jonplackett

Same problem with my electric toothbrush. And it’s super bright chafing light also FLASHES. Why? It must be a designer who hates everyone. It’s can’t be an accident.

Read something similar the other day about the original Walkman.

The engineers wanted to add recording function, thinking it would help with sales and to only cost a negligible amount to add.

Someone cleverer said no, because if you add that feature now people will be confused what it is for. If they don’t want to record audio, they’ll think the product isn’t for them.

Are we at peak AI yet?

AI company announces AI thing using AI video mock up

Where is this setting?

Yea on desktop I can solve it too - but on mobile it’s a pain. I’m subscribed now because I want background playback and using the various blockers was getting annoying. So the app is all I have.

But I subscribe now god damn it! Can’t I just only see what I want to see? Is this too much to ask?

I would happily live side by side if it is the Red Dwarf toaster

In the Home Screen it is always completely full of shorts. In my recommendations, full of shorts. There’s no way to just never be shown shorts. It’s very clear from the layout that they REALLY want you to watch shorts. I assume it’s because they are more addictive = more views = more ads. But I pay for YY premium! So why do they still insist on putting shorts everywhere? If I want shitty short videos I’ll use TikTok

I’m gonna say it’s YouTube. They are obsessed with pushing short form shit videos to me despite me never wanting to watch them. I hate YouTube shorts so much

Well I needed a good reason to quit social media. This can be it.

Hey thanks for sharing. This looks great.

How do you see this positioned VS just using Pages? Why did you decide to make this instead?

Also is there an iPhone version that syncs with it or is it Mac only?

The weird thing is that this is the utopia that the AI companies are chasing - this is the best case scenario where AI doesn’t kill us all. We become happy sheep relying on the AI to think and provide for us.

Does this translate to humans though? At the least it should be tested with something living longer than a few years.

Mice have a very short window to reproduce compared to humans so n optimisation to live longer in absence of sufficient protein makes more sense.

We’re optimising quite different I would assume.

Great list! So far I’ve done phones and DVDs but I’m gonna try some of these too.

I would like to also suggest letting them play old adventure games with no audio - my 8yo is deep into Monkey Island 2 original pixelated version

I’ve just set up some old phones between my daughter and her school friends. I also looked at tincan but it’s quite expensive for each device + high monthly cost.

Using voipfone I have them all on a separate network with 3 digit phone numbers for £2 a month each and all connected with a grandstream voip controller + an old landline phone that I got on eBay / donated from neighbours.

It’s been so nice to see them all calling each other up and chatting. Retro tech is so good because it’s single purpose. No distractions.

This isn’t that hard to solve.

Kids have their own account on the computer.

Make it the law that if a computer account is set up as a kids account it must send some kind of not-adult header with all requests. Enforce that in the OS so it can’t be messed with.

Leave non-kid accounts alone.

Make it the default thing that happens if you set it up as a kids account so anyone can do it.

You can - but currently it’s all just done with random private companies that I would not trust with my email address never mind my passport or adult preferences.

Again - apple’s on device verification is a good idea for this. Apple just sends a ‘yes this is an adult’ message to reddit for example and now I can again participate in chrome up discussions.

Yeah I’m sure the kids are going to be devastated they can’t read HN

This assumes that it will actually solve the problem anyway. Kids just get a fake account or a VPN anyway.

Addiction is the worst part and that is only going to happen on your own device.

The proposed solution though is that all adults going into the store have to provide their full name and address and have it recorded by the store to buy alcohol - or any other +18 product they want to buy. These things are not equal.

That’s what I mean by adding legislation to make it automatic.

If it’s a kids device, then it should just block social media as required by the law. I agree that right now it’s difficult to set up - but this is a choice from Apple and Google. Just mandate sensible defaults.

A hardware block is much more effective than anything else that can be faked.

Just have the phone ask ‘is this a phone for a child’ and if you select ‘yes’ then it’s done.

The point is there are much better ways to enforce this - like just setting up proper parental controls on a device.

Kids can’t buy their own phone. So parents can always enforce stuff at a hardware level if they set it up properly. It would be much better to just mandate that phones set up with a kid profile cannot access social media.

You can just turn all this stuff off.

I’m curious what the account recovery flow is without the AI.

Is it this dumb?

Does it bypass 2fa?

So is your business model to expose AI security issues and then sell the solution?

It sounds like it should be in that car Homer Simpson designed, although I guess it would order doughnuts in this case

As apposed to spending it based on feels?

For people who buy a Ferrari the price is not part of the equation at all.

Also Ferrari’s whole game is demand and supply manipulation - there are always more people who want a Ferrari than can actually buy one. These will all sell out whatever happens.

I think all cars should have a ‘LUNCH’ button.

It can be sponsored by Uber Eats and whenever you press it, it automatically orders a burger to your current GPS co-ordinates.

This doesn’t factor in the growth in the value of your house, which mostly happens tax free (in the uk at least)

We bought our house 10 years ago and it’s basically doubled in value since then. Which is way more than the money I’ve spent on interest.

It seems like this is also based on buying somewhere with a super low deposit, which I agree is probably a bad idea.

It’s good that they proved it I guess. But they could have just asked literally any person in history doing anything creative as a job.

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