Haven't used it for anything but testing SMTP dialogs in years. At a previous employer we moved everyone from connecting to internal hosts from telnet to ssh at least twenty years ago. Kind of boggles the mind that there's hosts on the open Internet that still use the protocol.

Ah, yes. Windows Outlook had something like this more than a decade ago. I haven't worked in a Windows shop since around 2010 and you didn't have to manually look up individual participant's calendars to schedule meetings. (Though, IIRC, some managers chose to restrict access to their calendars.)

Congratulations, Google, on reinventing the wheel.

you can't win an emotional argument with logical discussion

you're misunderstanding

Here's a real world example: Apple forced Patreon to give Apple 30% of the money that supporters wanted to give to artists, under threat of having their app removed entirely from Apple devices. https://news.patreon.com/artic...

Why is Apple entitled to anything here? Patreon doesn't want to use Apple's services but they have no choice.

If I sell any kind of product that is used on or supported by a mobile device, I really have no choice but to support Apple users. I can't be a bank or a retailer or a streaming provider or all kinds of things unless I support Apple users. Look at how many people swear they will never buy a GM automobile because they don't support Apple Carplay. So this isn't limited to developers, its Apple wedging themselves in between my customers and my business, whatever that business might be.
It's a new kind of problem that doesn't easily work in analogies or parallels to older scenarios. I'm glad that the EU and now the US to some degree are coming up with new solutions for it.

"Casting support is still available on ... TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix’s support page"

How many TVs do support Google Cast natively? I feel like all of ours do, but that's not a great sample size.

It may be a trite saying, but it's as true in education as it is in a gym. If you don't exercise your brain, it's not going to improve.

There's a reason weightlifters don't use a forklift or crane to pick up the barbells and do a dozen reps. The problem is not that the weights are in need of lifting. And that's the same problem with homework. The teacher doesn't need a stack of 5 page reports; what they need is for their students to practice using their brains.

Unfortunately the education system is designed to evaluate output instead of process. It's easier to grade a paper or a test, not evaluate a demonstration of knowledge. It's always been ripe for cheating, but now the cheat tools are everywhere and made legitimate by techbros demanding AI productivity. So either teaching will change, or we'll head straight for idiocracy and nobody will be left with the skills to wonder why it all went to hell.

``European blue-chip firms sell products that are improved versions of what they sold in the 20th century -- turbines, shampoos, vaccines, jetliners. American star firms peddle AI chatbots, cloud computers, reusable rockets. Nvidia is worth more than the European Union's 20 biggest listed firms combined. Microsoft, Google, and Meta each fired over 10,000 staff in recent years despite thriving businesses.''

Perversely, Wall Street rewards those companies that lay off employees by the thousands. Not so much those stable companies that make more improved products but may only have modest growth and increasing profitability. That used to be rewarded. (IMHO, a company that has to resort to laying off a thousand here and a thousand there are being mismanaged.)

yes it makes me question the entire article

MAC addresses don't leave the local network when using TCP/IP. I don't understand this part of the article.

AI *is* replacing people. If you haven't seen this, you aren't paying attention or don't have insight into whats happening in businesses. Most people only work at one company so it's understandable. I consult for over 200 businesses per year and AI is absolutely replacing people right now.

``a supernova explosion so bright it'll be visible from Earth even in the daytime''

Which hemisphere? Northern or Southern?

in what legal way would a phone call be any different than an MFA challenge as far as impacting whether a phone could be subpoenaed? both involve another side with exhaustive logging. neither provide your employer with any access to your device. if you use your phone to place a call, you've exposed it just as much as using it to do MFA imho

it doesn't support "phish resistant" MFA with push notifications

we allow users to use their personal devices for MFA as a convenience, and we provide physical Yubikeys to users that prefer not to use their personal device for MFA. we do not provide phones or require anyone to use their own for anything. the vast majority of users opt to use their own device rather than carry the yubikey