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I made this mistake last year, choosing a start date of the 1st. Normally, this would not have been an issue, but it took my employer several weeks to have their benefit management company activate my benefits.

Fortunately, my act of loudly demanding they make the benefits retroactive to the 1st got things sorted very quickly. But, this is because I knew how things worked.

I would also recommend to US-persons to not switch jobs around a month boundary.

The employer-linked healthcare system is burdensome to both employers and employees. It’s not going to change without a dramatic change to the group insurance model.

You may optionally purchase coverage under COBRA, typically at the full price, which your employer is required to sell you (assuming the employer meets certain criteria).

> Note that some countries have an underdeveloped ISP market, with large fractions of the population having no choice of broadband service provider. Regulation is then of the utmost importance to keep everyone honest, but in some of these countries the regulator has been captured by industry and is no longer very effective. This mostly goes for the US.

I think this is the key motivator for a move to DoH. Large US ISPs can’t be trusted.

> Because: It isn't really about Git anymore. GitHub used to be a Git repository hosting company. But now, they are about providing other software development and management infrastructure that augments the version control. They might as well change their name to Hub at this point.

I agree fully, but the one "feature" missing from drh's analysis is GitHub's social aspect. Getting code out in front of people and allowing them to interact with it (directly, via commits and PRs, or indirectly, via issue comments) as a feature of a social network is their differentiator.

GitHub's choice of git wasn't germane to building a social network: GitHub could have been successful using svn, excepting that git was ascendant at the time.

Fossil's feature of an integrated web server is an anti-feature to GitHub; it defeats the purpose of having a centralised "Hub."

> The Internet Society does great work protecting the Internet and bringing it to the people who need it most — work that is way more impactful than leasing domain names. This transaction secures that work's future and independence.

Is “lease” the understanding others have regarding the relationship among a registrar and registrant?

Isn’t the registrar intended to operate the supporting infrastructure and no more? Where does the concept of a “lease” enter the transaction?

Of course, this is just a “point-to-point Ethernet” not an allocation.

That said, I think the original intent was that such “point-to-point Ethernets” should have been issued /64, but seems /126 is common practice.

I’m in the ARIN region. Two things:

1. My home has Verizon fiber. No native IPv6. I have a tunnel for this, but such solutions aren’t going to work for the masses. The other in-region residential provider, Comcast, has great native IPv6 service, but had layer 2 performance issues versus price.

2. At $dayjob I just ordered a circuit from Level3/Centurylink for a branch site. No IP justification form was required if I needed only IPv4 /30. But for dual IPv4 /30 + IPv6 /126, I was required to provide written justification. Shouldn’t this be the other way around? Unencumbered IPv6 for all, with paperwork for IPv4?

EDIT: these are not site allocations, just point-to-point link addresses, hence the /126. Still, I’m being asked to justify IPv6 but not IPv4.

In the “sunbelt dominates” graphic, the Maryland and Virginia portions of the Delmarva peninsula are highlighted, along with Western Maryland, but the remainder of Maryland is not.

What’s up here?

I recommend caution when asking the agents at Shannon if the Republic of Ireland still has sovereignty from the United States of America. In my experience, it hits a nerve.

I believe the SFE (using the 1.0L, in-line 3 “EcoBoost” engine) was only available with a 5 speed stick. I suspect the performance with an auto transmission would be unbearable.

The clickbait headline might more accurately read “Toxic pesticides and chemicals are poisoning wildlife and water in America’s public forests.”

I’m quite pleased with my 2017 Ford Fiesta SFE with its German engine and French gearbox and Mexican assembly.

Unfortunately, Ford is eliminating the Fiesta in the US.

> Most donated phones have an iCloud lock with no way to contact the previous owner to request an unlock

If someone donates a phone, isn’t clearing the phone and releasing the “iCloud lock” typical practice? Otherwise the phone has negative value, in that it is simply toxic waste.

The Register of Copyrights is currently appointed by the Librarian of Congress. Should H.R.1695 become law, the Register of Copyrights would no longer be appointed by the Librarian of Congress, who is the head of Library of Congress.

This does undermine the current authority of the Library of Congress.

EDIT: Adding reference to H.R.1695 which passed the House, but stalled in Senate.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1695

Did the officer ask you, or instruct you to sign the document? Such a situation lends itself to feel coercive, as the officer has already detained you for a search.

> My latest trick is taking long hikes. I used to think running was a better form of exercise than hiking because it took less time. Now the slowness of hiking seems an advantage, because the longer I spend on the trail, the longer I have to think without interruption.

I love hiking for this reason.

That said I’m distractedly on my phone while walking around a mall.

I agree. Officials should instead use their limited resources to down such drones forcefully and violently. Bans clearly aren’t doing the job.

Netflix has known netblocks[1] though, so you may bypass VPN for those or similar content networks.

[1] https://bgp.he.net/AS2906#_prefixes

Sounds like a value-add for a CA. “We’ve seen your private key in public, we’re revoking your certificate for you. You’re most welcome.”

Bad actors can also occasionally poll the safebrowsing API.

Better examples might be Vermont or Texas.

It’s mind boggling how much affordable parking there is in Manhattan. I was doing some work in Staten Island and had an appointment in Manhattan later in the day, leaving via NJ, so I drove and was able to find parking for less than $50 in the financial district.

This should have been impossible, and I should have been forced to leave my car where it was, take a bus to St. George, and get on the ferry.

Except that it is quite likely the best quality Chinese attacks come from compromised machines in the United States.

I hope some absurdly rich alumnus tightens the vice on Columbia over this behavior, as they are likely the only constituency with any power over the matter.

OpenID Connect’s most frustrating aspect is its naming, reminding me of a time when OpenID (1.0) was more commonplace.

With OpenID Connect, users only get the benefit if the site implements a particular identity provider... a continued move to the walled-gardenism of the net.

The opportunity to make money off an arbitrarily scarce resource is in my opinion a reason we haven’t seen more network operators pushing users towards IPv6.

The founders are very busy devising wage theft schemes. How can they possibly spend time on security or apologies?

> Help make the web usable with Javascript deactivated.

I agree with RMS here, in that user privacy is aligned closely with user freedom. I also believe the Internet is losing ground on this point.

Harris can manufacture this under the guise it’s never intended for use within the U.S. They can claim it is for counter-insurgency surveillance in certain central Asian countries.

Alternatively, they could seek FCC OET authorization for the product as test equipment, but I doubt it, and my quick searches have yielded nothing.

I suspect this is why Harris, FBI and other LEAs conceal their use [1].

1. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-stingray-mu...

The times I’ve used Zelle to send money, it has been real-time.