And for the privacy aspect:

> At Matic, we believe your data should stay within your home.

> Matic's intelligence is localized on the device, and it never sends any of your data to the cloud for processing. That means no user information is ever sold, shared, or even collected in the first place.

https://maticrobots.com/privacy-policy

That's great, but I'm not sure I'll ever feel comfortable putting a camera attached to a mobile robot inside my home.

I’ve been hoping these folks do well.

I'm quite happy with the product, it performs really well for the most part

They are on the way of ending commingling, thankfully.

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/after-years-of-backlash-amazon...

this is great news, but:

>To avoid commingling, sellers have long had the option to apply a unique, seller-specific Amazon barcode — known as an FNSKU (Fulfillment Network Stock Keeping Unit) — to every product. This ensures their inventory is tracked and shipped separately.

... is that really all that was necessary all along? I can see that being a problem for, like, 10 cents worth of stuff, but a lot of the commingling complaints have been around expensive items. It's not zero cost of course, but for your average $30+ thing it doesn't seem very difficult to justify.

Requiring seperate Amazon only sku's (especially if they need it to be printed on the product label) is a giant PITA.

Definitely worth doing, but keeping up with all of Amazon's compliance requirements requires a fairly robust logistics system.

Amazon charges you for the “privilege”

On page 12 there's an ad for the cleanroom, and one of the selling points is that it would allow cigarette smoking!

I'd like to think that some day in the near to mid future microwaving grapes or other spheres will be a way to start a fusion reactor or similar.

Maybe that's what the fuel pellets in The Expanse really are. https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Fuel_pellets

The what drive

Predates that awful guy being so well known. Unfortunate but doesn't seem worth retconning.

Gotta feel bad for all the Epsteins, Savilles, Adolfs and Isises.

Ian Watkins the Steps guy really takes the cake for a name suddenly becoming rather unfortunate one day.

Don’t worry about Adolf, he’s doing pretty well.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/27/adolf-hitlers-namesake-t...

What is this diddy blud doing

This is the fragment from the show on the origin of the Epstein fusion drive, leading to the immediate death of the inventor:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lS_WxQ3zeU

The actor played the werewolf from the Canadian remake of Being Human.

They already did : https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/instagram-finally-gave-us-an-...

I miss the insider information. Some Redditors were not nice and they all left Reddit and their insider information stopped flowing, it's a shame, it was cool to see behind the development veil.

One of my tech clients emailed me about a Roku problem and one of the AI suggestions in Gmail was to tell the customer to try unplugging a Roku for a minute and plugging it back in. I pressed that button, proofread the suggested text, and hit send.

In truth it felt both amazing and made me uneasy, for AI was encroaching on my career of telling people to reboot their errant device.

Not all MVNO are the same in this regard, some sell the same quality of service data tier.

I support a couple of retired people on the side, and they are totally addicted to the lowest quality slop on Facebook/Instagram imaginable.

It's so bad that they'll click on a link to see the latest slop, and ostensibly get one of those webpages that says they have 47 viruses and call the number. I politely told them that they shouldn't click on those links anymore.

To which they said, well, if I shut my phone off when that happens, can I keep on doing it?

It's like that Star Trek the Next Generation episode where they all get addicted to that game. It's creepy and sad.