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States oughta not give out that data.

OT: Why does CERN need a TLD? I'm not complaining, it just seems like an odd (and expensive) thing to have.

Company lied to consumer that this wouldn't happen. Then it happened. And you're blaming the consumer?

It stores encrypted messages server side until all of your devices have downloaded it or some time period has passed (not sure how long, based on my limited observations, maybe around a month?).

About having to click on images to download them: it should automatically download pictures unless you don't have the sender in your contacts. Auto downloading on cellualr networks might be disabled by default though.

Yes and those are great when the people managing the Jenkins server are willing to install those plugins and get everyone to rewrite their stuff to use that. They did that eventually install that at $WORK, but they have a bunch of configuration for it for various libraries, which they make backwards-incompatible changes to without warning.

Fortunately, we're mostly moving to GitLab CI which doesn't have most of this bullshit.

> Unlike some other CI tools, pipelines in Vespene are easily and graphically configured, and there is no custom DSL (“Domain Specific Language”) to learn and debug.

Does this mean that the CI config cannot be checked into some sort of version control? That was one of my biggest issues with Jenkins. Someone would change something somewhere and suddenly my builds would fail, and even if I track down what setting is causing the problem, I have no idea why it was changed, who changed it, what will happen if I put it back, or even what it's previous value is.

Additionally, it made duplicating a given workflow an extremely tedious, manual process.

This seemed like something that parts 1 and 2 of would be much more interesting, but the links to them both 404 :(

Not if you use DNS-over-HTTPS, as is required to turn this on in Firefox

This sounds great. Does anyone know if any web servers are planning on implementing it?

This UI is beautiful. I hope GitLab looks into implementing something similar. Their CI is already so powerful, it would be great to be able to have a UI to build pipelines.

Looks like https://github.com/features/actions is the GitHub page about this

Absolutely not. Biometrics, unlike most other methods of authentication, cannot possibly be changed. This makes it impossible to change it in the event of a compromise. Also, most biometric identifiers are pretty easy to collect from someone in person without their knowledge. We leave DNA and fingerprints on everything we touch.

Oh, yes, sorry, I didn't mean to be "stealthy"

Derp, i was confusing it with nest. Thanks for pointing that out (doesn't really change the sentiment at all)

The Ring devices are frequently pointed at the outside of people's houses. Its effectively giving Amazon a bunch of surveillance cameras all over the street from people's doors.

I'm more concerned about things like drones filming police activity being shot out of the sky, because they were "threatening".

The bloomberg article links an inc.com [0] article outlining some incidents of people interfering with flight crew. None of these seem like the sort of thing where the perpetrator stops and weights the potential punishment vs how much they want to interfere with the crew. They mostly seem to be people acting irrationally for one reason or another. One person was drunk, one person decided to respond to a request to put her tray table away by calling the flight attendant the n word.

[0]: https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/the-drunk-passenger-diver...

> hopefully it won't get abused.

Yeah, it will absolutely be abused. Everything is a "threat".

>allows the Justice Department, Homeland Security, and other federal law enforcement agencies to hack or shoot down privately owned drones if they deem them a threat

they just kinda slipped that one in there... the rest seem pretty benign. Maybe this one:

>increases the penalties for interfering with cabin crew or flight crew

is there any reason to believe that the current penalties aren't working and that increasing them will fix it?

>with the authority and means to shut down domains for exactly this

How do you get that authority to do that? What does "shut down" entail? Does that mean you can unregister or hijack domains? I'd like to know more about this, as well as the accountability process and where I can report abusive behavior that will actually get addressed.

If ISPs become no longer considered common carriers, what will that mean to user-generated content on the internet? Would that apply to just residential ISPs? What about transit providers?

Why did they post this? Is there any larger context to this list? Is this a routine thing? Do other companies post this? I've never seen something like this published, although I haven't really gone looking...

did you try to port it without marking it as portable in Google Voice? I would be interested to see if that flag actually matters.

Well, I suppose now. Their last majorly problematic behavior (that I'm aware of) was the extortion racket against Android vendors with their FAT patent, which is presumably no longer going to occur.

I'm still unconvinced, I think we'll need to see years of really good behavior for me to possibly believe they've changed. There have been decades of bad faith attacks on free/libre technology, I think I'm going to need to see at least 5 years of no fucking around from them before I consider this more than the embrace part of embrace, extend, extinguish. Up till now my biggest complaint has been the extortion racket they've been running with these patents, so this is certainly a move in the right direction, but that company is evil to the core and I don't believe for a second they're really trying to change for any reason other than marketing/public perception.

Those people will also be viewed as a black mark on American history

It's not Apple's job to enforce the GDPR on apps in it's app store

Gee, that almost sounds like a good thing.

what other open source MDM software is out there that aren't Apple-only? Specifically I'd like to manage Android phones and maybe Linux laptops (but I doubt I'll find that)

>it really stinks on both sides

I disagree. I think that a there has been a massive amount of misplaced trust in the random inbound calls and caller ID. We should have cleaned it up a long time ago. Now that there is widespread abuse of it, maybe there will finally be some security measures put in place.