Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 - The Verge

Yesterday, Ranjan Roy, a content strategist and writer, wrote about the latter in his newsletter The Margins; one of his friends who owns a few pizza restaurants suddenly got an influx of customers complaining about delivery when the restaurants didn’t offer delivery. “He realized that a delivery option had mysteriously appeared on their company’s Google Listing. The delivery option was created by Doordash,” Roy wrote.

Apparently, this is one way that DoorDash does customer acquisition — by bullying restaurants. But what’s funnier about Roy’s friend’s problem (and it was a real problem because of Yelp reviews and angry customers) is that DoorDash priced the pizzas incorrectly. “A pizza that he charged $24 for was listed as $16 by Doordash,” emphasis Roy’s. And then: “My third thought: Cue the Wall Street trader in me…..ARBITRAGE!!!!”

And so the story unfolds. “If someone could pay Doordash $16 a pizza, and Doordash would pay his restaurant $24 a pizza, then he should clearly just order pizzas himself via Doordash, all day long.

 

[danielravennest]

I would go as far as saying that ANYTHING, no matter how complicated, that has ever been done on a computer spreadsheet, can be done on a spiral notepad, and vice-versa - which makes sense, because that's what spreadsheets were invented to substitute for.

Computer spreadsheets were designed to replace paper spreadsheets, which accountants had used for decades before. I still have some of the 11x17 paper spreadsheet pads because we used them at work before we got personal computers (1980s). Engineering involves working with lots of numbers, like accounting. The chief advantages of the computer ones was ease of making changes and automatic recalculation of totals.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Computer spreadsheets were designed to replace paper spreadsheets, which accountants had used for decades before. I still have some of the 11x17 paper spreadsheet pads because we used them at work before we got personal computers (1980s). Engineering involves working with lots of numbers, like accounting. The chief advantages of the computer ones was ease of making changes and automatic recalculation of totals.

You could never get a flight simulator like you could with Excel 97 either.

 

[Caete]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The upcoming B21 bomber of the US Air Force, which will have intercontinental range and nuke capabilities, is going to run on Kubernetes!

In case you might wonder what Kubernetes is: this is a project which hails originally from Google, programmed in Go, used to automate the deployment of Docker containers.
Kubernetes had a security audit last year, where the auditors found some security bugs like expected, but also testified the software that it is really "way too complex" to be ever secure at all. The focus of the edit was not depth, but the whole range of the program. Kubernetes was testified as "extremely complex", "confusing default parameters, missing configuration flags and only scarse security elements", also huge parts of the code base have only "minimal documentation" with many external dependencies. It used unsecure TLS by default, disclosed login credentials in environmental variables, and secrets were also written as plain text in log files.

All in all exactly not the stuff you want to power your bomber with because it is an open invitation for malicious hackers, if connected to the net!

Talk about a control plane... US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will use Kubernetes

Google staff who protested drone AI effort could be quite interested in this

www.theregister.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

You could never get a flight simulator like you could with Excel 97 either.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Essence Lumin]

His instructions here How to make a voice activated LED facemask (DIY Guide)

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

Apple Maps updated with giant Black Lives Matter DC mural

Apple makes a statement by fast-tracking the update.

www.theverge.com

 

[Essence Lumin]

Ugh.

Google resumes its senseless attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85

 

[Clara D.]

Ugh.

Google resumes its senseless attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85

"showing the full address can make it harder to tell if the current site is legitimate "

Whatnow?

 

[Free]

Ugh.

Google resumes its senseless attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85

Oh ffs... Time to start moving over to Firefox. Or...Edge.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I just ran across this fun trick. If you make a bookmark (preferably on your main toolbar) with this bit of javascript (aka a bookmarklet) for the url and give the bookmark some name:

javascript:location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+document.location.href.replace(/\/$/, '');

Then when you go to a page and get a 404 such as

http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/zomgwtfbbqgtfololcats/13385-totally-random-picture-thread.html

and click the bookmarklet, you will get a page with the Wayback Machine's saves of that page. Choose one and view the page!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Hot from the oven: eaves dropping using light bulb vibrations!

 

[Noodles]

Ugh.

Google resumes its senseless attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85

Google wants you to rely on search to find stuff, instead of loyalty to a website.

 

[Noodles]

I don't understand why I can't edit share menus on Android.

I have tried 3rd party apps for this and they don't quite work right and often not at all with files.

I basically shared to one of like 3 places ever, Twitter, Facebook, Send to Firefox Device. I would love to be able to edit the share menus to these items, maybe with direct share to different FB Pages or Twitter accounts.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I don't understand why I can't edit share menus on Android.

I have tried 3rd party apps for this and they don't quite work right and often not at all with files.

I basically shared to one of like 3 places ever, Twitter, Facebook, Send to Firefox Device. I would love to be able to edit the share menus to these items, maybe with direct share to different FB Pages or Twitter accounts.

I don't know how you would share to specific FB pages or Twitter accounts. As far as files go, the Android app Xplore is very useful. When installed it will be an option on your share menu. It can save files to the file system or your lan, web storage, ssh storage and a couple of other ways.

 

[Caete]

Google wants you to rely on search to find stuff, instead of loyalty to a website.

Only so they can sell the results to others or share within all the subsidiaries of their ironfisted wannabe monopoly.

For example, ever wonder why some odd "out of the blue" suggestions show up for you on youtube despite never searching for anything close to it? The datamining of google is the answer. Four weeks ago I searched for info on the dornier do x flying boat using a search engine that is not tied to google, got my results, no change in my suggested vidgeos. Two weeks later I did the same search using google and less than 24 hours later I had quite a few suggested videos in my feed about the dornier do x. Coincedence? Nope, just the most recent time and one of the rare times I used google.

There's a reason companies want your smart television to be connected to the internet as well and it isn't "for firmware updates" like they claim.

 

[Caete]

What the hell is wrong with people now days? Six million dollars for CHIA PET TECHNOLOGY!!! Seriously, I hope all 51K of those backers drop and break them. Why give these IP thieves early bird money of a mere $60 for one planter when for the same price you could get 3-4 CHIA PETS.