Toronto, Canada. Tried to pay for street parking using their machine and with credit card. It spat out some gibberish on display that flashed too fast to read. Parking ticket guy was hanging around so I asked him WTF is going on. He said I must use the app or he will give a ticket. I tried to argue with him that they must still accept the other form of payment and I do not want to pollute phone with the app. He said that he does not give a shit and will issue ticket regardless of what fucking Toronto's parking website pages say.
>"In a few cases I've met people who could speak no language well. Their native tongue was gone or degraded but they had not achieved strong proficiency in English or the local language."
Me, me, me ;) My spoken Russian has somewhat degraded. And my English and "strong proficiency" are worlds apart. 30 years of living in USSR and then 30 years in Canada.
If Europe is what it claims to be: an enlightened democracy with progressive intelligent populace it can not be broken by demented crap messages from twitter.
If however it is fucked up and on a brink of collapse then sure. Little nudge can steer it into "right" direction. but then who is guilty in a first place.
That's part of the propaganda. Please ignore the Internet Research Agency's massive army of troll farms and bots. Please ignore that they controlled half of the largest American Facebook groups catering to racial identity or religion. Nothing to see and no impact.
Here is my story. I needed to buy central console for my car (purchased it a while ago in used cars lot). Went to Amazon and made my selection. Next thing is I see is the warning: this particular console will not fit you car which is MAKE: XXXY, MODEL: YYYY, YEAR: ZZZZ. How's that for data sharing.
Tried it, but seems to use the system's modal to add folders, that blocks the SD card folder due to "privacy reasons", even after giving the app permission to access all files.
Well, this one is on google. "Full filesystem access" is restricted to specific classes of apps like file managers, and replacement api is very shitty (have lots of restrictions, slower by orders of magnitude)
Someday scientists are going to want to study human reproduction in microgravity in order to test the feasibility of space colonization, and "some dating website" will indeed be something on which mission critical code depends.
In my initial comment I was thinking of four main western countries (there are others), each with multiple court cases that hammered home the core human rights violations inherent in anti-miscegenation laws and forced, often deceptive, abortion policies.
Had the GP commenter here simply asked for an example or an expansion I'd have provided that .. but the "five examples" demand was just .. odd.
They've wandered off with no reply so I suspect that might have been the limit of their rhetoric .. such as it was.
You can't find examples of countries ending miscegenation laws and forced abortion eugenic policies after they became publically embarrassing through lawsuits?
I didn't get how people end up entering paswords into randon places and click on suspicions links until I started to work for a big corp.
You get a lot of stuff in the inbox that doesn't exactly relate to your day to day work from departments you only vaguely heard about.
Then the UX of corporate stuff, especially one from microsoft is designed in a way to randomly jump in your face with a password prompt without you starting it actively. The session timeout here, kerberos prompt for smartcard here, the vpn hickup, teams needs to reconnect after the laptop gets out of sleep state. Then half of it random at some point updates and looks subtly different too.
After some exposure to this kind of stuff you don't even know what's real and what's level of corporate-sanctioned bullshit is above or below the baseline set by The Policy.
And don't forget the "SSO Tax" that some SaaS implement. Ideally, your company login should be your one and only login, and should be strongly tied to your device, a hardware token, and a central directory. Often, Saas providers charge far more to integrate with these directories, so, companies will just use a lower cost "LDAP Authentication" and condition users to enter their staff passwords on multiple sites :(
>"The session timeout here, kerberos prompt for smartcard here, the vpn hickup, teams needs to reconnect after the laptop gets out of sleep state. Then half of it random at some point updates and looks subtly different too."
OMG. Did not consider that. Lucky me. I do software development for clients, include some of decent size but am independent to the point that all my development is done at my own premises (basement of my house;) .
I use a similar filter at work but have it automatically label it as external and remove it from my primary inbox, not completely blocking but I have to go find emails from new people. I do filter external emails from vendors we do use into folders and read them. But the amount of spam I get just because someone managed to find my title and email is insane. I don’t even have my work email listed anywhere publicly that I am aware of.
There are many curriculums where IT security is taught in schools [0]. America does have a problem where their education systems are extremely disparate, but the lack is not universal.
[0] Virginia commonly uses Fortinet's lesson plans, for example.
Personally I've never had even slightest inclination to "buy" books this way.