I also sometimes piss without shitting myself.

Might be Bluetooth beacon tracking: https://www.mokosmart.com/bluetooth-proximity-marketing-ble-beacons/

Seems like these should typically be used by store apps, but who knows when other apps have like 37,876 trusted partners they share data with.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino, full title - Gravity 2: The feat of space travel, which definitely isn’t a pun.

AliExpress has that too:

This doesn’t dismiss the moral issues with it, though.

Genuine question, what are those?

I recognize issues with large power imbalance, such as huge gap in maturity, roles (e.g.: student/teacher, worker/boss), intelligence (severe mental disability on one side), etc. where one party could easily coerce the other into something, possibly even unintentionally (e.g.: one party wants something and is already upset, the other party is worried about not only breaking up, but also getting fired and not being able to afford rent, thus pushing through).

But in this case, if the above doesn’t apply, what are the other problems?

Would this be good enough to close the case without needing any weirdness?:
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-families/turkey-surgery-legs-lengthening-b2351481.html

Also, browsers still send so much unique data that they can be reasonably well fingerprinted. I don’t really know all the things, but you can combine info such as OS, browser version, window size, list of extensions, HTTP request headers, timezone, etc…
Plus you could also track behavior.
And even with VPN some analysis might be able to figure out what you’re looking at based on traffic patterns.

That assumes I won’t keep pausing the show to think.

https://metric-time.com/

I’d want to get a finger trackball, but they’re kind of expensive. Something like Kensington Orbit.

Recently I got a mouse. One with side scroll wheel, but just a normal one. I am honestly disappointed. First 2 days I found myself being less accurate with it than TrackPoint. And it also feels less comfortable to use.
It’s only better if I have a second monitor to the side.

Also, I wish I could somehow get easily varying sensitivity. Say, the more I press, the slower it moves. Or even just such 2 speed selector. Maybe it would get hard to predict with that pressure idea.

Yeah, it’s… interesting. Especially with donations.
Apple takes a 30% cut, then Google does so as well from the remainder.

Feeling generous? Congrats, more than a half goes to corporations.

Also to note are regional pricing differences. Let’s for example compare US and Ukraine pricing:

Though I don’t know how much that would seem over there.
But anyway, I pay $1.99 for DNS (NextDNS), so $2.28 for streaming high quality video without ads? Sure, would seem fine.

I wonder how much cost difference there is on the Google side between the regions.

I thought that was just my father.
He also told me many times how that was their chewing gum.

And also the bottle of mercury they used to pour down a slide.
Oh, and also the tradition of melting lead on Christmas and pouring it into water, getting prediction of the future.

Almost all of the ads I see on the home page are of type “Hot ${GROUP} in your area.”

Also, Trump referring to Jeremy Hansen:

And the 4 brave astronauts of Artemis II are our modern-day, you really are modern-day pioneers, all of you. And one of them happens to be a neighbor. You know who that is, right? You have a special person over there, a neighbor. And, uh, we like our neighbor.

Source

In 2021, when Amazon launched its first “just walk out” grocery store in the UK in Ealing, west London, this newspaper reported on the cutting-edge technologies that Amazon said made it all possible: facial-recognition cameras, sensors on the shelves and, of course, “artificial intelligence”.
An employee who worked on the technology said that actual humans – albeit distant and invisible ones, based in India – reviewed about 70% of sales made in the “cashier-less” shops as of mid-2022

Source: The Guardian

UK AI company builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers.

Source: ACS Information Age

I’ve already seen this one.

Plus it’s done using re-used parts which will just become single-use: https://old-man-par.com/2026/01/21/previously-flow-components-of-artemis-ii/

Oldest one first flown on STS-5 in 1982.

don’t encourage setting things on fire in California

I thought this was going to be a joke about car fires causing cancer in the state of California.

I am glad someone reads those. When I was 15 and got my bank account, while making cash deposits I used to put “I use Arch-based distro, btw” into the “note” field.
It was Manjaro with Plasma. Now I use vanilla Arch.