Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

"We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

I'm uninstalling my RING today.

Spaceship lands in the park. A door dilates. Alien comes out. Says to the gathering crowd:

"I've been all over the universe, seen everything. Can you entertain me?"

Someone in the crowd shouts: "Great clown Pagliacci is in town, jokes out of this world!"

Alien starts crying. "But Earthlings..."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

How UI degrades over time.

Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable.

Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone.

Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though.

Then, on the left, there’s another something that says Run and has an icon. What is it? A window title? Another button? Why does it have to say Run twice?
... 1/3

From the '80s, PhotoShop 0.87's original icon in '89, and Back to the Future from '85 showing a photo shop next to the numerals '88 as Marty drives a DeLorean (built in '81, '82 and '83) towards it.

Then PhotoShop went on in the Future to 86 trust in Photos like something out of 1984.

This was a nice walkthrough. It’s weird to think that Apple is selling what is effectively an iMac without the computer parts inside for more money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q3SdtiLAPk