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Yup. I have an adblocker, but after the first answer (which was crap) I got a link to the question "What is jam made from?" and then got prompted with a modal to prompt me to make an account. Never again.

I have personal experience of a few companies in the UK where GCP are offering 90+% discounts to onboard. GCP are spending hundreds of millions to do this. K8S control-planes are a rounding error compared to this.

You could have grandfathered in current deployments but - nope. In the tech world this is up there with killing Google Reader.

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Agreed - have seen at least 2 of these in the last couple of days, this is ridiculous.

ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It's a beautiful laptop and works well with Fedora after a couple of tweaks.

I've got an XPS 13 for work which is nice too but runs windows. Pros and cons are:

ThinkPad: Better keyboard by far, more rugged, better bios for Linux that supports normal sleep states

XPS: Can charge on either side, better speakers

Not a chance. It's never a single engineer, code gets the PR checked by another engineer and the Jira will be specific with any PII, probably written by committee, all of whom know the importance of the data. Don't conflate this crap with blaming a single nebulous engineer.

I've not worked in years at a place that wouldn't understand the importance of PII. Not that it doesn't happen, but let's not mince words here - this was wilfully done.

Same happened to me. However, I did do a support request which 2 days later agreed to let me in without a phone number. 2 days.

I think we can file this under 'dark patterns' and finally realise Twitter is attempting to be as abusive as Facebook.

Bollocks. A phone number is an ideal identifier to match on, they've done exactly the same as FB - pretended it's something for security then gone 'oops'.

I've never worked on the same scale as FB or Twitter and I know that this is a no-go area.

" we have addressed the issue that allowed this to occur and are no longer using phone numbers or email addresses collected for safety or security purposes for advertising. "

Does this mean the matches they've already made on these identifiers are still active?

Exactly.

Anybody remember the way Blackberry handled this before proper push messaging? The data connection was completely dead, they just got the mobile companies themselves to do it over the phone call connection (SMS?) to indicate when there was something to read at which point the data layer came up. Really efficient in those days, except you obviously paid a fee for 'Blackberry service'

Had a 6th gen for nearly 2 years running Fedora. Typing on it now, love it. A couple of points.

1. There's a couple of things to make it Linux friendly - TLP, plus the throttling fix. Even though I use Fedora the Arch Linux wiki is superb for this.

2. BIOS updates are done via software update which is superb.

3. The FN/action keys are the wrong way round, just change it in the BIOS.

4. Same goes for Fn/Ctrl keys - they can be swapped too in the BIOS.

5. Screen is beautiful. I've got the HDR one and it's brighter than any Macbook i've been sat next to on the train.

6. Never got the fingerprint reader or NFC to work, but i've not tried for a year tbf - this may be fixed.

7. Speakers are complete shite.

8. Keyboard is the best you'll get on a laptop this size, it's wonderful.

9. 2x USB-C/Thunderbolt is awesome. Only thing about the XPS 13 I use for work is that the USB-C is on both sides unlike the Lenovo, makes it easier to get a charge cable round.

I honestly love this laptop, even after 2 years I don't see the need for a upgrade.

AMA btw.