Re: All your QWERTY belong to us...
Mrs 6 is clearly able to to that and/or has you to help. Mrs Community Centre, not so much.
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Anywhere where volunteers run things like the local community centre.
Not everyone gets along with doing things electronically and if they don't it's best not to try. I won't say it's an age thing because quite possibly she will be younger than I am. Apart from which it's not so long ago that I as a freelancer, found it perfectly convenient to produce similar paper invoices and pay taxes with the company cheque book..oh, dammit - it was a long time ago.
Until a few months ago SWMBO paid a local community centre for her weekly patchwork class's room rent with cheques. The community centre used a stationer's duplicate book to produce hand-written invoices. All very old-fashioned.
The centre's book-keeper retired at the end of last year. The lady who took over from him decided to go all modern and has some S/W that produces PDFs she emails out and payment by bank transfer. The first mailing included the full run of PDFs for every group that uses the centre. The next had the correct total but incorrect number of weeks which makes me think her invoicing S/W is a word processor and a clip-art template gussied up with the centre's name. The other day there was an email saying the last payment hadn't been made although our bank statement shows it leaving our account to the account used for the previous few months and presumably the correct one.
Paper invoices and cheques were much more reliable.
It gets a bit harder when you're working with historical material and you mostly day, month, year but the occasional "14th century". ISO is probably best if you allow truncation so the 14th century can simply be "13". (This is only one of the many problems with historical dates - Julian/Gregorian, dating by reference to saints' days and regnal years are others. It pays to give close attention to otherpeople's transalation of Regnal years - off-by-one is a hazard.)
Only time I was at CDG was a flight from a working trip to Naples (equally grotty if you spend all your time in a big factory) and the flight was grounded due to storms over the UK airport. Eventually diverted to Heathrow, car parked at Gatwick (or maybe t'other way about but client who'd booked flight was in Crawley). Come to think of it, the outbound flight was delayed because of a leaking fuel filler cap. Air travel!!!
"All servers shall have only one keyboard layout and it shall be US International"
Is this the physical keyboard or the keyboard layout setting? The real pain comes with an bootable USB drive when they differ, especially when the WiFi passphrase contains at least one of those characters that gets relocated.
The UK solution is that if you only have POTS it will be replaced by a low bandwidth internet connection that will support a VoIP service but nothing else. It still depends on FTTC being installed for everyone but less work than laying FTTP for everyone. We'll still have to wait & see what actually happens.
It's still beyond BT subsidiary PlusNet to tell anyone what they're going to do to implement this change. The excuse I was given was that it would confuse customers to tell them now. I'd have thought it would be a lot more confusing to wait until it happens to let them know. Maybe a decision made by someone with their retirement date pencilled in?
"a consistent experience across mobile phone UIs and a PC desktop"
All too often mobile phones have their UI elements positioned apparently at random. I've seen one where some control you'd expect to use only occasionally - IIRC the button to access configuration - was located bottom bar when other option, if they existed at all, were hard to find. If such little thought is given to the UI how much was given to other aspects - such as security?
"Initial criticisms centered on the administration's decision not to shoot the balloon down while it was over land for fear of the harm it could cause"
Perhaps it would be a good idea to take whatever of the gondola that survived the shooting down a few thousand feet above some suitable idiot's house and release it. It might help them get the message.
"As for 'having a backdoor' in strong encryption ... will someone send these idiots on a basic university mathematics course"
No. Just ask them to commission a proof of concept. It would, of course, have to pass scrutiny by independent experts to verify that the monitoring facility couldn't possibly provide any form of point of weakness.
Oddly enough they do tend to use the services they're attacking. They maybe don't realise they are encrypted because it's apt to leak out anyway - they leak it themselves whenever it becomes worth it to do so. E.g. handing it all over to a journalist to help them write their account of dealing with Covid.
The (partial) solution: use peer-to-peer messaging where the ONLY messaging software is resident on user end-points.....and the encryption protocols exist ONLY on the end-points. (So no dependencies on any third-party "service".)
1. Protocols are fine but you need software to implement them. I suppose this was what you meant to say.
2. How do you get that S/W onto the endpoints?
3. How do the peers get in touch with each other?
4. Have you actually looked at Signal?
Boris would and will say anything that he thinks will further his own interests with whoever he's talking to. H may well believe it until he has to say the opposite to someone else in a hours - or minutes time and will be entirely unaware of having contradicted himself. One of the things which slipped out when some of his staff started describing their time working for him was that they kept trying to stop him talking to anyone, at least when they weren't there.
"For example, at the time of Brexit, the claim that any problems created due to the border issue in Northern Ireland could be quickly and easily fixed by the application of modern technology."
Anyone with any intelligence would have realised that three mutually incompatible requirements created a problem beyond fixing other than by entirely removing one of them which was a political impossibility given that the third requirement was the one HMG had introduced.