For the record, not a Tom Scott subtweet. It’s just some random nobody sitting at a desk.
Today in internet companies use data on everything I do to fail in targeting: YouTube recommended a video to me in which the host of a channel I’ve never watched before explains why he’s not going to be doing any more videos.
Today, 15 years ago #OTD the person or group with the fictive name of “Satoshi Nakamoto” created the first cryptocurrency named Bitcoin with the thought of it becoming a secure and fast alternative to fiat currency.
Now it's known as the most wasteful use of electricity, inefficient and limiting capability/functionality, as well as being among the most insecure and de-anonymizing ways to transfer money.
However, what Satoshi Nakamoto probably hasn't expected is how many scam-currencies would come after theirs, and how their invention would create a new breed of the most annoying people known to our species: crypto-bros.
@pikesley this has also stirred up my hatred of the “How would you rate our app” dialogues everywhere, which if you say 5* direct you to the App Store review page, and otherwise give the equivalent of “oh, never mind then, forget I asked”.
@pikesley NPS scores are a bane on humanity. They had one in my local A&E when I was last there, and let me tell you, I wouldn’t recommend that one little bit.
@thomasfuchs smart bulbs with motion sensors in infrequently used rooms. I’m terrible at remembering to turn off lights. These mean I don’t have to.
Please can someone teach game streamers that screaming into their microphone just makes it clip horribly. Don’t do that please, I cringe every single time, and then my son gets annoyed at me.
@gsuberland I’ve done cover for our security guy in a previous job. So much junk along the lines of “your web server is saying what version it is”.
Yes. Yes it is. Were you able to do anything with that information other than establish there’s no known exploits for that version?
Kicking off 2024 as I mean to continue, with cursed network configuration.
Well well well if it isn't the consequences of your own actions....
@james@strangeobject.space ❤️ computers suck, sorry for pointing out another way in which that’s the case!
@james@strangeobject.space ahh yes, I did just through the URL into my reader which does discovery. The RSS feed only appears to have the first post in it at the moment.
@james@strangeobject.space incidentally, your blog doesn’t have an RSS feed. Is the source available somewhere, I’ll add one if so because I’d like to read and know I’ll miss the posts without a feed.
@james@strangeobject.space count me in as a person who reads blogs. I sorted out an RSS reader last year after a long hiatus caused by Google Reader dying.
@pikesley thoughts and prayers. (I’m currently procrastinating on going to bed, because my brain’s instinctive reaction to having to get up in the morning is to avoid sleeping)
@james@strangeobject.space in which case this is truly terrible behaviour, and I’m frankly outraged at it.
@james@strangeobject.space I think there’s a balance to be found here. “Just get on with it” isn’t a healthy or effective approach, but especially for children I feel like you have to try to avoid them internalising “I have this condition therefore there’s no point even trying”. I’ve found that a really hard balance to get, both in myself and when talking to my son, and I absolutely side on erring away from pushing too hard.
I’ve spent most of this afternoon trying to understand how Web Push works, particularly under Safari on iOS. As with all things web this involves reading the documentation for 15 vaguely overlapping standards, and then divining the remaining bits via random blog posts.
My evening has been made by Siri responding to “remind me to buy AAA batteries tomorrow” with “ok, I’ve added buy triple-uh batteries for tomorrow”, somehow pronouncing it more as tripleuh.
Today in apps that should be websites news, I’ve received an email to let me know my coffee machine has an after sales support app now. I specifically bought it because it’s notoriously reliable and needs minimal maintenance.
I see Call the Midwife is still going with Christmas specials. Presumably they’ve now overtaken the present day and it’s a heart warming period drama from the post-apocalyptic hellscape of 2049.
Jusant is really quite a game. Captures the essence of climbing a cliff face, judging whether you can make a hand hold or a jump, without ever really having hard fail states so far. A very meditative experience.
@simon apparently he pushed really hard for the role because he wanted to be in something his daughter could watch.