I raised this point with a cybersec expert this week. When you have an ecosystem with back doors and which is explicitly built to harvest personal information and redirect attention, then any efforts in security are starting on the back foot.
Well, let’s be honest, security is starting out drugged and semi-conscious, face down in a snow drift with a head wound…
My kid clued into the Honey thing. I’ve been trying to nudge said sprong richtung cyber security.
I also try not to install apps when possible. Just any app, doesn’t have to be one of these discount ones. I want to keep it minimal to what i use and need, and i avoid memberships/apps that offer discounts like restaurants and fast food places and other stores. The risk to signing up to these random things is unknown so i’d rather just not interact with that nonsense at all.
It’s very much a wargames situation, the only way to win is to not play…
This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.
I remember using it a lot in the beginning to listen to old music of around the world. I wanted to make a physical radiooooo. But I asked for permission to use the API and got denied 
I’m still thinking what to do with my aunt’s broken radio (has a magic eye!):
I’m afraid I don’t know what a magic eye is, so maybe you could explain why your aunt’s radio has a HAL 9000 stare.
It was a special type of valve rectifier that provided also a visual output of the voltage input. In radios it was used to visually represent the strenght of the signal, and was cool as heck.
There’s more info (and a gif of the valve in use!) in the wikipedia page.
I think my spanish to english mind constructs failed me here.
Is a vacuum tube amplifier with visual output of the input.
“Valve rectifier” is old-spanish jargon for “vacuum tube transistor-like device”
I don’t listen music but if I did…
And so the end game for air travel is that the lowest price ticket is half what it was in the 1970’s, with twice as many people in cramped seats, but to get that 1970’s level of service in “premium economy” is twice the price. 
“Premium Economy” is in my world (that would be the world inhabited mostly by hobbits) the ticket that lets you arrive with your knees intact. The flight attendants are always mildly confused by my lack of interest in “enjoying” the rest of the experience.
Stock tips from Cramer? Isn’t he notoriously bad?
I’m pretty sure a Bloomberg subscription is half that price. Why would they think anyone would pay twice as much for CNBC? Especially since that’s one of the properties that Comcast is planning to spin off, along with MSNBC. Both of those networks may be entirely different things a year from now.
He hosted Mad Money on CNBC, and we all know once you pretend to be an expert on television your reputation is forever beyond question.
Also… I love Swolesome… he’s lovely… 
