jthompson

I disagree about crypto being a success. There is also something to be said about having some centralisation. If even this guy can't use Bitcoin safely, what hope does Jo Public have? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/key-bitcoin-developer-calls-on-fbi-to-recover-3-6m-in-digital-coin/

True. But might there still be more of a level playing field there? Not everyone has equal access to financial services. Paying for stuff online would be fairer if you're not needing to negotiate the marketplace of credit-worthiness and banking fees. I dunno. It seems like an interesting discussion though. Cryptocurrencies have always seemed to me to be a vapid waste of energy (a tool for crooks and speculators rather than anything with societal value), but digitising an existing currency throws up some different ideas.

That could still happen with digital cash, since it wouldn't necessarily be referenced to an account. It could mean that such transactions are done with whatever the most stable currency is, much like US dollars being used in areas where the local currency is less stable. The pound going digital would make that are more realistic prospect, since it wouldn't need there to be physical Sterling in circulation. Where people are citing debit cards, BACS, etc. those are services offered by banks to named customers. I think the idea of a digital currency like a digital Pound would be that cash can change hands digitally without necessarily needing access to banking services. It just needs to be some kind of token that is the digital equivalent of a central bank declaring "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of £1". Like others have said, a stablecoin, but one with the weight of a nation state behind it.

Might one outcome be that sterling could more easily be used as cash elsewhere in the world if it can take a digital form?

I guess it's different from just using a bank card in that someone could slip a little USB stick containing a digital £10 into my birthday card, without having to arrange a BACS transfer between a bank account they hold and one that I hold. I'm not sure how that works without the 'crypto', since I would have thought that it would at least need to be digitally signed by the central bank. Quite easy for millions of digital pounds to be obliterated in society's collective computer failures, washing machine accidents, accidental sending to landfill, etc. in a way that's less likely to happen with banknotes and coinage.

Cameras on phones. Maybe not getting bigger as such, but multiplying. Cars. Not really tech, but my Fiesta is the same size or more as the original Focus was. Still smaller than a new Mini.

One job per VM here. It allows us to individually tweak the storage options like GFS or number of retained restore points. It also means that a job can be retried or run on demand without running backups for other servers unnecessarily. Something else that comes to mind is licensing. When a VM gets takes out of service, it's stored backups will still consume a Veeam license. If it's backups are isolated in an individual job, then it makes it easier to purge those backups from Veeam and free up the license. You might still be able to free up that license anyway, but I guess the backups are still easier to get rid of.

Cost of streaming platforms is going to be a function of codecs/protocols being used, so could conceivably be shifted in a good direction, and powered by more renewables as well, whereas physical media will inevitiably create lots of plastic waste. Video meetings vs cost of physically transporting human beings around would be a good one, too.

Loving both those previous posts! Good luck painting that tortoise. I expect to see all of those scales and bricks individually edge highlighted!

I must admit, I hardly ever notice any broken sites nowadays, either, and it tends to be that uBlock gets added as a means to fixing something (e.g. ads breaking DailyMotion video). I refer back to the 'inertia' referenced in my earlier post!

I don't have the specifics to hand, but I think it's one of the options available in the config editor tool: you can add custom entries to the list of exam boards. I don't know if that's what you're needing to do or not.

I wouldn't want to force install it without prepping users on how to deal with broken site functionality. So to anwser your question, mostly inertia and an instinct to not add [perceived] complication for end users.

Yeah, it used to be available via F-Droid, but not any longer.

Thanks for posting this. Wasn't blocked here. Some other URLs being used from that site: cobratate.com jointherealworld.com thewarroom.ag rumble.com/c/TateSpeech gettr.com/user/cobratate cobratatemembers.com

uBlock Origin here, allowlisted so that staff can add it if they want. On my personal mobile (Android) I use the free version of Blokada, which blocks adds and trackers systemwide.

You could use Google Vault to search for and view files in a student's account. If you want to actually do anything with the file (like adjust it's sharing permissions) then you'd need a third party tool (e.g. GAM).

It may come down to who the owner of the submitted copy of the file is. Testing it this morning, I deleted the file as the owner. When viewing the submitted file in the Classroom assignment, open up the details panel for it from the 3-pips menu within the preview options. That will show who the owner is. In this same screenshot, a file I deleted earlier is still listed in the student's list of submitted file, only as an Unknown Drive file. So it appears to hang around as a broken file. If the student unsubmits, removes the broken file and then resubmits, it tidies things back up again.

I've had that on occasions with larger reports. Sometimes relaunching Excel will present some file recovery options, which might get you your report output.

Submitted files are stored in the relevant Drive folder for that class, and are owned by the class teacher. The student will see a shortcut to their submitted file if they navigate to the relevant Classroom folder in their My Drive. If the teacher deletes a file from the Classroom folder, it goes to the bin. Whilst it's in the bin, it will remain available within Google Classroom as before. Once it's deleted from the bin, it will then disappear from Classroom, although it might still appear as an unknown file which can't be previewed. In short, try deleting it from the Drive folder, and then from the bin.

Could you use a copy of the domain-wide GPO as the basis for the VM-specific one, just adding into that copy the extra bits needed for the Mac? If the VM-specific GPO is overwriting the domain-wide one, at least it will include all the same settings as the domain-wide one. Bit of a fudge, and I suspect that you ought to be able to have it set up cumulatively somehow. Not sure without playing.

Google contextual access rules are more about "this app or set of files can only be accessed if...", with a condition being something like "user has 2FA enabled".

They do, but it doesn't allow you to contruct rules for skipping MFA challenges, sadly.

Upcoming changes to Chrome OS will allow OneDrive to be integrated directly into the Files app, similar to how Google Drive is now. https://9to5google.com/2023/01/31/chromeos-microsoft-365-integration-files/

If you're not getting those update notification emails from Google, it may be worth checking your communication preferences at https://admin.google.com/ac/accountsettings/preferences. Those options may cover it.

It can per per-OU as well, so that you can have have some drives configured with higher limits than others.