TheNewsIsHere

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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
Last week I got a survey following a pre-sales support ticket I raised with StarTech. I respond to those when I’m satisfied. I was, so I clicked the link. The first question was multiple choice. The second was a free text response field ask
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
I preferentially select for this software model. What applications to you make and where might I find them? I eagerly and quickly pay for major version upgrades to the independent software I buy. I’d like that model to stick around.
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
The iPhone has never had such a feature _exactly_. However on iPhones that have the Emergency SOS feature biometry is disabled until you enter your passphrase/code when that feature is invoked. Biometry is also disabled until re-authen
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
To get actual answers (at least during sane political administrations), the System of Records Notice (“SORN”) is what you want. Whereas the info sites for these programs are typically useless, SORNs are the authoritative document that the f
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
Something being illegal is not a blank check for unchecked surveillance.
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
I am endlessly frustrated about that. A good friend of mine who also works on tech is utterly disconnected from current events. Whenever I offer a discussion or say “hey did you hear about X?” his response is always skepticism that such a t
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
> More surveillance will mean more opportunities for parallel construction, so they will be able to "justify" more murders. — Sent from my Palantir employee device (Satire, if not obvious.)
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
A client of mine pushed her business expenses through a Chase account. She banked with them too. She traveled to the “wrong” country. A country that is not and was not embargoed or sanctioned. A country that the US is/was on good terms
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
That’s the Amazon Store Card, which (at least used to) only works on Amazon.com. The Prime credit card is issued by Chase. I closed mine and stopped patronizing Amazon.com around the time Bezos started meddling with the Washington Post, so
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
An iPhone is required. You can pay for things with Apple Pay, but there’s no Wallet interface on iPadOS. Given that I have an Apple Card, this is a chief annoyance. GS/Apple extended an insane credit limit to my household but we’ve nev
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
I used to host my own email, but eventually moved to Fastmail. I have to communicate with a number of professionals that work for companies using fairly aggressive third party archiving and filtering solutions (for example, Proofpoint). Kee
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
We’ve had AI for decades, just not the kind of low-value, high-priced slop generators that are synonymous with AI today. I assume Google just wants to rebrand Bayesian analysis as “AI” so it can claim it’s been doing that for decades.
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
I don’t have any complains with contact management on iOS with Fastmail. Apple’s CardDAV and CalDAV implementations are way better than they used to be. What issues are you seeing?
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
Would love to hear dang explain why this is flagged. I can wait.
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by TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
This is more nuanced than “controlled by the administration or not”. Universities that have accreditation (typically regional accreditation for nonprofit and private research universities) have to meet certain standards for certain curricul
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
I have noticed that in addition to this perspective there are scores of developers who espouse the idea that “we just create, what people do with our work isn’t our business.” I understand the utilitarian qualities of the argument, but I su
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
I have administered a number of Mattermost environments going back to 2019. It absolutely is not a mistake. They’ve been slowly introducing limits to the Team Edition and screwing with the licensing in obtuse ways to drive revenue. It is so
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
I also don’t understand this. US-East-2 staying up isn’t my responsibility. If I need my own failover, I’m going to select a different region anyway. And it’s not like US-East-2 isn’t already huge and growing. It’s effectively becoming an
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
A bit late on my reply here, sorry. There are minor clumsy points here and there in the UI, but nothing major and nothing that’s a stumbling block. It’s hard to paint a perfect comparison without using the same features but all the basics a
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
You’ve put your finger right on the issue. A lot of people in tech today think politics is something “other” to tech. It’s the same kind of “we just make the thing, how it’s used, by whom, for what, and why is someone else’s problem” that p
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
> I only say that because I've noticed that it's most often people who have the "right" social characteristics that get the most aggressive responses. The people criticizing her wouldn't expect a white male to do
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
Many people do inaccurately equate IaC with “cloud native” or cloud “only”. It can certainly fit into a particular cloud platform’s offerings. But it’s by no means exclusive to the cloud. My entire stack can be picked up and redeployed anyw
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
Just wait until you end up spending $100,000 for an awful implantation from a partner who pretends to understand your business need but delivers something that doesn’t work. But perhaps I’m bitter from prior Salesforce experiences.
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
Having worked in security on a fairly high profile, highly visible, largely used product — one of the fundamental decisions that paid off very well was intentionally including mechanisms to prevent issues with other businesses (like Google)
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
I have (almost completely) moved my business from GitHub to Forgejo as well. I’m deploying an instance at home as well. It’s shocking how bloated and slow GitHub is even for basic actions when you compare it to Forgejo running just your own
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
“We had to re-state our financials and amend our taxes because the AI screwed up and we didn’t have anyone who understood accounting look at our books.”
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
Taking a corporate accounting course was required for my degree. It was also a fantastic investment because I’ve managed to avoid needing to hire an accountant or bookkeeper to setup or maintain my books. I’ve migrated between multiple acco
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
They absolutely are. And you can turn them off. My comment is more about the technology industry’s general insistence on shoving AI down your throat whether or not it’s useful, usable, or desired. I’m hopeful that whatever combination of fa
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
A small nitpick: the translation and data detectors pre-date Apple Intelligence. I do indeed love these features. They have definitely had some regressions in the data detectors over the past few years. I assume that they only test these au
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by TheNewsIsHere 10mo ago
At least as of a few years ago, it was indeed still true. Walmart is huge in online shopping as well. They use this position to essentially tell vendors what they can charge if they want the shelf space. If you don’t say “ok”, and they can

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