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I can bet Please install JAVA and Flash plugin to continue... ):

Oh lord. Even Supermicro BMCs from 2020 still have Java applet support. On the plus side, it only does TLS v1.2 and serves certificates properly. Let's ignore that it's also very, very slow.

Edit: APC NMC2/3 don't allow of loading of conventional PEM PKCS#8 certificates. They require proprietary variations of "PKCS#12" certs and have no readily-available tool to change them. Also, APC's new owner has switched to a business model where they charge for firmware updates and refuse to patch devices without $$$$.

It's not a valid critique of lean or TPMS, it's the liability introduced with sole-source vendors. This a problem in every company that isn't vertically integrated and makes physical objects. "Irreplaceable supplier" must be made a non sequitur by deliberate incubation, partnering, incentivizing, and other strategies to ensure the health of suppliers providing critical inputs.

I don't really care what YT does. I already know they're going to silence meaningful content if their algorithms determine it to be "sad" or "violent".

Interestingly, there is much content lost, demonetized, and simply not made because they determine factual content to be "sad". There's an amateur reporter and retired commercial pilot in central California who determined he both wouldn't go viral and wouldn't make much money because journalism and facts aren't what YT rewards.

This manipulation and ads like it's a goddamn cable network make it a pointless waste of time.

I believe there were or are arbitrary pass generator apps that can slap a logo and various data into a custom pass.

Alternative solutions to barcodes are RFID/NFCs and geofenced authorization.

Yellow vests protests and Occupy Wall St. are examples of ineffective movements: lacking identification of root causes of problems, lacking specific demands to redress, lacking leaders, or lacking resolve. XR is also sort-of in this camp.

The unfortunate reality is declarations about existential peril and what we "should" be doing fall on deaf ears of policymakers and regulators where particular governments are de facto run by the billionaires. Most necessary changes cannot happen without first defenestrating corporate lobbyists and the money politicians receive. This won't happen by elections, by reform from within (Sen. John McCain discovered this), or by wishing for it. And honestly, most US politicians should be in prison because they do more than just take stacks of cash and gold bars to fund reelection media buys, many allow their attention and votes to be curried for it, and even propose bills verbatim from the lobbyists of their benefactors.

Change can only happen externally by many, sustained, nonviolent mass demonstrations sufficient to achieve specific policy objectives. ("World peace" and "save the planet" aren't policies, while "phase out all coal power plants in 5 years" is.)

In absence of the people demanding specific actions and changes, the "green revolution" will be half-assed for renewables in electricity (currently at 30% worldwide, may top out at 80-90%), but that's about it. No net negative global emissions and not much carbon sequestration. Ultra-processing and megafarming practices sure as shit won't change by debate or wishful thinking alone.

Commercial, profit-optimizing meat and dairy ag inexorably lead to GMO corn megafarms, CAFOs, and overuse of antibotics bringing the risks of antibiotic resistance, pandemics, climate change, and pollution of air, water, and soil.

What is missing is regulators mandating genuine sustainable practices and taxing and fining where appropriate. The absurd cruelty of CAFOs and using the atmosphere as an open-air sewer for methane and CO₂ must end.

Most problems stem from users conflating for-profit corporations for public commons. Nonprofit co-ops must provide critical infrastructure.

Who exactly is this prerogative "freeloader" you throw around so casually? Is there some service or good denied others involved?

A cynical perspective is also potentially possible: that it's greenwashing to distract from continued FF extraction. Both realities can coexist.

Until they make a commitment, timeline, and are excited about measurable progress ending FFs, they lack credibility that they're not the world's and Earth's Big Tobacco.

TL;DR: Google doesn't have to do a damn thing.

Apple won't enter search or social networking because Erik Neuenschwander would poke holes in its privacy and Tim Cook would ask how it would add value.

And there's no point in competing in hard-fought, expensive, entrenched categories without a mission and differentiation.

And Spotlight isn't a search engine in the web sense or in the monetizing other things sense. It's an OS-based indexing engine to find local and some web and app content. Windows has one, Linux does, and so on. If anything, I would first bet Microsoft monetizes placement of "rich content" whereas Apple would be unlikely to do so. (Retail Windows looks to me like Yahoo or AOL of the 90's, but as a Teams, OneDrive, and Office365 advertising engine.)

Record profits. Record layoffs. It's all about wage suppression by megacorps following the management consultant playbook.

The only path to workers seeing a fraction of their real contributions is by having a significant fraction of equity shares with fair precedence.