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Similar software with different usage models can be extremely useful and support mentoring and staff development. I’ve been using tools like manictime and more recently the open so…

- What do you think of breaking changes? I think it is better to apologise and acknowledge for terms that are offensive rather than erase them. While removing offensive 70’s TV com…

True, but it is also true that slavery predates the colonisation of the Americas. (British cultural reference - What have the Romans ever done for us? Monty Python. - https://m.you…

>A customer is an external stakeholder. Customers used to have more choice, this made them highly valued stakeholders. Before the era of permanent rolling mandatory updates and new…

I’m sure I’m one of many people here searching for the ultimate keyboard. I missed the kick starter for the Keyboardio Atreus. I’m looking forward to the launch so I can order one …

Out of band could be as simple as ngrok, or cloudflare Argo - or as you suggest by a separate connection. SSH is two factor - key + password and Argo,ngrok,wireguard to a VPS provi…

Can you explain how this is more secure than SSH to a bastion host via an out of band network?

With regard to Apple or Google recording the applications users install from the store I think there is indeed an opt in. That is the comparison I was making with the new Windows p…

In order to use those you agree to terms in advance, and agreed to data processing. That is an opt-in.

A bigger showstopper is no support for removing packages yet.

It's not opt-in, so quite likely a breach of GDPR. The telemetry in question seems to be logging what is installed, not just how the application is used. Regardless of consumers wi…

I like scoop, and this is a show stopper for me. "This project collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. See the privacy statement fo…

It’s worth holding them to account - make a constructive complaint here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint

This is an interesting perhaps meta-relevant topic for HN. How many of us bookmark or otherwise record interesting posts from here and elsewhere? How many of us ever refer that acc…

From NHS advice on vitamin D referenced in my previous comment “Some people will not get enough vitamin D from sunlight because they have very little or no sunshine exposure.” .. “…

Updated NHS advice on vitamin D from [1] “ Coronavirus update Consider taking 10 micrograms of vitamin D a day to keep your bones and muscles healthy. This is because you may not b…

- cost, as well evidenced in other comments here. The hyperscalers are orders of magnitude more expensive than dedicated hosting or using collocation providers. - lock in, all the …

A couple that I’ve built - they are not commercially available. I’d consider open sourcing something based on them if there’s sufficient interest. Perhaps as an integration for one…

Or even a post Maldon. (English sea salt brand)

Trusting a central control server is the fundamental mistake here. It creates a very high value target that is difficult to secure. I prefer a model where the management commands a…

Thanks for digging that out, I stand corrected.

I disagree, we don’t have opposing views. I totally agree with you that the secure by default / sandboxes for application approach is useful for consumers and developers too. My po…

I thought that was about WordPerfect etc rather than NetWare. Totally agree that Microsoft did some bad stuff, I just don’t remember there being any malign attempts to disrupt NetW…

It’s well documented that Microsoft did not behave well in the 90’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents However in the case of the Windows NT NetWare client I don’t…

Yes, not unlike Apple and Microsoft but for business users of Google suite, this makes the need to sign up to any Microsoft cloud services less of a necessity. It seems the directi…