RECOMMENDED: Diana Nyad movie

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5302918/

It tells the remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.

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I’m not a big fan of movies that don’t make me laugh.  

However every once in a while, one comes along that I feel is a “must see”.

I’d make it required watching for every student in the world.

Overcoming obstacles. Exponentiated.

Hard to say enough good things about this movie.

On a personal note, I didn’t recognize Annette Benning until I went to write this post.

I’d put this in my “Rudy” file of “motivational” musts.

Unlike the trash that Hollywood usually produces, there was a tasteful nod to sexual abuse and lesbianism.  But didn’t detract from the message.  If anything, it focuses on the hidden obstacles that one would never know about.

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NOTRECOMMENDED: DRIZLY is unreliable

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Took my order and never delivered. I had to make three phone calls and two emails to find out.

Argh!

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NOTRECOMMENDED: Facebook’s Portal product

Friday, July 16, 2021

I need a YouTubeKids app and the portal to interoperate with non-messenger contacts.

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It’s great for an old relative but imho it’s too tightly tied to Facebook Messenger ands very limited apps.

With a toddler, it’s too hard to restrict him to YouTubeKids. 

Argh!

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RECOMMENDED: Coming 2 America (2021) corny but fun

Thursday, May 13, 2021

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6802400/

Coming 2 America (2021)
PG-13 | 1h 50min | Comedy | 5 March 2021 (USA)

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Yeah, there are a lot of errors and inconsistencies.  But if you relax and suspend belief it was corny and funny.

I think Leslie Jones and Wesley Snipes steal the show.

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I watched on Prime Video and got some random German subtitles.  A quick search reported that this was not unusual error.

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TECHNOLOGY: WHAT3WORDS may not be suitable for the task? NOT-RECOMMENDED!

Saturday, May 8, 2021

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/05/03/1538256/what3words-sends-legal-threat-to-a-security-researcher-for-sharing-an-open-source-alternative

What3Words Sends Legal Threat To a Security Researcher For Sharing an Open-Source Alternative (techcrunch.com) 133
Posted by msmash on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:38AM from the how-about-that dept.

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A U.K. company behind digital addressing system What3Words has sent a legal threat to a security researcher for offering to share an open-source software project with other researchers, which What3Words claims violate its copyright.

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But security researcher Andrew Tierney recently discovered that What3Words would sometimes have two similarly-named squares less than a mile apart, potentially causing confusion about a person’s true whereabouts. In a later write-up, Tierney said What3Words was not adequate for use in safety-critical cases.

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Maybe Google’s system is better?

40.48453468598731, -74.42346811440515

As opposed to:

safety freed solo

AKA https://w3w.co/safety.freed.solo

WhatFreeWords should NOT be suppressed.

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210430/22510246716/what3words-sends-ridiculous-legal-threat-to-security-researcher-over-open-source-alternative.shtml

What3Words Sends Ridiculous Legal Threat To Security Researcher Over Open Source Alternative
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the never-use-what3words dept
Mon, May 3rd 2021 10:47am — Mike Masnick

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The only proper response to this is never, ever use What3Words for anything that matters. Beyond not giving in to censorial, abusive bullies, their legal reaction to a security researcher doing reverse engineering work to help find potentially dangerous problems with What3Words screams loudly to the world that What3Words has no confidence that it’s products are safe. They’re scared to death of security researchers being able to really test their work.

Both of these reasons means that What3Words should be remembered as little more than a failed.dumpster.fire rather than the cool.mapping.idea it could have been.

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NOTRECOMMENDED: HOME DEPOT online purchase

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

FROM HOME DEPOT

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How many stars would you give your recent online purchase?
View as web page
 
RATE & REVIEW
YOUR HOME DEPOT PURCHASE
 
Ferdinand, How many stars would you give Kidde Pro 340 3-A:40-B:C Fire Extinguisher?

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A used old and discharged one was delivered. Of course, it was returned and I will not be ordering online from Home Depot again!

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RECOMMENDED: Queen’s Gambit

Thursday, April 22, 2021

For anyone with Netflix, I recommend Queen’s Gambit. and not just because it was my favorite opening during my chess playing games. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

But that women are not big into chess is a sad fact of-life and I wonder why?

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NOTRECOMMENDED: Google Pay

Friday, March 12, 2021

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-new-google-pay-repeats-all-the-same-mistakes-of-google-allo/

PLEASE STOP —
The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo
For P2P users, the new app has fewer features, is less convenient, and has more fees.
RON AMADEO – 3/7/2021, 9:30 AM
 

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For long-term Google users, the new Google Pay is yet another annoying transition they’ll have to explain to friends and family. This is an occurrence that’s getting more frequent and more annoying in recent years, thanks to similar Google shutdowns of Google Play Music, Cloud Print, Inbox, Works with Nest, the ongoing Hangouts situation, and many others. That’s to say nothing of the crazy history of this payment service, which used to be Google Wallet, then Android Pay, then Google Pay, and now it’s a totally different Google Pay. Just like we’ve been through a million times now, some people won’t think this is a big deal because their use case is supported on the new product, while for other people, the new Google Pay will be a much bigger deal, because their use cases will be ripped-out from under them and no longer supported.

The worst part of it all is that, like the move from Google Music to YouTube Music, there is no reward at the end of this transition. Google is blowing stuff up and making users switch apps and set things up again only because of internal politics and infrastructure concerns. There aren’t any great new features to sell people on—it’s just Google’s constantly shifting priorities reaching into your life to remind you, “This is what being a Google user is like now. You’d better keep up!” It gets exhausting.

There is one new feature in the new Google Pay. I swear I’m not making this up: new Google Pay is yet another Google messaging app! Once you add someone via their phone number, the three options are “Pay,” “Request,” and “Message.” The “Message” option will bring up a full messaging app with the usual back and forth replies, push notifications, and emoji support. You can even start a group chat!

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Luckily, I never got into Google Pay. And, I dropped Google Fi for Altice’s unlimited mobile offering.

YMMV

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NOTRECOMMENDED: Paytrust sucks

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Just nuked my paytrust account!

… … due to the lousy Use interface.

And they don’t forward the mail.

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NOTRECOMMENDED: EBAY, PAYPAL, SquareTrade, and @amazing-wireless

Monday, August 17, 2020

Order #26-05258-77719

BlackBerry Keyone – BBB100-1 32GB – Black (AT&T + GSM Unlocked) – MINT INBOX

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Except it’s locked!

And it’s no one’s problem but mine!

They all suck!

I am about ready to cancel my PayPal account over this.

And, obtw, you can leave negative feedback because the Ebay system is screwed up.

Argh!

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