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“The offices of the Central Social Institution of Prague, Czechoslovakia with the largest vertical letter file in the world. Consisting of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling tiers covering over 4000 square feet containing over 3000 drawers 10 feet long. It has electric operated elevator desks which rise, fall and move left or right at the push of a button. to stop just before drawer desired. The drawers also open and close electronically. Thus work which formerly taxed 400 workers is now done by 20 with a minimum of effort.

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If approved, it will affect all Safari certificates, which follows a similar push by Google, that plans to reduce the max-validity period on Chrome for these digital trust files down to 90 days.

Max lifespans of certs have been gradually decreasing over the years in an ongoing effort to boost internet security. Prior to 2011, they could last up to about eight years. As of 2020, it's about 13 months.

Apple's proposal would shorten the max certificate lifespan to 200 days after September 2025, then down to 100 days a year later and 45 days after April 2027. The ballot measure also reduces domain control validation (DCV), phasing that down to 10 days after September 2027.

And while it's generally agreed that shorter lifespans improve internet security overall — longer certificate terms mean criminals have more time to exploit vulnerabilities and old website certificates — the burden of managing these expired certs will fall squarely on the shoulders of systems administrators.

Over the past couple of days, these unsung heroes who keep the internet up and running flocked to Reddit to bemoan their soon-to-be increasing workload. As one noted, while the proposal "may not pass the CABF ballot, but then Google or Apple will just make it policy anyway…"

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However, as another sysadmin pointed out, automation isn't always the answer. "I've got network appliances that require SSL certs and can't be automated," they wrote. "Some of them work with systems that only support public CAs."

Another added: "This is somewhat nightmarish. I have about 20 appliance like services that have no support for automation. Almost everything in my environment is automated to the extent that is practical. SSL renewal is the lone achilles heel that I have to deal with once every 365 days."

Until next year, anyway.

Ah, yes... How could my mythbuster lessons in explosions leave my memory?

Opening paragraphs translated:

Barrage ammunition Stick M12 was developed in Ukraine Aviation Bpa (Unmanned aerial vehicles) defense industry Ukraine

The Ukrainian defense company developed a barrage ammunition called the Stick M12.

The United Military Solutions company said that their new drone is capable of flying at a distance of up to 70 km.

At the same time, the Stick M12 UAV type «Krylo» is able to stay in the air for more than an hour.

The impact drone is equipped with one electric motor in the rear. In the front part there is a warhead.

It is designed to defeat stationary targets, armored vehicles and locations where enemy personnel are deployed.

It is known that in June, a batch of these barrage munitions was received by a 100th separate mechanized brigade of the Ground Forces.

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Cross posting to facepalm, extremelyinfuriating, or rage does seem more appropriate.

Harris has said that she wants legislation implementing the tax cut to only apply to the people we traditionally think of when we think of tips: waiters, maids, caddies, and other service-industry customer-contact workers.

Trump, on the other hand, has refused to limit his no-tax-on-tips proposal to such workers, opening up the possibility that big banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, and other companies that traditionally have paid year-end bonuses — sometimes in the millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars — could simply reclassify their bonuses as tax-free tips.

**Adding to the confusion should Trump’s plan go into place, the Supreme Court earlier this year expanded the definition of tips when they ruled that if politicians or judges are paid bribes, but the payments are made *****after ***the politician or judge does the requested favor, they’re no longer bribes but, instead, merely tips.

Jesus H. f#$k Christ, let's not normalizing bribes.

Someone correct me, but that looks like natural gas or LPG, turning into a what amounts to a fuel air bomb. I'm assuming it's a secondary to an attack.

I think their point is that we need to change the law. But yes, let's not normalize this or the billionaire will start regularly paying.

is exploiting a legal loophole to pay America’s blue-leaning non-voters... This whole thing should probably be illegal—so quick, give us your money before they change the law!,

Incredibly hostile design. I generally avoid, but like Reddit they have hostage to some info I desire sometime so wipe my way through it... Close the browser, rm -rf /, and wash my hands.

Insofar as the FTC is in a legal case with google, American users do not have individual standing. But the court of public opinion is another venue without the need for such logic. As this is a political decision to enforce and proceed eight the case as much as an economic one, I would beg to disagree that provocation is in their best interest.

Perhaps some would like to file a complaint? https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/submit-merger-antitrust-comment

Sounds like fandom.com

Even when disabled at a high level, their sub checks are still there and there are hundred of them. Deceptive BS.