I've once tried to get a VPS from OVH and my account was immediately blocked after trying to pay for it with my debit card based on who knows what reason. My card has never been rejected before. The helpdesk didn't tell me the reason saying "they don't have access to that information" (ridiculous) and I could try uploading scans of my ID to their system. They said it as if they weren't sure themselves on what I should do. Thank you, but no. I would never host anything on OVH. There are other much better hosting providers in Europe.
Great news. Meanwhile, diabetes type 1 remains an incurable disease. I feel like humanity failed people with diabetes type 1. You could argue it's easier to destroy cells (while curing cancer) than create them (as it would be required in curing diabetes type 1), but it nonetheless feels surreal we still don't have a cure despite all of the technological progress. While it's getting worse and the number of affected people grows every year.
A woman in China received a transplant of pancreatic beta cells derived from her own, induced pluripotent stem cells. She was able to go off insulin, even a year out.
Life expectancy for T1D diagnosis in 1980 is 15 years longer than those diagnosed in the 1960s.
Life expectancy seems to continue to trend upwards.
My wife is alive and healthy with T1D, which doesn't matter at all for your claim, but the aggregate evidence for all T1D seems far removed from humanity failing diabetics.
There are two types of people on a campus: people love the freewheeling academic environment and really get the mission, and people who would work in corporate except they aren’t competent enough.
And, I want to be clear—I’ve met a ton of the former. Really, I’m not down on universities at all. They are full of wonderful people fighting against the corporatization and just, like, trying to remain human.
But the latter would absolutely implement corporate style surveillance dystopia at the drop of a hat. Except, again, they’d do it in the dumbest way possible, so it would somehow be even slower and shittier than the bloatware you get on your corporate laptop.
worse, a bright eyed smart guy with a young family gets an offer of a lifetime to lead IT at a world-class University based on long stable performance at a low-profile place. The offers start getting exchanged, housing and schools are looked at with cautious optimism and oh, that new paycheck. But as the meetings get serious and papers get signed, there is a certain requirement.. we are upgrading our networks.. in particular the routers.. and our email system is from the stone age. "We" are looking at these certain routers, the new IT director is informed.. this deal has been in the works for a long time. You will have the first duty to implement this giant change. Yes, the routers do "deep packet" inspection but we have government contracts here, this is National Security... Some departments will complain, you will have to meet with them..
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> I was unpleasantly surprised to see Accenture on the list of bad employers who spy on their employees with AI.
for someone with the username 'cynicalsecurity' this is surprising to hear :) i don't think there are any global for-profit consulting firms who are guided by any kind of strong moral/ethical compass.
In my experience, small businesses are actually the ones that love to spy. There's really no tech oversight so when the owner asks for access, they get it. Whereas if a middle manager in an enterprise company asks to see their reports mailboxes, security will tell them to get fucked.
This. Coming from MSP world, the number of SMBs who harbor such an intense hatred of their own workers to the point of demanding total surveillance is basically all of them; customers refusing surveillance packages are the exception, not the norm.
Irony is that surveillance cuts both ways, and big companies know it. Any data you collect can and will be subpoenaed at some point, and that’ll multiply your damages paid out in the process.
There are already complaints about surveillance of academics and students during lectures in my country by a certain non-American government. Also when it comes to healthcare, there are many companies competing to get in that door as we speak.
Maybe, but the current US administration is doing its best to destroy #1, #2, and #4. So that leaves healthcare, which is probably only "protected" because it has already developed different flavors of dystopia.
Yes I oppose paper straws because they get soggy quickly, still contain plastic and of a much more dangerous type (PFAS).
The old plastic straws hardly shed while drinking. The new ones the paper gets soggy and it disintegrates and leaves the pfas coating mixed into your drink. Nice... :X
I do, it's the ice that hurts my teeth a lot without one. And without ice it's too warm again (also on the ordering machines these days you can't select without ice).
Also with alcoholic drinks eg rum colas it's easier to drink more slowly with them.
So instead of drinking more slowly and taking smaller sips we have to use a plastic device we throw away after, got it. Doesn't seem very smart to me honestly.
As I said, "almost no one needs" but your example isn't what I meant. Let's say someone with a disability that can'd use a cup.
We should. But even small baby step measures with no downsides like plastic bag bans are wildly contentious.
I live in a county that's enacted one, and it's been unambiguously an improvement for the area on top of the core goal of "reduce plastic waste". But visiters look at me like I live in East Germany when I mention that.
I don't say this to discredit the idea, but it's politically treacherous, and not a lot of people are willing to stick their necks out for the right thing.
After a certain point we have to force consumer's hands and tell them to get the fuck over it.
The level of inconvenience added to my life by not using plastic bags is so unbelievably small it's not even worth the oxygen I would need to spend to express my discomfort. It's really, really not a big deal.
The fact that some people are extraordinarily high-stress and enjoy making problems out of nothing should not be our concern. Let's not optimize for those people, they'll never be happy anyway.
Here they tax the bags. I don't use them so much, only if I really need them.
The problem is, sometimes you do need them because you had to change plans and didn't bring any bags. I don't own a car or anything where I can leave them. Often leave the house without even a backpack.
And paper bags don't work when it rains or when you need to bring heavy stuff like drinks.
The rain complaint is fair, but I frequent several grocery stores that only use paper bags, and when I buy heavy stuff, they just double the bags. Never have had a problem with that.
Hmm I often buy 3 or 4 2L bottles and in my experience that is wayy too heavy for paper bags.
And my water, I buy it in 6-packs of 2L, they come plastic-wrapped with a handle so you can carry them more easily. The tapwater in my city is not drinkable.
They can't really help it. It's just in a subtropical climate and ancient piping they need to put quite a lot of chlorine in it to avoid bacterial buildup like legionella which can kill people.
