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Warning: Video with sound autoplays when opening the page (in Chrome on macOS)
1. Go to “chrome://flags” in the URL bar and hit Return/Enter 2. In the search box at the top, type in “autoplay” 3. Look for “Autoplay policy” and pull down the submenu, then choose “Document user activation is required” 4. Relaunch Chrome for the setting to take effect It does work all that well, but it is something...
As a foreigner the whole government shutdown is a thing of wonder: how does it work exactly? For instance, is there no police anymore? How does Congress stay in session during a shutdown? Where does electricity in federal buildings come from if the Federal govt can't pay for it?
This is the thing that blew my mind last time: The shoreline of San Francisco is a national park (donated when the military base here closed). There's a restaurant on the shore called Cliff House, whose landlord is the US government. During the shutdown, the government forced the restaurant, a private establishment, to close. The owners and the kitchen staff were not allowed to make a living. And because they aren't…
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>>Which is beyond ironic to anyone who's worked in the corporate world, but I guess that's for another thread. >>This idea they have that private enterprise naturally evolves toward the most efficient system is laughable. Work in private industry AND government and you might find the comparison a bit more apt, not that I'm a Republican.
I've worked in both, I find bureaucracy is roughly proportional to the seriousness of the work. Serious work - Law, Healthcare, Finance etc are very bureaucratic regardless of whether it's the private or public sector. Public sector can sometimes seem worse because there's less money sloshing round and people demand it isn't wasted, which effects a lot of bean counting.
We could collectively decide to eliminate a lot of red tape in government, no problem. It's just the effect of unchecked, unsupervised, unaccountable governments that make us want that red tape in the first place. Todays Justification Paperwork is yesterdays front-page scandal...
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As I recall from the last shutdown, Congress usually passes an apology bill to pay back-wages for the furloughed workers. In theory, it's unpaid time off, but in practice, they get made whole and it becomes a free (but potentially angsty) vacation.
Ah, you're right. I didn't recall whether they had been paid for that. Either way, it's fairly inefficient; either they were paid for doing no work, or they were not paid and may leave for better jobs or morale destroyed due to that.
10/10 federal policy. #ShootFootNow #AskQuestionsLater
As a foreigner the whole government shutdown is a thing of wonder: how does it work exactly? For instance, is there no police anymore? How does Congress stay in session during a shutdown? Where does electricity in federal buildings come from if the Federal govt can't pay for it?
One thing to understand about the US is that it is actually a federation of states. Much of the day-to-day work happens at the state or local level, not at the federal level. Police, fire departments, emergency first responders mostly employed at that level, and when the federal government is involved, a lot of it is in doing some coordination between states, setting standards, funding for various programs, and so on…
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This is the thing that blew my mind last time: The shoreline of San Francisco is a national park (donated when the military base here closed). There's a restaurant on the shore called Cliff House, whose landlord is the US government. During the shutdown, the government forced the restaurant, a private establishment, to close. The owners and the kitchen staff were not allowed to make a living. And because they aren't…
Why would a lack of funding for the government suspend a rent agreement? That's actually money flowing into the government. Why does that need to be shut down?
From a park-management perspective services offered inside a national park close when the park closes. The park-restaurant doesn't get to reopen that park or its services any more than the hotdog vendors force Wrigley Field to open on the weekdays...
Just like a mall closing for safety reasons: even though there is a buck to be made there are also liabilities and requirements. If the park isn't offering its rangers/personnel/management/responsibility then they don't want to be simultaneously advertising to the public that they're open for food sales. They're not open, they're closed.
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Yes, you can reboot or disconnect the client all you want. tmux keeps your processes on the server safe, and you can ssh in and go back into your completely preserved tmux session. Or are you randomly trying to connect tmux and Safari? Safari's update requirements are totally unrelated, but tmux can mitigate some of the problems they cause.
You're the one connecting tmux and Safari. My complaint is that a browser update should never require a reboot, especially for a browser that I never use. I actually use screen on my laptop, but this is my workstation. It breaks rarely enough that also using screen on it doesn't make sense for me. But thanks for asking.
But above you said that you can’t reboot because you have too many ssh sessions open. Mkl’s suggestion of using tmux or screen would certainly help with solving the specific problem you mentioned preventing you from rebooting.
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The solution should come from the browser IMO. Autoplaying videos should not be possible.
What about youtube though? On websites where the video is the main content it should be autoplaying imho
This is easily blamed on the shutdown, but it isn't that simple: Falcon Heavy static fire has been postponed numerous times. On Tuesday (Jan 16th), it was cancelled once again, but with no new target test date. That indicates that SpaceX is still working on the rocket/pad. I didn't find information on when they'd be ready again, but blaming a delay on Falcon Heavy's static fire test on the Government Shutdown is only…
The point is that with the government shut down they cannot continue to make those incremental steps anymore. It's a shame because today could have been the last of those little steps. We'll find out when the elected officials stop acting like children I suppose.
Warning: Video with sound autoplays when opening the page (in Chrome on macOS)
1. Go to “chrome://flags” in the URL bar and hit Return/Enter 2. In the search box at the top, type in “autoplay” 3. Look for “Autoplay policy” and pull down the submenu, then choose “Document user activation is required” 4. Relaunch Chrome for the setting to take effect It does work all that well, but it is something...
1. Go to "about:config" in the URL bar and hit Return/Enter
2. In the search box at the top, type in “autoplay”
You'll find two variables to modify. `media.autoplay.enabled` and `media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground`. They do exactly what they say they do. Turn them off/on as you wish by double-clicking, changing true to false and vice-versa.