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I used to say, half jokingly, people need to learn to shut the **** up, myself included. Meaning just because you have an opinion you don't have an obligation to share it with everyone else. Me writing this comment illustrates that.

> Database systems have subtle bugs and oddities, and you can avoid a lot of bugs by avoiding database systems.

This sounds like an offended developer. Avoiding database systems is not possible if you want to do a lot of programming tasks.

I have worked with several banks as a devops consultant and have helped implement self-hosted proxy repositories for NPM, NuGet, etc. These proxies save a copy of every package downloaded and store it locally for as long as the bank wants. Developers are then blocked from downloading from any other repository than these proxies. This solves the problem of packages being taken offline, but it does very little against malicious code on new versions of the package. However it also provides the ability to reproduce code X years into the past, as can be required of banks by financial regulators in various countries.

As always it is a cost/benefit trade-off: what is the benefit to auditing every package vs. the cost of auditing every package?

> Architects, Technical Directors, and the like barely override any team decision if at all.

I would be interested to see how the products turn out in the long run, when the team decides on architecture A but the company as a whole bets on architecture B, e.g. the team likes AWS but the company wants to use Azure.

A client of mine once told me "We are self-hosting our CI/CD servers because when problems occur, I can tell my employees to stay at work until it is fixed. I cannot tell GitHub to stay at work until they fix their issue."

This sounds similar to Amazon Athena, but without the Amazon part. Interesting!

You completely ignored the point of the article, which is that Blackberry created a unified inbox and no app has since been able to do that. Even on iPhone.

Except it's not the government, or any politicians for that matter. It is the decision of medical professionals, basically the danish version of FDA decided to stop using Astra Zeneca vaccine. They have that level of power here in Denmark.

How is this relevant to the article?

> It's also a backup mechanism in case Signal fails (like it did when the exodus happened)

I view SMS as a fallback solution. It has plenty of benefits, i.e. no app required, works on every mobile phone ever made.

> The only network services this won't become true of at some point in the future are those with decentralized clients and servers obeying a common documented protocol.

You mean like SMS?

The rocks will amplify the echo though!

Much like HN, unfortunately. And pretty much any online forum.

Did anyone notice this article is from February 27th 2020?

Did any of you replying actual read my comment or did you just auto-reply "buy a supported Linux laptop"? I said ". With Windows I can buy pretty much any laptop and expect it to work with", and you are saying "Just research if the laptop you want to buy works with Linux", you are completely missing the point. I do not want to have to bother researching if a specific laptop will run Linux and research if all the hardware in that particular laptop will work. I want to buy the laptop I like and I want Linux to support that laptop, since it is commodity hardware. Same as I expect of Windows and Windows delivers in this aspect.

> as long as you buy a system with known good Linux support

And that is where the problem lies. With Windows I can buy pretty much any laptop and expect it to work with. With Linux I have a limited selection of laptops, if I want it to work fully. I'm a developer and I know my way around Linux pretty well, still I usually run into "missing drivers", "package management is broken", "hardware working mostly but not fully" when I try Ubuntu or Debian.

Why should you, as a consumer, care about internal legal issues between the manufacturer of your phone and some other company? If the manufacturer decides, for whatever reason, to remove features from the phone after you purchased it, I think it is reasonable for the transaction to be reversed, i.e. refund me the full amount for the phone and I will return the phone.

> Sadly, Linux hardware support is still hit and miss. My latest Lenovo Legion has a whole lot of issues, the biggest one being that the trackpad just doesn't work. Sound also dies sometimes when waking up from sleep. But other than that it's a beast of a machine with a killer Ryzen CPU!

That, in my opinion, is the deal breaker. My pc is a tool I use for getting things done, not something I want to tinker with every time I have to do something. I'm a literate computer user, programmer and sys admin, and I know how to change settings in Linux but I do not want to spend my time digging through mailinglists for a hack, every time I try to use my webcam/soundcard.

Well you have now heard of a critical productive employee complaining about not being in an office. I am one of those guys who delivers faster than anyone and to a high quality standard, and I hate WFH permanently. While I enjoy no commute, I miss being around colleagues.

I prefer some combination of WFH and working in-office.

Same in Denmark. Perhaps this is standard in a lot of western countries?

I read "No more Mr. Nice Guy" a few years ago and it completely changed my perspective on personal relationships, made me realise my own behaviour was part of the reason for my failed relationships in the past. I highly recommend reading it if you are interested in self-improvement.

You recommend using the extension to circumvent your employer banning your use of Zoom, while at work?

After spending years learning on the job, I started reading the documentation books cover to cover, and I have never looked back. Colleagues are often amazed at my "deep knowledge" of the technologies I use, however I mostly know what is written in the manual. It baffles me that people can't be bothered to read the documentation and at the same time complain that "X is too hard! Let's use Y instead!"

Wrong, it applies to EU citizens, regardless where the data is stored https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/

Companies developing apps should be held accountable for their decisions, i.e. spying on the clipboard in this case. Don't excuse them with the reason "well it was easy to do, so it's ok" that's like saying "well my car was stolen, but it was easy to break the lock so it's ok"

I agree, Google is not forcing anyone to use their browser, yet people are complaining that Google is evil and immediately after continue to use their products/services. I don't understand the human psychology behind this..

A duopoly is hardly better than a monopoly. In fact I argue it is worse, because it gives the illusion of choice, yet there is no real choice.

Visual Studio, not VS Code. All the way back to Visual Studio 2003. The debugging features in Visual Studio are brilliant and have saved me countless hours over many years of developing .NET applications.

Wrong. Read Microsoft's policy https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/security-com... "As a customer of Office 365, you own and control your data. Microsoft does not use your data for anything other than providing you with the service that you have subscribed to. As a service provider, we do not scan your email, documents, or teams for advertising or for purposes that are not service-related. Microsoft doesn’t have access to uploaded content. Like OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, customer data stays within the tenant. You can check out more about our trust and security related information at the Microsoft Trust Center. Teams follows the same guidance and principles as the Microsoft Trust Center."

Because Teams actually has a decent privacy policy: "As a customer of Office 365, you own and control your data. Microsoft does not use your data for anything other than providing you with the service that you have subscribed to. As a service provider, we do not scan your email, documents, or teams for advertising or for purposes that are not service-related. Microsoft doesn’t have access to uploaded content. Like OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, customer data stays within the tenant. You can check out more about our trust and security related information at the Microsoft Trust Center. Teams follows the same guidance and principles as the Microsoft Trust Center" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/security-com...