FINALLY found the 4K streaming camera I misplaced last month! As I suspected, it got shoved in a bag and stashed haphazardly when I needed to quickly make room in my office for some contractors.
As usual, deep cleaning of my office only seems to happen when I've lost track of something that's too expensive to just replace...
Ordered something on Amazon yesterday which arrived early that same evening.
On the one hand, I instinctively suspect that (1) this can only be possible by exploiting existing problems in our society and (2) it creates new ones.
On the other, I'm not going to click a button that more or less says "No, that's crazy. Deliver it a few days later, for exactly the same money," am I?
A couple of contractors are doing a little work inside my house today. The nature of the work means I can just go about my day without much disruption.
This must be what it's like to have houseguests if you're a really, really bad host. I'm barely acknowledging their presence. I'm not offering them beverages or snacks. I'm not helping them with what they're doing, or offering the use of my tools. They can't even enjoy this movie I'm watching, because I'm wearing headphones.
Q: And how are you taking advantage of your 55" 4K HDR Dolby home theater today, Andy?
A: I'm watching a stranger as he figures out how to write code for an extremely niche forty year old minicomputer with a one-of-a-kind OS. #HELLORLD
As I said this morning on Boston Public Radio: Bytedance's required subservience to China's national intel laws is a worry, sure…but the simple fact that TikTok is a popular social media app makes the company a potential danger in and of itself.
I wish Apple & Google would respond to this egregious abuse by declaring TikTok to be spyware. I wish they'd pull it from app stores until TikTok convinces independent auditors that this kind of thing can't happen again.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/
