Done:

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwkwxr4eqo

Their logo is even a variation of the RSS logo.

I remember seeing a doc about Wall of Death motorcycle riders. The bikes they used? Century-old 1910 Indians.

Why? Because when lives depend on it, you want a solution with the absolute fewest possible things that can go wrong. Not the latest fancy thing with all the bells and whistles.

My turn:

A lot of people did: home, portable, car. But a lot of people had also left them behind for ordinary CDs, CDs full of MP3s and dedicated MP3 players like Rios and iPods.

I like how Justin Frankel created something to help you get stuff to really whip the llama’s ass with :)

And Audiogalaxy. And WinMX.

EDIT: And DCC bots on IRC.

My user name stands for KaZaA Lite User 9.

My proudest achievement! 😁

I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people’s money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.

If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he’d do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.

Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.

PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.

“If it ain’t broke, break it.”

Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.

Chinese fintech giant Alipay has for some years now had the “Smile to Pay” system: Alipay users can pay for something by just smiling into the camera in an Alipay “Smile to Pay” POS terminal. IIRC KFC was the first place to have it.

In China, many operators of public toilets seek to prevent theft of toilet paper (I shit you not 😉) by having some kind of rationed dispenser (a certain user can only receive a certain amount of paper in a certain amount of time) or a vending machine.

Public toilet + toilet paper vending machine + “Smile to Pay” = facial recognition in toilets.

• https://chinahandsmagazine.org/2019/11/01/your-toilet-knows-non-surveillance-uses-of-facial-recognition-in-china/
• https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3112836/facial-recognition-toilet-paper-dispensers-china-put-hold-privacy-concerns

In fact, I think a few wanted fugitives have been caught (out?) by the cameras on toilet paper vending machines.

So… Zuck stans the guy who ended the Republic and turned it into a monarchy that pretended to still be a republic?

Well, that’s not concerning at all.

Not just by the Japanese but by Softbank and Son Masayoshi, the guy now doing buddy-buddy photo ops & “Stargate AI” with Trump.