Google Photos too, apparently, if for some reason you’re willing to give up your personal information to them.

Yeah, Apple does too. Used it to exclude my ex-wife when I met my new wife :)

My bank used to require internet banking passwords to be exactly 6 alphanumeric characters. Turned out that the reason for that was that they used the same password for internet and phone banking, and by implication the passwords were actually just 6 numbers.

This was in the 2010s, mind you.

It’s an Apple Photos feature. It can be enabled or disabled in Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Featured Content.

It will pull together photos of a person or animal over a period of time, a set of photos from a particular date, a group from a place, or similar and make them into a slideshow.

Sometimes it comes up with good ones (I get quite a few of my daughter and my dogs) and sometimes they’re hilariously bad or random/contrived.

Can’t say they’ve ever really made me sad, but I may not be in the same stage of life as the OOP / not looking for internet joke points.

Interesting. Everywhere I’ve lived for the last 10+ years (3 cities and a rural acreage in Canada, village in Austria and visiting relatives in various towns in the UK) has had a municipal composting programme. I just assumed it was the norm now.

Hopefully you get one where you are soon!

I might be misunderstanding what you’re saying, but don’t we already do this?

Works for a small company. If everyone in a large company is allowed the same leeway nothing could ever ship

Oh for sure. I’ve been lucky enough that I’ve only ever worked for places with at most a few hundred employees, so my experiences of larger companies have been at best second-hand — but it was enough to know that I’d never want to work somewhere like that.

This is something I really love about my job. It’s a small company, and we don’t have any of these kinds of process overheads.

It’s accepted that people fuck up (and in most cases that’re relevant to me, I’m the people in question) but if I can reproduce the problem, I can often get the fix in the users’ hands the next day. Generally the positive effects of a quick turnaround and feeling like they matter outweigh the negatives of the problem being there in the first place.

Not to say I don’t have stuff in the “tech debt” bucket, but having the autonomy to just fix the low-hanging fruit makes for a satisfying work environment.

It’s almost like the entire thing is performative bullshit

Is there a “go woke, go broke” but for nazis?

First time I ever went there (1997) I landed at Boston Logan Airport, and a guy in plain clothes, but with a gun, stopped everyone who was departing the plane and repeatedly yelled out “American citizens this way, foreigners line up against the wall!”.

I never once felt safe going there, and was always relieved when I got out alive. Decided a few years ago that I’ll never set foot in the US again.

That seems like a good move.

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Canadians are buying fewer products made in the U.S. in an effort to brace for the impact of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which are set to cause prices to skyrocket across a range of products.

It has nothing to do with bracing for the tariffs. It’s because Fuck The USA.