“Why aren’t you able to dial in with just your computer?”

“Oh, you know, I’m a bit paranoid about my microphone being hacked so I disconnected the microphone internally. If you give me 10 minutes, I can put it back together real quick”

Not the vibe I personally wanna be giving friends and colleagues.

Some people use headsets to cancel environmental noise, improving the listening experience of friends and colleagues.

If you are too weak to admit this is important to you, just go the "it's broken" route.

Tor is already slow - people use it because they want security. The addition of another VPN increases security greatly and only adds a minimal amount of more latency.

> Tor is already slow

Relatively, sure. But I've found it very usable in recent times actually. Used it almost full-time (besides a normal Firefox instance for the company's intranet) to get around some silly firewall that wouldn't let me download "hack tools" (I was an intern in the cyber security department, security tools were part of my job). There were times where I didn't notice at all that I was using Tor, and most of the time it was comparable to mediocre wifi.

You probably should have spent some time fixing that hole in the firewall that let you bypass your company's download restrictions. ;-)

You would usually not try to block Tor at the network level. You would lock down your computers so employees can't make changes, and only allow them to run executables from locations which they have no write access to.

Tor can and should circumvent any firewall using obfuscation proxies that use AWS, GCS, Azure, etc. You'd need to block most of the internet to kill Tor.

And as for monitoring, I guess it might be possible, but if someone thinks to use bridge nodes that's also defeated.

There are actually regulations limiting the number of stores and their placement in relation to other public buildings like schools.

I was a long time Reddit user and have recently stopped using it for my intellectual entertainment in favor of HN. I still use Reddit for my dose of humor and videos - that's what's so great about it - you can unsubscribe and curate your content to fit your needs.

I don't want to need to charge up the battery in my headphones to use them. Dealing with a wire is much more simple and reliable than using Bluetooth, especially when you encounter pairing issues between different devices. Hopefully at least the BT pairing process will improve sometime soon (it hasn't gotten any easier in the past several years).

I'd like to make a goal to try and improve accessibility for my company's apps. I know there are some IO talks on this, but does anyone have some advice or resources on this?

They might be referring to the fact that the room might not have photo-resistive materials or the fact that they have not investigated other methods that could allow them to use white light in the room.

Yeah, i was thinking that they should have a different template pdf where the letters are not shown in the boxes, but perhaps beside or underneath the boxes. When you're writing over those typed letters, you're more likely to trace them, resulting in a less natural handwriting.

Paper bag laws are enforced where I am, at least the store cashiers always make sure to charge you $0.10 for each one that you get. Don't think we have the option for plastic at all. What do you propose is a better solution for plastic bag pollution?

You have to sign in every single time on mobile web to get to their website, which is pretty much the only reason I use the apps - you stay signed in.