This could get opinionated. I do want to praise increased video quality, added ways for creators to get paid, community posts, thumbnail preview and popularity graph when seeking through a track, chapters, live chatting, caption translation.

Shorts are mixed. Also, the tragedy of the commons where people are encouraged to make obnoxious thumbnails and titles. Video reply removal, usually the replies weren't good. Unlisted videos all went private automatically on some date. Sorting by oldest when viewing a channel's videos was briefly removed but brought back.

Bad changes include

the entire copystrike system, which is more stringent than what the DMCA requires,

community translation removal, where people could submit subtitles,

removing dislikes which gave a great red/green bar to indicate a video's quality just below the thumbnail,

removing video recommendations when logged out or if history is off,

scaring creators with being labeled aimed for kids (pewdiepie stopped calling his fanbase "9 year-old army" for this),

the monetization/demonetization system drastically changed how people make videos. e.g., cutting edge engineering recently had to stop swearing so much in their outtakes section, saying "fuck me" when he made a mistake, as YT considers that sexual. nobody dares say the word "suicide" out loud, people use code words to speak. history channels are virtually impossible to monetize without cutting out mention of terrorism.

the search system by default now shows weird results, I can't quite explain it,

searching for newsworthy topics will result in you only seeing channels from approved news sources and not regular users (related, ChinesePod had a daily language learning channel using the news, YT said they couldn't categorize as news... not sure if they were forced off but they moved to vimeo),

gun youtubers worried about showing full-auto firing or how to reload a magazine... I'm still unclear on what they're forbidden to show,

and the multitude of videos and channels removed for a whole variety of reasons. Just one I'm thinking of is Russel Bentley's channel. "Texas" was his nickname, an American fighting in Petrovski for Russia, showing videos of him talking in a radio station or firing a DShK mounted in an abandoned elementary school. His channel was deleted soon after Russia's most recent invasion of Ukraine. Russia Today/RT's live news was booted too, though that may have been due to US sanctions.

And age-gating now. it's hard to know which songs will be age-gated, maybe if they use the word "fuck" too much, it's very inconsistent. Now, you have to not only log in to see a video labeled this way, your account must be age-verified. If your account is old YT doesn't ask this, but they do for my ~5 year old account. I haven't done it. Asks for ID or face scan or to be able to log in to your email account.

There are arguments about how companies will use collected data in undesirable ways.

But I wish that the stress of living in a panopticon would be argument enough.

Apple did not invent the -book suffix for model names of notebook computers.

Thanks - I didn’t know that.

Looks like it was Notebook in 1982 and Dynabook after that.

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

I see Google's AI and top results all give this answer, but "MIGA" most certainly does not refer to India in this or most contexts, but to Israel. It is a criticism of Trump's pro-Israel actions, and presumably Google recognizes its anti-semitic usage and so will not suggest that as an answer unprompted.

I'm pointing this out specifically because I'm surprised to see that Google and also DuckDuckGo both suppress the true definition if you don't already know it.

A more modern mind-boggler is the geostationary satellite. You always tilt your head up, it always appears motionless. From either one of your perspectives, you both appear to be still.

Boston's reaction to the mooninite signs, especially in comparison to how all the other cities reacted to them, was ridiculous, and rightfully ridiculed.

The alarm clock wasn't an arduino project, the student took an alarm clock apart and put the insides into case, specifically so that it would look like a bomb, then brought it to school, and rather than receive detention and that be the end of it, the news went wild with it as a discrimination case.

These were cases of overreaction in the moment.

Maybe that's the real lesson here; these rules for the inaugural block party are not to secure the block from electronic interference, but as part of a system to manage the reactions of panicky, irrational people.

>There's no legitimate purpose in bringing any of those to a high-profile political event.

I've carried a flipper zero with me to use as a copy of my key when I misplaced my original.

My modern apartment uses RFID keys to get in the front door. I use my flipper as a backup for when I misplace my keys

Oof. Sorry it's so insecure.

Anyways, I'm sure you can understand why a political event, where many of them do rely on RFID access badges for certain personnel to enter certain areas, would not want someone with a device that can clone badges.

If you go to a political event like that... just take your actual key. Not a device that spoofs your actual key. What you're proposing is essentially saying you have a legitimate reason for carrying around a lockpicking set, because you use it to enter your apartment when you forget your keys. It's pretty understandable there are high-security places that won't let you in.

Did your landlord buy their locks on sale from Aliexpress? Major lock manufacturers switched to encrypted credentials 20 years ago.

"There is no legitimate purpose in misplacing one's original keys."

Counter-anecdote, I did the same, got Burt's Bees with novamin when they still sold it (discontinued), then switched back to Crest. I prefer the Crest. No cavities either way, but tooth sensitivity and clean feeling differences. A tooth chip I wondered might remineralize, i.e. grow back or fill in or something, had no change.

My guess is the SLS detergent, present in Crest and not in Burt's, is the more significant factor.

I always had sensitive teeth (and brush exclusively with sensodyn for many years) so I guess this is less of a factor for me.

I buy Canadian? Sensodyne that has novamin in it.

I think this type of concept is worth exploring. Side channel feedback to the operator of a machine is getting less noticeable. Hard drives don't whirr and click like they used to. Cars don't have transmissions that shift.

When you pick up a physical object with your hands, you don't assume the heavier the object, the more important it is. Same with file size.

But if you pick up your carton of eggs every morning you'll know if you have enough left to make an omelette.

If you make a backups it would be nice feedback to feel it weigh about what you expected. When making room on a disk you could juggle a few folders to feel if they'll fit or not.

There was some advanced facility (nuclear reactor? particle accelerator?) that laid microphones near the machinery and put various speakers in the ceiling of the control room; helped precisely detect and pinpoint problems immediately.

That said I'll prefer just seeing the size of the file or folder in bytes as a number.

I'm personally more interested in feeling other system metrics, like network traffic or memory bandwidth.

Hearing the HDD back in the day was important to understand whether the computer was working; It seemed like a loss when we moved to SSD, but SSDs are so fast that sound isn’t a necessary sensor anymore.

I've always thought it would be neat if the accelerator pedal on cars had some sort of force feedback that was proportional to the amount of power the engine is putting out. That way the driver would be able to feel how hard they're demanding the car to work, and hopefully they would adjust their driving habits to go slower on steep hills, not hard accelerate out of traffic lights, etc.

Yeah! I liked seeing the "miles per gallon" meter that some cars have for that purpose. IIRC driving habits account for at least 10% of fuel efficiency losses, and by my napkin math, you could drop carbon emissions in the US by 5% if you 1. put such a meter in every car and 2. drivers heeded and learned from it.

While modifying pedals is risky, maybe you could take an OBD-II data stream and turn instantaneous power output into sound, or vibration... or lower your music volume the harder you push it...

I understand. My motivation was to play with the pressure input with "heaviness". Fundamentally , pressure is a continuous input that becomes harder to perform progressively. We can apply this characteristic ins some other relationship too.