I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

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    • Algorithm shows a preview of a chaotic scene where the content isn’t easily identified.
    • You open / interact / linger on it to figure out what is happening before identifying it as something you don’t want to look at.
    • Algorithm detects increased interaction and happily serves up more.

    I play a little game with Instagram sometimes. I click on one (1) thirst trap bikini girl post in the search reel. Then I see how many times I have to press the little 3 dot menu and pick “not interested” on allllll the other thirst trap bikini girl posts that immediately appear.

    I generally have to press “not interested” about 15 times before my feed reverts to only having bikini girl thirst traps once every 20 or so posts.









  • Conjuring up a frequency graph from 2004-present doesn’t help your argument, as the VCR format wars were pretty much over a good 15 years beforehand.

    “VCR” could have meant either VHS or Betamax to a consumer in the early '80s.

    At least VHS specifies a particular standard, and “player” in that context has a loose connection with record player, or tape player , being the thing you play your purchased records / tapes / videos on.





  • It’s BLE - Bluetooth Low Energy.

    Basically devices with BLE can listen for a wake-up command and turn on, similar to the “magic packet” of wake on Ethernet.

    Super convenient for “find my device” applications, also nice to be able to connect and activate the device without having to press a power button like a peasant.

    It also means that most devices with BLE end up flat within a month. I had a speaker with BLE and had to deliberately download a much older version of the Android partner app to turn it off, as they dropped the option to do so in later versions for “convenience”. With BLE on it would be flat in about 6 weeks regardless of whether I’d used it or not , which really ruined ad-hoc usage for me.