Brad

What a boring dystopia we live in.

Yep. First thing I thought was, “They’re going to let ICE use this to track people down.” Hell, they could already be doing that.

This feature is completely optional and is never turned on by default.

Until Microsoft decides to turn it on without your consent or knowledge at some point.

The call is coming from inside the house!

I fucking love the disdain he shows for the lock in the second video after he opens it. The way he just chucks it into the box.

A car’s 17-digit VIN has a similar feature, for model years since 1981.

The 9th digit is the check digit, and it’s a much more complex algorithm (since the VIN can have numbers and letters.)

Cue millions of Texans asking ChatGPT: “How can I take a shorter shower?”

Resist!

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The provider the article is taking about is VPNSecure.

Worst case scenario, one of tr***’s cronies ends up in control of Chrome.

That’s absolutely going to be the plan for anything Google is forced to sell.

There is no content on Reddit valuable enough that I would pay for access to it.

Now it’s all just done for… idk

Money. This is capitalism. The answer is money.

I know which city used to be Constantinople, thanks to They Might Be Giants!

How appropriate. You’ve aged like a cow.

I’ve found it helpful at work for things like preparing agendas for meetings, or creating an outline of a presentation or document I need to write.

I’ve also found it helpful when I’m trying to Google something where I need to be pretty specific and then I can’t find exactly what I mean by searching.

Here’s something totally bizarre that you might it might not care about.

The other day I brought up Metroid on the Nintendo Switch NES app (the one that lets you play some NES games with an online subscription.) After playing for a bit, I wanted to show him the Justin Bailey code. But I couldn’t remember it exactly at first. So I tried it in various cases, and when I enter the code with all lowercase letters, it crashed the game.

No idea if it’ll do that for everyone, or if it did that on the actual NES, but I tried it a few times and it crashed everything.

For reference, I entered in the code like this:

justin bailey
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But the actual code is:

JUSTIN BAILEY
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I received the offer on my 16 year old Reddit account, but not on another account I have that’s more like 12. Not sure if they went by account age or activity or what.

I did not try to get in on the IPO (or pre-IPO.)