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The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who takes things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.
https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/%e2%80%9cstealing-common-goose%e2%80%9d/
Intelligent is a euphemism for invasive.
~~Consumers~~ People who earn a living must have real choice in authentication options. It's unacceptable to freeze out open standards because an internal marketing projection suggests the bank will make a few dollars doing so. If I only want to employ login+passphrase+TOTP, that's my prerogative.
Corporations value staying with the herd, so apps are a done-deal regardless of need or suitability to the service offering. And private commerce tends to view apps primarily as advertising real estate. Hence why I want a bank with the sense to respect customer hardware.
You got it actually. I want the 2FA seed exportable so I can use my own app for 2FA login. Transaction authorisation I'm agnostic on (TOTP or SMS code).
Forcing reliance on an in-house app is user-hostile.
Thanks (I guess) for letting me know what to avoid. Disappointing.
Call me a cynic but I suspect the biggest 'contributor' to r/product will end up being product's marketing department account, likewise with r/country and party-political apparatchiks. The move is elegant in a way: Reddit Inc can ruin true democratic operation of subs by turning subscribers into shareholders (which wards off repeats of mod activism) and simultaneously provide further cover to astroturfers (lots of points = Time and Effort™ = good faith actor).
Coffee is one thing, but the real crime is bags of chips >$5. At least a good cup had some effort put into it.
One of the great traditions of FOSS is its refusal to adopt that corporate visual design ethos which turns every logo into an abstract solid-colour silhouette optimised for mobile rendering. I like GIMP's plucky rodent, for example. A counter-example would be the sad [d]evolution of the Firefox.
Good:
- The supporting cast
- Watching the Entity do its thing
- Rome, Austria, desert segments
- The lead bounty hunters' introspection about taking sides
- The subtext about trust of technology and its role in parsing everyday reality
Bad:
- The entire Venice segment. Cringe.
- Further to above, clunky plotting. It's the real villain of this film. Things feel strained in a way that Fallout never did.
- Gabriel. Who cares?
If the subscription service has a retail shopfront I can visit and sample the coffee at, I'm more comfortable signing up. But for me it's moot because I buy beans in person anyhow. I would say freshness and roast type (espresso versus filter) is just as important in determining whether you'll like a given coffee. I used to be bigger on single origin bags (still like them) but it's possible to get used to a versatile, consistent blend.
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