Exactly, assuming that the boss is in the office. The boss will obviously be working remotely, and won't be able to check anyway as they're not by their computer

All the meetings are in Teams, and since that's all the bosses do, they assume that that's what everyone else does as well.
We have regular meetings, project-startup meetings, pre-meeting meetings, post-meeting meetings. Meetings to see if we need to have a meeting.

In the end it gets so bad that we have to hire more people to go to the meetings so that people can actually get any work done (and the middle-management is introduced :P) .

If recent history has taught us anything about security in modern tech startups, and combined with this part:

It will probably not take long for a bad actor to hack the system and turn it on the inhabitants using it.

Yeah. The only way to get rid of scalpers (same as scammers, spammers and the like): Don't buy from them.
The only reason scalpers exists to begin with is that people just want to be first and they don't care how they get there.

They jack up the prices on the thing you want?
Wait until it it's back available from official stores, or buy second hand from someone who actually bought it in error (which would mean less than original price, not more).

Or it can be solved by involving the government, like some places did during Covid, where it was a criminal offense to sell certain products above list-price. Selling the toilet paper for 3x the price? Well, off to jail with you.

I've had a different experience though. Maybe about 80% of their recommendations are things that I'm actually interested in. Coincidentally, it's also the same 80% of the recommendations that I have already watched (on Netflix).

Turning down the volume is an additional $10.

Be careful what you wish for.... :P https://slashdot.org/story/06/...

Come on. Clippy is a legend, it's obvious the command would be named from it. :D

You want to talk about never learning from their mistakes, take it up with all the "Hi, what can I help you with?"-bots that keeps popping up on more and more websites.
I do wonder what the thought behind those were.
"Hey, remember the clippy thingie in Word? Let's take the most irritating feature from it and implement it on our website" ;)

Not only that, but a lot of people, at least around here use one sim for phone, and another for data because they have better plans or something like that.
There are plenty of use-cases where a dual sim is useful (I have even had need for more than that myself, quad-sim phones are _hard_ to find).

That sounds more like it's the app itself though, so it's a simple solution. Don't use it.

Always assume that third-party messaging and phone apps can (and probably do) use the data in order to make money.
You suspect someone reading your sms or listening to your calls? They most certainly could.

Sometimes I miss the good old days where the only ones you had to trust were the government/carriers, but now any app you install could theoretically access the calls/sms, and in particular voice/messaging apps since you actually give them access to it.

Maybe you're on to something.

Perhaps it's nothing devious at all, only a test-run of space-based solar power that went wrong.

What lock-in?
A quick look in the Apple Photo app:
> Select all photos, select Export Original (or Share on iPhone) and do whatever you want with the photos.

iCloud is a nice feature for automatically syncing between Mac and iPhone, or offload from the iPhone storage, but it's neither required nor necessary. And it is easy to export/share from the photo app.

Apple may be guilty of a lot of lock-ins, but not in this case.

You're definitely not atypical.

tbh. I don't understand why there is an option to load remote content at all. If you want to make a nice html mail there is no problem attaching images.
In my opinion, the only reason the remote content support even exist is to track the receipient, even if it's only a simple did-read notification, ok, granted, some Mail-apps seem to use a regular webviewer for the email, which automatically allow all remote content and other attack vectors normally not supported in a mail with no option to turn them off.

How I miss the days when people actually sent proper text emails and follow RFC 1855,
and while I'm in complaining mode, what's up with the mail-clients that try to turn emails into messaging? ok, I guess that's one way to solve "Hey, let's quote all previous replies from the beginning of time in the mail" but still.

Not that unlikely. For us that're old enough to remember the good ol' days can probably recollect that both Facebook Messenger and Google Talk used XMPP. Facebook doesn't use it anymore though (guess they didnt' really like the idea that anyone could use any client outside of their control), not sure about Google Talk, if it still exists at all.

It is a nice protocol and cloning an already existing client lessens the development time so less moral companies might use that as a shortcut to release their own closed client.

I think it depends on which side you're on. As a health care professional and probably most people, a high false positive is preferable because of what you say. Then we have the unscrupulous business owners and others that just want people to get back to work and their normal lives no matter how many gets sick and dies ;)

I don't know how those tests work, but I can imagine that a false negative is easier to get than a false positive. I assume that the tests work by testing the presence of something in the blood (be it anti-bodies, t-cells, the actual virus or whatever) and if the blood contains a very low amount of those it can have problem detecting it, thus giving a false negative. A false positive however would need to detect the presence of the substance but fail to quantify it to know if it's still there or just leftovers.

This might also be the reason for Musks results. If the particles tested in his blood is at the limit of what the test can detect it could produce this kind of result.
And that could be a design flaw in the test, if I recall correctly it only gives you a positive or a negative, while what it really should do is return a number that the medical examiner could interpret.

There has been at least one article here on Slashdot with people who did just that in real life. I don't remember if the article mentioned what happened with that person (the article doesn't seem to work at the moment), but I were to guess the outcome would be just like you said