She articulates the exploitative nature of this sort of viral / influencer charity incredibly well. His actions, while I'm sure well-intentioned, are sexist, ageist and absolutely dehumanizing. I hope the article helps him and the millions who liked the video check their assumptions and offers a lesson in moral complexity and subjectivity.
Is your corporate apology coming from personal experience in Amazon or another "BigCo" where you can cite actual instances where a massive corpus of petty infractions has protected line workers from the malicious "people with the authority"?
Otherwise the parent commenter's conjecture as to how this surveillance system functions in reality is about as good and useful and thoughtful as your own. Maybe worth keeping in mind.
I have two Eero Pro 6s. The network works very well in crowded Brooklyn, with great speed and no interference issues. Overall I love the product.
Sharing in case you've got HomePods, but one caveat about the simplicity is that their client steering feature / setting bundles both the band switching and station switching behaviors. I have 6 original HomePods and they can't handle the band switching at all — they will constantly drop out and fail to AirPlay. The issue is not unique to Eero, but unfortunately with client steering off I'm stuck toggling wifi when I move through my apartment on my laptop or phone.
The issue with the HomePods is certainly an Apple bug (reported to them several times in great detail after hours of debugging) but naturally they don't care to support their $350 "hobby".
One key point made is that the marketing approach was preferred because the costs were so low compared to solving the real problems. While I think redirecting those amounts to push people in a different direction would be great, it still seems minor compared to the challenges of plastic waste and broader environmental concerns.
I wonder why the Roth didn't include any sort of cap or maximum exemption? It seems like that would have been an easy safety to build in, like a stop-loss for the government to avoid intentional and unintentional abuse leading to tax shortfalls. The federal gift tax has a limit of $11.7 million, seems like a gift to your older self might be considered similarly.
Sidenote, if—like me—you actually prefer the desktop theme, and would like the opposite: to use it on mobile. There is a mobile-friendly version of it in the works, but not yet available. You can try the in-progress version on your mobile here: https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?mobilaction=toggle...
I just tested, and it definitely looks like a troll / hack.
> duplexer3@1.0.1 install /Users/foo/Code/foo/node_modules/duplexer3
> echo "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
A time to make use of duplexer3, and a time to be without duplexer3."
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
A time to make use of duplexer3, and a time to be without duplexer3.
Not to mention, it’s a Pete Seeger song, the byrds just covered it. I may be wrong but I think Seeger wrote it for Judy Collins to sing.
Edit: ok nope, Seeger didn’t “write” it for Collins, she’s just another one to cover it. Here they are both doing it if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/fA9e-vWjWpw
Start posting large parts of, say, the New International Version, let me know how that goes for you.
IOW, unless it’s the King James, it is likely very much subject to take down notices. Though I’m guessing a malicious troll is much more likely to know The Byrds than they are Old Testament.
"In interviews, many tech employees and executives said they believed conservative views on issues like tax policy and regulation are welcome in Silicon Valley. But conservative views on social issues like gay marriage, civil rights and immigration meet more resistance ..."
While many of those issues seem like fair game in a (presumed) secular business environment, I don't see how an expressed conservative viewpoint that actively opposes civil or equal rights can be tolerated in a workplace. It is a necessary basis for any sort of collegiality and cooperation.
At the same time, I can imagine people freely saying disparaging things about conservatives (it's hard for me to resist sometimes) that would make for a hostile environment. I'd hope large SV companies could occasionally remind employees of that fact.
The problem, like most in life, is not in the expression of the conservative viewpoints but in the definition and application of 'actively opposing civil or equal rights'.
Some people feel The Wall 'actively opposes civil or equal rights'. Or transgenders in the military. Or etc, etc etc...
Many conservatives feel that conservative viewpoints on hot topic issues are rational decisions. They're often not out to 'actively oppose civil or equal rights'.
They have a beautiful native macOS app as well. Also, excellent support for groups, including group URLs you can stick on a github page. Great program all around.
When you say "desktop" version, do you mean the cross-platform one that offers downloads for Win/Mac/nix, or the specifically Mac version that has a whole lot less features (at this point) than the cross-platform version?
Judging from recent updates it's still alive. The version in AppStore might be stale (not sure) but if you install the version from site (https://macos.telegram.org) you'll get frequent update.e
But I must admit that amount of clients is confusing.
For two years now I've used iCloud Music Library (iTunes Match) to handle exactly the sort of situation the article author describes. Bucking the trend here; I love it.
I've written a number of scripts (the main one is on npm) that run on a home Mac Mini server, converting FLAC to ALAC, and copying music which gets added to the library via the iTunes Add to Library folder.
Within minutes of hitting a synced drop folder music is converted, stored and uploaded. I then have access to that music on my phone and computer. I can access 100% of my personal 40k track library anywhere, and can listen lossless at home. I still have music in my library I ripped in the early 2000s.
I've definitely hated on iTunes plenty — the search is unforgivably slow and CPU intensive, and the app seems forever going backwards on usability.
Still, I have what seems like a miracle of the cloud. A reliable, personal streaming service, with none of the restrictions of Spotify or Apple Music. I'll deal with the inconvenience.
For the record: I've explored a similar system with Google Play, but Apple manages the best end-to-end ecosystem across devices in my opinion.
I'm also generally +1 on iTunes Match. However recently I've noticed my iPhone skipping songs frequently, no matter how hard I try I can't get those songs to play. I'm not sure if the fault is with my phone, itunes, match or something else, but it's not as seamless as I'd have liked.
It took me a while to notice as usually I'm not watching the screen of my phone when I"m shuffling around and such, but now that I know it happens i've been watching for it.
This is pretty much to a t my thoughts on iTunes. iTunes Match is everything I want and need it to be for on-the-go but leaves me a with a bit to be desired elsewhere.
It's good enough for me, I've given up on syncing my music on iPhone (do still do local backups)...
I actually use Subsonic in jukebox mode, coupled with the amazing Dsub for Android for my home listening. It looks at the same directory as iTunes, and outputs via USB to an external DAC / amplifier.
