Hi Frank!

I feel this. My car has a super straightforward drivetrain (2003 Miata) and pretty simple electronics that I can follow and understand.

Looking under the hood of modern cars, half the time it’s so enclosed, you just see plastic and once you get past that, it’s an intertwined rats nest of complicated components.

On top of that, modern interiors are just loaded with features I don’t need. Give me driving, climate and radio controls. I don’t need anything more.

Don’t even get me started on all the assist features. I’m driving. I’ll handle the wheel, thanks.

Kimi and Deepseek both seem to do a decent job.

Something funky is going on. They’re somewhat random each time I refresh. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.

wanted to stay away from thermal paper on health grounds.

What grounds? First I’ve heard of this.

That’s so disappointing! One of my favorite channels!

I can vouch for Motortown, even if it’s not a ton like GTA. There’s a surprising amount of gameplay detail considering the assets look low-detail. Great roleplay experience.

My favorite is “Location Not Found”. It’s amazing that both Mac and Linux seem to do a better job on SMB than Windows.

I like David Cronenberg’s approach. Make it visually horrific, but so alien that you don’t know how to visually parse it and it just overloads your brain into ‘blech’ territory.

Loved The Thing and Videodrome for this style of horror.

Otherwise, give me omnipotent horror. Things like Oculus really get me.

You can take a look at Mero.chat. It’s a chat-with-strangers service. You earn more features the more you use it.

It’s a company of less than 10. I’d just be fired.

Like you would unfortunately expect. “I don’t care if they know that stuff.”

I’m a Tarantino fan. He doesn’t have a massive collection of movies, but you could teach an entire college course on just the few movies he’s put out with all the interesting things he does.

There’s something with his approach to directing that just makes me believe the story so well, even if it’s outrageous.

Kill Bill is my personal favorite.

This is missing the point that in this example, you have to choose who you’re targeting, find someone at the DMV to bribe, get away with the bribe, and even then, this is limited info.

The difference here is that people are willingly handing their data to the parties that want it, bypassing our DMV buddy entirely.

It’s a case of perfect being the enemy of good. I’m not saying this information isn’t available. I’m saying we shouldn’t be in the habit of handing it out.

These are all things that would need to be individually tracked down or requested and in government-controlled databases. It’s not just the government that has that data now. It’s the camera manufacturer and their 800 partners. And it’s all in one place.

It’s data that individually may not be important to you specifically, but combined, that’s enough information to easily start manipulating you, whether it’s directly or through advertising.

It’s not just about what data is collected, but also who has access.

I explained this to my boss the other day about the cameras he picked up for his house. He was like, “I don’t have anything that I care about them collecting.” To which I mentioned the fact that they now know:

• Where he lives
• What he looks like
• How many devices are on the network
• How many/how old his kids are
• What times they are home
• What types of food they have delivered and how often
• Who they have as guests and how often

The list goes on. There are so many things people can find out about you when you don’t make it easy. Putting a 3rd party camera in your house, though? Now you’re just handing it over.

Weekndsday

It’s not compiled. You can read the source in plaintext.

Sometimes the webpage will select a bunch of stuff outside the table as well as a bunch of extra lines and spaces that you have to rearrange.

Not all websites do it, but for the ones that do, this trick can save several minutes of fixing.

That is exactly what I use mine for and it does it pretty much silently.

The number of ways I’ve found to “win” against the modern internet over the years… My favorite is the trick of copying tables. In Firefox, if you hold Alt and drag, you can grab clean table data to copy paste into whatever spreadsheet you need. Take that, overly-complicated webpage!