Dan Olsen on Folding Ideas talked about Fortnite and a bunch of the dark patterns that they do in regular mode until you pay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHPNgIihR0

He called it “manufactured discontent”.

I also like the absurd amount of permissions it requires. Meta couldn’t let their guard down for a moment.

To clarify, I mean Meta couldn’t be a little less data hungry in order to take marketshare from Twitter. They instantly needed access to absolutely everything at the start.

I deleted Twitter as soon as Space Karen took over.

However, my friends and so many people I follow on other platforms still link their Twitter profiles. For some there needs to be something solid to make a real and consistent migration. I was overly hopeful that Threads (yes, another evil) would have buried Twitter.

Anytime someone says, “tell me why”

I start singing.

Sounds similar to the SSL stuff, like for GitHub and stuff. I guess the preference in that case would be my password manager as it stores my password already.

Perhaps it’s best I pay for Bitwarden premium now and use those hardware keys people are recommending.

Also thanks!

Yeah I didn’t understand passkeys. I’m like why is my browser asking to store them? What if I’m using another browser? Why is my password manager fighting with my browser on where to store this passkey?

I felt so uneasy.

So I decided not to use passkeys for now until I understood what’s going on.

What do you mean “but he didn’t, there was no point”? I figured everyone always challenging one another all the time. But I’m not really into the scene myself.

I just got my pro fold, I haven’t used it that much as a tablet to be honest. It is nice to do when I need it.

Did you get the Google insurance thing that’s quite pricey with it? I have a few days to get it.

Oh I use the website on my phone. Keeps asking me to spin Some stupid wheel though.

But like, what financial benefits do they get from this? Like the country itself. I’m really bad in this area. Like, do they buy property or set up a thin business? Does that pull in enough?

Where does it say they’re closing the case?

Even within a company. Saw coworkers that were trying to establish themselves as the AI pioneers and were backstabbing others get promotions based on how they could best use the ChatGPT AI.

Yeah I get the odd friend that loves Musk and when they ask for counterpoints, it’s good to have them handy.

I like how we’ve seen the Humane AI pin, Rabbit R1 and that stupid Devin AI programmer.

The hype around their possibilities was so high. All of them were varying levels of scams.

I’ll have you know they deserve that money for doing a job no one else wants! Talking to other executives! /s

I was intrigued by the idea, I was like, “oooh a modular mouse where it could be a trackball or vertical mouse or multi-sensor components with obvious replacement parts that they’d sell to make it easy on repair”!

Then I saw software and I’m like wtf? do I look like I need something else to Crowdstrike me? “Can’t work today boss, credit card didn’t update my mouse subscription hang on…”

The most secure computer is the one not running any software. That’s why I recommend Crowdstrike.

Same year!

Mavis Beacon teaches typing. BBSs. Cassette tapes with the pencil. I had a Spectrum that used cassettes before I got my Amiga 500.

I actually still like some LTT videos. I just find the thumbnails off-putting … so unless the topic interests me I don’t typically watch anymore.

I really enjoyed the Emily/Anthony bits too.

Not really new but probably not that popular for everyone. It seems it was coined in 2010: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern. In the web dev space I was using it like 8-9 years ago, more or less.