Teenage me: "When I'm an adult I want to spend all day hanging out with models who will do anything for me"
(monkey paw curls one finger)
My prediction: A well-meaning liability regime focused on "You had an RCE and my company got breached" that quickly becomes expensive lawsuits over "You didn't force me to set a strong enough password and then my password got guessed, this is your fault" theories of liability.
Gonna sound like an old, but... I remember when 15% was a good sit-down restaurant tip, 10% for "meh" service, 20% "I want to impress my date with my generosity".
Having a Square reader ask me to pick between 18%, 22%, or 25% at a coffee kiosk is tip-culture inflation at work.
Wife and I are watching "Alien" (1979) and it's hilarious how the entire movie could just have been titled "Stuff would have been fine if any of the men on the ship were willing to listen to a woman" LOL
Ooh, nice competition for "World's worst phishing test ideas"
I think my worst was still worse than this one though.
Three modern annoyances that I'm actually quite happy to suffer through because I know how severe the consequences they're mitigating are:
1) Flight delays to fix mechanical issues
2) Power outages because wildfire safety mechanisms tripped
3) Getting vaccines
Guy things: Walking past something like this and going "Yeah I think I could probably lift one of those"
The only alert I have configured on my pixel watch is Tablet Command, so I can be paged for fire calls by a vibrating wristwatch and my wife doesn't get awakened by the page. Huge improvement!
The biggest reason I hear from friends who don't have a smartwatch is the number of notifications they were getting. I'm not sure how it works on Android, but in the Apple ecosystem, you can turn off notifications on the Apple Watch that will notify on the phone.
I took a little time early on to tune out non-important notifications and adjust as needed. I have a bunch of notifications that fire on my phone, but only a few of those make it to my watch.
I also took some time to set different Focus modes which each have their own watch face: Do Not Disturb, Sleep, Driving, Working, etc. These also reduce the notifications I get on my phone and watch.
So, if you are frustrated with notifications on your smart watch, they can be dialed down so you can enjoy having a watch that displays the time, the date, the weather, and your activity progress for the day all at once!
This is going to be an important case; the US Government believes the "Border Exemption" to the constitution applies everywhere within 100 miles of a border OR international airport.
I (ok, Gemini) made an app where you can see if YOU live in a constitution-free zone!
mattlinton.com/constitutionf…
Border cops can search your phone without a warrant. buff.ly/vg5mn6y
If you're one of the majority of men who aren't all men this week, one place that might be good to support is "Futures Without Violence" who have an extremely highly-rated program called "Coaching Boys Into Men" that has actual study-backed positive effects at teaching adolescent boys about consent.
I mean, it IS pretty cool how far computer image recognition and search have come in the last 3 decades, right?
Every government and big business who insists on "sovereign" cloud data where the data stays geographically in their country should look at this and understand that you're demanding a cloud with less reliability.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
Do they make a fitbit/smartwatch yet that can tell you're stressing out and start buzzing to remind you to breathe deeply and pet a dog for a few minutes? I'd buy one for each wrist.
I was invited to a very fancy restaurant yesterday for dinner, and I think I now understand why rich people still seem to be so unhappy.
Dessert was one square inch of cake, with gold leaf on it. And everyone had to pretend that they were super happy about that.
Every time I'm listening to YouTube Music on random and an AI-generated song pops up, I get the creepy feeling that I'm experiencing the versificator from 1984 in action.
I love being able to code faster but I could do without uncanny-valley machine generated covers of 80s hits.
Today the security guard at Disneyland spent quite a long time trying to unfold my Yubikey into a pocket knife. Those capacitive touch sensors really fooled him!
Forensics is about to get even more interesting.
"Yes those downloads were done by the user account, in their browser and by their session, but they claim the AI did it."
Whoever hacked the @internetarchive needs to know that you've done the equivalent of pulling off a bank heist at a public library.
Nobody expected them to be high security, you haven't impressed anyone, and you're a jerk for messing with a public good.