“Remote technical support” is a very broad category.

Are MSP’s now non-compliant, I wonder…

It’s certainly because of scam call centres. The ones that call people and say that they are calling from Microsoft and that they are going to help you with a problem on your computer, and they convince you to install remote management software but then proceed to install malware or steal money from you.

Understandably Stripe does not want anything to do with such “businesses”.

Notice that it is listed under “Products and services that are unfair, predatory, or deceptive”.

Perhaps as long as you run a legitimate remote support business, and not a scam operation, Stripe will allow it?

How do you prove to Stripe that you are a legitimate tech support business?

Maybe if you can show them a contract with Microsoft for remote tech support. If you're more independent, good luck.

Or…art and literature enter a new two-tiered era with artistic and literary works made by humans, with other humans as witnesses to some or all of the process, becoming extreme-premium-items alongside AI-generated works, which are likely to become the fare of mainstream society, if the current wave continues unabated.

Consider: “Reserve requirements are a tool used by the central bank to increase or decrease the money supply in the economy and influence interest rates. Reserve requirements are currently set at ZERO as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.” ref: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/requiredreserves.asp

A mean reserve requirements are stupid and have no place in real risk assessment so that's a good thing.

How so?

I don't think it necessarily is adjusted for risk that specific banks take on as operators. It's likely set at some requirement to help the fed achieve its goal while also adjusting for median or 2 std dev risk.

This has existed in tech for a long time. We call it the “Pet Project”.

What you said at the end deeply resonated with me. I made a similar decision regarding music years ago and since giving up all aspirations of commercial success from music, the quality of what I am able to create has blossomed - and then tanks again the moment I so much as THINK of making a track to put up for sale.

So I came to the similar conclusion of playing only for myself and my family, and I am much happier with music as a result.

I recommend to anyone working on talent-development to try, the next time inspiration strikes, creating your next piece of art for an audience of one (Self) and see what happens. The results may surprise you.

If one works at Walmart, for example, one does not get to opt out of being filmed by the employer within the workplace.

For police, the neighborhood is the workplace, and the taxpaying citizen is the “Employer” of the police.

The logic which applies for one, should apply for the other.

All I can say is that it must take alot of confidence, for lack of a better term, to look at what time the sun goes down and to decide that you are going to change that.

Really they're looking at the time people wake up compared to when the sun rises and deciding they're going to change that.

Alot. But not all.

Every CPU cycle used by software, including an Operating System, depletes a limited pool of immediate resources.

If the same device and functionality I enjoy have not changed, then the room for concern arises.

I don’t know about this take, software updates when it comes to consumer products have never been mandatory, only perceived as mandatory in order to gain some new feature. As a developer, there are times we have to compromise old logic in order to add new logic. In other areas of life we call those changes progress.

But there's no distinction between a security patch and a feature update. And it's never just an update to only get new features. It's to get bug fixes and better compatibility with new programs (I'm thinking of libraries and dependencies). And there's the case of Windows and Chrome OS, where software updates cannot be opted out of by official means.

When I think of planned obsolescence and sorta-unintentional performance regressions on desktop operating systems, I'm instantly brought to YouTube's Polymer website and UWP. Two complicated things but they largely only benefit the developers of the software and have not actually delivered any features. Google is a huge part of the desktop world and they're not so "external" as pabs3 says and to me it's just part of the software right to repair movement.

I was intent on keeping this iPhone on iOS 14 until Apple released a statement that they had buried their plans to introduce what I see as spyware or the precursor to spyware.

Now 14 suddenly isn't an option anymore. Exploits are still found and the only way to patch them seems to be to go to iOS 15.

Luckily the latest Nokia clamshell phones have good mobile broadband support and also support Telegram and Signal it seems. With the price difference between a brand new iPhone and a brand new Nokia clamshell I can also buy a really good camera and then I think I got it sorted mostly.

Just off the top of my head, OS updates are mandatory if you do any mobile banking.

Banking apps have mechanisms to check if there's an update available and not give access unless you install it. You then can't install the app update unless the OS is sufficiently new.

But that's the bank choosing to do that for security reasons, not the operating system developer

> Polyphasic sleep seems to be the natural sleep-cycle of humanity, as proven through natural circadian rhythms.

Source?

> Sleeping for 8+ hours at one time, on a regular basis, may just not be natural for a significant percentage of humanity.

In which part of the world do healthy adults regularly sleep for 8+ hours?

> In which part of the world do healthy adults regularly sleep for 8+ hours?

Isn't it the default in the western world? That's what we do in my family at least... I haven't really heard of people not sleeping just one 8 hour sleep every night.

Or maybe you're making a reference to the chronic lack of sleep that seems to be the rule in the US, but it doesn't seem to be necessarily case elsewhere. Average sleeping time is just a little above 8 hours in France and Belgium, my countries.

I think that majority of people sleeps less - 7 and less. (Yes they are somewhat sleep deprived, little bit, but still) I remember reading sleep studies saying that if people sleep regularly and without alarm, it stabilizes around 7:45 on average.

Find a non-technical hobby and go so fully into that (visibly) that you become a magnet for others just getting into the hobby.

Being there is like living midway down a river. Just stay there and “they” will come.