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As a non US citizen this is just a Robin Williams in Jumanji moment...

WHAT YEAR IS IT?!?!

Anyways, welcome to the year of the interwebs.

Have you got rid of your cheques and faxes yet? 😉

Once you connect to this fake network, the attacker can intercept the unencrypted data you transmit over it, including sensitive information like your usernames and passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal data.

So essentially the blog post says that you should make sure you only use HTTPS does with trustee certificates (padlock and no warning from the browser). This is good advice.

On the "your ISP can see what site you access" now I'm pretty sure that when we're talking about open wifi, which we are, they can register your DNS lookups, IP-addresses and ports used by your computer but that doesn't mean they automatic know who you are, especially if you never logged in with credentials that can be traced to your person.

While VPN, generally speaking, is a good solution it essentially just means that while you might use 15 different open wifi providers during a month (=inconclusive information about you spread among 5-15 different operators), centralizing all your internet activity to one single VPN provider (= extremely conclusive information about you) also has risks and a backside.

Good information on the "Evil Twin problem" but in my opinion the focus should be on educating people on how to recognize when the browser is connected to a site without a trusted certificate and what to do/ not to do then rather than promoting VPN.

An evil twin can easily fake the VPN service, popup a browser window with "https://ProtonVPNUpdate.ru" and a request the use to update the VPN client.

If the user fail t recognize that the site is running HTTP or HTTPS without a trusted certificate there's a risk that the user will follow the instructions from "Proton VPN" ("But it was their logo and it also had PayPal on the site....") and connect to the Evil Twin VPN Server.

Investing in customers is not necessarily the same as customers being investments.

I would argue that HP made bad investments in their customers and their customers not being bad investments.

TIL Customers aren't customers. Customers are investments.

I can't speak for how unions work in the US but over here in Sweden they work because of member engagement. Of course, the opposite is true too: they doesn't work when there is no engagement shown by the members.

If unionmembers don't show up on the meetings, especially the annual one, where the board election take place each year, the board doesn't know what the members want. Furthermore, if members do hint show up on election day they are getting the board they deserve. (The same goes for government and elections)

My experience is that most of the people complaining about the union not representing them, being corrupt and/or being toothless, are people who never visited an annual meeting. They never participated in the election of representatives and they most often think of the union like it's their personal legal team.

Unions are positive and bring good things, not only to workers/members but also to the "area of business", when the members are active in the discussions and understand the issues. Unions are bad, almost cancerous, when members just pay the monthly fee and aren't really engaged...

I don't know if the persons complaining are super engaged in the union work but tweets like "you don't represent me but happily take my money" smell a little bit of "you're the worst legal team I've ever had".

When it comes to the issue here I wonder what the alternative would be? SAG-AFTRA saying no to AI voice overs? Going out on strike?

In what way would that not end up in the companies just use more AI VO AI is an investment and a recurring cost you can calculate. Human labor is not. There is all sorts of unknowns connected to human labor and AI never make threats about going out on strike (yet!?)

So, a little more in detail, what do you think will be the result of what they did here? What should they have done differently and what result would they have gotten then?

What should SAG-AFTRA have done differently do you mean?

For anyone wanting to read more: https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/index_en

Of course it's possible recycle aluminum covered in grease. It has to be cleaned before recycling though. Incineration is often used for getting rid of the plastic layer in soda cans and it's possible to use the same method for fat too.

In rejecting SpaceX's appeal, yesterday's FCC order said the agency's Wireline Competition Bureau "followed Commission guidance and correctly concluded that Starlink is not reasonably capable of offering the required high-speed, low-latency service throughout the areas where it won auction support."

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has acknowledged Starlink's capacity limits several times, saying for example that it will face "a challenge [serving everyone] when we get into the several million user range."

Isn't it Starlink that should fix this?

Tesla, which has revolutionised the electric car market, says its Swedish employees have as good or better terms than those the union is demanding.

Here's the thing: a collective agreement in Sweden is about the minimums. There is NO upper limit in the agreement. If Musk wants to give the employees 300 days of vacation and 10000 dollars a month, no union in the world would say no to that....

But we all know the reason for Tesla not wanting to sign an agreement is not about them wanting the employees having better terms....

You can set the camera to store the pictures as JPEG. I am happy with JPEG for my holiday photos. Just check that you have the best quality setting since JPEG uses lossy compression.

While HEIF is not the doomsday thing some describes it as, it currently is somewhat problematic.

There are for example problems, originating in differences in implementation between different hardware vendors, with 10-bit and HDR.

I replied to a statement about Heif being an Apple image format. It is not.

Furthermore, HEIF is something that most major mobile device vendors support. Some, like Samsung, even sets it as default on some of their devices. So the whole "Apple always supporting not open standards" is just tiresome at this point.

99.999% of all Android users are defacto locked in by Google. Yes, Android might be open but Play services are not. Google works hard to lock in Android users.

At least Apple are open and honest about locking in iOS users.