Quote

“I don’t give a shit how complex or expensive it is to develop these technologies. I’m not disputing that it’s complex and expensive but I, as the buyer, don’t give a shit about that. I’m buying the thing with the features that are installed and I want to use them because they are there. … Was a time where you went to a store, you bought a product, now it’s yours. You don’t have to worry about the features being there, that’s what you bought the thing for. … That’s not how the world works anymore. You get kicked in the nuts and then you are told ‘you can contact us to purchase the feature’. To which the answer is: go fuck yourself. … You’re no longer a customer, you’re a corporate user and you essentially have zero rights anymore. It’s complex and expensive: gather the elders in your community and ask them to provide their thoughts on how best to remove your head from your asshole. Nobody gives a fuck about your sob story.” - Anonymous

RIP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hae-won

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Van_Chieu

Things

1013 Dead Now - and maybe it’s airborne?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/coronavirus-expert-warns-infection-could-reach-60-of-worlds-population

https://nextshark.com/chen-qiushi-journalist-missing-coronavirus/

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/06/asia/li-wenliang-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-dies-intl/index.html

Seriously Deep Beats

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxexwz/something-in-deep-space-is-sending-signals-to-earth-in-steady-16-day-cycles

Stacks

Tesla & “owning” stuff

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617?rev=1580941196331

https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/30/sonos-smart-device-die/

http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/302389-the-us-military-needs-right-to-repair-legislation-to-fix-its-own-broken-equipment

And the lesson is … NEVER UPDATE ANYTHING.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-fined-france-over-iphone-slowing-software-093837914.html

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/05/catalans-chairman-super-league-meeting-israel-folau

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa

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