I know, I have seen them.

I was sysadmin for a Bankruptcy and Insolvency Firm for more than a decade and walked into 100s of businesses on the point of failure. Many of them could not be saved simply because their systems were so bad it was better for a buyer to buy their equipment and start with a clean sheet.

The ice cream business was going under because the partner who had been the access self starter had an argument with the others and had walked out 18months ago.

The access system ran the entire business (accounting and wages were on other programs but the db feed them data) and he was the only one who had any idea.

Shit started to go wrong and they had no idea what to do.

I believe you. I can even guess the story.

In the late 80s/early 90s a staff member (self taught in office/access) quickly threw together something at the request of a manager as a stop gap wile a new proper system was specked out.

The person learned as they went and the system grew in functionality and complexity until the term spaghetti code was a massive understatement. It became their job.

The new proper system never arrived and they have been making do for the past 30-40 years.

I ran into the same thing a decade or so ago and it was a nightmare, but it was just an ice cream franchise, not prison related

The prisoner transport system ran on MS access lol

This is just…Well, if you wrote a prison escape movie that involved accessing an Access DB to reroute a transport you would be laughed at.

True but the problem is that they see 1,000,000s of people using the free version and think they are leaving money on the table by not charging and assume ~50% will happily pay for it when the conversion rate from free to paid is usually closer to 1% than it is to 50%.

Giving something away for free then expecting to make people pay for it is always a winning strategy…

It still works

Yes and allowing beeper to MaInTheMiddle your messages does not present any security issues at all.

If you currently have more than the allotted 50 notes or one notebook, Evernote says that you’ll still be able to “view, edit, export, share, and delete existing notes and notebooks.”

But you will not be able to create any new ones…

But given that, right now, free users can have up to 100,000 notes and up to 250 notebooks, heavy users who have relied on the free version might immediately run into the new limits once December 4th rolls around.

Welp, time to export your notes while you still can. My prediction is this will change within 12 months when they fail to convert free accounts into paid subs.

EG: As of 1 july 2024 export of notes will require a paid subscription.

Cheers for the heads up.

beeper does look interesting but I am weary of sign up and we will tell you when you can join type apps.

And this rings a few alarm bells for me:

if you send a message from Beeper to a friend on WhatsApp, the message is encrypted on your Beeper client, sent to the Beeper web service, which decrypts and re-encrypts the message with WhatsApp’s proprietary encryption protocol.

I would love for this to work but that alone has a host of issues around third party trust.

New European legislation is coming into effect in 2024 and will force iMessage and WhatsApp to expose an interoperable end-to-end-encrypted API. Our servers are located in Europe, and we will switch to this open interface as soon as it is ready.

Sadly, not being in the EU means I will likely pass on this but is sounds great for EU residents when the above is implemented.

Log in with your existing Apple ID username or create a new account to start sending and receiving blue bubbles.

So I need an apple ID to use this?

Pass.

If you’re a Phone (2) user in one of the select countries where Nothing Chats is available, you can download the messaging app from the Google Play Store.

So it only works in a few countries?

Pass.

And it only works on one OEM’s phones?

Massive Pass.

If protecting teen safety was not generating a profit or avoiding a cost, they would have no incentive to do so.

This is not a defence of them but a comment on the lack of regulation they operate under.

ublock origion, if anyone needs to know which one to use…

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This new arrangement of deck chairs will make the Titanic’s voyage perfect.

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but I use the Cookie AutoDelete extension and you can whitelist domains so they are not deleted.

Because google gives mozilla a huge chunk of change every year. Mainly to stave off anti-trust claims by ensuring firefox says alive.

That allows us to keep using ff and to add tracking blocker extensions to our browser…

From some reports I have read about his time in the white house it had definitely started before he left office.

Cheers for the info.

Has an NFT as proof of ownership ever actually been tested in a court of law?

Until it does, the claims the NFT shills make mean zero.

Nah, that was just a spelling mistake from a non-american, I have never heard of Donald Regan (and don’t know if that is a joke or not)

I am not american…

It is possible to know the history of another country but get something wrong occasionally.

Correcting spelling mistakes is the lowest rung of internet comments…