You know what I’d love to see?

People going to Tesla dealerships and just wasting the time of sales staff.

Especially if you have poor credit and have no way to pay for a car. Make them spend resources running your credit. Have your credit locked for good measure. Tell them that you unlocked it. Come back every weekend, confused as to why it’s not working.

Make it impossible for them to get a sale out of you, but jerk them around to make them think they might.

In other words: scambait them. Because they are scammers.

It’s kind of like that guy that cheated in chess.

A toy vibrates with each correct statement you write.

I looked into uBlock rules. The problem is that you need to click “No” before continuing. Ublock can block the ad, sure, but they can’t perform user actions.

Scriptlets may be useful but I think an addon with a library of bypasses (sort of like sponsor block) might be better.

I already am. At this point, if I’m buying something on Amazon, it’s because I cannot find a comparable product elsewhere.

I’m even paying more at other retailers. I haven’t run the numbers but before I cancelled prime 4 years ago how, I easily spent thousands. Last year, I think I spent a few hundred.

This year, my goal is less than 100.

Amazon fucking sucks for me now. Every fucking purchase (which is getting rare and rarer) I get asked to join prime.

There is no “don’t ask me again”. Every fucking time I have to select “Not now”.

I’ve come close to writing a plugin to help you skip these ads.

Waterfox works great on Android.

The fact that excel lacks any sort of auditing or access controls. The fact that any corruption in the file could lead to the company not knowing what money goes where and who’s been paid and who owes them money.

It’s possible to encrypt traffic without a cert that expires.

I don’t know much about how Chromecast works but my bet is that it’s like a hacked together lighthttp or nginx server, which is why it needs a SSL cert renewal.

I had this one user who kept using an old report. It used a terribly provisioned db account and had to be changed.

We created a v2 that was at feature parity to v1 and told users to move off of v1. Slowly but surely it happened.

Except one user.

We put up nag screens. Delays on data return, everything we could go “carrot” them to the new version but they stuck with it.

Eventually I called the guy and just asked him, “Why are you still using the old version?”

His answer, “no one ever told me about the new version.”

I asked him if he got our email. He said no. I forwarded it to him.

“Oh.”

I asked him didn’t you read the nag screens? He said no.

I asked him, “The page doesn’t allow you to move on until you wait 90 seconds. Why didn’t you read it?”

“I didn’t think it was important.”

I learned an important lesson that day: never wait for all users to move. Once you have enough, start doing scream tests.