First, my local bank - Chevy Chase Bank - they were gigantic, but operated like a friendly neighborhood bank. Capital One closed tons of branches, got rid of almost all the different types of accounts, got rid of the local customer service, got rid of accounts (with good benefits) for high school and university students, got rid of fee-free overdraft for many accounts which had it (although they seem to have brought this back under certain conditions)

The technology ING had was way better - the way the website was simple and easy to navigate, the way they managed checks - full history with pictures of deposits and withdrawals, algorithmic check numbers that were harder to create fraudulently - was much better, the customer service was much better.

Capital One employs programmers who failed as students in my university computer science courses for not understanding basic fundamentals about programing. Their online banking is hard to navigate and frequently has problems that lock me out of various accounts (and I have/had a ton of personal and business/non-profit accounts with them). They keep adding fees to accounts that didn't used to have fees. Their customer service agents seem to often be not great English speakers and not very friendly (vs. Discover where they are usually friendly and speak intelligibly)

Capital One has destroyed every company they have bought. They slowly get rid of old account types and the customer ends up paying more in fees for worse technology, fewer features, and worse interest rates. I have been burned by Capital One too many times. I called Discover and told them I would close my accounts if the deal went through. The person I spoke to didn't sound too enthusiastic about it either. I know one person closing a few accounts won't make that much of a difference, but maybe we can start a movement.

It certainly does.

In my neighborhood, self owned routers would work, but there was something missing in an upstream route and traffic would appear to get past the ONT, but not passed the CO. I contacted an engineer I know at Verizon and he escalated he issue internally - their solution was to stop announcing the IPv6 routes completely (rather than fix the problem)

I have been asking my residential and business ISPs for IPv6 for years and they just don't care. Verizon started providing IPv6 routing announcements to customers in my neighborhood without actual functioning upstream routes, breaking tons of services unless you went into the router and disabled IPv6 completely...

That is why good formatting tools allow you to add a flag to skip sections of the code. With the ubiquitous use of widescreen displays, I always turn off line length in all code formatting tools I use anyway.

Remind me why this is better than the software I purchase one time and install on my PC? I want the features in my "purchased" programs to not be tied to someone else's system and I want them to keep working for as long as I use the product. Wait, then the corporation can't force me to pay a monthly fee...

There are plenty of systems that use a variety of 127.0.0.0/8 addresses for different loopback purposes. It seems like a particularly hard subnet to reclaim. The rest of those seem like there should be no reason not to reuse.

OAUTH and/or using the correct API

The US produces enough of its own oil to meet its own need. The real reason prices are up is commodities traders trying to get every penny out of buying and selling things they will never even see. We could lower gas prices overnight by splitting the market for US oil from the rest of the world, then the price of Russian oil - and any other geopolitical issue - would not matter.

And I forgot to say, Login.gov is (at least mostly) open-source: https://github.com/18F/identit... On the other hand, it is Ruby...

Login.gov is a decent service and the whole point of it was to stop people from needed so many different login for different government services. I am surprised they didn't go with it to start, but this is definitely a good choice.

If it was a plain old phone, I would really consider getting one, but I don't see why anyone would want it at this price and with Bluetooth and a battery. Would you really use it? Keep it charged? I could see bringing a wired version of it instead of a lineman's handset when I go to some of my customers.

I use the NextCloud desktop client to back up to my NextCloud server. That server stores the data on zfs disks with snapshots enabled for versioning. That entire server is backed up to tape once a week.

Is this legal? Most states' laws require that 501(c)(3) organizations that dissolve distribute their assets to organizations with similar missions. How does the NAACP have the same mission as a "church"?