Not all of this, you have some points in here (smart TVs are worth mentioning), but a lot of this is elsewhere, too, though. And was done before AI. A LOT of things are in public records, for instance. Yes AI and interconnectedness it makes it easier, but this is nothing knew. And the fact that they’re still this bad at targeted ads means there’s still hope.

Deep cut, and I appreciate the hell out of that!

This was posted earlier. Just because they’re not going to give it to authorities doesn’t mean it won’t sell it to them. Or that it isn’t selling it to everybody else already. The other thread mentions that iOS natively has an app that’s completely private, and that there are apps for android and iOS that don’t share the data with anybody.

One of my bosses has a concept of “T-shaped developers”, which means you know everything a little, and have depth on one thing.

7months: ouch, sorry to hear. I wish I had some words of wisdom to share.

It works great if nobody ever leaves or dies or takes vacation. We try to discourage siloization of projects and emphasize cross-training - it makes the job more interesting, gives people more/better tools to solve problems with, etc. And anytime the business objects we mention the project where X left and how painful it is to get new anything added/enhanced because none of those tenets were involved.

However, all bets are off with offshore contractors. Some want to learn, some simply don’t care and will do the bare minimum.

Depending, it could be your freezer, if you’re storing it there for a bit.

My mother in law has a book about “Woke Jesus”, and I know some churches have had issues because the parishioners think Jesus was a wuss.

Thanks, and continue being awesome. And superb!

The profit margins are insane compared to sedans.

There’s one out there, named something like kangaroo, where they actually have signed firmware, and a hardware read/write switch (most of the time, the read/write switch is software based) parentheses.

(Nice bow, too, btw)

All good, I just had never thought of that, it’s cool!

Never seen a target like that before. That’s cool,what’s it made of?

What the hell did I just waste 30 seconds of my life on?

I’m sure there will be some fun “huh, odd, all the votes for X went to Y” if it happens.

Ironically, I could see that being the catalyst for ranked choice voting.

Siri, with a local model so that it can actually figure out what albums want to listen to, is one of the only use cases I have for an LLM

“Chip ‘N Dale vs Gripmunk! Another reason to watch UPN in the afternoon!”

Thanks! Yeah, not sure either, just says Smartish Gripmunk. But that looks nice, thanks for sharing the photos!

How chunky is that? I bought the Gripmunk which seems pretty decent and saved the phone at least once, but it’s chunky.