They tread on him.

Not trying to be argumentative, but can’t Meta and governments already scrape everyone’s RSS feed in the Fediverse? It’s open; that’s the point.

Maybe if Russia wasn’t in Crimea, they wouldn’t have to worry about getting bombed?

Crazy idea

We have an article by Kaspersky Labs about why Kaspersky Labs’ software is just fine and totally not used as a back door by the Russian government.

Was the Kremlin spokesperson not available?

*ghoti

I have seen coöperate, but it is certainly uncommon.

Those are a fantastic value for the money.

They let you tickle your girlfriend at the office? That’s pretty progressive!

Right. Do they have a manager assigning them work? And then after a couple of weeks of mouse-juggling, no assignments done.

It sounds like poor management, too, aside from the mouse-jiggling.

NOBODY BEATS ME!

Ah, I didn’t understand how the app worked. Thanks!

PeerTube could use some love.

Pixelfed is pretty damn easy.

My car can detect if there’s someone in the passenger seat, and sends an alert if they didn’t fasten their seat belt.

No worries. Best wishes and good luck to you and your family.

Are you high?

Is that a requirement for a job in cybersecurity?

OK - this is going to be a crazy suggestion. Do you have any storytelling or entertainer chops? How do you feel in front of small audiences?

I am a part-time magician. (Thus my user name.) I started at about age 40, with a minor interest in magic, which grew over time until I started going pro. It hasn’t supplanted my regular job, but I currently get as much work as I can handle, and then some.

I joined a local club, the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM), but there are other groups: Society of American Magicians, Fellowship of Christian Magicians, and others. They are all over the world and in most major cities, holding local meetings.

You can become a strolling magician with a small repertoire of solid close-up tricks. I literally took one of my first close-up tricks out of the Mark Wilson’s Course of Magic - a beginner’s book. But most beginner’s magic books have a couple or more of hidden gems in there that are powerful stuff. There are absolutely amazing tricks that require no sleight-of-hand whatsoever. You can launch a complete career out of a beginner’s book. I use some in my own pro repertoire. Note that, magic is about 95% storytelling skill and acting, and only about 5% special effects.

After probably not enough preparation on my part, a friend asked me if I wanted to do walk-around magic at an after-prom party for a little money. That started me off. After that, I developed a few more tricks for a stage/parlor act. About 3-7 tricks can make a parlor act, depending how good you are at the communication/acting stuff. I’ve seen magicians entertain with one trick for 20-30 minutes, and it works.

Here is a step-by-step plan for an entertainer part-time-pro career path:

1. Start doing free shows. Say yes to any that will let you perform and be bad.
2. Do a bunch of shows. Learn more and expand your repertoire.
3. Once you seem to be getting too many shows, and you are getting better with more experience, increase your prices just a bit. Go to Step 2.

I can give more details if anyone is interested. AMA.

Edit to add: I don’t know to what degree your kid has autism, but I’m come across an autistic fellow that became a magician, and uses his autism in his act. He uses magic to bring autism awareness. He’s a heckuva nice guy, too. Check out magician Cody Clark in the Louisville, Kentucky area - from the same magic club that Mac King and Lance Burton came from! Cody tours nationally.

Yes, and if you ask a lawyer, they’ll say “it depends”.

And the thing it usually depends on, is “how much money you got?” 😎

Maybe?

Again, I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve read a lot of EULAs.

However, to challenge that, your have to sue Microsoft, against their team of super-lawyers, the best that Microsoft could buy. And you’d have to do it in the jurisdiction started in the license agreement, which is undoubtedly friendly to Microsoft. And you’d have to have some sort of standing, meaning you have suffered some actual damage from the thing you arguing against, and that you want remedied. So you sue for damages, but it can only be for the amount that you were actually damaged, which is problematic - especially for free Microsoft software. But for paid software, I’m sure there’s a return/refund clause which would make you whole.

And you are paying your own lawyer to Microsoft, right? How long do you plan to sue Microsoft? I guarantee they have deeper pockets than you, and can outlast you in court. And remember if you lose the lawsuit, you will probably be countersued for the cost of their lawyers.

Basically the EULAs are written by Microsoft’s very expensive lawyers. Other corporations cower in fear of Microsoft’s lawyers; I know the ones in my office did. And the rewards you’d get would be a Pyrrhic victory at best. “Do you feel lucky, punk?”

Sorry, this may be unpopular, but software license click-through agreements are enforceable.

Source: I’m not a lawyer, but worked in a software contracts office with lawyers, so some of it ruined off. Essentially your legal options are, use the software according to the license agreement, or don’t use the software.

A third option would be, I guess, use open source software so you don’t deal with that bullshit.

Edit: Part of it is wrapped up in the Uniform Commercial Code, which is a whole bundle of standard laws which is quite complex. Basically you pays your money, and you get a thing, but there are all sports of knobs and levers to handle every contingency. You can nope out of the transaction, but you don’t get the thing.