if most bikes look the same, yeah, a lot (dunno if the case in JP)

Read it again, it says right there in square metres.

Isn’t it strange to mesure this in surface rather than volume?

The authorities are saying they don't want to see any trash at all, regardless of volume. Imagine 100 sheets of paper vs 100 AA batteries. The batteries have much more volume, but the sheets of paper cover a much larger area so there's much more visible trash.

Not much difference between a 12" and a 18" lag bolt for the purpose of "how much trash is visible and impacts terrain".

Surface feels a bit fairer in that sense. Or at least, easier to measure.

Now instead of so many repeats, we get panels of 5 talking heads "analyzing" 15 seconds of news for 15 minutes.

At least the fun part with these situations is that the prices of old crap goes up and I can sell that old crap I have for actual $.

I remember selling some ancient GPUs that I was going to throw away during one of the previous booms.

Indeed. Now...where did I put that pile of PC3 memory...

I learned (long ago) it’s trivial to fool my satellite receiver’s modem’s dial tone verification for remote pay per view ordering (it doesn’t phone home right away but gets angry if it’s not connected to a phone line).

Turns one a single frequency that’s remotely close to one of the two tones of a dial tone will convince it. Wasn’t sine wave either but not a problem! 555 powered by a 9V battery.

Revenue peaked in 2014. Pretty much flat for the past 15 years.

Markets are built on eBay and then leave.

Kinda weird for an online shopping site to… miss the absolutely massive growth in platforms that let 3rd parties sell their stuff online.

Others grew out of their niche, best eBay can do is acquire a handful of their new competitors to keep up.

EBay does do search well. Exact phrase matches, negation, ORs

A search for this works exactly as you expect:

(Lamborghini Urus, Audi RS Q8, and Volkswagen Touareg) “stereo wiring harness” -untested

It’s gotten a bit more fuzzy if you do something wrong. I used to have an alert for a mis-spelled brand name to snipe stuff :)

eBay isn’t doing much better. Revenue Peaked in 2014. Basically treading water. Last real growth was late 2000s.

I’ve def bought some CD keys off Etsy. They’ll list anything.

Etsy used to have strict limitations on what was allowed to be sold. I'm not sure how effective it was, but since that restriction has been removed, you're right, they'll list anything. Etsy has become a graveyard for dropshipped garbage, and the odd CD key, apparently! CD keys I can get behind.

FedEx used to send anyone big boxes of free bubble mailers