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Comment You still need a domain name (Score 1) 35

I would also consider allowing an option to blindly accept self-signed certificates on private IP ranges to encourage HTTPS for people too lazy to use Let's Encrypt or something like that

Does "too lazy" include no budget for a domain name before the proof of concept is complete? Let's Encrypt doesn't work unless you buy a domain name and keep it renewed. To satisfy a DNS-01 challenge, you need to host the domain's DNS at a provider with an API that an ACME client can use. To satisfy an HTTP-01 challenge, you need to be on an ISP that allows incoming connections on port 80. A lot of home ISPs block inbound port 80 because they use carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) or want to upsell business-class service or both. Nor does HTTP-01 work for wildcard certificates.

Comment Depends on whether you're in customer support (Score 1) 86

Why the need for mouse jigglers and the like? Because as a remote worker you have to be at your laptop the full 8 hours, otherwise you are "slacking off".

In theory, that's an argument for adding a "bathroom break" button to groupware more than for RTO. Managers would get metrics to find employees who misuse the break button in excess of what labor law encourages employers to allow.

Go to the toilet and someone calls? You aren't working. Go to the kitchen for coffee and someone calls? You aren't working.

Ultimately, that depends on the nature of the position. Do you work call center or something else?

You don't answer an email right away? You can guess the answer.

I'm in development, not operations, so my manager tends to be more accepting of my habit of dropping offline for an hour at a time to avoid the 23-minute interruption penalty associated with complex problem-solving.

Comment Re:I connect via LAN (Score 2) 86

Say an employee with attention deficit or sensory processing disorder uses Teams on a separate device as a way to improve productivity on their primary device. Refusal to accommodate these conditions can get an employer in trouble under the ADA and foreign counterparts. If you end up fired for this, ask an equality lawyer about your options.

Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1, Informative) 169

I think the reason a lot of us worry is that China is a very anti democratic force in the world with clearly stated expansionist goals in terms of territory (Taiwan and a huge chunk of the South Pacific that includes other country's territorial waters). I don't think we'd be having anything close to the same concerns if this was about the EU and not China.

Uh, the Trump administration is staffed by a bunch of people with openly anti-democratic views and they have strong opinions on how other countries should run their affairs as evidenced by J.D. Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference. From a non-US, non-Chinese point of view, while China is anti-democratic, it is still better than the US in that China at least leaves you alone as long as you don't step on it's tail while the US will without any provocation try to force you to run your country the way they think you should, or outright annex your country like your orange king has threatened Canada and Greenland. For most of the world China is bad but the USA is actually becoming worse and that took some doing on the part of the US.

Comment Re:Something to improve consumer laws? (Score 1) 53

What in modern society requires signing up for monthly payments to any service? The only thing that even comes close for the average person is renting a property to live in.

Even if electric power, water, sewer, trash pickup, and gas for indoor heating (in areas that get snow) are included in your rent, other services with recurring payments include home and mobile Internet access, renter's insurance, car insurance, and health insurance.

Even the streaming services I have either have month to month options or bill me for the full year at the time of purchase. I don't need to use any of them as I could always choose to rent or purchase to own any of the content on those services.

A lot of shows on streaming services are never released on DVD.

Comment Re:I don't understand why this is so difficult (Score 1) 48

Why not make a simple API to that digital ID that would be a simple yes/no to any app or web page's query (permission permitting) to whether or not the user is over X age?

Your suggestion is defeated by parents' habit of handing a phone to a child as a digital babysitter. It's how we lost comment sections on animated videos on YouTube in December 2019.

Comment Entrenched giants ... (Score 2) 13

They do have a point about new players having trouble competing against abusive 'entrenched giants' but in the particular case of OpenAI I've got to say this is the pot calling the kettle black because OpenAI wants to become an abusive entrenched giant and if the way they have run roughshod over IP and copyrights to get where they are today isn't enough to convince the public of this then the public needs to be beaten over the head with a clue stick.

Comment Re:iTunes doesn't sync under Linux (Score 1) 215

Until 2009, no other device could play iTunes Store purchases, and there weren't a lot of other legal downloadable music stores. This was one factor for the iPod to iPhone progression. Another was that Google required cellular telephony support in all certified Android devices prior to sometime in the 2.3 "Gingerbread" cycle, which made it impossible to make a direct counterpart to the iPod touch.

Comment Re:iTunes doesn't sync under Linux (Score 1) 215

If you're using apple music you can play it directly from the phone itself, you don't need itunes at all.

You can play Apple Music from the Music app on the phone. Unless I missed something, you can't play it from other apps on the phone. And the Music app can't play files written by libimobiledevice, only the music library. You need iTunes to send music to the phone in a form that the Music app can play.

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