Building is always harder than destroying, and takes longer. A lot of Biden’s policy (anyone remember the infrastructure bill? Student loan forgiveness?) was a turn in the right direction that really would have made a difference in a decade or so. But was there really a faster way? Was there an approach that could have withstood a toddler in the white house throwing tantrums and knocking things over?

If current “personalized ” advertising is any indication, the new ai ads will push

• whatever you most recently bought
• gambling
• something relevant to whatever demographic it’s hallucinating

But it will never do something useful like advertise things you’re searching for

That would be the greatest day, when comedians mostly do jokes about dems. Imagine punch lines like “and the dem control all three branches”. Or we just love racist jokes, let’s do one about “the first dark skinned president since Obama, har har har”. And get a load of this one, it’s starts with appointing cabinet members for their expertise! What a maroon! And we’ll never get enough of “and then they passed universal healthcare and saved the environment”! LoL

It can’t be that simple since you’d always be identifiable to anyone who knows the trick

I wonder if there’s a technical limitation to the number of extensions. If a number can have six or seven digit extensions perhaps someone could allocate those randomly, with forwarding to your real number

Seems like Canada is making an impact.

It may not be official sanctions but If there’s any credence to the news, it seems like there are movements to fund more reliable trading partners. It’s tough to make an immediate impact but we’ll see over time how much we’ve screwed ourselves. Will Canadian snowbirds come back? Will China (or anyone) buy our soybeans? Will manufacturers, such as for automobiles, be able to stay in business?

Nice. Too many kids have to be prompted to even use the incantation “trick or treat” much less pay attention to the words

Or toilet papered

Not so bad when you think about it …… Ring’s subscription isn’t too expensive and it gives you cloud storage and remote access. Bring on the hatred but I’ve found it one of the few worthwhile subscriptions

I’m due to rebuild my lab this winter so I’ll make sure to take a look

Personally I’m frustrated with always having to give a working phone number to accounts.

I have no idea if I’ve been at all successful in poisoning my data but all my accounts use unique generated emails in addition to generated passwords and fake profile info. It’s just habit now.

However all too often the one piece of real data I have to give is my phone number, and that would be really useful to cross-link all my accounts for data brokers building a dossier on me.

I have hundreds of fake emails but can create at most a couple phone numbers

It is but only if you are targeted. I completely disagree with people who say it’s insecure because most attacks are remote and in bulk. Which your password they can login from any browser but are stopped by the SMS code.

For the SMS code they can use mostly automated social engineering to trick a certain percentage into giving it up.

However while A SIM attack may be easy enough for a targeted individual, I don’t think it scales: they have to do work that only helps with one user. It’s too “expensive” compared to automated social engineering against a million vulnerable users

Which reminds me: I just got a new phone and totally forgot about Authenticator apps

I was able to recover one but the other is lost and I still need to get those accounts reset

Banks are the web sites most likely to reject a generated password from my password generator

This sounds so much better than my bread machine where I have to add ingredients, press buttons, and wait four hours, but can never get a baguette

Yeah, not drinking would be pure insanity, i could never. Imagine spending time with friends sober.

I just got off the phone with my kid at college and he was complaining that part of a group of his friends never hang out sober. It still happens.

He doesn’t drink so that’s a part of his social life he still needs to figure out, but he’s been taking exploration hikes instead: 18 miles today!

It’s just as likely he’ll get bored or run out of money and never finish

No girlfriend. She barely noticed him. The ultimate incel

User replaceable batteries would be actual cheap, would be nice. But iPhone 15 pro battery replacement at Apple is $100, and I’d expect that to be one of the more expensive battery replacements. Many phones will be cheaper, third parties will be cheaper. While I’d rather do it myself, it’s really not that much for once every three years to keep it above 80% health, and 9% of phone replacement cost.

the argument of “why would you try to save your battery by not using it when it has the same net effect of less battery?” is pretty short-sighted.

The argument is

• why try to save your phone battery when it’s critical to last the day and eventual replacement is cheap?
• it’s much more important to save your car battery because you won’t miss reduced range on normal days, you want max range available for road trips, and replacing the battery is very expensive

Definitely incredible but I still feel like people’s excitement is misdirected.

• they’re less energy dense so not likely to be on phones or many cars
• for cars the extra life is marginal when existing batteries already last more than the life of a typical vehicle
• much cheaper will make a huge difference in low end cars.
• but storage is the killer app! I don’t care about energy density but they’re much cheaper and will last much longer. Huge win!

Imagine if home battery systems cost half as much but last four times as long! Or grid storage! This is huge!

I don’t see this as a valid comparison.

• replacement phone batteries are really not that expensive. Don’t overthink it. Is it really a problem you might spend $50-$100 in three years to replace the battery?
• car batteries are not just much more expensive but they’re also overkill. Charging to 80% is more than enough for almost everyone’s daily driving on most vehicles, so why charge more?