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Well, to be fair, I do create an ephemeral Apple ID every time I get a new phone… But I immediately log out of iCloud after downloading the two or three apps that I use. I have no idea what my Apple ID or password is… I would have to go look them up.
Further, if I lost said Apple ID, I would lose nothing of value.
I believe, as you say, I exist meaningfully in society.
It's certainly not for every use-case ...
This is what "Oh By Codes"[1] are for.
Instead of trying to paint a QR code, which is difficult, you can just chalk a 6 character code.
Further, you can create them on the fly without using a special tool - just a textarea on a simple webpage.
You can encode up to 4096 characters or a single URL redirect.
[1] https://0x.co
The first VPS provider, circa fall of 2001, was "JohnCompanies" handing out FreeBSD jails advertised on metafilter (and later, kuro5hin).
These VPS customers needed backup. They wanted the backup to be in a different location. They preferred to use rsync.
Four years later I registered the domain "rsync.net"[1].
[1] I asked permission of rsync/samba authors.
Interesting you should mention ...
Here is the interior of the 2025 XC90:
... and here is the 2025 EX90:
That's not a mistake and they know exactly what they are doing: they think they can sell the EX90 in addition to the XC90 and the dramatically different UI/UX/styling is an effort to keep the XC money flowing.
If the electric one was just the XC90 ... but electric ... they know they'd barely sell another ICE one again.
We want an electric F150 or an electric Suburban or v90 wagon or whatever.
But instead we get e-initiative i-mobiles. We get TRON-cars. We get iModels.
There is a reason for this:
The incumbent auto makers understand fully that the ICE version of whatever model they electrify will suffer enormously.
They believe that they can somehow retain all of the sales of the existing ICE model while adding growth sales of a different electric model.
And, of course, they are wrong: because nobody wants an "electric F150". They just want an F150. But electric.
... or were you simply using a VPN and that's the most likely culprit for a general failure of the service ?
Genuinely curious ...
Thunderbolt as a server interconnect displeases me aesthetically but my conclusion is the opposite of yours:
If the systems are locked into place as servers in a rack the movements and stresses on the cable are much lower than when it is used as a peripheral interconnect for a desktop or laptop, yes ?
I wish you all the luck in fixing these problems and would be fascinated to see the outcomes… However, this notion that these changes would be cost free is a mistaken one.
Mutants with these characteristics have certainly existed over evolutionary time… Our version outcompeted them.
I tend to dislike these type of posts but a properly designed and functioning vote mechanism should take care of it.
If not, it is the voting mechanism that should be tuned - not new rules.
Is there a live release/support/discussion ecosystem for ratpoison in 2025 ?
Not for everyone and not for every situation, but ...
If you get a propane torch - the full sized ones that attach to a 5gal. propane tank - you can very quickly point-and-shoot a large area with similar effort expended to walking around spraying a liquid.
We have a 2500sf veranda made of decomposed granite and it takes about four man-hours to fully clear it of all creepers and flat broadleafs and all the other things that are impossible to pull by hand ... and since it kills them you're clear for the season ...
Unrelated:
I really enjoy "Security, Cryptography, Whatever".
We don’t have our own forum so this is as good of a place as any to discuss anything that’s on your mind.
AMA.
The zfs snapshots that we make of your account are immutable (read only) from the perspective of your credentials.
So even if you publish your rsync.net credentials and Mallory wipes out your entire base account, the snapshots will still be there (until they rotate out, of course).
If there is only one thing you take away from this discussion I hope it is:
Roadbuilding is fantastically, stupefyinlgy expensive. One can hardly believe just how expensive a safe, standards-based, high quality, durable stretch of asphalt is.
You know how you drive somewhere and then there are some cones set up and a lane of traffic is blocked off while two or three machines and a handful of guys repave a short section and then 20 seconds later the cones end and you're back up to full speed ? You just drove past millions of dollars of budget.
Good for you and the very best wishes.
We had all four of our children at home - two of them breech[1] - and avoided a big basket of unnecessary interventions and complications.
One of the biggest benefits was opting out of the tremendously disempowering culture of medicalized birth fostered by both male and female care providers.
An outsider would not be faulted for thinking that birth care was purpose-designed to disempower, discourage and disenfranchise women giving birth.
[1] Relax. A "frank breech" is considered a normal birth in most of the global north and is not medicalized as it is in the United States - nor does it need to be. (Not to be confused with dangerous conditions like a footling or kneeling presentation).
I see your drill down to fundamental issues and I raise you:
Pregnancy is not a sickness. Hospitals are for sick people.
If we reserved hospital birth for women and children with actual medical problems we would allocate resources much more judiciously.
An added benefit: not exposing otherwise healthy (and capable) women to an almost universally disempowering and disenfranchising birth-industrial-complex that seems designed to engender fear, self-doubt and pathological outcomes.
I’m not in full opposition but people should understand that there is a downside.
Accident studies and, in particular, books like _Normal Accidents_[1] push back on this assumptions:
"... It made the case for examining technological failures as the product of highly interacting systems, and highlighted organizational and management factors as the main causes of failures. Technological disasters could no longer be ascribed to isolated equipment malfunction, operator error, or acts of God."
It is well accepted - and I believe - that there were a multitude of operator errors during the Air France 447 flight but none of them were unpredictable or exotic and the system they were tasked with operating was poorly designed and unhelpfully hid layers of complexity that suddenly re-emerged during tremendous "production pressure".
But don't take my word for it - I appeal to authority[2]:
"Automation dependent pilots allowed their airplanes to get much closer to the edge of the envelope than they should have ..."[3].
or:
@ 14:15: "... we see automation dependent crews, lacking confidence in their own ability to fly an airplane are turning to ther autopilot ..."[4].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents
[2] Captain Vanderburgh
[3] Children of Magenta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwB94yOrRQ
So it's probably valuable to retain that credit rating.
The real issue here is how simple it is to game the rating agency in this way and how the market allows Meta to "launder" this activity through the ratings agency.
This is, in fact, a fairly close analogue to the housing crisis and the ratings laundering that was done with the CDOs[1]. The difference is, instead of drilling down to thousands of mortgages - each with different characteristics - you really just drill down to Meta ... which might not be too risky ...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation
Who is the highest paid state employee in Minnesota? Hint: he works for umn.edu … [1]
Who controls the largest budget at umn?
Who drives the largest revenue for the state university program and hires and fires the other highest paid employees of the state?
I am sorry to say that your expectations of the sports media enterprise that happens to also be a university are misplaced.
Big conference universities are development leagues for the NFL and that is where expectations for behavior should be calibrated.
[1] PJ Fleck - $7M annual salary in 2025.
A bit of a leap to assume that your Apple ID (or the name you give your iphone) is your full legal name ... or related to any name at all ...
My apple ID is built specifically for just that phone and is jettisoned when I upgrade/change the phone. The apple ID is not related to my own name.
I don't consider this an aggressive - or even interesting - privacy practice.
Did you use your full legal name when you signed up with Blizzard for WoW ? Why would you do anything different for Apple ?
They are not the IRS. They are not a passport agency. They are not the government. Stop treating them that way.
Which is to say, the customer facing web interface, ordering, management and our own management back ends.
Obviously the actual storage component employs no interpreters of any kind.
Alive and well!
[1] https://0x.co