the universe has a curvature very close to zero, so it is indeed flat.

Bit of a devil's advocate here, but do they really need filesystems? Hierarchical organization is great for some things and lousy for others. Just like the URL bar in browsers is now a search bar, locating files is more and more often done based on metadata or even content indexing. With the prevalence of shared document editing a la Google Drive or OneDrive, you mostly can only access documents shared with you via searching. I'm sure there are plenty of regular computer users who have never interacted with a local file (knowingly). Filesystems may become as arcane as the command line to most people.

NB: I hope that everyone does in fact learn more about the devices they're using and we don't all become illiterate consumers. But, school time is a finite resource. I'd rather kids learn probability and statistics, critical thinking, personal finance and a dozen other topics (including how to be safe online) before wasting a second on filesystems.

It is. The fact that our dominant desktop operating systems are still using security models from last century is probably the #2 disaster of modern tech security, coming in just behind so much software with potential security implications still being written in languages like C and C++ at #1. And the understandable yet still deeply regrettable reason for both disasters is the same: momentum.

I normally connect to all online conference calls via their web UIs. At least then it takes both a screw-up in the communications system and a screw-up in a browser security sandbox that is independently developed to allow something like an RCE or data leakage vulnerability to be exploited.

People have called me crazy for not wanting to install native apps from the likes of Microsoft, Google and Zoom in the modern era of remote working, but every now and then, there's another story like this one that reminds me why I am extremely careful about what native software I install on anything these days.

And how exactly will you query the certificate authority before you're on the wifi?

What, specifically, do you mean by "personal Windows installations"?

Are you suggesting that any business of any size should only ever use Enterprise editions of Windows?

As long as we keep fighting over each individual opportunity for surveillance instead of public surveillance itself,

Germany, similar to a lot of countries, seems to have general privacy laws that deal with photographing and publishing identifiable people.

In fact, that's in the first sentence of the summary.

It's been pretty much continuous, on both counts. They're often linked too.

For example, written ten years prior to the pandemic:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.o...

or about the period after the 1918 pandemic:

https://www.cascadepbs.org/mos...

They just get louder after big events.

I know reading TFA would be silly, but literally half of TFS addresses your "point".

You act as though the current medical system doesn't already make those decisions. Insurance coverage is limited. You will never receive an organ transplant if you are tool old, in too poor of health or have pretty much ever used drugs.

Hmm. Since he is also a devout Christian, one must then assume that he *can* see god, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They're way ahead of you. By more than a century.

It's not government control though, it's people forcing the judicial branch (DSA) to help individual user to have some control over their online life against IT companies. Some IT companies have budgets larger than some small European nations. European users have rights when companies do their advertisement business in Europe. This is giving individuals more options, not less. What's the alternative? Give up and let foreign companies do whatever they want with no recourse?

There are a bunch of them. People were chasing after Mac minis, which are almost cubes, just a little squashed.

I had no idea that the good people of Littleton, Massachusetts had trademarked the name of their town.
I look forward to their lawsuit against those imposters over in Colorado.