Hmm, South Africa is not exempt, because they are not part of the Visa Waver program. (No country in Africa is part of that program, according to [1].)
SA had a stint of issues with illegitimate but real passport being issued via fraud so think it'll take a while till they make any 1st world waiver lists again
> Consistent with President Trump’s Executive Order on Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa, the Department of State is coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security to consider eligibility for U.S. refugee resettlement for people who are of Afrikaner ethnicity or a member of a racial minority in South Africa who are victims of government-sponsored race-based discrimination.
A lot of the folks in trump's cabinet are pro-apartheid white supremacists. they think white people in SA are the victims. Stephen Miller is a great example.
I'm not disagreeing with ya, just adding more context.
But Israel, which routinely denies entry (at the border, after flying halfway around the world!) to American citizens of Arab or Palestinian heritage in contravention of the rules and stipulations of the Visa Waiver Program, is (after Biden pushed to get them into the program).
Just the other day had to update our offering on the Azure marketplace. It had been a while. What a complete shitshow. From getting logged it (!!!!) to figuring out the new permissions needed to publish. The ui/ux was astoundingly horrible. It blows me away anyone uses this shite.
Re the Amazon card, it used to be offered through Synchrony Bank (I think I got the name right). I had a lot of weird issues with them and their customer service was very difficult to get ahold of and were terrible once you did. I ended up canceling the card.
That’s the Amazon Store Card, which (at least used to) only works on Amazon.com.
The Prime credit card is issued by Chase. I closed mine and stopped patronizing Amazon.com around the time Bezos started meddling with the Washington Post, so I may be out of the loop on how things work now.
Can you stop tomorrow? If so, then no. If you make excuses why you can’t or shouldn’t, or when you try you have physical or psychological problems, then yes.
I 100% agree with OPs take, though I don't really mind it as much as he does. I do hope the changes will be rolled back in 27, or at least controls given to us that allow us to roll back changes.
I have not found one since the CA/BF voted to require hardware security modules for signing certificates. The cheapest option for an individual is via Microsoft, $10/month and a relatively painless identify verification lets you do cloud signing. They have enabled and disabled signups for the individual option, though, and it's unclear if it will be there permanently. Other options are ~$300/year and up. Also annoying is that Azure cloud signing works on GitHub Windows runners but not GitLab ones.
I’m not super familiar with windows code signing anymore but fewer people care about it on windows (because it isn’t required). It’s definitely a small hurdle to be sure but I think you’d really only lose out on enterprise users at that point. I think code signing might only matter if the installer is built in certain ways (i.e. it’s an exe instead of using an msi to install, if someone knows better please correct this).
If your target is enterprise users convince IT users of its value and they will eventually make exceptions in their orgs for it no matter what signed or not.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program#:~:text=As...
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