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In addition to what others have said, Microsoft accounts back up your full disk encryption keys to the cloud.

Microsoft ships Bitlocker with every OS and given the TPM requirements one can speculate that it will be turned on by default on every Windows 11 computer.

I've seen an increase of tech support posts where people boot up their computer after an update or motherboard change and they're asked for Bitlocker decryption keys and they don't know what those are. Their data is lost forever. Their computers are bricked.

The experience of working in IT and modding online tech communities has taught me that computer literacy is very poor even among those who use computers every day. They're just appliances to most people. And this is OK. The problem is that the people who can't figure out what a right click does will never figure out how to back up their full disk encryption keys or even what they are.

Forcing a Microsoft account on Home SKUs eliminates this problem.

People are employed, just not formally, and they're paid in cash.

https://theconversation.com/informal-economies-are-diverse-s...

It's the same situation in many developing countries.

For the uninitiated.

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

The theory that allied countries purchased the F-35 because they were bullied by the USA into doing so doesn't fit the fact that allied countries refuse to purchase American airplanes all the time.

France makes its own combat airplanes, some of which like the Mirage 2000 and the Rafale are in operation.

Sweden chose to make the Gripen, the UK, Germany, Spain, and Italy chose to make the Eurofighter Typhoon, and Japan, well that's a weaker argument because their native fighter is based on an American jet fighter.

Your F-35 criticisms are a meme that we repeated so much that we convinced ourselves that they were true.

The F-35 is not one airplane. It's three. The fact that these airplanes share technology and components is a good thing.

The claim that the F-35 is bad because it's a multi-role aircraft is unfounded. Multi role combat aircraft are the standard. Here's a partial list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multirole_combat_aircraft#Acti...

The claim that the F-35 is inferior to single role aircraft like the F-22 is also unfounded. None of us knows the specifics about the two airplanes but we do know that the F-35 has superior weapon systems, durability, communications, and spatial awareness.

There are planned upgrades to make the F-22 compatible with the max off boresight capability of the AIM-9X, with its future LOAL capabilities, and there are plans to coat it with more durable radar reflective "paint". The F-35 has all of those today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor#Up...

But the most important proof that the F-35 is a good airplane is that there are so many customers lining up to buy it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

The praise that I heard was about the quality of the transparency mode and the integration with Apple's ecosystem. On the reviews that I saw the reviewers were very careful not to claim unmatched audio quality.

This is a great article that echoes many gripes that I have as a Latin American. The fact that it wasn't able to find an audience on this website is sadly fitting. Thanks for sharing.

And now for a mini rant: hey tourists, authenticity doesn't mean exoticism. Those are two different things. Be honest about what you want.

Thank you. I've been ranting about the "let's use a big rocket to provide visual impact but then forget about it when it's inconvenient to the plot" thing since the movie came out. Interstellar is the type of movie that gets worse the more you think about it.

Because Sabine is easier to type and pronounce than Hossenfelder.

I don't think it supports AAD, just AD. You got me way too exited for a minute.

You can also launch the Windows file explorer the same way. "explorer.exe ."

Independence by subterfuge has a very high chance of succeeding in Puerto Rico.

The status quo party was taken over by independence politicians (soberanistas) and they're restructuring the party as a Compact of Free Association party.

The Compact of Free Association is an agreement that the US made with former US territories that gained their independence like Palau and the Marshall Islands.

Several US based politicians strongly support that change so they're also pushing for it.

But why is it subterfuge?

The official name of Puerto Rico is Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico in Spanish and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in English. The English name is not a translation of the Spanish name. A correct translation would be Free Associated State of Puerto Rico. Coincidentally the independent countries under the Compact of Free Association are called Free Associated States. The soberanistas are calling the new status definition Libre Asociación. Their goal is to convince people that Libre Asociación is not a form of independence but an enhanced Estado Libre Asociado. The independence political party has stated that they would also support this new status definition.

If the soberanistas succeed in getting the Estado Libre Asociado voters to vote for Libre Asociación in a binding referendum they'll make Puerto Rico an independent country.

Sort of but not quite.

Sending CC info through email violates the PCI DSS. The PCI is a private organization so noncompliance is not a violation of the law.

There is no unified law across the US that deals with data privacy. Several states are starting to address this problem but there's nothing like what the EU offers.

I know of a reasonably large travel agency that asks their customers to send a photo of their passport, driver's license, and credit card to a random employee's personal email account. I warned my brother against sending them his information and he saw me as the problem.

I have a client that stores similar information in an external HDD in a shared office that a lot of people have access to. I convinced him to let me install BitLocker at a minimum and to allow me to have his computer lock automatically. He had another guy remove full disk encryption because it was a hassle when he moved the HDD around and remove the auto lock because he wanted his secretary to access the computer when he was away from keyboard.

I know an accountant who calls me paranoid when I talk to him about securing the devices that he uses to store tax information about all his clients.

We need regulations and fines because the only way in which people are going to listen about security is if it hurts their pockets.

I saw a toddler trying to swipe an advertising screen at a mall.

Months later the video screen had been replaced with an interactive touch screen.

Your map of the article is partially wrong because the article, at least part of it, is wrong.

In order to make the "boring" parts of Taíno genetic research interesting to your casual reader some magazines sell this false romanticized narrative about Puerto Ricans using DNA to learn the Taíno history that was denied to them.

But in reality every Puerto Rican gets taught in school that they are a mix of Taíno, Spaniard, and African. It's a gross oversimplification but that's how Puerto Rican identity is built by the school system. And this isn't something new. I learned this story in school in the 80s. My parents learned it in the 40s. Our colloquial demonyms Boricua, Borinqueño, and Borincano are derived from Taíno words.

What we are told that went extinct is the direct cultural lineage of the Taíno, and this is true. Taíno women were taken as "wives" by the conquerors, and this was confirmed by DNA research, and their children were raised in Spanish culture and traditions. Virtually all that we know about Taíno culture comes from Spanish historians, Taíno remains, and a few artifacts. Throughout most of our history we were raised without Taíno elders or teachers.

What these articles reveal are specifics about genetic composition, distribution, migration paths, etc. And all of that is wonderful. I just wish that these magazines published those discoveries without lying about how Puerto Ricans are ignorant of their past and genetic composition to make the articles more appealing. It's appalling.

This is nonsense and a bit childish but if you want to compare, here are some things that Microsoft had before Apple:

1. A journaling filesystem

2. Protected memory

3. Preemptive multitasking

4. Access control

5. Intel chips

6. Tablet computers

Is heart disease transmitted from person to person?

That's a solid good point. But that still doesn't explain how you end up with t-shirts and shorts at the goodwill.

They become "yard work" clothes when they're too bad to give away, with holes and stains like I mentioned above.

And I used "yard work" as code for "any kind of work that would ruin nice clothes" but I think that you can visualize non wealthy people who live in semi rural or rural areas.

Also, if I didn't have the space to store old clothes, which can be a $5 plastic box in a closet, they would go in the garbage bin, not to the goodwill, because like I said before I stop wearing my clothes when they've become too worn to give away.

It might be a cultural thing or lack a wealth thing but I've never fully understood the concept of second hand clothes. I mean, who gives away used clothes that are still in good conditions?

And I'm not passing judgement. I just don't get it.

I wear my nicer clothes to go out.

When they're no longer nice I wear them around the house.

When they get holes or stains in them I wear them to do yard work.

After that they either become rags or they go into the garbage.

At no point have I ever said "I no longer want to wear this, I'll sell it for a buck and buy something new".

And the ARM chips are?

Yeah, remember when the PC world adopted the Intel chips after Apple gave them social proof? Or journaling file systems, or preemptive multitasking, or protected memory, or true multi user support. Apple always leads the way, right?

Distinguished Engineer.

Only one cable, ALBA-1, is accesible to Cuba. The other cables connect Guantanamo Bay to PR and Florida.

What is Bill Gates selling?

Does my name trigger a similar response in you?

That's really it.

I live in Puerto Rico which is one of those places where Amazon kind of sucks. Items used to take over a week to get here and I was OK with that because I understand geographic limitations. Now they often take a month, which I'm willing to accept because of current circumstances. But what puts me off is that they flat out refuse to sell me many items. I have a Prime subscription but my last phone didn't come from Amazon. It came from Walmart online. Even eBay serves my region better.

About Walmart, I have a Walmart owned supermarket within walking distance of my house, a Supercenter about 9 miles away, and there's a Sam's club right next to it. My groceries and my medicines come from a store owned by Walmart and they're everywhere. If I didn't have the time or the energy to buy my parents their groceries I would get them delivered to them from Walmart.

Now, I don't expect to use their service (if it becomes available here) because most of my online shopping consists of items that I can't find locally, but for people in areas like mine who can't visit or who don't like to visit physical stores this service would be great.

You're not exaggerating.

There's definitely some suggestive underage content in there. Some of it looks like random photos gathered from the web but there's also some pedo / ephebo shit that was purposely made.

Joke's on you. I'm behind CGNAT.

Joke's on me. I'm behind CGNAT.