people are freaking out about walmart digital price tags
Making the rounds in the news right now is Walmart planning to implement digital price tags in their stores before the end of 2026.
What people seem to gloss over however is Kroger beat them to it. I saw them in person myself.
Am I freaked out about these tags?
we are closer to 2036 than 2015
If the movie Back To The Future were made today, Marty McFly would be traveling back in time to the year 1996.
I'm getting older. Does that bother me?
run.app spam is happening using google mail servers
I'm already at the point with my email where I block anything containing firebaseapp (Firebase is Google's mobile/web app dev platform), and now I've had to block another, which is anything in an email containing run.app, the official domain associated with Google Cloud Run.
Crap like this is received in email, and it's obviously spam:
Look at the headers, and you see this:
absolutely useless sign
I was in this mall parking area recently, part of which was semi-open to the outside. The sides were completely open, hence why I call it a parking area and not technically a garage since it's literally impossible to seal it off.
Then I see a sign, "IDLE FREE ZONE. TURN OFF ENGINES". And, sure enough, someone was parked a short distance away, sitting in their car, engine running. Actually, that's not entirely correct. There was someone else a few parking lanes away doing the exact same thing.
Was there any mall security around?
two things makes computers slow more than anything else
Computers from years ago were slow for a number of reasons. Slow seek time on the hard drive, low amount of RAM, an operating system choked with a bunch of bloatware, and so on.
Today, computers are only slow for only two reasons.
First, the internet itself.
With anything internet-based, you wait while things load from a remote server. I don't think people really appreciate how much waiting there actually is to do anything online.
