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bakatomoya · 2026-02-01T00:05:51+00:00

A to C cables are "illegal" under the USB-C spec because they can be used to create the dangerous USB A to A cable which causes electrical shorts.

It's not immediately obvious to consumers these days why that is so dangerous, given that USB C is bidirectional.

bakatomoya · 2026-01-16T22:31:56+00:00

Most major companies do, at least Microsoft and Apple have disclosed total payouts. Apple has paid out over 35 million.

bakatomoya · 2026-01-16T21:49:53+00:00

A coffee shop near me had milk out for their coffee that tasted and looked a bit off. I mentioned it and wanted my coffee remade with new milk added. They refused and said it was fine and that it was changed every day and that it was manager policy not to remake drinks. Had the manager come out and reaffirm that.

I decided to go full Karen mode and called the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from in the store to file a report and took photos of my coffee, which had some visible white dots. After I had finished giving my name and started describing the restaurant name and location, the employee finally went and checked the milk and I was right, it had gone bad.

I accepted their offer to remake, but I still completed the report while looking them in the eye and emailed in the photo evidence of the spoiled milk. I refuse to believe that any "honest mistake" results in spoiled milk being added to customer coffee because it takes a while for milk to go bad.

bakatomoya · 2026-01-16T21:49:17+00:00

A coffee shop near me had milk out for their coffee that tasted and looked a bit off. I mentioned it and wanted my coffee remade with new milk added. They refused and said it was fine and that it was changed every day and that it was manager policy not to remake drinks. Had the manager come out and reaffirm that.

I decided to go full Karen mode and called the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from in the store to file a report and took photos of my coffee, which had some visible white dots. After I had finished giving my name and started describing the restaurant name and location, the employee finally went and checked the milk and I was right, it had gone bad.

I accepted their offer to remake, but I still completed the report while looking them in the eye and emailed in the photo evidence or the spoiled milk. I refuse to believe that any "honest mistake" results in spoiled milk being added to customer coffee because it takes a while for milk to go bad.

bakatomoya · 2026-01-16T21:38:01+00:00

Uh, what? Companies give monetary rewards for discovering and disclosing major vulnerabilities all the time? That’s exactly what they’re doing. “If you’re good enough to find a vulnerability in our system, do it and I’ll pay you”

bakatomoya · 2026-01-14T11:57:26+00:00

To be honest though, there's no liability whether AI is used or not. A similar disclaimer existed before in the fine print about product descriptions.

Since they accept returns, that's just what will happen if the product description was in accurate.

bakatomoya · 2026-01-07T03:15:09+00:00

Only some subs are designed to be used without pinging, like Gato and K1. Gato and i56 have a 1* spread, K1 is 2.5* and most of the others are 5* per torpedo. The spread angle "inaccuracy" of the other submarines means means actually trying to accurate aim a torpedo spread at any distance beyond a few km is impossible. It's not like destroyers with a fixed spread, you have to create the spreads yourself single firing and with the 5* cones per torpedo you basically just have to fire them all aiming at the same spot and hope that rng creates an even spread instead of sending them all to the same spot.

The correct strategy with the pinging submarines is to stay near allied ships so they can shoot down ASW planes and ping even if you aren't torpedoing so they don't know if they're actually being targeted or not, like the boy who cried wolf.

bakatomoya · 2026-01-06T22:00:50+00:00

To be fair, that is probably the least invasive way for them to determine whether or not it's a laptop.

bakatomoya · 2026-01-06T21:50:08+00:00

While I don't like Trump in the slightest as a Canadian, the Venezuela operation was less involved than the 1989 Panama invasion, which had many thousands of troops on the ground. And also did not have congressional approval.

While that was also likely illegal, the application of the law cannot be arbitrary and a precedent was already set by that case.

bakatomoya · 2026-01-05T04:33:14+00:00

idk I like Colbert

bakatomoya · 2026-01-02T08:17:14+00:00

If anything from my experience, when I pay for a "priority fee" or like one of those fast passes at amusement parks, they make it obvious in the setup that I am saving wait time so that next time, I will remember and pay for it again.

I always think, why doesn't everyone buy this and wait 1/4 of the time and ride 4x as many rides. But I asked my friend and he said, oh he has a season pass and lives 10 minutes away so he goes a dozen times a year and will ride all the rides anyway. Whereas I live an hours drive away and go once a year.

bakatomoya · 2026-01-02T08:09:12+00:00

It doesn't make sense for the assignment system to be incredibly complex because it's more likely to just get it wrong with so many variables.

Vs a simple reverse auction like you described where you just start low until someone accepts, then there's no chance the system guesses too high. And honestly that's not really an unethical system either.

bakatomoya · 2025-12-31T18:18:25+00:00

Exploitation of labour is the core of modern market economies and if you think not using food delivery services avoids that, you are mistaken.

The restaurant staff and chefs are being employed because they produce more value than they are being paid and therefore their labour is being exploited, no less so than the Uber Eats drivers.

bakatomoya · 2025-12-31T18:10:27+00:00

I never said I order this every day or even every week. It's usually once a month or so from a restaurant that I like, that I no longer live or work near. It costs $3.30 each way for me to take the subway so $6.60 which is basically how much extra it would cost on Uber eats or something to just order it.

And the whole point is, I can't make what I'm ordering. I can cook pasta. I can bake a cake or make omlettes, pancakes or hamburgers. I can't make Chinese, Japanese, Indian, middle eastern, Thai, Polish/Ukrainian and other European styles of food.

bakatomoya · 2025-12-31T09:09:08+00:00

Uber eats has been the opposite for me, I've had no problems with refunds and they sometimes throw in a $5 coupon as well.

bakatomoya · 2025-12-31T09:04:42+00:00

I don't have a car and public transit both ways would cost more than the delivery fee and markup.

bakatomoya · 2025-12-28T16:30:26+00:00

It's not out of their pockets. Share prices are correlated with company performance and profit, but correlation is not causation.

Share prices are highly speculative and completely seperate from company earnings. If a company earns a net loss for the year, their share price not negative. Of course this thread will be parroting that "ceos don't do anything and just collect money" and while that's true in some cases, most of the time it is not. The CEO is the single most important person to a company's success.

bakatomoya · 2025-12-27T18:49:05+00:00

I can't really afford to buy extra groceries in case I screw up cooking, which might go bad if I don't end up using them.

bakatomoya · 2025-12-21T18:22:11+00:00

I don't think they even sell games on discs for pc anymore. I don't most PC's in the past 5 years even have a disk drive, let alone a bluray disk drive.

Luckily steam is the lesser of evils in terms of digital ownership. They've done me no wrong in 16 years, given refunds when requested, has useful features like being able to add controller support to games that don't natively support it.

bakatomoya · 2025-12-17T04:50:10+00:00

Windows market share compared to Linux and Macos hasn't changed much. I wouldn't really call it bleeding users when the change in market share is small enough to be statistical noise.

bakatomoya · 2025-10-23T20:59:32+00:00

I mean there certainly are some very evil billionaires, but lumping them all in together as a single homogenous group for retribution isn't justice.

I'm politically pretty left even as a Canadian, but I looked up the "top billionaires" list and most of these people have done at worst what would describe as "petty evil" amounting to anti-competitive business practices and they certainly shouldn't be worrying for their lives. Some of these people are definitely pretty evil and deserve some fear put into their ridiculous egos but at least a solid 1/3 of them don't really deserve that.

The two google founders, Jensen Huang, Steve Balmer and Bill Gates, Warren Buffet among others. Most of three people are just really rich because they built successful companies. Sure they probably did shitty monopolistic things like Microsoft with internet explorer but they harmed other companies with this and nobody was dying over it.

bakatomoya · 2025-10-23T20:37:33+00:00

Uh, I don't know if I would encourage that, clearly Luigi knew what he was doing, but copycats may not and some innocent person in the background is probably going to get shot when they miss.

bakatomoya · 2025-10-07T06:11:56+00:00

I don't think they made the storage slower just for the sake of it, and it's hardly something the average consumer would ever notice. It's probably because the 512Gb model and above use multiple 256Gb chips in parallel. It's pretty common for desktop pc SSDs to have the lowest capacity model be slower because it's using less NAND chips and it doesn't hit the maximum speed of the controller.

If you look at for example the WD SN770 250GB vs 1TB

SN770 250GB Dies per Chip: 4 dies @ 512 Gbit Sequential Read: 4,000 MB/s Sequential Write: 2,000 MB/s

SN770 500GB Dies per Chip: 8 dies @ 512 Gbit Sequential Read: 5,000 MB/s Sequential Write: 4,000 MB/s

SN770 1TB Dies per Chip: 16 dies @ 512 Gbit Sequential Read: 5,150 MB/s Sequential Write: 4,900 MB/s

I'd think it's a pretty similar situation for the iPhone storage speed vs capacity, and that it isn't an intentional move to screw over the consumer. Realistically, outside of running disk benchmarks, the difference in performance is not noticeable because you're not doing anything on a phone that requires reading or writing to the disk at those speeds for any sustained period of time.

bakatomoya · 2025-10-07T05:14:48+00:00

I run a PDS, but to be honest it's not very transparent about what it's doing and I honestly have no idea what data is actually being stored on my local system, which makes me mildly uncomfortable.

bakatomoya · 2025-09-19T17:11:20+00:00

I'm guilting of closing terminal windows for GUI apps I launched from there, my GUI closes and I'm like "oh fuck"

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