Digital autonomy aside, I like the concept of something like "Microsoft apps, but without copilot".

> Microsoft Store could have changed this situation

Don't you need to create a Microsoft account to use it? That makes sense for a store where you buy apps with money, but not for a package manager for free software like Notepad++.

P.S. I'm waiting for the day you need a registered Ubuntu account to use their snap store :(

The non-developer / non-power-user is likely already using their Microsoft account to log into the OS.

Many of the software that people install on Windows are quite expensive. So if any package manager were worth calling a "store", one for Windows definitely would be.

It doesn't make sense to have one package manager for paid software and another for free software, so both types of software would be available in the same "store", with the unfortunate consequence that you need to log in with a Microsoft account in order to get free software.

But if I only used free software, I wouldn't even be using Windows.

Here's another trick someone should build in: email using emoji in the subject line is probably advertising. Sometimes from lists you like being subscribed on, but if the subject uses U+2757 (big red exclamation mark) then it's more likely "SALE ENDS TOMORROW" and less "Your order shipped!"

EDIT: HN apparently filters out that code point. Good on you.

Unfortunately, eBay uses emoji in the subject lines for a bunch of their transactional email, e.g. "<U+1F4E6>ORDER DELIVERED".

> Unfortunately, eBay uses emoji in the subject lines for a bunch of their transactional email, e.g. "<U+1F4E6>ORDER DELIVERED".

Don't really use G-mail (I personally use proton) so I am not sure but can't special exceptions be made for E-bay if that's the case?

GMail doesn't currently have any feature to do that kind of filtering.

Which is why they go to spam so often.

Eh, LS_COLORS is sometimes useful once the meanings are in your subconscious.

There's an ever more basic rule: don't just make your text white (ANSI 37m) because you assume the terminal will have a dark background. Even white-on-black (37;40m), while usually readable, can stand out the wrong way if you assume that everyone is using dark mode.

IMO if your terminal theme does not provide high contrast for "white" text on the default or "black" backgrounds, that's for you to fix. If you want a light terminal then change the color scheme to map "black" to a bright color and "white" to a dark color while making sure that other colors have good contrast to your "black". Don't just change the default foreground and background color and expect every single color using program to fix your mess.

While MH370 is still "officially" unsolved, there were definitely industry wide updates to processes after the Germanwings crash.

Officially yes, unofficially there's really no other explanation.

The real question here is whether you can buy the exact same bottle again in the duty-free after security.

Indeed. Other airports in Europe even have separate terminals or areas for Schengen and non-Schengen destinations, with passport control and sometimes security scans again between them.

Bonus points to Zurich (Schengen but not EU, just to test the edge cases) - I think they have an airside metro where each car is segregated for a different security category of passenger.

That was one of my jokes going between terminals (always by bus): has this country thought about discovering trains?

Once leaving a terminal the staff said we’d take an internal bus and I asked if that meant we wouldn’t have to go through security again, but they just meant the same one as the rest.

All of our trips were non-UK-entry but possibly some terminals do have heightened security to meet one-stop-security requirements. Didn’t seem like it but can’t be sure.

It feels like you're going through some kind of security clearance.

To be honest, getting insight and access to a major company's networks and maybe customer data is perhaps the same kind of risk to the company as it is for the government to give someone access to (top) secret files. It might not be so much a negotiating tactic as awareness that more sophisticated spies and criminals than the ones in the OP article are targeting your company.

I'm guessing many people working in security don't have LinkedIn profiles. It's not like you want to advertise a stint in Fort Meade, and then a list of people someone might contact to get access to you, or pull some social engineering. Or advertise your TS/SCI in your profile.

There's more and more places where the less visible presence online you have, the more you're a good fit for the position.

Perhaps I don't know the people who aren't advertising it but I see plenty of people advertising their time in natsec or their clearances

> Perhaps I don't know the people who aren't advertising it

Not picking on you, but that's kind of a tautology :)