Dear corp world: I actually really like returning to office and being with people in person. But all those pre-8am and after-5pm meetings I've been attending to make life easier on other timezones were bought with commute savings.

You can have RTO OR 7am meetings but not both.

Republicans keep winning elections because they, unlike Democrats, are willing to hold their noses and vote for their own. You think evangelicals like that Trump fucked a porn star while his wife was home caring for their newborn and then covertly paid her to keep quiet? Of course not. You think Blacks for Trump or Women for Trump like that he's a racist and a rapist. Wrong again.

And yet, all these people are going to show up to the polls and vote for Orange Felon, and they're going to encourage everyone they know to do the same. And as a result, Trump stands a very good chance of winning.

Democrats, on the other hand . . . well, too many of them are willing to let the whole house burn down rather than vote for someone because he doesn't tick every box.

It occurs to me that many people have callsigns that are the same number of characters for their amateur radio identifiers, which implies that a metric for dxing exists where you seek to contact someone with a maximally different callsign -

that is, finding the greatest hamming distance.

It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.

It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.

Any tech journalists or lawyers interested in this?

I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.

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It's now been A WEEK since the release of the September security updates for Android ... of which my Google Pixel phone is still blissfully, frustratingly ignorant.

A week that attackers have had to reverse engineer the patches.

As I said in a previous post: this is exactly the opposite of what I thought I was paying for.

(And if there is some fundamental reason for this delay, Pixel owners should be told why - right there in the interface - instead of effectively lying to us!)