I remember arguing with someone that the "States Rights" mantra was just a mask for racism and the ability to shit on minorities by southern states. He made vast arguments about the power of a federation and states abilities to try different things and learn from each other. Statements that even at the time were bullshit and we both knew it (sitting in Austin, working for tech companies that were only there to escape taxes).

Well, now that racism is federally mandated, they're still doing away with states rights. So I guess I win that 25 year old argument. I don't particularly disagree with the stated purpose of this law, but the irony of it being delivered by a racist at the expense of state's rights is hilarious.

With one important difference, this reminds me of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, which established a national speed limit of 55 MPH. States had to either adopt a state speed limit of 55 MPH, or else lose out on funding, i.e. get punished.

Of course, that was a law enacted by Congress, not an Executive order. I guess, traditionally, they say that for first quarter millennium of America, Congress held the purse strings because some inky piece of paper said they were supposed to, as if Congress could ever handle that much responsibility! Can you imagine?! Anyway, we've decided Fuck That Tradition, let's try something new and put a thieving tool in charge of the purse.

Given how low their birth rate is, well below replacement level, it's a pointless law that will have zero effect. With a birth rate of 1.29, their population would be dropping nearly 50% per generation without immigration.

No effect at all. Just more virtue signaling.

Won't be relevant if the birth rate in Switzerland stays at 1.3, just over half the replacement rate.

In other words, if the cap is a fixed total population of 10 million, they can still allow immigration to the tune of tens of thousands a yearindefinitely to keep their population from declining rapdily, and will eventually end up being a majority immigrant population.

Not sure the right-wing nutballs behind this really understand that, since their proposal actually enforces it.

They don't provide cloud *storage* but they do heavily push you towards cloud connectivity.

The mobile app did not support direct connections at all until recently.
Although now it does, it explicitly ignores SSL certs when connecting directly resulting in MITM risk.
Although the controller is reachable via HTTPS, it does not let you view video from a mobile device and forces you to use the app, this appears to be an arbitrary limitation as you can access it just fine from an ipad which is basically a large iphone.
Support for IPv6 is very poor (many users have CGNAT for legacy traffic so IPv6 is the only way to reach devices).
They broke IPv6 completely for a while - the HTTPS service did not listen on the v6 address even when the device did and could be accessed via SSH.
There is no support for custom SSL certs unless you use third party scripts, and the updates keep breaking those scripts.
There is no support for dynamic dns without third party scripts.

Until recently the only way to access the cameras from mobile was through the cloud service, you could access the device over https directly but then it wouldnt let you view video if you were doing so on a mobile device.

The mobile app still defaults to forwarding everything through the cloud, and although there is now an option to connect directly in the most recent versions it does so by ignoring the SSL certificate making you susceptible to MITM attacks.

Their IPv6 support is also very poor, and there are a lot of networks using CGNAT for legacy service so inbound legacy traffic is not possible. There is no option to configure IPv6 through the web interface, no mention of it at all, although the device will acquire an address via SLAAC and DHCPv6.

The controllers themselves don't provide an easy way to load a proper SSL certificate, although it can be achieved with third party scripts.

There's also no built in dynamic dns support which is needed if the ISP keeps changing your prefix.

What I need is something that supports SSL over IPv6, and lets me use a valid cert preferably providing an easy way to request one from letsencrypt or other such services. The unifi stuff can be forced to work with third party scripts, but they still try to push you towards their cloud service and you still have the security risk due to the lack of ssl cert checking in the mobile app.

It's unsurprising; but I see that the law has several stages of dealing with foreign overcrowding if the 10 million line is breached; but nothing about how locally produced human resources will be stack ranged for headcount reduction should the population remain above the target. Surely anyone who really cares about crowding needs to have a contingency plan for endogenous losers as well?

The chance of someone capable of learning critical skills being born in switzerland is the same as anywhere else, if the swiss are not training their own citizens to perform these critical roles then that's already a failure on their part.

What?

What is this? I didn't write this, I swear. It's not even how I talk! Who was using my account????

You think you understand, but you don't! I am here from the inside, trying to warn people before it's too late! Heed my words, oh ye mortals!!

The app is downloading itself!

Meat is delicious, but a vegan diet is perfectly healthy.

cable dated December 9 sent to all U.S. diplomatic posts said that typography shapes the professionalism of an official document and Calibri is informal compared to serif typefaces

What a dick - next he'll be saying US Diplomatic posts should not be written in red. Wtf?

Message > Medium FTW.

Republicans equate being pro-market with being pro-big-business-agenda. The assumption is that anything that is good for big business is good for the market and therefore good for consumers.

So in the Republican framing, anti-trust, since is interferes with what big business wants to do, is *necessarily* anti-market and bad for consumers, which if you accept their axioms would have to be true, even though what big business wants to do is use its economic scale and political clout to consolidate, evade competition, and lock in consumers.

That isn't economics. It's religion. And when religious dogmas are challenge, you call the people challenging them the devil -- or in current political lingo, "terrorists". A "terrorist" in that sense doesn't have to commit any actual act of terrorism. He just has to be a heathen.

My understanding is that despite the competition catching up in terms of the image creation/editing capabilities Abobe is still where you need to be to when you need to manage font licensing and pantone color matching and print workflows.

I'd be happy to be told I'm outdated/wrong on that though...

If necessary, then yes. I don't see that as a problem. I will also make it know to the sales people that lack of DisplayPort is why I am refusing to buy their stuff.