Where?
I started early AF today so I'm done by like 2pm... thinking about a NTM hot lap if you're interested in riding with (but not too close to) me.
Ignoring all that other shit, because that is horseshit, but there must be some truth to this.
So... yes. You're totally right, the amount of data that we are willingly giving to the world is out of control. And what Big Data™ can (and does) do with it is downright fucking terrifying.Ignoring all that other shit, because that is horseshit, but there must be some truth to this.
The amount of data being gathered and analyzed by the big ones must be mind boggling. Whether its skimming your personal mail, monitoring search data, watching/tracking where you go......I'm all for technology but that shit is scary. And now a lot of the population have freakin' microphones in their homes which allow them to listen in on everything.
Its a machine and we're the mice powering it.
How / why did you find that guy for the interview? Is he a good sample of your customers?Fell asleep on the couch last night early, woke up with my financée at Fye Vay Ehm. She has a nursing shift today, and I had an optional meeting at 5:30am. We're doing interviews with dealers as part of an initiative to understand our users better so we can build a better portal for our dealer customers, and the first one is an East Coast person. That's what I do... I design software. Anycrap, here's a little story about that...
Yesterday we interviewed a dealer I can only describe as Florida Man: he's older, cranky, doesn't know much about computers or tech, disheveled hair, drinking a warm glass of milk and leaning back on his 70's pattern divan and falling asleep, that sort of thing. Part of these user interviews is finding out what sites the dealer uses to order parts and equipment (we're an HVAC company) and then walk us through how they look for things via a screenshare. So Florida Man is showing us a recent search he did on a competitor's website, and that the search he did gave him 100s of non-relevant products. While he's (rightfully) complaining about this, the interviewer asked him why he thought the website wasn't narrowing down the results, even though he used a pretty specific set of keywords. And I swear to @FSM homeboy up and says "I dunno. Maybe it's one of those Democrat websites where it tells you what it thinks you should want instead of just giving you what you actually want."
Wait. What?
Later in the interview he got dangerously close to uttering some racial slurs about Hispanic people. And as the interview was wrapping up, the interviewer was making small talk and Florida Man asks her where she's located. She tells him she's in Atlanta, GA and he says "Well your state better get their act together and elect those Republican senators up there, or the whole country is gonna fall apart!" I'm paraphrasing here, his language might have been a touch more colorful even.
Thanks, Florida Man.
Great question, and one that we were asking yesterday. So... the sales team vetted all the interviewees for this round of user research. There was apparently a questionnaire and all sorts of stuff developed with our UX research person they used to find qualified folks. As for your second question... yes. Yes, he is. Minus the blatant tin-foil hatting and racism, the aging tech-challenged demographic is very much our customer. These are plumbers and HVAC installers, those kinda of people. Lots of folks that have been in the biz for 40 years, and it was passed on to them from their dad. It's shifting to a younger tech-savvy base as family businesses are handed down to sons and daughters, sometimes even a third generation. We had a kid in his early 20s yesterday who was HYPED UP... he's getting in to the family business started by his dad, and he's ALL IN on the tech. He's got a map tracking app that shows him where all his field service techs are in real time, with parts store locations pinned as well, so he can coordinate "parts runners" bring parts to his service guys at the jobsite so they don't have to waste time running to the store themselves. He's set up automated processes for a lot of their ordering and business operations. It was night and day from some of the other folks.How / why did you find that guy for the interview? Is he a good sample of your customers?
florida man has dementia and is stuck in the cold warFell asleep on the couch last night early, woke up with my financée at Fye Vay Ehm. She has a nursing shift today, and I had an optional meeting at 5:30am. We're doing interviews with dealers as part of an initiative to understand our users better so we can build a better portal for our dealer customers, and the first one is an East Coast person. That's what I do... I design software. Anycrap, here's a little story about that...
Yesterday we interviewed a dealer I can only describe as Florida Man: he's older, cranky, doesn't know much about computers or tech, disheveled hair, drinking a warm glass of milk and leaning back on his 70's pattern divan and falling asleep, that sort of thing. Part of these user interviews is finding out what sites the dealer uses to order parts and equipment (we're an HVAC company) and then walk us through how they look for things via a screenshare. So Florida Man is showing us a recent search he did on a competitor's website, and that the search he did gave him 100s of non-relevant products. While he's (rightfully) complaining about this, the interviewer asked him why he thought the website wasn't narrowing down the results, even though he used a pretty specific set of keywords. And I swear to @FSM homeboy up and says "I dunno. Maybe it's one of those Democrat websites where it tells you what it thinks you should want instead of just giving you what you actually want."
Wait. What?
Later in the interview he got dangerously close to uttering some racial slurs about Hispanic people. And as the interview was wrapping up, the interviewer was making small talk and Florida Man asks her where she's located. She tells him she's in Atlanta, GA and he says "Well your state better get their act together and elect those Republican senators up there, or the whole country is gonna fall apart!" I'm paraphrasing here, his language might have been a touch more colorful even.
Thanks, Florida Man.
But he must pwn those Libs! Her emails! Benghazi!
It sounds like you should contract with InfoWars and OAN to sell advertising space on the websites of your customer base.Fell asleep on the couch last night early, woke up with my financée at Fye Vay Ehm. She has a nursing shift today, and I had an optional meeting at 5:30am. We're doing interviews with dealers as part of an initiative to understand our users better so we can build a better portal for our dealer customers, and the first one is an East Coast person. That's what I do... I design software. Anycrap, here's a little story about that...
Yesterday we interviewed a dealer I can only describe as Florida Man: he's older, cranky, doesn't know much about computers or tech, disheveled hair, drinking a warm glass of milk and leaning back on his 70's pattern divan and falling asleep, that sort of thing. Part of these user interviews is finding out what sites the dealer uses to order parts and equipment (we're an HVAC company) and then walk us through how they look for things via a screenshare. So Florida Man is showing us a recent search he did on a competitor's website, and that the search he did gave him 100s of non-relevant products. While he's (rightfully) complaining about this, the interviewer asked him why he thought the website wasn't narrowing down the results, even though he used a pretty specific set of keywords. And I swear to @FSM homeboy up and says "I dunno. Maybe it's one of those Democrat websites where it tells you what it thinks you should want instead of just giving you what you actually want."
Wait. What?
Later in the interview he got dangerously close to uttering some racial slurs about Hispanic people. And as the interview was wrapping up, the interviewer was making small talk and Florida Man asks her where she's located. She tells him she's in Atlanta, GA and he says "Well your state better get their act together and elect those Republican senators up there, or the whole country is gonna fall apart!" I'm paraphrasing here, his language might have been a touch more colorful even.
Thanks, Florida Man.
They know so much, yet precious little sometimes. Instagram suggested I follow Christiano Rinaldo, when I do not believe I have ever expressed even a modicum of interest in soccer since Instagram was founded.Ignoring all that other shit, because that is horseshit, but there must be some truth to this.
The amount of data being gathered and analyzed by the big ones must be mind boggling. Whether its skimming your personal mail, monitoring search data, watching/tracking where you go......I'm all for technology but that shit is scary. And now a lot of the population have freakin' microphones in their homes which allow them to listen in on everything.
Its a machine and we're the mice powering it.
They WANT you to follow him!
www.pandasecurity.com
I won't install any of these apps on my phone, and in general won't navigate to them in a browser. The thing I'd like to divorce myself from is Google.They WANT you to follow him!
There have been people out there that think and have tried to prove that Instagram actually listens from the phone. Whether there is anything to that, who knows. But Instagram is owned by Facebook, so their wealth of knowledge of everything is more than you and I can fathom. It might not be you that hasn't mentioned soccer or anything related to the guy, but perhaps someone in your circle of people has.
Is Instagram Listening To Your Conversations? - Panda Security
People have long suspected that social media apps are listening in to their conversations – but the Instagram CEO denies these rumours.
I checked Instagram's permissions on my phone and it has access to Camera, Location, Microphone, Storage (denied access to contacts and telephone). So one could say that it could listen, collect data on where you go (soccer stadium maybe) etc etc. I'm going to put my tinhat on now and remove access to the mic on my phone, as I don't ever take a video with the app.
Or it could just be that you have followers or follow people who follow that guy or somewhere down the line and they just toss the name into your feed.
I haven't had a haircut since mid-February.
Tons of shit to do today that I probably should not have blown off yesterday to go for a ride. Haircut, dryer needs a new something that I must determine and replace as it is squealing again, chicken fence, regular fence, kid has eye doctor, blah, blah, blah.
I should probably do something about that.
My hair hasn't been this long since college. I'm normally pretty blasé about such things, but even I have to admit, it's getting pretty bad.I haven't had a haircut since mid-February.
@Nick over there looking like Cruella de Vil.I haven't had a haircut since mid-February.
As long as you still have a sense of time...I haven't had a haircut since mid-February.
I don't have any social media aps on my phone or my laptop. They don't need access to my stuff and I am not lazy enough to need a Siri or google assistant listening in to my phone or home
Do you have an android phone? Who do you use for email?
Don't give in to the machine! Resist! Cut your job and grow your hair! Only users lose drugs!I haven't had a haircut since mid-February.
Lemme guess... you can quit anytime you want?
EarthLink web mail, browser based not the AP.
I have had 2 since my barber reopened. I have been tipping her $20 on top of the $20 I give her for the cut (it's $13 for a cut). I know she has been struggling after being closed 3 months.I haven't had a haircut since mid-February.
Try a Motorola Z4
