When I look at my watch I want to see the time, not wasted space announcing "Casio Step Tracker" or "Water Resist" ( which isn't even proper English).

I moved to Timex a few years ago as their basic digital watches have nice big numerals for the time display.

Very true, a friend patented a design, that he had developed over a decade, and tried to license it to established players in the astronomy field. They looked at his pitch and just implemented it anyway. Without buckets of money there's little a solo inventor can do.

In the UK weeding is at the discretion of the Branch Librarian. Books I checked out 15 years ago have now vanished from the system.

In the UK organisations such as GCHQ ( Brit NSA ) use brain teasers as a recruitment and filtering tool.

They are installing the gates with configurable locks that the site owners use. They are absolutely to blame.

And yet Google's funding remains 85% of Mozilla's income, so that 'convincing' doesn't seem to be worth paying for.

But most of it, the overwhelming majority, comprises standalone installations at best networked into a corporate HQ but most commonly just recorded on site.

It's not like in police drama programmes where they can switch from the camera in the Tube station to the one in the newsagent outside for seamless real-time tracking.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2026-07-08-21:06&icao...

"Astronomy? You don't really believe in all that nonsense do you? Jane, this guy believes those horoscopes in the paper!"

Sigh

If you can't state the truth, then don't answer.

The vast majority of advertising isn't for any specific individual. I've no interest in perfumes, fashion, electric cars or jewellery that feature on boards nearby and I've no idea who the celebrity endorsers are, but why should I care?

But many modern people have a compulsion that they need to be involved in everything, all the time, and anything they don't understand is either mocked or protested. It's a form of entitled self-importance, but what's the cause?

Look how long it takes Chinese brands to transition from being clones to establishing their own corporate image.

Read that phrase back and then ask "is this the future of computing that we wanted?"

The likes of passkeys, essentially user-hostile ssh keys that live on your device but aren't accessible by you, would have been an unbelievable dystopia to us in the 90s.

"Linux folks need to implement the full stack"

Nah it's fine thanks, I'd rather opt out of corporate serfdom than compromise my principles.

Sure, if it's obvious it's happening, like GPS being completely knocked-out.

If it's a GPS spoofing nudge by a few dozen metres per minute, then it's not so obvious. Enough to make a OWA drone miss its target, while also not being easily noticed by pilots.