This seems to be straight out of a dystopian novel. While we do have our own - of government snooping and excessive government oversight - the scenario playing out of China is not sustainable in the long term.

My fear is the scenario is all too sustainable. North Korea is at the third generation of Kim's and its political pyramid appears to be quite stable.

While plenty of closed source software systems are still being widely used, I think the world is dramatically moving towards open source. The world has changed and I think these expectations of being able to leverage an open source software is here to stay. This despite the fact that a vast majority may never actually read, fork or modify the source code.

Unfortunately the problem is not with Bing alone. There are multiple ad networks including admob owned by google, who will serve a url, or sometimes a script for an ad. That is unfortunately just how advertising works.

The industry never matured (to handle spam, malicious content or fraud) thanks to the Duopoly of Fb and Google, and even the biggest players are not immune to these issues as the onus is on the user to not to click on ads that offer to upgrade browsers, or any system software through ads.

It is the same systems that served malicious election results, the same systems that contributed to the echo chambers that impacted recent elections.

Ironically, this should have been an opportunity for Bing to differentiate themselves:

Create a "safe" ad network that is not a vector for drive-by downloads or privacy violations, and go after publishers that are being hurt by ad blockers or experiencing reputation damage from security breaches.

Given the cutthroat short term metrics these companies' employees operate under, do you really think such strategic thinking would have ever been incentivized? It's a question whether any salutary effects can even be reliably defined and measured to justify such a project to your boss.

Patanjali manufactures products with manufacturing date in the future; No lab tests of products - throw in plenty of arsenic, some cow urine and call it Ayurveda. Sell it in the open market with the backing of the current government. How easy can it get?

Do you have any source on arsenic claim?

Bad advice: Don't publish anything unless you have something of value.

Don't especially publish it on a walled garden like Facebook.

I really like the structure / topics of the book, except EJB - the bloatware packaged with Java for years.

Someone added my phone numbers on 2FA and now I am able to login to their account, without a password.

It's not really 2FA if you can login with just the one factor of the phone… Maybe you unconsciously reset the password to your own at some point and it's saved?

Agreed. But its not even my account. I have similar things happening to me, except those messages are linked to my google voice number with someone else's account. One click and I am able to login. I had to block that number from receiving facebook updates.

I've used Hetzner and my general experience has been good.

Doesn't work well in Firefox. WTF google?

Hangouts doesn't work. Now search console too?

But it's Safari that's the new IE, right? Killing the 'open web'?

In my case it looks broken in both, I can't select anything...