I imagine that the first question after installing Linux would be "Now how do I sync albums that I bought on the band's Bandcamp page onto my iPhone?" As far as I'm aware:

- iTunes for Windows uses the Apple Mobile Device Service driver to sync over a USB cable, and drivers don't run in Wine.
- libimobiledevice on Linux can write files to an iPhone but not the music database that the included Music app uses.
- Though the VLC app can play music from files, nothing but the included Music app can make playlists containing both purchased music and rented music from the roommate's Apple Music family plan. Not all bands are with a label that's on Apple Music.

I left Windows on her laptop and turned off S Mode.

Many new computers with Windows 11, such as a Lenovo IdeaPad that my roommate received as a birthday gift, come set to "S Mode" and will not run applications from outside the Store. There is a way to disable S Mode permanently on a particular PC. This shows a sequence of alert boxes whose wording may be scary to particularly nontechnical users such as my roommate.

Something I wrote on this in 2001 and posted to gnu.misc.discuss: https://groups.google.com/g/gn...
        "... I definitely do not want to see a future world of only proprietary intellectual property where basically everything I want to do requires agreeing to endless licenses and royalty payments, such as described in [Richard Stallman's essay] "right-to-read". ...
        However, on a practical basis, living in our society as it is right now, any software developer is going to handle lots of packets of information from emails to applications to program modules under a variety of explicit or implied licenses. If a developer is going to do this in a way that makes his or her work most useful to the community (under the terms he or she so chooses), proper attention must be given to the licensing status of all works received and distributed, especially those that form the basis for new derived works to be distributed. Note that even in the case of purely GPL'd works, one still needs to know that a user contributing an extension to a GPL'd work was the original author and/or he or she has permission to distribute the patch (if say an employer owns all the contributor's work).
        My question is: should software tools, protocols, and standards play a role in easing this required "due diligence" license management work (at least as far as copyright alone is concerned)? ...
        For example, consider this situation. I go to the Choral Public domain site and download a MIDI tune picked at random, say "Ecce nunc benedicite" by "Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina" edited by "Claudio
Macchi". Let's say I like it and want to pass it on. ...
        As soon as I have this file on my computer, much of the "meta data" about licensing is lost, since the meta-data is not all kept in the same file but is implicit from having the file on the site. If I pass the file to you, how do you know it is freely redistributeable? Do you tak my word for it? Do you check the site? Am I myself even sure enough what license it is under when I downloaded it that I can give you assurances you can use it? Why should you trust me if I do? Did you get the identical version I downloaded, or did I slip in a change which I might later use to make a claim against you if you use the file in a work of your own? If I (not the author) bundle the midi file with a CPDL license in a zip file, how do you know I had any right to do that? How much time do you need to take to verify the situation? ...
        Note that ultimately, having such meta-data in every file might require operating system support, or at least very smart tools, like a MIDI player that ignores the meta-data when actually playing the file. That in turn might require a more sophisticated repository approach to storing all file data (at a minimum, perhaps "license forks" like the Macintosh has "data forks", although this doesn't address the notion of one license covering multiple files taken as a whole). ..."

In my part of the United States, both Kroger and Dollar Tree impose a surcharge for cash back on a debit transaction. Walmart still does not.

The claim was that trade deficits were the closest thing to an emergency that the President could find as a justification. I explained that the fentanyl use epidemic was the other justification, which some people might have an easier time accepting as an emergency.

As I understand the executive order abolishing de minimis entry, the tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China aren't based on trade deficit as much as on these countries' failure to cooperate in preventing fentanyl and fentanyl precursors from getting smuggled into the USA.

I prepared a five minute "lightning talk" for LibrePlanet 2021 on "Empowering users through Dialogue Mapping using IBIS".

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/L...

The text of the talk in IBIS outline format with some minor changes is available here.
https://pdfernhout.net/librepl...

That talk is a much-shortened version of a longer talk I gave in July 2019 for the Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series where I suggested using AI to help with the Dialogue Mapping process:
https://twitter.com/sumalaika/...

More on Dialogue Mapping with IBIS:
https://cognexus.org/id41.htm
"Dialogue Mapping is a radically inclusive facilitation process that creates a diagram or 'map' that captures and connects participants' comments as a meeting conversation unfolds. It is especially effective with highly complex or "Wicked" problems that are wrought with both social and technical complexity, as well as a sometimes maddening inability to move forward in a meaningful and cost effective way. Dialogue Mapping creates forward progress in situations that have been stuck; it clears the way for robust decisions that last. It is effective because it works with the non-linear way humans really think, communicate, and make decisions. ... As the people in the meeting speak, the facilitator paraphrases and captures what they are saying in a hypertext diagram on the screen. ... The icons represent the basic elements of the Dialogue Mapping grammar (called IBIS): Questions, Ideas, Pros and Cons. ... In Dialogue Mapping, as the conversation unfolds and the map grows, each person can see a summary of the meeting discussion so far. The map serves as a "group memory," virtually eliminating the need for participants to repeat themselves to get their points made."

Dialogue Mapping could potentially help people who take different sides on so-called "settled issues" to help understand the different points of view, assumptions, and priorities involved.

As an example, while not exactly Dialogue Mapping with IBIS, Kialo uses a pro/con format to structure online discussions related to controversial topics. Here are some Kialo maps on abortion:
https://www.kialo.com/search?q...

A specific example there: https://www.kialo.com/should-a...

People may not all agree after participating in such systems, but at least they will get a better understanding of where specifically they agree or disagree with others as they all collaborate to build a visualization of the topic.

There is danger to the user's bank accounts from running an app that was made for the primary purpose of enabling financial scams, social-engineering the user into draining their life savings. The previous featured article states that the initial set of countries where Google plans to put this policy change into effect (Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand) are hotbeds of scamware distributed through unknown sources.

Correct: AHRA's carveout extends only to noncommercial use. However, I still find it useful to distinguish a statutory "carveout" from a (theoretically negotiated) "license", even when there's something in between the two called a "compulsory license".

In case anyone's confused:

The quotation was from the lyrics of the song "I Want Your Sex" from George Michael's 1987 solo debut Faith . That song's lyrics are from the point of view of the male in a heterosexual monogamous couple: "I can't take much more, girl / I'm losing control" (my emphasis). Michael's turn toward specifically gay lyrics would come several years later, starting around 1998.

Again, that depends on the country. Slashdot's home country (the USA) has the Audio Home Recording Act, which creates a carveout for private copying of sound recordings.

Still no remote revocation.

Over time, a smaller fraction of newly released movies and TV series have been made available on DVD. Instead, many are exclusive to a streaming service.

Your spelling implies that you learned English in Britain or another Commonwealth country. I don't know how the law works in Britain, but in Slashdot's home country (the USA), some of the carveouts for individual use in the copyright statute apply to "the owner of a lawfully made copy." (The statute defines "copy" as a physical object in which a work is fixed.) See, for example, Title 17, United States Code, sections 109 (regarding resale of an individual copy) and 117 (regarding copying a computer program into RAM for use).

Google has always been a crawler, not a directory. Its crawl was seeded at times with data from Dmoz Open Directory Project, a directory that Netscape acquired in 1998 and ran as an open database to compete with Yahoo.

One downside of the directory model is that the operator of a newly established website may not know what search engines its prospective audience are using.

A second downside is time cost of navigating the red tape of keeping the site's listing updated everywhere. This has included finding where in each directory's detailed categorization a site belongs and understanding what each directory expects in each field of the submission form so as to avoid a binding rejection that can delay a site's addition for months. It has also included solving CAPTCHAs meant to deter spammers from overloading a search engine with low-quality sites. In fact, the first CAPTCHA I ever saw was on AltaVista's submission circa early 2000, and it surprised me enough to try opening the site in Lynx to grab a screenshot and complain about its inaccessibility on Slashdot. It took until fourth quarter 2003 for inaccessibility of CAPTCHA to be recognized by a notable organization.

A third is monetary cost to submit a listing. At one point, some search engines were start charging a fee to crawl a site. In particular, Overture's GoTo.com pretended to be a search engine but was 100 percent pay-for-click ads. (Imagine if Google had a search engine just for AdWords listings, and that were the default.)

J. R. R. Tolkien indeed suggested that Men hunted Hobbits for sport. See "LOTR: Did Men Hunt Hobbits To Extinction For Sport?" by Alice Rose Dodds, as well as a quotation from Tolkien's The Nature of Middle-earth .