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Comment You still need a domain name (Score 1) 33

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 Re: If you want the answer, don't ask people (Score 3, Informative) 176

"You wholeheartedly disagree" with the facts. If your theory was right, that it was that we suddenly decided to culturally devalue motherhood (never mind the question of why we would suddenly do that, I guess it's some sort of conspiracy), then why is it a global phenomenon, as OP points out? Why did Koreans, Finns and Chileans suddenly decide to devalue motherhood and stop letting little girls play with dolls at the same time?

Comment Re: If you want the answer, don't ask people (Score 1) 176

"Represent our culture" eh? What is our culture then, in your opinion? I don't see many people with this attitude join Morris dancing groups, to put it like that. Or string quartets. If you do any culture at all it's usually some bizarre caricature version of the past with viking metal music etc.
And that's the best case. Worst case, it seems like you think "our Western culture" is about breeding and dominating, and complaining that you can't recruit enough women to your breeding and dominating project. In that case, why would you care if only some very distant cousins of you do the breeding and dominating after you're gone? Your culture will go on.

Unless the complaining is an essential part of it?

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: What's to stop everyone (Score 1) 109

Capitalism is fine with government picking winners and losers, as long as capital picks the government.

Taking and equity stake is a bit more than picking winners and losers though. That's getting dangerously close to "seizing the means of production". Right now they're getting compensated, sure, but what do you think Trump is going to do when HIS quantum company underdelivers?

Comment Re: Donald Trump has absolutely no idea what... (Score 1) 109

Demanding equity instead of giving out subsidies is one of the more sensible things he's done, actually. Probably because he imagines himself as king forever. Otherwise he'd just done as politicians before him, buy shares privately before pumping government money into it (though I wouldn't be at all surprised if he does that too, certainly his doge goons do).

Wouldn't it be ironic, Trump being the one bringing the means of production under state control.

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