It’s not just a breach you have to worry about. Credit agencies actively monetize your financial data by selling it to anyone who wants it. You didn’t give it to them, you didn’t authorize it, they collect it and they sell it.

https://www.equifax.com/business/marketing/

That must be why mobile and discriminating populations choose to move to China.

Never give up the domain. I’ve let several go that I wish I still had. They only get more valuable, like real estate.

RIP stinkfist.org

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ios-18-beta-delivers-rcs-messaging-heres-how-to-enable-it/

I hear Americans eat babies too. I’m not even sure they are human, right?

I’m sure people get annoyed or ignore you because you’re just too truthful, not because you’re ridiculous.

I like how on Amazon, the “Rufus” thing always pops up over the stuff I’m trying to read.

“How can I turn off rufus” didn’t come up with anything except how to turn it off in the app, not on the website.

I had to use Ublock Origin to select and block it.

Australia?

I didn’t want anyone to think I’m actually from that shithole state, Mississippi.

It’s close enough that counting Mississippis is still roughly accurate.

(for non-US people, we sometimes estimate seconds by counting 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi… just because it’s a long word that takes about the right amount of time to say)

I think you misread that. This poster’s experience isn’t from 2016. They installed a program called “Outlook 2016” recently.

SmartTube is back up this morning after an update.

This just in: Google suddently discontinues support for popular and profitable ad blocker blocker blocker blocker, because literally all they know how to do is kill things that work.

Spreadsheets are life. I think in spreadsheets. I hope it comes soon.

M as in Mancy?

I work for a company that does marketing, and they are seriously struggling right now because TV and Social media ads are getting more expensive, while at the same time becoming less effective.

Yes. This is true.

Because ads suck and people hate them. Whats the new way? Be good at what you do so people talk about your brand. Show up in searches when I’m looking for you. That’s it.

Oh good. Because if there’s a profile of my advertising preferences out there, it knows that when I am forced to view an ad, I look away from the screen, turn off the volume, sigh dramatically, and say “Fuck <this product> right in the ass.”

Personalize away.

I talked to a business leader yesterday who said that their outsourced overseas developers were not performing well, so they were planning to directly contract some overseas developers, because then they would be “captive”. And he proceed to refer to them as “captive developers” for the rest of the conversation.

Sir, you should not refer to people who work for you as “captive”. That has a very negative connotation, and I’m shocked you don’t hear it. Please at least notice everyone else’s reaction when you say it.