Ads in disguise.
I’m afraid I don’t follow. Do you mean the pop-up is equivalent to an ad for Hyundai?
Kind of. Same for companies that send "we've updated this or that" emails. Spam that pretends it is not spam, attention thieves.
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are two industries the are leading in obsolescense managememt: Aerospace and railways. But yes, this is a seriousbissue if service love of your product is measured in multiple decades.
At least in Europe, railways got the hint (or rather, the EU forced their hand)... they are switching over to ETCS and digital signalling control based on standardised interfaces. Will take a few decades to fully roll out, though.
Hence obsolescence management to litterally keep the trains running, sometimes even on time. And no, regardless of what smart phones do, you do not update a running, and certified, piece of equipment with a real technical need to do so. One of the reasons rail, and air, travel are as safe as they are.
And it is not just signaling, it is rail car and engine systeks as well, down to the last mechanical and electronic component.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Deny on the other hand causes the same question to come up again and again. Not in my experience. I click deny almost everywhere, even if it takes more clicks, but rarely do I see the banners come up again in a second visit. Tracking my choice is a functional cookie after all. I do, however, simply close the tab when the banner occupies half the window (or I use reader mode to bypass it altogether). That's just obn…
I was talking about devices mostly. The worst offender I know of is google and Android. I think they just settled of court in a similar matter.
Oh that I fully agree; sorry, I was only thinking cookies. I too have got Android devices with built-in crapware that ask for permissions and ad tracking again and again because I keep tapping "no". Chinese brands are the worst at this, even the damned built-in file manager has ads.
Re: Car showed pop-up while driving
#224Reminds my of when I tried to resurrect and old DJI drone with an out of date iPad mini for a controller. I turn on drone, launch the app and try several times to take off and fail. Try one last time assuming failure and it starts to take off! But then... Just as the drone starts to drift towards me, several notifications pop up within the app/iOS preventing control and sending me into a panic. Drone hits the house s…
I’m not sure when that happened, but you probably better used a 3rd party app to fly it, they are usually more feature richer and more hacky too
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#225I bought a Nissan this year. I paired my phone and granted access to contacts, but not messages. Every time I turn it on it shows a popup asking to grant access to my phone's messages. I decline each time, and each time it comes back. It's like they build these products with complete disregard for user choice. "We don't care that they decline, show it again until they submit". I've been a developer of products that d…
Another variation of this is the popup that only has "accept" and "remind me later buttons". It's even worse when it happens in work applications. Zoho does this. You open Zoho books, the accounting SaaS, and every X days after login, they show you a full page notice about some product/feature with options to "accept" and "remind me later". Imagine this in the middle of you rushing to create an invoice. I'm a paying…
Anything that has a "yes/later" instead of a "yes/no" goes on my list of things to remove from my life when practical. I promise this bullshit from any company will lose you at least me.
Re: Car showed pop-up while driving
#226Reminds my of when I tried to resurrect and old DJI drone with an out of date iPad mini for a controller. I turn on drone, launch the app and try several times to take off and fail. Try one last time assuming failure and it starts to take off! But then... Just as the drone starts to drift towards me, several notifications pop up within the app/iOS preventing control and sending me into a panic. Drone hits the house s…
I’m not sure when that happened, but you probably better used a 3rd party app to fly it, they are usually more feature richer and more hacky too
That just makes it even worse that the vendor app does it.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not sure when that happened, but you probably better used a 3rd party app to fly it, they are usually more feature richer and more hacky too
That just makes it even worse that the vendor app does it.
Indeed, that’s why whenever I fly DJI, I use other apps, like Litchi or UgCS
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Cookies for functionality that's necessary, i.e. expected by the user, are completely legal without any consent or notification. No that is not the case, though it's easy (and common) to mistakenly think that - in part due to the confusing nature of the various regulations and in part due to how frequently companies and websites purposefully misinterpret them for their benefit. Firstly, there are legitimate reasons…
I'm going to repeat … cookie banners are not necessary for functionality that the user expects to receive as part of the service provided. And yes, this is part of the ePrivacy Directive. And indeed, the cookie banners that only “notify” users, without requiring an acknowledgement to proceed, are not even legal. Go to any Mastodon website right now. Why aren't they providing a cookie banner for notifying that session…
If you're so convinced you're right about this point (which is not the view of lawyers I've seen spend tens of thousands worth of billable hours around GDPR and ePrivacy Directive... though I'm not in the legal profession myself, just somebody who has seen the legal advice about this at multiple tech companies, and it's a confusing enough area of law with little precedent set in courts yet, so it's absolutely not impossible that they and therefore I am wrong, though I don't think it's the case) maybe you could provide a source for the claim that's from an actual authority - like the source I provided from an actual government department responsible for implementation of enforcement of these laws, which disagrees with the view of GitHub, a company that may or may not have interpreted the law correctly?
Also, saying "I'm going to repeat..." to someone who had (rightly or wrongly) corrected something you said, is not really helpful, it's not adding to the argument and is more likely to push people away than to get them to reconsider your belief (almost made me just ignore your whole reply, to be honest). I'd suggest saving that phrase for when somebody had forgotten something you said, not when they think that what you said is wrong.
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> American recipes use pints and - even more insane - cups. How are cups even more insane than pints?
Because a pint is a defined measure, but a cup is just… random. Should I use a big cup or a little cup? A teacup? A coffee cup? What about that giant mug from can measure butter in cups but also flour, and oil and water. I can pour 50ml of liquid by eye and be accurate to a ml. I can cut 50g of butter from a block and be accurate to a couple of grams. A cup though? God help me. I do not understand cups!
Well your butter example is pretty easy for lots of butter sold in the US. They're sold as a box of sticks each stick wrapped in thin wax paper. The wrapper has marks for every tablespoon of butter. Each stick is half a cup. A box is four sticks so it's two cups aka a pint. So if you need a cup of butter, it's just two sticks.
Which is an example of how I'd rather things just be consistent instead of mixing units. If things are sold in pints, I'd prefer everything else I work with to be in tablespoons/cups/pints. If things are sold in liters and kilograms, I'll want things sold in reasonable divisions of those as well for the given application. When you just know half a cup is one stick or you need two tablespoons aka two ticks on the wrapper, its easy. When cream comes in pint bottles and you need a cup, you know its just half the bottle.
I do agree though, things start falling apart when recipes ask for like 2/3 a cup and you've got a pint, but if you're the kind of person who can figure out pouring something to +-1mL one could also learn how to pour just about 2/3 a cup every time.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because a pint is a defined measure, but a cup is just… random. Should I use a big cup or a little cup? A teacup? A coffee cup? What about that giant mug from can measure butter in cups but also flour, and oil and water. I can pour 50ml of liquid by eye and be accurate to a ml. I can cut 50g of butter from a block and be accurate to a couple of grams. A cup though? God help me. I do not understand cups!
Well your butter example is pretty easy for lots of butter sold in the US. They're sold as a box of sticks each stick wrapped in thin wax paper. The wrapper has marks for every tablespoon of butter. Each stick is half a cup. A box is four sticks so it's two cups aka a pint. So if you need a cup of butter, it's just two sticks. Which is an example of how I'd rather things just be consistent instead of mixing units. If…
So hold on… butter is sold in sticks, marked in tablespoons, collected in boxes and split into cups?
This is great work, you’re a creature after my own heart!
This thing about cups is that 50g of flour = 50g of butter but 1 cup of flour does not equal 1 cup of butter. For me cups make sense for liquids but not for solids.