Courts can make dumb decisions, either by bias or bad arguments. Proper lawyer-ing can cover for bad decisions some of the time, and perhaps losing some case and winning others is more important.

realistically everyone wants to know where they stand. There's certain "arranged" understandings when it comes to science (and all academic) publishing, and navigating that to provide a uniform interface to the actual documents is the "hard part" - although realistically, a file is a file, and distribution should be "easy".

recently i needed to check what domains i had purchased through various domain name providers (namecheap, godaddy), and i nearly lost access to my godaddy account because of the TOTP/verification stages. I consider cellphone numbers ephemeral, as i consider all phone numbers. I've been told that a dozen numbers in twice as many years is too many, but i refuse to get led around by the nose by cellular providers. So TOTP only works if i have access to the - few - phone numbers i had access to when i signed up. Several services (including some mentioned) used to have voice TOTP, but no longer do, and use an SMS bridge. Some want me to have an app on a phone *with a(n) (e)SIM*. my email service is attached to a domain name that i very nearly lost access to management for. I was complaining about an old gmail address i had and i decided to look at my overall domain health and found it lacking.

someone who is - forgive this - "balls deep" in a degree just wants whatever they publish to work for their advisors and graders. Obviously research assistants and research students in a masters or doctorate program are held to a slightly higher standard of "publish or perish" because of the way grants are written and assigned. It's all garbage, and has been for at least 15 years.

sorry for my meandering, but i felt these two annoyances are related.