I have a wildcard cert from LetsEncrypt and it renews itself automatically and gets distributed to all the machines that need it, also automatically.

I also have a system monitoring my certificates that warns me if they're about to expire in less than 21 days (which should never happen unless the automation has been broken.)

For my OpenVPN certificates, I set up my own CA and created certs that expire in 2044. Since my OpenVPN infrastructure is completely private, that's perfectly acceptable. And I can quickly revoke the certs if need be.

If I, a simple homelab user, can set this up, then surely IT professionals can do the same? I like short cert lifetimes because they pretty much force you to automate cert renewal rather than doing it by hand. A procedure that you do by hand only once every few years is something that's practically guaranteed to screw up.

It's not a nothing-burger. Once the college covered the cameras, the action by Flock to uncover them was vandalism.

The first time Flock removed the bags covering the cameras, the college should have covered them with cloth bags along with a warning sign that tampering with the bags would be considered vandalism (and theft, if the bags were stolen) and that anyone doing so would be prosecuted.

ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has a great series called "Black Swans" and the first episode is all about the overpopulation predictions that never panned out. Well worth a watch.

Can you watch them anonymously, though, the way you could with broadcast TV? Or do you need an Amazon account?

Oh noes.... I never watched the Emmy Awards on TV, and now I can't watch it because I don't have an Amazon account. Whatever shall I do???

Students getting upset a comedians is a tempest in a teacup. I perform comedy pretty regularly and have never felt constrained in what material I can use.

The real issue is censorship by the state. When governments and university administrators impose academic censorship, that's a much larger problem and is a relatively new problem. PEN America reports that More than half of U.S. college and university students now study in a state with at least one law or policy restricting what can be taught or how campuses can operate..

This level of state intrusion into academic freedom is far more damaging that a bunch of students getting angry at comedians.

It's a message from Amazon: "Yeah, we are too big to be stopped and we just do occasional enshittification to remind you who's boss. So tough luck, suckers!!!!"

Trump is ignoring an order from the Supreme Court, not some lower court.

Flock being misused or abused; a botched execution in Tennessee; Trump continuing to block CNN despite a court order... you might almost think there's something wrong with the American legal system.

I would not. But then again, I'm old-school and retired, so I get to develop the way I want, not the way some corporate bean-counter wants.

Yep. The announcement had the smell of "vibe-coded" and the GitHub repo confirms it.

No thanks.

The Kobo remote has a wrist strap you can use, so you won't lose it.

And it takes a standard AAA battery, so you can have one on standby if it's really important. I use rechargeable AAA batteries to keep the cost down.

I have a Kobo Clara too and I love it, despite the lack of physical buttons. However, I finally caved and bought the remote and I'm surprised by how much it improves the experience. I stand the Kobo up and can read while I eat breakfast or supper and not worry about getting food on the e-reader.

I want nothing to do with Amazon, so a Kindle for me is out of the question.

So the answer is: If you want to sell a product that contains fresh peeled bananas, don't expose them to oxygen. Fill the packaging with nitrogen, as is done for potato chips to slow down the oil from going rancid.