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I switched from Amazon music after many years to Spotify, as Amazon's App was just terrible. Never worked well offline in my watch or phone (Apple).

I only went to Spotify because my kids wanted it. The integration for Spotify is still very good, compared to Amazon Music.

I work in government. Link 1 (2018) is essentially a dream. All of government got forced to use MS Dynamics CRM. Basically, anybody with a software requirement for case management, had to use MS Dynamics. I recommended we use Drupal in 2011. That was killed because everything had to be MS. I'm kind of surprised that it is in there given that nobody was allowed to use.

Link 0 and 2 are essentially from TBS and CDS. They coexist together. They are essentially working at the very top as entities that gather information from other departments. They can do whatever they want because they help write the rules.

I'm not trying to discredit your post, just saying that as someone who has brought OSS tools to development at the government and tried to use OSS tools for client (I failed at that), it is nearly impossible at the moment. We are married to Microsoft and its cloud.

I do agree, that it may take an entire generation because right now, 190+ departments are not exactly jumping to FOSS, and in many situations, they are down right told you are not allowed.

In addition, the current de facto document management system is from OpenText. Although many just use Sharepoint Online.

Ironically, as everything moves to the cloud, it would be easier to move to a solution that is FOSS based, and based in the cloud. Technology has matured enough that you don't need executables on a desktop, you just need a browser pointing to a website.

Less than $10,000, depending on what CPU and storage you select.

Agreed. I worked on the Canadian side of the legal side and there is a very comprehensive process for redaction. Nobody does redaction unless they follow the process. Never seen anyone 15+ years do something silly like this in the office.

Adobe Pro, when used properly, will redact anything in a PDF permanently.

Whoever did these "bad" redactions doesn't even know how to use a PDF Editor.

We have paralegals and lawyers "mark for redaction", then review the documents, then "apply redactions". It's literally be done by thousands of lawyers/paralegals for decades. This is just someone not following the process and procedure, and making mistakes. It's actually quite amateurish. You should never, ever screw up redactions if you follow the proper process. Good on the X-ray project on trying to find errors.

I just want to add, applying black highlights on top of text is in fact, the "old" way of redaction, as it was common to do this, and then simply print the paper with the black bars, and send the paper as the final product.

Whoever did it is probably old, and may have done it thinking they were going to print it on paper afterwards!! Just guessing as to why someone would do this.

Yeah, we were locking down the phones anyways, so in terms of features, they didn't use much. However, it's interesting you mention email because even in 2019, the Android system was better for email, and supported encrypted emails, Apple did not. We were told it was in the works, and a few months later, we could send encrypted email. We also had some weird bugs to iron out.

I always remind myself, that Apple does not care for corporate clients, just consumers. So I had to assess what we absolutely needed, vs what could be taken away.

That's good to know. I'm out of that space and glad to see they are much better now.

Not surprised. I met with Samsung for work purposes to buy hundreds of phone, and the best they could do with their flagship phones was offer 3 years of security updates. This was around 2019. Apple, who didn't meet with us, was around 6 years from our estimate.

From a ROI, for corporate phones, Apple iPhones had a longer lifespan, which is why we bought hundreds of iPhones, and not Androids.

On a personal note, I had the Nexus S, the Nexus 5, and they all died a horrible death either from lack of updates, or just having the physical button break, and the microphone stop working.

And let us not speak of Sony Xperia Z5, which all of sudden removed their fingerprint sensor due to a North American patent problem. They also broke their bluetooth audio so that song names STOPPED being displayed. That was all in a span of less than 3 years.

Never again Sony Android phones.

At that point, I got fed up of custom ROMS and joined the "iPhone, it just works" group and moved on.

Agreed! I have a 2020 Macbook Air (Apple Silicon) and it's been at 81% for about a year. Heck, it's now at 82% according to System Information, but Coconut Battery says 77.4%. Not sure which is correct any more, and if Apple is doing some funny business. Battery cycle count is at 845, with a manufacture date of 2020-10-05. So 1,770 days old.

I'll try and explain it simply with no technical information.

An API, or Application Programming Interface, allows you to interact with software using pre-defined agreements, or contracts.

Think of API as a set of legal contracts. I use this analogy when explaining it to lawyers.

If I give you $5, and I say give me an Apple, you will give me an Apple, as expected by the predefined contract, that I receive an Apple.

If I end up receiving Broccoli, then what we have here, is a bug. Or, in other words, the contract has been broken.

Now apply this to other domains in commerce - e.g. I give an ID of an item in a store, and I get back the name of the item, it's price, and if it's stock.

The short answer is: Apple would give away control of their products if they did.

Enterprise/Corporate/Govt all have tedious amounts of niche needs and requirements to endlessly grow.

Can’t find the quote as I’m on my phone, but when a former exec from Apple left and joined a corp, and asked Steve if he wanted to expand to corporate, he said he won’t stop him, but he isn’t going to help him either. (I’m sure I butchered it), but something like that.

Remember, IT = Control.

Private meetings are fine. No issue there. The judge however, erred. He should've never allowed the disclosure to not be disclosed. You can redact information that is harmful to the state, or is not relevant to the case, but in this case, the fact that the system that was being used as the basis of detection of fraud, was in itself being audited, should've meant that it was to be included and disclosed to defense.

In my non-lawyer opinion, the judge is the one that erred, and it is compounded that this matter came up in a private meeting without defense, thereby supporting the idea that private meetings should never be had, when there are always exceptions for them.

So yes, this looks really bad all around.

This makes sense, because one of the more famous colonies that the Phoenicians established was Carthage, which is modern day Tunis. Since they had already invented creating purple back in Phoenicia (modern day Lebanon), they simply brought over their traditions/skills along.

I have a DVD from 2004 about them, as I did the National Genographic Project DNA test way back before it was popular, but I must admit, the DVD is so-so. I think afterwards, they got more and more data, and were able to track where they travelled to based on artifacts and DNA. Lots of websites about them, but hard to say what is what. I would trust information by Dr. Pierre Zalloua as he uses DNA analysis for his research into the Phoenicians.