I guess I could put a rubber band over the whole thing, no problems the last decade though

Younger gen x here, I just fold my cash over the 3 cards I carry, simple as

Thanks! On my watch list now

Why is this number everywhere? (Veritasium) https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98

I should have updated but another update of the YT app a day or two ago fixed the issue for me, someone else must have made a report. Still weird that they would push updates that have very basic app breaking bugs like that in them.

I remember reading there was something like this back in the mid/late 00s too, maybe without the giftcards but you could sign up for email alerts when there was a forum thread that needed to be brigaded, long before even reddit was a thing.

Edit: read about it on Metafilter at the time but it seems to have been purged. If you’re interested maybe the post is findable on the Internet Archive

A barista is a usually tippable service worker of moderate status who is trained to produce a slightly better tier of coffee and related beverages, for the curious but lazy.

I agree with your point, but balaclava is the hat, baclava is the delicious Greek pastry.

I’ve got an FM transmitter I use to listen to music in the car and it connects with a headphone jack so I still buy phones that have it. I also am fond of the physical home button so that limits my choices further. Luckily inexpensive late model Samsungs are easy enough to come by, I don’t game on my phone so processing power isn’t a concern.

If you liked Muzak, have I got good news for you!

Copy and paste it then

I found a shitty little electric grinder on the side of the road in Massachusetts a decade ago. Still using it, it’s great.

Edit: it’s a Proctor-Silex with the little plastic dome so maybe a bit bougie

Reminds me of the Steamed Hams methodology and execution (complimentary)

!remindme 1 year

Make it faster and jankier with precalculated lookup tables!

Dont hold it against him, this rambling wreck might make a heck of an engineer someday.

Just a short jump to more invasive AI assisted snooping and analytics on spoken word conversations too.

As long as that’s in the employee paperwork it protects companies from some liability, but what about customer-employee or customer-customer conversations picked up by the system? I suppose a sign stating that video and audio conversations being recorded would further lessen employer liability but I imagine in the future laws about AI technology used on those convos will be put in place and the use of surreptious AI conversation analytics in retail environments will be more regulated. For now though it sure seems like a free for all and I wouldn’t be surprised at unethical use becoming somewhat common.

A lot of retailers are replacing their standard phone systems with products from Zoom and other AI transcription enabled providers. In environments with audio recording, its reasonable to assume that relatively soon, full transcripts of conversations identified to individual speakers will be easily obtained, summarized and analyzed by AI. This will hopefully soon come under scrutiny for violating both two- and one-party consent laws for audio recording.

Yeah I’d say growing up coding in Basic on DOS machines, and logging onto BBSes gives us a leg up over millenials who at best started with AOL and Windows 98