That’s a good point. Maybe it’s a living green drake.

The ghost of a scholarly dragon. No flame because dead but still being inscrutable with people

Institutional inertia is real. Obviously every situation is different but in most cases they are not blocking remote access, they’re just tracking if you badged in that day. If you are still doing work, it’s going to take them awhile to respond - they are hoping you quit rather than having to fire you.

Both things should be done simultaneously!

Usually it’s phased and they don’t cut off remote access entirely. They still want you to be able to work on the weekend at home…

Let them enforce it. Don’t quit, that’s what they are trying to accomplish anyway.

Edit: sorry I jumped to conclusions inappropriately

Can anyone explain why it was necessary to catch it chopsticks-style instead of landing it on the ground like they had been doing with the smaller boosters?

He’s a wendigo

Not anymore!

I’d start here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1264859/watchdog-bug-soft-lockup-cpu6-stuck-for-23s

How are legislators not able to understand yet that

1. This is technically impossible

And

2. If it was possible, it would massively disrupt society?

Either some billionaire is convinced there is value in ruining encryption, or a multinational police union back channel is coordinating this messaging (since it’s in the EU as well as the USA)

“page not found” 😕

Also, slaying corrupt local authorities

Well now I have some additional concerns