Wildcard email addresses will subject you to a torrent of spam when spammers try dictionary attacks against your domain. It's better to explicitly create aliases, I built a web UI for Postfix to do this for myself and family (https://GitHub.com/fazalmajid/postmapweb)
NDAs cannot cover whistleblowing of actual criminality, including sexual harassment, which is why modern NDAs take pains to disclaim that, so they wouldn't be invalidated on that basis. Presumably the behavior exposed in the book, while arguably immoral or amoral, doesn't rise to the standard of criminality.
Ms Wynn-Williams has also filed a whistleblower complaint with the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), alleging Meta misled investors - which Meta also denies. The BBC has reviewed the complaint.
That said, arbitrators like that which gagged her are inherently conflicted since they are paid by the corporation, sadly our corrupt Supreme Court rubber-stamped binding arbitration so she has no recourse.
The UK is far worse, with draconian libel laws where the burden of proof is on the defendant. Originally designed to stop uppity commoners from challenging the aristocrats, now used by oligarchs to silence journalists.
I use SVG where I created a text object in Affinity Designer and converted it to curves so the SVG doesn't have text any more, just vectors for the glyphs of it. Seems to work pretty well at keeping spammers at bay.
Thanks for the Really Useful Boxes referral. I've been using made in the UK Wham Plastics organizers and IKEA boxes, but front-loading is what I really need.
Assuming the chip isn't fraudulently added. Like in the article, some manufacturers are shady & will sell cables with e-marker chips for capabilities the cable can't actually support.
Yes, but the only way to test for something like that would be to put the rated load and see if the cable smokes. Not something a family-friendly tester would do.
No need to check for smoke, just need to check the voltage drop between source port & sink port.
You need a >5A output power supply, two voltmeter channels (for source & sink), one ammeter channel (to sense applied load), an electronic DC load (actively cooled FET that uses the ammeter to set a constant current), a microcontroller, screen, some buttons, and software to run the whole thing. Or the manual version: Lab power supply, some USB connector breakout boards, a DC load, optionally a multimeter, a pencil, and some graph paper. Set the power supply current limit over 5A, voltage to 5V, set the DC load to 500mA, and measure the voltage at the power supply & DC load every 100mA as you increase it up to 5A load (or 3A if the cable isn't marked for 5A capability). If the sink drops more than 0.6V below the source, the cable is not compliant.
Right, but you can't expect a pocket sized tester like the Treedix to implement that, even if it is the USB standard test for compliance. The Treedix does measure resistance on the cable, however, so if a cable exceeds 250mΩ it would also flunk your more accurate test.
Indeed. If I want super high quality cables, I get them from Blue Jeans Cables, who tell you exactly what Belsen or Can are cable stock and what connectors, as well as the assembly methodology.
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