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Cineplex made nearly $40M from online fees at heart of competition case
  • I can’t give you more information because I literally don’t know more than that.

    I’m a bitch basic internet user, and I’ve never had a site do this before, and I don’t have 3 hours to teach myself everything on the subject just for one shitty site, or to research and install whatever the current best suite of un-enshittified extensions is. I have Ublock origin running in Firefox already, so for all I know the cookies are already auto-deleting, but I really couldn’t tell you.

    If it was my card instead of someone else’s, I would have cancelled the whole thing and just picked up the tickets in person on the way home or something. Or just not given them my business (so just not seen the movie, because they have a near monopoly out here).

    I’m a mechanic, not a programmer, and at this point probably not a moviegoer again, either, because the fuss of dealing with their crap now isn’t worth seeing movies, just like we’ve basically stopped streaming anything in my household and cancelled most of the subs. Now my money can go to renovations and hobbies instead!

    In fact, the internet in general is getting to be such a pain in the ass, my usage is probably going to drop off to avoid all these headaches.

  • Cineplex made nearly $40M from online fees at heart of competition case
  • Their online ticket buying is atrocious.

    From last night, on a PC using Firefox:

    • crashes log in to account unless you enable all cookies for the site
    • forced 2FA to a phone number (I just hate these, it’s a way for them to steal your phone number)
    • refuses to let you buy tickets unless you re-enable all cookies for the site (and puts a countdown on that page)
    • fees are at the end of the page scroll on the 3rd or 4th page in
    • refuses to let you pay unless you add a whole-ass credit card to your account, while cookies and trackers are enabled, again with a counter

    Never have I had to disable Firefox’s onboard blocking to simply pay for something with a credit card online, I’m highly suspicious of Cineplex’s back end and the second any weird activity happens on that credit card, or email address, I’m going after them.

    They should be legally forced to use an existing well-regarded payment vendor, because whatever is going on now, they’re doing something either very incompetent, or very fishy.

  • Netflix enshittification will continue until morale improves
  • This is the best take I’ve seen yet, with the benefit that it’s literally already been done.

    It’d be interesting to see what would happen if they tried to mandate this now, but I’m sure it’s already too late.

  • Heartfield: We need better ways to care for those with dementia
  • My own family has looked into living wills after the care of my grandfather in decline, some of it at home. That may be something for you to look into to help anyone who would become responsible for you in such a situation.

  • Heartfield: We need better ways to care for those with dementia
  • I would argue that caring for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s is a specialized skill set, and that most people don’t have those skills but become forced into situations that can lead to elder abuse and devastating mental health consequences.

  • Why Americans can't keep money in their pockets — even when they get a raise
  • Not US.

    Never heard of 100% taxing here, what I have seen is raises and promotions ending up in a slightly smaller paycheque. Whether that’s due to other factors such as a higher misaligned bracket of state medical insurance or benefits, union fees, I’m not entirely sure, it was more of a warning to watch your first couple of paycheques after a raise.

  • The best part of driving a shitbox is that I don't have to care too much about it.
  • I just did front brakes on my mk4 Jetta…. in the middle of a west coast snowfall, aka “the world is ending, just like last year!”

    Simpler, cleaner design than industrial equipment, and that stuff is made to be worked on by gorillas like me. Actual work time was less than shoveling it out of 14” of falling snow.

    All hail the manual shitbox!

  • This tweet was from 2022. Can someone go check if the prediction came true?
  • Don’t forget that the autotip screens usually calculate that percentage after tax, which is wrong, and make it a pain in the ass to tip a percentage on pre-tax like it’s supposed to be done, so they’re dishonestly wringing even more cents out of you!

  • Anon likes bikes
  • I would take the acoustic, then I wouldn’t have to supply my own cards to put in the spokes every time!

    Seriously though cargo bike rental sounds like a pipe dream, too bad they roads where I am wouldn’t be able to handle such a thing by design!

  • Anything else?
  • All RPG player archetypes are valid when they fit with the overall play style of the group.

    Whole group is meta gaming together? Positive collective experience. Whole group is hardcore RP? Awesomesauce.

    One jackass is meta gaming in an RP group and pissing them off? Trade off that player ASAP.

  • Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake
  • For reference, the article I’m referring to:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/twitter-policy-change-hampers-drivebc-1.6894793

    “Social media's reliability in emergencies questioned after Twitter limit blocks DriveBC posts” (Jul 12).

    Whether a provincial traffic account posting emergency info counts as news links for these large companies or not, it’s a pretty ugly look for them to have been blocking emergency information, and it doesn’t look any better now 6 months later.

    The whole thing is pretty typical (Canadian) government “not enough, and too late” -style regulation regardless, but these social media sites could think twice about playing the villain so readily in response.

  • Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake
  • This same issue happened during wildfire season in BC, Canada if I recall. A small polite media outrage over it, then forgotten.

    Best case scenario would be an independent, international system developed within and for the emergency services community worldwide. Judging by the way firefighters travel internationally to fight forest fires worldwide, the community could be strong enough to support a solution like that, in my opinion.

  • What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?
  • The snippet “if the batteries have a shorter lifetime than the appliance” worries me. Seems to me that modern engineers are capable of making their crap’s lifespan just barely shorter than the projected batty lifespan, and people might just be stupid enough to still buy it.

    I mean, the disposable vape market is an extreme example, but somewhat relevant I think.

    That being said, if the processor on the LG G5 had kept up with the market better, I don’t see how that couldn’t have been a starting point.

    As for waterproofing, my GoPro stays waterproof but the side door opens to give access to the SD card, battery, etc, so it’s absolutely possible.

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