David Kratz

[David Kratz @minigendo]

Curious. Someone on linkedin I've never met tried to connect proposing a profit sharing arrangement with a third party out of Taiwan.

A scam of some sort, obviously, but not one I've seen before.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

Cheetos: The Flavor of Fear

Okay, imagine you made lightly seasoned churros, smashed them up, and used the resulting substance to make Cheetos puffs and them seasoned them with a dusting of ghost pepper.

They're not... bad. I just would never buy another bag.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

I will never understand the impetus to hold an open house ending 1 hour before your final acceptance time for offers.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

Last night, I finally got it together to make an online order that I'd been putting off...

Woke up this morning to find that I'd never updated my address after my most recent move.

Had to request to cancel everything that hadn't shipped.

Oy.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

@apple Nor can any of the deleted notes be recovered from recently deleted. I am apparently entirely out of luck.
The notes I took from a once in a life time trip to Japan? Gone. Notes I took while volunteering? Gone.
Your software doesn't have to work this way.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

@Apple - Trying to resolve a bug in iOS, on the advice of your webpage I logged out of and then back into iCloud. This appears to have deleted years of notes from my device, without warning. There are apparently no backups within notes on iCloud.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

Three cheers for you, Mr. Curry.

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The AI bot follower accounts are out in force today, I see.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

While I always enjoys @audible_com 's site wide member sales, I was saddened to learn that they've been using... customized pricing. The discount you get in the sale is decided through seemingly unknowable factors.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

Hot Honey Pizza are neither hot, nor do they taste like honey, nor do they taste like pizza.

They are a weirdly dry, dusty chip. They taste like burnt flour on the bottom of a pizza crust... which is a flavor certainly, but not one I'd seek out. Or recommend.

Avoid them.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

3. It's pretty funny to run wrapped on data that only includes 2026. Having 0 chats on record still put me in the top 80% of users? That would seem to imply that only 20% of their users have ever actually used the tool, or perhaps that only 20% used the tool in 2025?

[David Kratz @minigendo]

I tried out Claude Wrapped after seeing a video about it.
I found out a couple of interesting things -
1. Claude stores incognito chats for several days, and metadata about them is never destroyed. Recent incognito conversations can be recovered via data export.

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2. If you don't have any 2025 chats, you can hack the export data to change the dates to a period it will analyze and the tool will work just fine. Just make sure that your resulting zip file mirrors the same structure as the one they give you.

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@Patreon @Patreon - I would have passed this on as feedback to my support ticket, but since you closed the ticket, I apparently can't rate the interaction, despite being invited to do so.
If getting accurate feedback is your goal, you might wish to take a look at that.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

@Patreon - I tried passing this on through support, seemingly without success, so I'll try here. The decision to merge Creator and Member pages is terrible, and does not benefit anyone as far as I can tell. It directly lead me to unpublish my page.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

@Patreon - Your written communications regarding policies are often factually incorrect, and your support, while always polite, is no better. You are making it, as a matter of policy, difficult to continue using your service, and easy to stop.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

A happy fourth, to all who celebrate.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

Perhaps I shall go for a walk.
Hey, Siri; what's the weather.
99 degrees, huh?
Perhaps I shall do anything other than go for a walk.

[David Kratz @minigendo]

@aditishekar It looks like they copied the design from an episode of Rick and Morty
https://t.co/FxVobju6qY

[David Kratz @minigendo]

@PlayStation With the decision to end the production of physical disks, your console offers no advantages over my PC. My PS5 is now a less capable device, locked to a store you have no incentive to run sales on. If you must make this decision, it should be for a notional PS6.