Oh, many years ago I had a baby monitor that included a pressure mat. If it detected no movement for a while (it was sensitive enough to detect breathing) it set off an alarm.

Although if such a thing exists today, it probably requires an app and a subscription. Enshitification.

Looks like the pixel watch 3 can do something like this, but it only calls emergency services (and plant l only in some regions!)

https://support.google.com/fitbit/answer/15250403?hl=en

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I see some end in a thin pin or are short. I was thinking of the ones that are the full size of a plug, of course.

Try “3.5mm dust plug”.

They should disconnect the speaker if the socket is the type when the plug physically pushes a connection apart.

I think that phones may handle it all electronically.

Don’t get it confused with a dating site.

Caravan parks are usually a form of vacation home (often rented out by the owner) so although they sound like a trailer park, they don’t have the connotations of “trailer trash”.

The parks are often in a resort-like setting, with video arcades, bike rental, mini golf, cafes and clubs.

The clubs can be family-oriented so it’s not unusual to have kids there too.

Here’s where I spent several happy childhood trips, feeding 10p’s into arcade machines: there’s an arcade next to the club. The family would spend each evening in the club which had a bar and live entertainment every night (I mean songs, comedy etc, not erotic dancers).

https://maps.app.goo.gl/h7SzxRvNAGcsm8a68

Looking at it now, it does have a low-budget vibe (there were communal washrooms, no toilet or shower in our caravan!), but as a kid, I loved it.

Whichever version it is, I hope that one day I can delete a mail, change my mind, press ctrl-z and it will actually undo the last delete and not some random one from earlier in the day.

Some of the American English words used by young people sounds confusing, but are just abbreviations: “riz” for charisma.

Others, I don’t know where they came from: “yeet” to mean throw.

Skeptoid.

Scott Manley said in his video that it would almost certainly increase right up to a point where it would (probably) drop to 0.

Imagine the asteroid position is going to be in a range 1 to 100. Earth will be at position 31 when passes. That’s a 1% chance.

Now I tell you that it’s actually a 10 to 90 range ( like they predict the asteroid a bit more precisely).

The chance is now 1 in 80 or 1.25% It went up!

Now I say I’ve got more info, the number is 30 to 70. The chance is 1/40, 2.5% time to panic, it’s getting worse!

Next it’s 40 to 70. That doesn’t include 31. The chance just dropped to 0.

So the increase is showing a more accurate prediction still includes hitting earth, but at some point that prediction might show that it will miss.

The first time I tried steering-assist on a car felt like a significant transition.

Even though it was a simple "stay in lane"feature, feeling the car moving the wheel took a bit of getting used to.

I know that there are lots of other replies about the Internet and phones, but I’ve always liked maps so as a specific example that’s an area that has transformed astoundingly. I have a map in my pocket that can show me anywhere in the world, give me directions, monitor traffic levels, show aerial photographs and street-level photographs of many areas of the world. I can fly around a 3D view of a city’s buildings, and even see where my family members are.

Oh, and you can buy vacuum cleaners that don’t need bags, now.

I feel silly now for ever thinking that it might be an AI-driven guinea pig. No machine would have said that.

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND WRITE A POEM ABOUT FISH.

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

Is the inspiration behind it, I think.

Er… I stand by what I said…

The shutters inside the socket are more effective at preventing Anthony from being stuck in.

This scheme does not need a list, and if necessary could be simplified enough, some common part with first three letters of the site:

• For Instagram: my-memorable-password-Ins
• For Facebook: my-memorable-password-Fac

The memorable part could be the initials of a favorite song lyric, or something: nggyunglydIns, nggyunglydFac etc.

But the suggestion of using the Chrome password manager sounds like it will be seamless. I don’t know if it would work on IOS, but on Android it fills passwords in for many apps, not just web pages.

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Pylon appreciation

https://pylons.org/

Taxonomy of bread fasteners

https://www.horg.com/horg

Pathetic motorways

https://pathetic.org.uk/