There's a rule: secrecy in negotiations always benefit the few.

The reason is that if you're a negotiator representing few people (such as say a CEO or a board of directors) then secrecy won't stop you from keeping your bosses informed about what you and your fellow negotiators are doing. You can't sell out your bosses, they'll find out through the other negotiators. You're on a tight leash.

But if you represent a large group of people, such as the rank and file members of a union, or the public at large, then secrecy prevents you from keeping them in the loop. If you're offered a deal which benefits you but screws over the people you represent, secrecy ensures you can safely take it.

Ostensibly, yes, I could. I could even use an ancient Mac Mini with a built-in FireWire port to do that. But at some point, the level of hackiness becomes high enough that you're spending all your time dealing with things not working, and that's almost worse than it not working at all. :-)

Show the damages Universal, Sony Music Entertainment and Capitol Records suffered due to the loss of income from their own digitized product.

[Sound of crickets]

Court finds for the plaintiffs. Defendant to pay $1.

In other words, a search engine*.

*In the times of yore before ads buggered them all up.

M1 Max MacBook Pro. The setup involves a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter chained to a Thunderbolt 2 to FireWire 800 adapter, which in turn is chained to a FireWire 800 to 400 adapter, which is then connected by a cable to the device. It's dongles all the way down.

That all depends on what adapter cords are available. And if USB-D is a superset of -C -Mini-B, -Micro-B, -B and -A, what sort of protocol converters will be available? I suppose that with a shoe-box full of adapters and cables, one can still get -D to work.

Say, wasn't this the sort of thing the EU regs were trying to eliminate?

One reason for quarterly reporting is that it gives greater transparency and insight into how a business actually works. Many businesses are seasonal. Most obviously, virtually all retail has its best quarter at the end of the calendar year. But many other types of businesses have key cycles each year that are tied to, for example, the buying habits of their largest customers. Suppliers matter, too; if farms have a bad quarter due to weather or other factors, for example, you're going to want to watch how that impacts food producers somewhere down the line.

Getting Thunderbolt ports isn't the problem; Apple's Thunderbolt-to-FireWire hardware does that, too. Without FireWire device family support in the kernel, FireWire hardware can't be used, period.

I depend on FireWire audio interfaces, so everything from Tahoe on is dead to me for the foreseeable future.

My problem is that I don't do audio recording often enough to justify spending the thousands of dollars it would cost to buy all new hardware, but I do it often enough that I can't upgrade my operating system and lose the capability. It's that really annoying middle ground that Apple really doesn't support well, though to be fair, I've gotten thirteen years out of it after Apple stopped shipping built-in FireWire ports, so I guess that's not too horrible. :-)

I tried getting off of FireWire a long time ago, precisely because I suspected that this would eventually happen. But to keep costs down, my plan was to buy a MOTU LP32 ADAT-to-AVB bridge so that I could keep using 16 inputs from my existing interfaces and supplement that with a MOTU Stage-B16. The problem is, the LP32 has been on permanent back-order for about two years now, with no sign of things improving.

I'm also a late adopter after lots of bad experiences, so I just downloaded Sequoia so that at least I won't be stuck on Sonoma forever. I'm hoping that by the time they stop shipping security updates for Sequoia, either MOTU will have the LP32 available again, someone will have figured out a way to get IOFireWireFamily to build and run on later OSes, or I will have found some other low-cost solution for a large number of inputs. Not holding my breath, though, on any of the above.

USB-D will never arrive. Since USB-C is now entrenched by EU regulations.

Yup. And I've got my USB (A) to DB9 serial adapter handy.

And you can probably install the blades directly from the blimp.

Release the Epstein Drive files!

Back when my secondary school replaced its network of Acorn Archimedes with Pentiums running Win 95, all of the pupils started with the same password: lightly anonymised, it was xypupil. It didn't take long for some of us to guess that the teachers had all started with password xystaff, and not all of them had changed it... Curiously that didn't work for the headmaster's account. I don't know whether I was the only person to guess that his password was xyhead. One hopes that nowadays school IT staff are a bit more clueful, but seeing the summary talk about guessing teachers' passwords brought back memories of sending winpopup messages from the head's account to try to scare my friends.

No, because experience isn't a protected category. Age is, but only in certain cases mostly dealing with existing employees. Youth isn't protected at all:

https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discr...

"The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older. It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination. It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older."