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Reading this makes me happy. I almost read this as the door is open for more people to apply and work remote. That to me means someone who would have never considered working for SBA or moving to work there, can now be employed from anywhere there is internet.

Maybe this is how we revitalize towns that were wiped out by outsourcing the labor pool (read China manufacturing)?

I submitted two unopened packs of Garbage Pail Kids from a special set for Universal Monsters (by Super7) to PSA several months ago. I was starting to wonder what happened to them after I started doing GPK inventory in the last couple of weeks. This explains why.

Don’t worry everyone. The people who fumbled getting us all the help we needed the last year know what they’re doing. /s

I was an rss junkie back in the early internet era. I had all my feeds and didn’t worry about unread count.

Nowadays feeds are harder to come by without being prompted to sign into the service or being directed to their page to read the article.

I wish there was something like Castro or a ranking system for RSS feeds for me to look for.

I think rss is so niche in this day and age you couldn’t monetize rss curation.

They’ll find ways around these like mailing each other material.

I honestly always see these overreaches as those in power want to stay ahead of money making news/tips they can take advantage of for their portfolios. Or even better, know what their enemies are talking about in regards to them. Even if it’s voters who don’t like them.

I can avoid getting into my car and running that risk. It’s still there and can happen, but I can opt to not drive my car.

The vaccine is eventually going to be mandated to go back to the office, go places, etc.. That’s a risk that you can’t avoid and will have to take.

I’m all for vaccinations and get them when needed, I’m still not comfortable for vaccines that have not been approved. Right now, they all have emergency approval and not overall approval. According to the cdc, vaccines need at least ten years of data to be considered safe for use. We’re only a little over a year into the development of the vaccine. Not really safe in my eyes.

Read the story about Oculus (I think it’s called “The History of the Future”). I seem to recall older headsets cause sickness for many people because the refresh rate isn’t quick enough on the displays. Newer Oculus headsets address this apparently.

I used to get virtual narcosis (it’s a term from Wired magazine many years ago) bad. There used to be a VR game at the top of Stratosphere in LV many years ago. I played that game, took the headset off, and had the worse case of virtual narcosis in the rotunda. Not a good experience.

I had read somewhere once this is where the concept for vampire like demons in folklore came from. That at some point in history drinking the blood of the young kept you youthful longer.

Here come the deepfakes for streamers to be deplatformed by their rivals/competitors!

I dumped their gateway/security appliance in favor of Opnsense box. Never looked back or regretted it. Their security appliance is not as granular as I would want and the Opnsense was a learning opportunity for me.

For LastPass, did they enforce the policy to mandate 2fa for everyone’s vault? Where I work they mandate 2fa be enabled. Some orgs overlook this.

Bottle water companies are in the business of making plastic. That’s all they do. Bottled water is the biggest scam people go for on a daily basis. Bottled water is good for emergency situations or travel, but offices that stock bottled water for employees is a waste.

This makes me happy as we don’t lose out to technologically leapfrogging China and their military.

If China had the same attitude, yes. The military is in a constant race with China to get a leg up on them. It goes back and forth.

Were the developers complicit in allow these exploits? That’s the bigger question. Are Apple and Microsoft intentionally leaving these things open?

Here’s how evolved John Deere has become. There’s a John Deere Labs office a block away from the LinkedIn office in downtown SF. It’s pretty big and would fit a medium sized company fairly well. Looks like they’re trying to cash in on SV talent for their products.

The guy she married posted a lot of rape fantasies of children on his Twitter. Someone connected all the dots and circled around that it’s possible based on actions of known associations.

Someone also mentioned that she lived in the same house at the time her father locked up and tortured the ten year old. If you’re oblivious to someone being tortured under you’re roof, you’re either really naive or part of the problem.

This is why I pulled BoingBoing from my RSS feed. They were regurgitating other news article like Buzzfeed and Mashable. They used to have good original content but I don’t know what changed.

I read their reasoning why they’re stopping, but my gut tells me China is behind this. They’re actively tapping Africa for natural resources and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some dealings behind closed doors to hand over cacao to China.

I have background experience with teachers, their unions, school boards, and school administrators for over three decades. The San Francisco BOE is an embarrassment. They’ve doubled down on being woke and pushing an agenda that affects 56k students (most of whom are at risk of falling behind) because progressive politics are taking precedent over actually helping the kids. Case in point:

- they spent countless board meetings pushing school renaming initiative. Sometimes seven hours to discuss this. They used Wikipedia for their source/background for deciding if a name stays or goes. Two schools were wrong identified as needing a name change because their Wikipedia search wasn’t thorough.

- while the rest of the state schools worked on a reopening plan when a vaccine was in sight, the SFBOE continued to push the renaming effort to the point where the city attorney sued the board. The board’s next meeting was closed door session with the attorneys for the district. The tone of the bird changed quickly after that meeting and the new priority was putting a plan in place to reopen schools.

- the board spent two hours discussing whether or not to allow a new member to join the committee. Their problem with it though was a double edge sword. They wanted to bring this person on as he was gay and had children in the schools, but he was white. So they debated for hours over the problem here ultimately denying him to join a committee composed of all women who he would have brought a different viewpoint to the group.

The BOE also has three members eligible for recall and so that process is starting. The others were elected too soon and there’s a cooling off period of six months after being elected that you can start a recall campaign (which parents are getting ready for).

Not everyone is a developer or reader of HN. Apple has evolved their software to make users safe.

I get fewer problems managing friends and family on Apple products vs Android/Microsoft products. I work in enterprise and am a lot happier managing macOS devices than PCs.

I get the whole “I own it and shouldn’t have to have it walled/leased/owned by the developer,” but the success for Apple when Jobs returned was simplifying the product lineup and making products that just work.

I agree I don’t like being locked into a hardware manufacturers box, but not everyone can build a kernel from source or use Gnome/KDE/whatever desktop manager there is out there. It should turn on, be easy to use, and be a safe experience for everyone.

I worked for the Apple Store back in the raging iPod days. I was there for iPod Hi-Fi. That was hands down the best audio I ever heard. You could crank that volume to max and the device wouldn’t rattle or sound overblown. It literally was the most amazing sound I ever heard from a speaker. Sadly couldn’t afford one.

A few years ago I found a brand new in box Hi-Fi on eBay and snapped it up for a few hundred. I was able to add a wireless airplay adapter using a pi and can push audio to it. Still amazing sound after ten years.

For context we had the head of our public works arrested and slowly the dominos have been falling.

https://missionlocal.org/2020/11/mohammed-nuru-recology-conf...

Not surprised someone in that department is getting some nice compensation.

You just said it right there. It’s the speed of social media that does this.

Call me crazy, but haven’t we seen social media being manipulated (bots) to push narratives?

These accusations or problems crop up fairly quick and then the media gets on it and then whoever/whatever is destroyed.

If social media can be manipulated to swing stock markets or elections, then isn’t it possible it can swing to push narratives or keep us constantly fighting ourselves?

I remember a Ray Bradbury story in elementary school I read. Don’t remember the short story title, but it was an automated house that did all its chores under the reader’s assumption all the automation was happening while the owners were out at work or running errands. Turns out that all the humans were wiped out by an atomic bomb as I remember the story describing irradiated shadows/outlines of people on the side of the house.

Your comment reminded me of that story.

So if I had kids and they were white and they pushed this on them in grade school, my kids should walk away feeling guilty for who they are? That’s some twisted logic sadly with how the US is treating this.

It’s dumb when six corporations control the narrative in the US. Some of which cozy up to China, big pharma, big telco, all the industries that hurt Americans (in many different forms): https://fortune.com/longform/media-company-ownership-consoli...

Isn’t it funny the day after Biden was inaugurated the Covid death toll on all CNN shows in the bottom bar disappeared and all the “left” news outlets started talking less and less about the deaths and problems with Covid? Like it magically went away.

News outlets have their political alignments. All of them do. They’re all pushing a narrative.

How about we just get rid of cable news altogether? There are six companies that own all the media we consume so we should probably do something about it: https://fortune.com/longform/media-company-ownership-consoli...

I’m bummed as an admin that the new M1s remove a function as an admin I always loved with remote management.

From what a sales/dev person for a Saas MDM app for macOs told me, the M1s do not have a lock device feature. You can only wipe the device.

If an employee was terminated, we could remote send a lock command with a numeric code. The only way to remove the lock is to get the code from us or have Apple reset it in person. The in person visit you have to prove you’re the owner or have authorization from the company to have Apple unlock it.

My only option now is to wipe it. So now I have to find a cloud backup provider to back these devices up in case I need an important file from an employee who decides to go rogue.

It’s well known that they don’t encrypt backups in iCloud. That’s how they’re able to reset access in case you lose access.