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As a normal business traveler I have been in more than one "smoke filling up hallway" situation and found fire exits locked or barricaded to prevent ingress. I think a LOT of this is reasonable.

The "know your area before you step out and don't look like a confused person standing in the middle of the street when you exit the hotel" part is also really good for not being immediately marked as a tourist.

90% of it is anti-root or tracking code

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256803408560538.html is $16.90 from the sipeed store

Haha it's all good, no worries :)

It's just really frustrating that there are entire classes of restaurants I can't eat at while on business trip or similar. They will not even just charge me an additional fee or charge me for 2 people (I've asked, and I know how it works/don't need handholding or explanations so they really just need to drop off the meat twice and change the grill once if it's too burnt), just typically get "no we can't do that, minimum 2 people" in response

One of the most annoying things to me is not being allowed to dine alone, lonely or not. Many korean bbq restaurants explicitly require 2 or more people to permit you to dine in, which is annoying as fuck.

I think this is reasonable, honestly. It's disrespectful of my time to do this on an async medium preventing me from preparing materials, finding source, or whatever else I need before a meeting instead of having to do it there.

As someone that has worked both remote and onsite customer service and tech it's kind of a wild difference. If I didn't flag myself unavailable or "sign off" even to take a short WC break it would start notifying supervisors of "not working", probably even worse these days with eye tracking and webcam monitoring of availability for the "not tech" crowd.

There is a difference if it is your own vs corporate hardware: MDM can enable wifi remotely, then do a location scan against wifi networks nearby (ostensibly this is for theft purposes)

> - The government on the other side is the one you really have to worry about. Locals in Mexico City, all over South America, Bali, Thailand, Vietnam and really all over the world are pissed with these "digital nomads" (read: illegal immigrants) who work on tourist visas and upend the local economy while paying no taxes. It's only a matter of time before they all start cracking down.

Thailand explicitly gives out digital nomad visas for this?

They don't, it's a page that's intended to look like cloudflare for ... unknown reasons?

They do a lot of other very suspicious things to users.

> I bet Verizon and ATT are salivating the ability to lock down the eSIM.

I already have to deal with this bullshit. ATT has a device whitelist that they refuse to deviate from - you cannot just put a SIM into any device you want.

ATT also will not give you a physical eSIM (they deliver their eSIMs on cardboard cards as QR codes printed; I have not been able to remotely provision one, they charge for these, and stores run out frequently)

If the 800x600 is on the right and a window opens in it, you can alt-tab to it or click it on the taskbar, then just hit win+leftarrow until it appears on the correct monitor. Same for win+rightarrow if other way around. Should not need to IKVM

Yeah none of these are ad networks, they are literally gifs uploaded to the site's wp-content folder like a normal blog post.

I received this email to a CCPA "removed" email address.

I think back in the day, that six or seven seconds was likely someone learning, someone playing around with something, but these days people are signing up millions of accounts to try to mine shitcoins six seconds at a time.

For low-traffic niche content that might not be a cache hit in the first place in every region?

I wouldn't bother. Unless you use storage at the CDN - which is probably very not cost effective for you.

To harass you into downloading by hiding the "open in browser" link when you click a zoom url.

Thanks, I hope it was useful! The printing thing is an interesting point, because I hear from older people that everyone used to have to type up and turn in their assignments printed out, and handwritten items were refused.

For a long time now, they don't want typed and printed assignments; in fact some of my instructors in primary school would actually look upon these suspiciously - the default assumption is that if you are printing it out you are trying to bypass the anti-plagiarism system. That's also partially why every assignment is turned in online: your writing is run through one or more anti-plagiarism systems (and saved for later use against yourself and others).

> parking garages, theme parks and malls routinely do this as well.

Yep. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/eff-responds-vigilant-...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/california-shopping-ce...

This is my gen z experience, I hope you find it somewhat insightful:

- Your first computer given to you was probably a Chromebook at school. It is your browser. Every app is a web page. Docs, Sheets are all web pages. If you were rich or privileged you might have gotten a Macbook at school instead. But nearly everything is a web page. You use Google Docs with your friends and for group projects. I can count the people that had desktop versions of Word or Excel on one hand. You upload your videos to YouTube, presentations to Canvas or Google Drive, you don't bring in a flash drive. If you plug in a flash drive it might just show up as "External Storage (128 GB)" and not /sdcard or /media/USB0 or whatever. Even then, you don't really folder it up. You might use it to copy one file or a ton of images from one thing to another, then you format it when you're done. You don't just keep one around to build stuff up on, why bother, it's on The Cloud.

- You grow up with no hierarchical file organization. Imagine mobile. You have a "Pictures" tab I guess, and a "Downloads" tab? What else is there? You don't have album folders with FLAC files or anything; all your music streams, all your content streams, none of the apps that serve that content allow you to download them into the filesystem, if anything they do their best to prevent that. You don't have a filesystem path on iPhone. You have maybe tags and categories on Google Drive and you don't keep anything on it other than Sheets and Docs stuff that is listed by name, sorted by recent usage, and do not physically exist as files on the filesystem. Tap to select by thumbnail and Most Recent do an insane amount of work to hide what a folder is, nearly nothing but F/OSS f-droid apps on Android will expose things like /sdcard/Something or /sdcard0/emulated/Downloads. You get a selector of thumbnails.

- Mobile is first, always. Phones are cheaper than computers. Every kid has a phone, whether it's for legitimate use or for parents to abusively track them and monitor and record everything they do. Internet is always just kind of around you in the air, magically. You've never really had to think about how continents were connected, there never was a time in your life where the internet wasn't just magically all around you apart from during no signal areas. If you go to a location you ask for the wifi login. You don't ask where you plug in your ethernet cable. When you sign up for internet, unless you are specifically an enthusiast, your ISP gives you mesh wifi pods/gateway/whatever as the default. When you travel, hotel, coffeeshop, class, library, you get a wifi login. If you don't have wifi you use your phone or tether your laptop to your phone wifi.

- Rarely have a printer. If you print in class you weren't allowed to resolve paper jams yourself, and pro-tier laser printers almost never jammed even if you were doing 50+ pages at a time. When was the last time I had to print something? Your presentations are on Google Classroom/Google Drive/etc. Your homework is turned in online. Your concert tickets are on your phone with a moving barcode to prevent screenshotting (hope you have mobile service and it isn't too contended). Amazon returns are just dropped off and show them QR code, you don't print a label and they actively discourage you from choosing an option where you have to print a label.

You have to very actively seek out these things and want to learn, you can't passively pick it up like presumably in the past you had to tinker at least a little - tablets and phones are meant to force you to shut up and consume, not know about it. Chromebooks are intentionally locked down as hard as possible. Every app you use is probably a web page or a web page in a CEF wrapper.

Yeah, but it's still kind of a shitty move.

Some companies don't give you a choice ;)

Digitalocean TOS, not changable and required on signup: 2.3 You grant us permission to include your name, logos, and trademarks in our promotional and marketing materials and communications.

I think phrase you are looking for is "merchant of record"

In this case, this wasn't recycled - his is actually decades old

This is a mailing list. Subscribe and point it to something that can ingest messages, similar to how you would pipe support@ to a helpdesk and auto-create tickets.

I think this might be related if it was a port. My numbers from Twilio and other services are all either Bandwidth or Onvoy or Peerless and refused (all of these are basically pure VOIP and have no reputation of landline or mobile).

I'd be happy to pay but my god at least give me a rest api to curl by hand and not discord of all things.

Yes. I had to close my eBay account last year. They would not take my Google Fi or non-voip.ms VOIP number. Using my VOIP number also immediately got my Twitter account banned before making a single post.

It's annoying as hell because I would very much like to sell a thing or two and don't have many platform choices.

> The process to close the account may take up to 30 days from this notice. eBay will send a message to the email address registered on file, confirming that the account has been closed and, unless on hold, restricted, or suspended, that data associated with the account has been deleted.

I am curious if it is because they care slightly less if it's a CA VOIP number, if it came from a decent pool of numbers, or something else. Or if they will lock you out later and force you to contact the "risk assessment" team and use this as a datapoint.

eBay and etc all ban these. It's not a "supported" issue.