I sent them a link to the source of one of their web pages where "contacts.readonly" shows up several times. That plus this dialog showing up makes it pretty clear that they are doing what they say they are not doing.

This truck sat unmoved for months, apparently it's owner stores things in its bed. With a flat tire and a broken side-view mirror it really _couldn't be driven. Why are we wasting valuable public property storing people's unusable cars?

This leaf-covered car didn't move for months. Why are we wasting valuable public property storing people's unused cars?

Oh look, a weird and non-responsive "Close" tooltip is floating over my Windows desktop. That's odd. I guess I'll do what any normal human would do. Fire up Visual Studio, use that to launch Spy++, use that to select the window, then view what process owns it.

It is honestly impressive how consistently HP's software developers are unable to close process handles when they are done with them. If you have a handle to the process and then the process dies then some of the metadata about the process is forced to be retained until you close the handle.

It gets better. OneCause Peer to Peer of course has a privacy policy. Or, more precisely, they have a link whose anchor text says "Privacy Policy", but the actual URL is 404 - non-existent.

Well this is a ballsy request. In order to sign up for a fun fundraising event OneCause Peer to Peer wants access to all of my contacts. That is hella rude! When my non tech-savvy friends find that somebody has got a hold of their contacts list they assume that they have been hacked.

Is there a sudden rush of new followers in general on bsky? Bots maybe? I don't feel like I've done anything super interesting lately, but maybe I have?

What sort of crazy person would create elevator control panels like this, in adjacent elevators in the same condo building? Only one of the elevators can go to the GR floor (fine) so the position of every floor above that is moved on the panel! Spatial memory be damned

It turns out that 1,447 minutes is one day and seven minutes, so somehow Google's transit data feed had the next train not coming for a bit more than a day, or something like that. The good news is that the next train actually came in two minutes which, technically, is "up to 1447 min"

Some free WiFi systems at airports require that you supply an email address and blah@example.com usually works and avoids spamming some innocent. But YVR actually requires a _valid_ email address. As in, not just syntactically valid, but in existence!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that printers are shit. I was trying to decide whether to get new toner for my old HP laser printer but I think it has made the choice for me. The printer is now always offline except immediately after I reboot my laptop.

I cannot believe that in the year of our Lord 2026 I actually encountered a vendor who took my credit card details (Visa only please) using this archaic device:

The flag that was installed on the slopes of North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain is so huge that it can easily be seen from 28 km (over 17 miles) away, south of the Alex Fraser Bridge.

Paid software and arcane licensing systems that lead to "Activate Windows" messages on museum displays might actually have been a mistake

You know, maybe I'm weird, but I would rather work with a company that makes me actually be secure, rather than one that is focused on making me "feel" secure.

If your goal is to get as many people as possible to turn off amber alerts on their phones then sending an alert at 1 am is a great strategy. I was awoken by the siren and in my groggy state (jet lag!) I could not remember where I was and I certainly didn't read the message and look for the car.

Hotels sometimes have bookshelves that are more for looks rather than functions, which is a shame. A bookshelf in the lobby could be good for wasting some time. But this one is just... weird

Does anybody understand this? Windows Update has three driver updates that it has chosen not to install. Does anybody know why it doesn't install these? And why does it say that "automatic updates will keep your drivers up to date" while simultaneously showing that this is not true?

This series of text messages summarizes what a busy year I've had. It doesn't even capture all of it because my cell plan doesn't cover and therefore didn't welcome me to Bhutan and Laos. Hong Kong was just an airport stop. China was supposed to be that but, well, I guess I'm spending 3 days there!

I've been seeing a lot more of these Cloudflare "security verification" interstitials lately. I hate them because they slow down my browsing and they smell like bullshit. What's the deal? Are these anti-AI/anti-scraping measures? Do they work? Do websites have to opt-in? Tell me more!

No wonder I get so many driver-update notifications from Intel - they have two separate programs checking for updates and sending notifications! Awesome!

Huh, look at this cool arrangement of seashells. I have no idea why I felt inspired to post this today, but I think maybe we all should.

5+ weeks of traveling in Asia and this is one of my favourite pictures. It doesn't capture the amazing people and places that I have seen but I just like it. Thanks Skyler for guiding the pose

I was hoping that this website would help me clarify whether I wanted to eat at this restaurant but I'm not getting a lot of certainty about the menu from this... It says something about lorem ipsum later on the page so maybe it's Italian food?

I suspect that all of the Garmin data from the 5.5 years I've owned this watch would be less than 1 GB (I'm currently exporting it to test this theory) so it is ridiculous that every operation requires an internet connection. In addition to be limiting it is also slow and wasteful. The trifecta!

And then, just to make my day complete, when I went to restart my computer the Intel Graphics Software Background Processor crashed during logoff. Amazing

Meanwhile the Intel Graphics Software says that the version is 32.0.101.5542 from Jun 8, 2024 which does not match the install logs - unless the install failures caused it to go way back. Either way - it's a mess.

Oh Intel, never change. Intel kept telling me that a new ARC GPU driver was available, but that's not true. What actually happened is that the install kept failing. That's actually different, and I was not told this until I searched the update history.

My 2009 Hyundai has decided that it will flash the Check Engine Light (and every other light) when I try to start it. I appreciate that it died in my garage, but I was hoping to get a few more miles/km out of it. As far as I can tell this indicates a "class A" misfire. It worked Tuesday...