For them it’s just a roll of the dice, and the value of them flipping you is too high to avoid.

I built a thermostat with a Wemos D1 mini and a relay module about 10 years ago.

Still use it today integrated with home assistant and can turn the heat on and off while away from home. It’s been reused across three boilers, no parts replaced.

It was a really fun project and I had virtually no experience with Arduino when starting out. Would recommend it to anyone.

Oh I wasn’t implying you were! My ire is directed entirely at RM for their mismanagement.

Someone defined the process at some point though, and often it’s documented. I’ve worked at several banks and large financial institutions and have had plenty of people tell me “I don’t know how X works” but never “Nobody knows how X works”.

I currently work at a bank and I’m yet to encounter anything that someone couldn’t at least send me documentation for, however apocryphal.

The problem here is that it’s fairly clear that the post office allowed Fujitsu to both define and implement the processes such that they are not compelled to provide the blueprint for them as part of the contract and they are now held to ransom over it.

This is the kind of colossal fuck up that heads should roll for, no less so as it is happening in the shadow of one of the biggest corruption scandals in British history.