I thought that too, but then I needed a VGA cable for work, and my cable hoarding ways were vindicated.

So I had a suspicion, and yup, this was another ticket for DWB. Flock was just the excuse du jour.

Networking headaches are the main reason why I’ve done everything I can to get away from docker. I’ve had easier times spinning up an LXC container and building from source than I have had fighting with docker networking.

I’m guessing that they made it location dependent like they did with the Gulf of Mexico. In Canada it’s still showing Lake Ontario.

Depends on who owns them these days. Last I heard they had changed hands a couple times.

Ah, but didn’t you hear? Corporations are people, and since they’re the biggest and loudest (money is speech after all) people, they get all the attention.

It’s astonishing how much damage those two decisions have caused.

Oh I can think of many examples. That was just the latest one.

There was also the time that IT decided that industrial controls technicians didn’t need the ability to manually set IP addresses, or the time where they managed to have %Documents% point to a network share, while they were simultaneously trying to sort out wifi coverage issues.

I’m guilty of using WSL to bypass what the IT department has done, but that’s partly due to our IT department being borderline useless. To prove my point to them one time, I took a project and compiled it in Windows normally, in a fresh Windows VM, and in WSL. A 20 second compile in WSL took 2 minutes on the Windows host.

I was going to suggest that maybe a person managed to simply have absolutely zero online presence, but then I realized that having zero online presence probably gets you on a watchlist itself.

Venmo isn’t really a thing where I am, so maybe I’m fundamentally misunderstanding how it works, but why would anyone outside Venmo themselves be able to access your actual account info? When using PayPal, the vendors don’t get my actual card number, just the PayPal account name (and shipping details if I choose to include that). That’s the whole point of intermediaries like PayPal, Venmo, etc.

What info does using Venmo give them that using PayPal or a credit card doesn’t? It’s not like you can go to their headquarters and use cash.

That’s assuming that wherever you are going to or coming from has an internet connection. It’s likely that there will be a connection, but it’s still not a guarantee. And if there is a connection, the size of the files you’re carrying may make using that connection impractical.

Those two sentences just prove that the whole thing is made up. If he started coding in the 60s, he’d have to be over 80 now.

that complexity could easily be

That phrase has proven to be a source of endless headaches any time someone in charge is stupid enough to believe the person that tries to sell them that.

Single-user setups don’t need server-farm complexity.

True, but Linux devs only have a limited amount of time. It’s far easier to take a system that can handle server-farm complexity and apply it to a single user use case, than it is to take a system meant for single users and try to scale it up to a server farm, or to maintain two separate systems.

Not sure it’s really antitrust in this case. Disc drives in general have pretty much fallen completely out of use in most applications. Laptop and desktops haven’t included them in years, and music, movie, and tv show physical sales have fallen off a cliff.

This is kind of non-news. It is essentially just an ongoing process that has been occurring since the very first industrial robots were introduced.

A government promising it’s worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.

Wrong definition there bud.

Depends on the company. Some asset heavy companies (think railroads, commercial REITs) pay steady dividends, and are extremely unlikely to just go under without warning.