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There are numerous problems. Comcast packet shaping in the late aughts. Zero-rated services. Lack of competition. Regional monopolies. High prices due to monopolies. Data caps. Downgraded service due to going over data caps.

But I suppose none of that matters when it may involve the government having to step in and actually protect consumers -- and protect what has become a basic human right. I do wonder if the AT&T breakup in 1983 would actually occur in this current ignorant political climate, had it been offset by 40 years in the future.

Name one innovation that occurred because of Net Neutrality repeal? That was the other side's argument -- that Net Neutrality hindered innovation.

The last four years, I've seen nothing but stagnation in the industry, except for perhaps what telecoms like to call "5G", which may have technological advances, but is more of a marketing buzzword. There are still data caps on home connections for literally no reason at all, except as a cash grab. There are still considerably high prices for access. There are still regional monopolies. There is still very little competition, when comparing apples to apples in offered bandwidth. We got flooded with zero-rating services during this time which in and of itself stifles competition. And with this pandemic, it became crystal clear just how vital the internet is, especially as it relates to our kids and their education.

Net Neutrality was on the FCC books for, what, 18 months tops? It had little time to do anything that it was meant, and it really belongs in legislation [1] and not at the mercy of a changing administration.

[1] https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2019/net-neutr...

"Disney announced a lot of their big plans for the future in a huge investor presentation last week, but they didn’t announce all of them. There’s one property that I’ve been hearing whispers about that didn’t get mentioned. That property is Firefly. The lack of an announcement about it doesn’t mean, however, that Disney isn’t keen to do something with the Joss Whedon cult phenom."

"My source tells me that Disney is in early development on a Firefly reboot."

So no announcement was made to investors. And the author cites only a single anonymous source. Call me skeptical.

Get Blizzard games (WoW especially) to work perfectly all the time with minimal effort, and I'm down to switch for good. I tried VFIO (lots of effort), and it worked great for Blizzard games, but showed massive frame loss in games like Jedi: Fallen Order.

I’m not at all contesting your reasons, which I expect were plentiful enough to build this system. I’m simply saying that if I want to use Java’s static type system, I’ll just write in Java. Perhaps I’m an old codger these days in my ripe early 40s.

Yeah, I'm not sure I get it either. More power to the author for solving a problem they may have, but I have yet, in my 20+ years experience with Java, had a need to do this kind of code embedding in the source code (whether in comments or not). Sure, it's nice to be able to run other languages at run-time (e.g. GraalVM, etc), but is there really a need to have this kind of language interoperability at compile time?

Different market, different historical reasons, and typically a much smaller user base for MacOS than the iPhone.

Also, “sideloaded” apps on MacOS are most certainly suspect in Apple’s eyes, so much so they put opt-in requirements around them. While I do see that as an argument for allowing iPhone sideloading with similar opt-in requirements, you can at least understand the market is considerably different for iPhone users than for Mac users, even if there is an overlap between the two.

iPhones also, from a support perspective, are an order of magnitude (or close to it) greater than that of MacOS. Seems reasonable to me for them to keep their appliance locked down in this way.

It’s very simple: support. Apple does not want to take any more needless support calls than they have to. When you run a trillion dollar company that handles, I would speculate, tens or hundreds of thousands of active support tickets, and consider adding in a virtually unsupportable mode in your appliance (keeping in mind that iPhones are considered an appliance to Apple), I would hope you would choose the sane option.

Also, Apple prides itself on quality. Side loading, whether you agree with allowing it or not, degrades quality because Apple loses its end to end control. See Android phones as an example of this.

All that being said, sure I would love to have the option of side loading, but if I really care that much, I’ll jailbreak.

And you use RequestTracker for software development?

A simple glance at their website clearly shows to me that it's a tool to manage customer-facing ticketing mainly (allowing integration via email addresses). Linear's purpose is for managing software projects and features/issues within those projects.

I'm by no means a Linear advocate, I couldn't care less what people use to manage their software projects. But tools tend to have specific purposes and RT seems quite different from Linear with respect to their distinct purposes.

Because it’s not just any TLD. It’s one of the very few special ones that has a very clearly defined origination and governance (well it did for the first decade or so at least).

Capitalism + the underpinnings of the Internet don’t exactly play well together (hence the need for clearly defined net neutrality codified by law). And arbitrarily raising prices on already existing domains registered by people and non-profits who bought in when there were rules in place about such prices is actually wrong.

I’ve read plenty on the subject. I don’t have to articulate bullet points about it just to suit your needs. It has obviously been to the detriment of honest political discourse and is completely wrong. Thanks, though.

The enormous amount of money now in politics clearly shows just how wrong it was. The ACLU isn’t always right, either.

It may be the norm, but they also get some completely wrong: Citizens United, for example.

“When the cholera was raging in Naples; when the people were dying by the hundreds and hundreds every day; when every concern for the public welfare was swallowed up in selfish private interest, and every citizen made the taking care of himself his sole object, these men banded themselves together and went about nursing the sick and burying the dead. Their noble efforts cost many of them their lives.”

The parallels of today are striking. It is fortunate this time around that we know considerably more about the communicative properties of bacteria and viruses to at least provide some semblance of protection for doctors and nurses.

The audio delay on Google Voice is too horrible for an impatient person like myself. I’d love this feature baked into phones. Odd that it’s not yet.

I agree, that’s an annoying bug/feature.

However, there is an amazingly easy workaround, assuming the IP and port don’t change often: create a ~/bin shell script that connects via IP and port, make it executable, and add ~/bin to PATH.

This workaround doesn’t excuse Apple of doing something so egregiously stupid, but it’s so easy that you may as well do it and move on.

Zero competition in an egregiously high amount of locations in the United States.

The internet is a fundamental human right, like access to water and power. It is now required by most school systems. It should be protected by Net Neutrality legislation and in places with zero competition, treated as a utility. Or, at minimum, the laws should make it easier to allow for competition — such as outlawing geographic cable internet monopolies, outlawing cable company monopoly deals with cities and counties, and providing access to physical infrastructure for new players in the space.

Your anecdote, while understandable, doesn’t apply to all. My utilities are just fine with customer service just fine.

Was this peer-reviewed? How does it compare with normal radio head units?

Anecdotally, I find CarPlay to not be distracting at all, mainly because I don’t fiddle with it while driving. I set up things ahead of time or I have a front seat passenger to help.

Awesome, thanks for the info! I will gladly forward this up the chain to my boss, the first chance I get. I think this tool would be great for us, just had to be certain about that. I would love a self-hosting option, but I understand that your core business model might not allow for such an option.

Does that include signing a BAA? (I asked this in another thread on this post, sorry for double-posting, but I'm curious the answer).

You're not wrong, but to be fair, the CDC has to fight for funding all the time. If Trump gets his way with his budget proposals, it'll only get worse.

That's great you're compliant with those! For HIPAA, do you enter into a BAA with prospective customers who deal in HIPAA data (PHI)?

EDIT>> The implication being that you may not be HIPAA compliant if you don't enter into a BAA. IANAL, so I defer to the experts, but I figured I'd ask the original question anyway. If you are above board on all of this, I will definitely take this tool to my boss.

We already have a live product using servers from a host that specializes in HIPAA. I'm not asking about how to host HIPAA-related data. I'm asking specifically about being able to use this tool. I'm not going to hand over credentials to our database to an untrusted party (meaning, not our company). So the hope is that we can either self-host this tool, or use it as a desktop application.

Can we self-host, please? Is there a standalone app? We deal in PHI (HIPAA) and we cannot have a tool like this have any access to our data store unless it's private and secure.

This is terrible news for consumers and tax payers in the United States. I was considering filing this year with Credit Karma because it is free. TurboTax can offer a free filing all they like, but 1) it's very limited; 2) last I checked, state filing still cost money; and 3) they inundate you on every other page about paying for some level of filing.

Since the new tax laws went into effect, I've had to pay each year (on the order of thousands more, than what I had to pay during the Obama years). That plus having to pay to file (or having to learn all of the forms and do it myself) is quite the stab in the back for a middle-class consumer like myself.

Ah, and this is why I despise working with CSS/layouting/etc. Thanks!

I like the site! Question, any reason why your internal hyperlinks (<a name>) jump to beneath the header of the section instead of showing the header of the section?

The author of the article isn't really referring to binaries. NNTP was wonderful for text-based discussion. It still could be, but not having moderation to alleviate spam/etc is a real concern.

I completely understand that this is not exactly what anyone wants to see in the Start menu or any other actively used feature of Windows. But I find this considerably less egregious than Microsoft buying Github, or "embracing" Linux, as if it only has the open source community's welfare at heart.

Microsoft is a for-profit, public company. They will do anything and everything in their own self-interest and to please their shareholders. While I have certainly posted my disdain in the past, especially for the Github buyout, I put this squarely in the same vein as when Canonical put Amazon search ads in the Dash on Ubuntu. It was a mistake for Canonical then, and it's a mistake for Microsoft now. If Microsoft truly want to show they're different, then they can put ads where the ads belong -- in the Microsoft App Store, or on television or other streaming media.

Still using Firefox? Of course, we are. And we will continue to do so.

This makes a pretty big assumption that UAT was even done. Or rather, UAT == production in Iowa.