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gamad··on Equifax C.E.O. Richard Smith Retires After Huge Data Breach
You filed a "class action lawsuit?" More details, please. Who was the class? Why a "class action" when you were personally harmed in a major way?
gamad··on MongoDB has filed to go public
I like MongoDB! It's web-scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

gamad··on The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro
Exactly right. We do accurate-color work so I need a wide-gamut monitor I can calibrate. And we need NVidia "Pro" cards (with FP16 full-speed) support. The Mac "faithful" will tell you can can jerry-rig a side-car box and run your GPU cards over USB-C, but that's flakey and slow.
gamad··on The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro
I'm also a big fan of the Surface (and Windows 10, too!). We went from Mac to Windows and I have no regrets. (It was the desktop / high-end that pushed me over. No good "pro" option on the desktop.)
gamad··on DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes
Someone licensed by their (US) state as an Engineer, and the only person (in most states) who can legally call himself an Engineer.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure

gamad··on The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro
I can't imagine working without an ESC key. I think many of the complaints could have been alleviated if they left this one key on the machine.
gamad··on DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes
I'm a EE, and a licensed PE. I wouldn't do this.
gamad··on Can we know what animals are thinking?
I'm always afraid that if I knew what my cat was thinking I'd be disappointed. Like "I wonder if I can kill and eat him?"
gamad··on Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”
Property tax is.
gamad··on Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”
It's rent. If I don't pay my property taxes, the government will march in and take my house.
gamad··on Bitdefender Anti-Virus: Heap Buffer Overflow via 7z LZMA
I use Microsoft's own "Windows Defender" combined with Malware Bytes to catch any PUPs.

While I'm a very careful user, this combination, to the best of my knowledge, has kept me safe. (MalwareBytes caught a piece of commercial software that I paid $59 for -- a Blu-Ray player -- that tried to install a browser add-on that would have presented alternate advertising.)