Seems like the issues in question are not within Tailscale's span of control (basically, the devices themselves with TPMs are too unreliable in the general population, so the feature is more appropriate for controlled environments that opt in to its usage).
The TPM devices themselves are reliable, but using them comes with a lot of caveats. 99% of users have never heard of the TPM, and 99% of the ones who have won’t have realized that upgrading the BIOS clears¹ the TPM. Add in the fact that Tailscale users didn’t _know_ that tailscale was using the TPM and you have a recipe for users breaking things without realizing it. In an enterprise environment where you can afford to hire people specifically to care about these thing, using TPMs for additional security is a great idea.
¹: and very few of those can explain that it doesn’t actually clear the TPM. Instead it causes a different state to be measured by the TPM, and in that new state the TPM cannot unlock the keys that were previously stored in it. This is a great way to protect the computer against someone who can pull the hard drive out of the computer and try to read the data off of it, or who can substitute a different BIOS chip to get around a BIOS password, but not so great for ordinary users who want the occasional upgrade to go smoothly.
Very different. HMC has fewer than 1000 students, all undergraduates, and is a private college, whereas Stony Brook is a public school with ~25k students including ~8k postgrads.
Are there Visa and MasterCard Debitcards there? From what I saw, and again only a basic look, Interac is the only major player for Debit Cards. Of course, I welcome more competition if Interac were to enter the USA market.
Most banks (all?) provide Interac cards that can operate with Visa/Mastercard protocols. They won't allow you to incur debt, but you can use them as a credit card.
It's helpful when traveling abroad to places that do not have Interac.
A set of encryption keys is a lot smaller than the set of all user data, so it's much more viable to have both more redundant hot storage and more frequently rotated cold storage of just the keys.
You can still go back in time on Street View. There's a "See more dates" link next to the address info in the top left (at least on the desktop Maps interface) that when you click it opens a film strip of different dated captures for that location. Here's the 2007 capture of 1 Embarcadero (outside the Ferry Building in San Francisco) for example: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ArrucFgus9uMvdSaA
It's just that in Europe the data is much more sparse to begin with. In many places Google didn't go multiple times, so there just can't be older data. On some streets however I see that if the data was really old (before ~2010/2012) Google probably decided that the quality was so bad – well, it really is – that they do not make it available. So even if there were multiple passes it is not a must that this feature comes available.
We also set up the minimum requirement for the submit button to be unlocked to not be too strict, to avoid frustrating people, but held a bit of a higher standard for the things we selected to be part of the public machine. So designs that only just barely work well enough to occasionally unlock the submit button are probably too unreliable to get selected for inclusion (but we made occasional rare exceptions if the submission was particularly interesting / inspired for other reasons).
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