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Comment Re:Spotify has a content upload problem (Score 1) 22

cesspool

what % of the platform is the content you mention? I use Spotify the majority of my conscious hours and encounter nothing but smooth sailing.

AI trash

Related, this is the AI garbage for sale being show in ads on /. So far, slashdot is looking more like the cesspool than Spotify. Not saying the things you mentioned don't exist on Spotify - it's not news to me at all. Just wondering what % of the time it is in front of you.

Comment Re:I thought it was the opposite... (Score 1) 213

I guess what I am kinda saying is NAT may have started for one reason, but it evolved to be the grease between mine and not-mine. Originally it was probably a wet dream to have public IP addresses internally when companies were smaller and desks still had pen and paper. But now? I'm keeping the reserved addresses.

Comment Re:I thought it was the opposite... (Score 1) 213

Yes this, for a while it seemed the IPv6 hated the thought of an IPv6 RFC1918 equivalent. I've seen a lot of people say with the gazillion IPv6 addresses you would get, you can use them internally.

No

I don't want my internal network to have our IPv6 address from our ISP. An ISP can change your IPv6 address at any time, they could go out of business, they could be acquired, etc. Then what? I have to change the internal addressing for the entire company? Nah. The IPv6 address from the ISP can exist on their side of our demarcation point. I'm not going to number things internally if that number can be revoked.

Comment Re:How the game is played (Score 1) 32

for not preparing the top dog to answer that particular question in a way that would be least-bad for Intuit

Funny how there are people who defend the ROI of a CEO being in the millions, allegedly because they do something that a 5 dollar wrench could not. Meanwhile, as you point out, this super mega amazing CEO's needed their hands held to not paint their own company in a negative light.

Comment Re:Is it that hard to cancel? (Score 3, Interesting) 89

Seems like babysitting to me forcing companies to make it easier to cancel a subscription. Is the public really that slow where they can't figure how to stop a sub?

To the anti-government-at-all-costs crowd..
There's a reason I want the government to interject in some B2C matters.

Gone are the days where you can just show up to an unethical or immoral business owner and tar and feather them, or worse. If the government says I cannot take a hammer to the leg of the company who just hangs up every time I try to cancel a service, then I expect the government to do for me what I am not allowed to do.

Pick one.

Comment Re:Meh all around (Score 1) 21

Shoulda thought it out a bit more before submitting comment.
I'm not downplaying the malice that can come from a compromised WHOIS setup. Not at all. My comments were about how I don't think CA's should be relying on WHOIS to begin with. There are better ways than relying on WHOIS. From the article and summary:

One of the greatest was the ability to dictate the email address certificate authority GlobalSign used to determine if a party applying for a TLS certificate was the rightful owner of the domain name the certificate would apply to.

Just use a DNS record to dictate the same email address list(s).

Comment Meh all around (Score 1) 21

I disagree with others that we need CA's to check D&B directories. I don't think it is the job of the lower layers of the OSI model to deal with identity verification.

Also I don't agree that WHOIS is totally to blame. CA's that want to use email verification should have the domain side of the email address locked. That's what a few CA's for wildcards do. No WHOIS lookup. You want a CA for example.com? They aren't asking a WHOIS to see if example.com is actually managed by billy@yahoo.com. Your options are admin@example.com, webmaster@example.com, or pick another method such as a DNS entry.

Comment Re:Why do you need a settings screen? (Score 3, Insightful) 197

Funny you mention sound, I just noticed an oddity on my Windows 11 machine this morning. If I pop the start menu and type sound, then click on Sound Settings, it takes me to... Settings. Just general settings. Not the sound settings dialog like it used to take me directly to.

I have the same overall issue as you - they haven't even hit feature parity with "Settings" after like 10 years, but want to yank control panel. This is par for the course for many companies these days. Version 2.0 is here! We are going to switch next month! Even though Version 2.0 is missing about 50% of what version 1.0 had...

Comment Re:not your find command (Score 2) 82

The worst offender of this is forum software (whatever powers Amazon Seller community) that requires a minimum number of characters to search. Meanwhile, the browser search that they intercepted has no such limitation.

I noticed this when I was looking for a 2-character code in a thread on state tax. Couldn't search for a state because 2 characters weren't enough.


I wish I got paid to be as stupid as most people.

Comment Re:Google docs is trash (Score 1) 18

Your local backups are worthless.

businesses that now depend

Businesses use backups that actually give you a file that isn't just a shortcut. See AFI, Datto, Spanning, etc. And then some businesses make sure mission-critical spreadsheets have CSV backups.

Civilization is doomed.

Huh, alright. My tenure at our company (using Google Workspace since 2011) has been smooth, and my bank account/life feel like the opposite of doom, but okay.

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