Clicking on any picture itself should present an frame on the right with a bunch of options.

It does but then those are dead links.

They're road mapping. Trying things out. Their entire current ad eco-system may change internally in a week.

Not necessarily UI / UX - the entire preferences -> settings change remains the best example. The rest seems pretty good.

This quote near the end of the article:

> “Kindle devices have a relatively small attack surface, and successful exploitation through ebook files is rare, though not impossible,” said Bogdan Botezatu, a senior director of threat research and reporting for cybersecurity software company Bitdefender.

Should sell more new Kindles.

100 MB of portable storage in 95 - 1999 was a huge deal. Hard drives were pretty standard to build into DIY PCs at about 140 - 320 MB.

Indeed, it was about reliability in the end for Iomega. LGR Covered it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBhEaMp8mw

You know it's funny. Awhile ago I subscribed only to watch Stranger Things, I paid for the 1080 HD plan.

4K is clearly incentivized. Any how, I called to complain at the time. My opinion is the picture instantly got notably better when I tried standard HD again. There seems to be different degradations of 1080 and 4K.

Resolution is easy to see, but what you really want to pay for is the bitrate.

> I get the sense YouTube is becoming increasingly adversarial to yt-dlp as well.

I rarely use yt-dlp anymore.

Before I just updated. Now when I do that, it usually becomes complex and full of questions.

The brief video OpenAI did sets the stage as I see it - for an evolving kind of engineer. Who will think and design as much as know code.

Captive Wi-Fi has changed at cafes and businesses. My experience is, Starbucks blocks local hot-spots. You're forced to use their Captive Wi-Fi and only their Wi-Fi. This formerly wasn't an allowed thing.

Are they mining data? Does this promote some ambiance? There's probably 3 different answers, and you'll normally hear 1 is the reason.

It's probably more to do with QOS algorithms. Unless you're not browsing TLS-protected sites there isn't much data to mine. Wifi eavesdropping is mostly a solved problem these days. If starbucks could MITM your wifi connections to mine data we'd have bigger problems.

What’s a local hotspot and how does Starbucks block it? It’s illegal to jam signals (assuming a “local hotspot” is some Wi-Fi network from a neighboring business or center?)

It's using your phone's "hotspot" feature to get your other devices online without signing into the wifi. Modern smart phones have this built into the OS. The phone broadcasts its own SSID and the laptop or other device connects to that, and then the phone acts as a router with its own mini NAT and DHCP stack.

It can be blocked because the wifi equipment at the cafe can see multiple MAC addresses emanating from one client, among other techniques.

That doesn’t make sense. Why do you care about the wifi equipment in the cafe if you’re connecting through your phone? The cafe’s wifi isn’t even in the loop.

What I meant is that I’ve noticed cable-provider hotspots often stop working inside cafes like Starbucks and you can reconnect to them as soon as you step outside.

How do they block them? The only way I can think of would be signal jamming, which is super illegal and would have the FCC on them like brown on coffee beans…

Right. Check out the products they started with. Lots of YouTube out there on the topic.