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by consonaut 2mo ago
I mean, I'm not going to defend Onedrive (aside form saying it "mostly works just like the rest") but how is it the app or the vendors fault that someone send you a link that required an account to access? There is an "a
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by consonaut 2mo ago
It's e2ee and only part of your icloud backup if you enable it. And you can separately manage read/write access from other apps. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec88be9900f/...
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by consonaut 9mo ago
Well, then you might want to look up tk2dl, because it just links to Twitter content. It gets disgusting fairly quickly though.
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by consonaut 9mo ago
How about policing CSAM at all? I can still vividly remember firehose API access and all the horrible stuff you would see on there. And if you look at sites like tk2dl you can still see most of the horrible stuff that does not get taken dow
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by consonaut 9mo ago
It's included in the ios photo gallery. I think this is a separate release of the tech underneath.
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by consonaut 11mo ago
Your on premise exchange server has zero connections to outlook.com. OWA (Outlook Web Access) looks similar to outlook.com but has otherwise nothing to do with it.
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by consonaut 1y ago
If you try to use the phrase with Apple Intelligence (e.g. in Notes asking for a rewrite) it will just say "Writing tools unavailable". Maybe it's an easy test to ensure the filters are loaded with a phrase unlikely to be use
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by consonaut 6y ago
No one rational makes absolute comments on the internet. Maybe university IT departments are staffed by people. Maybe even at the college board it's just some IT guys trying to keep a shitty platform working. Maybe they did the best th
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by consonaut 6y ago
> I suspect few would know much beyond that, and most would not have had much reason to worry about converting between formats. Ok, first of, why should I (as an institution) care about the people unable to fulfil the conditions of my te
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by consonaut 6y ago
I'm not overestimating them. I see lots of college admission files, I know how inept most high school graduates are. I would like to see a higher base standard because frankly these issues are not going away for them and I don't s
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by consonaut 6y ago
else if (!isAllowedExtension) error = { title: 'This file type is not acceptable.', details: 'Please check the requirements, save your file in one of the accepted formats, and resubmit.' } Or, may
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by consonaut 6y ago
Out of curiosity which office did you work in between 2007 and 2018 when you started working for stripe? How is your teams WFH experience within stripe?
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by consonaut 6y ago
Sadly, it's not. I've had lots students who would use the Opera VPN or one of the "free" anti-virus providers VPNs because they got sold (by adds or dumb friends) that it would be safer. You seriously over-estimate the &
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by consonaut 6y ago
Yes, if you want to use a cell phone and/or a computer to complete your tasks you should have some basic knowledge about how it operates. You can shift responsibility for that knowledge wherever you want but I would say that at the age
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by consonaut 6y ago
It's not an explicit category on the test and I never debated that. It might be an implicit requirement though. Just how when you take your drivers test you should actually be able to operate your vehicle and know the laws around opera
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by consonaut 6y ago
>I agree, when It's part of the subject in test. I don't see any reasonable cause for a student to have to know about file types to submit a test, if that test isn't about file types. I don't, for example, expect my d
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by consonaut 6y ago
Well, I disagree. I think "media competence" is more important than spelling or grammar and should be something expected of someone entering tertiary education.
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by consonaut 6y ago
You would be surprised how many students use an iphone and a macbook but are unwilling to use safari (or icloud, photos) because of privacy concerns. If you stay in the "regular" apple workflow everything is fine: iphone camera -&
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by consonaut 6y ago
> esoteric technical requirements Knowing a file type is an "esoteric technical requirement" ? Yes, this comment is for real. I'm the head of IT for a university and we do online applications. We actually accept everything
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by consonaut 6y ago
> If I may restate your position: "If a student uploads an image in the wrong format then it is acceptable for their entire test to be invalid and they can retake the entire exam." Yes, being able to understand the conditions s
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by consonaut 6y ago
This whole blame game is weird. Could the college board have handled this better or have a better upload mechanism? Sure. Could apple be more clear about the way they are storing and transferring photos? Sure, finder on my macbook actually
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by consonaut 6y ago
The site will always try to trigger the registered protocol handler but couldn't you just block the handler?
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by consonaut 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why did/do you not use the Zoom web version? I haven't tried their linux client but if it sucks there is an alternative. The "it just works" crowd probably uses mostly Windows/Mac OS, iOS/Andr
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by consonaut 6y ago
Just as an FYI 2 weeks later... We decided on not enforcing Zoom accounts for our students for various reasons. So the PRC might have IP address access to a SIP/Zoom server but this is not something we, as a small university, can solve
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by consonaut 6y ago
As someone who has recently adopted Zoom and who has to justify this decision quite a lot, my question is where are all the exploits? If any of this is easily exploitable there would be such a shitstorm about it. Considering the current usa
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by consonaut 6y ago
Zoom claims to be GDPR compliant ( https://zoom.us/de-de/gdpr.html ). Frankly, ensuring a company claims compliance is as far as I can go. I'm still hoping that if a company intentionally lies about this they will g
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by consonaut 6y ago
Correct, and if a Zoom representative would have lied to me that would factor into my decision. Frankly though, for student lectures and faculty meetings I don't care about their encryption (as long as they do TLS for client->server
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by consonaut 6y ago
> And just as Niemoeller's verse warns, by then it will be too late. But, this is just wrong. In Germany we did speak out when they came for the communists, the socialists, the unions and the jews. Niemöllers argument was relevant i
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by consonaut 6y ago
I did find it, it was Eric Raymond and "The Luxury of Ignorance" http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
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by consonaut 6y ago
I'm not going to play "guess what my username means" with you, sorry. I'm also not going to play "who knows more people that lived through the 3rd reich" with you. Me administering a Zoom account for my fellow

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