There will be many farmers trying to grow crops without fertilizer within the next twelve months.

I hope for your sake that you have spent the last half a decade practising how to grow your own food. Anything perishable and annually seeded is going to become hellishly expensive next year.

Basically, the straight of Hormuz needed to be fully open by the end of June in order for fertilizer to be cheap enough to be widely used by farmers next year. Since it isn’t going to be open, supply is going to be increasingly starved, and prices increasingly unaffordable the longer it stays closed. We could easily see widespread crop failures due to lack of fertilizer in places where industrial agriculture is dominant. And this will, of course, cascade down through other products like beef, pork, and chicken, as many farms absolutely rely on fertilizer-dependent crops to feed these animals. Food could quite literally become unaffordable for many people.

You have a network for employee’s personal phones and devices, correct? That still leads to the Internet, correct?

I mean, the entire point of such a network is to keep outside devices off of internal networks that have sensitive data. And because the insides of large buildings can be absolutely sucky at receiving LTE/5G data connections, employees can and will do anything needed to ensure they still have connectivity on personal devices. So just connect the router/bridge to that network, and Teams will be appropriately sanitized and think you are still at home.

I have seen very tiny router/bridges, clear down to an Ethernet dongle with a +5v USB power feed. Quite unobtrusive.

If possible: grab a router and install OpenWRT onto it, and turn it into a wireless bridge. Use the router to connect to the office WiFi, and have a wired connection to your laptop. Turn off the laptop’s wifi for good measure.

Alternatively, if work provides hard lines, bring your own router and turn off WiFi to provide a protected hardline.

There are many ways to prevent the computer from realizing what network you are on.

Who wants to bet that the county commissioner is raking in massive paycheques from flock?

I’ve been running my own eMail server for almost a quarter century, and I have no clue what all the fuss is about.

Sure, providers are getting very picky about what domains that they will receive eMails from. But that’s why I have gMail, Yahoo, and Microsoft webmail accounts - so I can train their systems by exchanging emails once a quarter.

And yes, you do have to be running whitelists and blacklists and tarpits and have a good Fail2Ban in place. And good geoIP system if you want to cut out regions that you are unlikely to ever have legitimate mail originate from. But that’s just common sense security.

My reaction, exactly.

Would love to be a fly on the boardroom wall of any one of those companies which did massive layoffs “because AI”. Probably lowkey panicking on how to get their devs back.

Would sincerely love to know the name of the company. You know, to avoid them. Yup. I’m sure that’s the reason.

And gay hate is even explicitly laid out in the quran. It’s not a “fringe” thing in the least.

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1. Actually text me the one-time passcode, rather than saying you sent it to me while instead texting it to the molten core of the earth.

Uhhh… how about NO??

In fact, as a casual security professional (it’s not a core part of my job, but I know a lot more than most ppl), I openly advocate making SMS and eMail illegal for transmitting one-time passcodes.

Why? Because both are critically insecure, cannot be adequately secured outside of laboratory or highly restrictive environments, and can be trivially hijacked.

The only one-time passcode that should be used are one-time password generators (TOTP) such as Google Authenticator or any other such method.

Yes, this requires a little more effort on the part of the site owner, but it’s worlds better than SMS or eMail, and far more user-friendly than forcing the user to open the company’s app just to receive the code (looking at you, Canadian banks and other businesses like Telus).

Oh no! Forbidden

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Why am I seeing this?
If you have any issues contact the site administrator and provide the following Request ID along with your browser details, specially like the User-Agent: fa68ec4c0b694396d50ce50a8cf4cb6b

Protected by go-away :: Request Id fa68ec4c0b694396d50ce50a8cf4cb6b

Just some basic browser protections, and I get this. Is this enshittified Cloudflare v2.0?

I am in IT, and personally speaking, with my own machines, I have never had these power settings not be obeyed.

And the only time when I have seen these settings “not be obeyed” in other systems is because either,

1. Someone or some other non-Microsoft software had dicked with power settings through the registry/GPO, or
2. I’ve been able to trace things down to hardware malfunctions or hardware discrepancies.

I have seen that type. The keyboard is usually inset a mm or three along with that indent extending to the edges, allowing airflow to continue even when the lid is closed.

And why couldn’t they have done that to the student loans system?

Like JFC, they could have instantly made themselves immune from trial-by-jury anywhere in America by doing that one tiny thing.

How do so many tech people not know about the power settings that can let the laptop run 100% even with the lid closed and on battery power?

Like, how stupid are they? Has AI really atrophied their tech skills that much?

Now if only Apple will let Firefox run its own rendering engine instead of Safari’s.

Like, that’s the only thing I don’t get. Other apps which are not web browsers, fine. Use Safari. But an actual web browser? FFS, let them use their own engine.

Or a vertically-sliding blade of some kind. A lot more theatrical, that one.

Thankfully that’s one of the first things I uninstall with every Windows computer I set up.

Downside is that this update might force a reinstall. Shit.

gmail is the only provider still sending me directly to spam

Do you have a gMail account? Start a convo with yourself by sending from the gMail account first. Also add your other eMail to the gMail address book.

It’s been about two decades since I had to do this for myself, but it worked well at the time.