DougPiranha42

Thanks for the link, this was a good read. OP’s title still sucks.

I still think there are different standards for filler words during conversations and titles in writing. In this case, the post title is simply a lie. For example:

Title: Florida Man Actually has Three Legs.
Content: guy’s got such a big dick, he’s practically a tripod.

In this case, that’s a misleading title.

Edit: I also wanted to add that a title is parsed on its own, without context. Of course, “literally” can mean “not literally”, but one needs context to figure that out. In this title, such context is not there.

I don’t think OP knows what literally means. The wsj did not ask the question in the title. It asked a different question.

They don’t simply work because each application needs to be explicitly whitelisted by the admin.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/exchange-web-services/how-to-control-access-to-ews-in-exchange

Same goes of course for graph.

Cool, thanks! What do you use for RSS?

Yes, there are plenty of technologies that would work for email, but those are all blocked by the MS tenant, except outlook, which is not released for Linux. Spoofing the From: field is probably not good practice either…

I don’t know the answer, just commenting because I’m curious. Can you just create a second tailnet and add your server but not your own devices to it?

It’s good to see your perspective. I can’t help but think that you view things through your lens as faculty, and are a bit dismissive about the students point of view. For example, maybe you get all the relevant information about events in email, but maybe students don’t - it is true that student organizations frequently use a specific social media platform exclusively for certain communications, and if a good university message board existed, this could be different.

You also seem to dismiss OPs points about faculty involvement in developing university infrastructure. I completely understand that you don’t have the resources, it’s not in your job description, and it’s not a realistic expectation from you. That doesn’t mean there’s no place for discussion about what should or shouldn’t be in faculty’s job description. Same for “there’s no funding for this “.

I am faculty in a private medical school, and I don’t do undergraduate teaching, so my opinion about how the latter should be done in an ideal world is irrelevant. But I have to say, I agree with OPs sentiment that universities shouldn’t let their role as sanctuaries of independent thought slip away in the name of cost efficiency. I hate, for example, that my college only enables the use of Outlook through EWS as an email client, and Office 365 web as a web client. I do understand the need for cybersecurity and their desire to control access to company communications. But I use my college email in a ton of professional contexts that are my independent academic contributions, not college business. Peer reviewing, service in professional societies, letters of support for trainees, grant review for the federal government or nonprofits, contributions to books, etc. And I can’t have an email client on a Linux computer to read and write those emails? I hate it. But I also don’t want to be one of those who reply from a personal email to professional stuff.

I also can’t connect servers or vms that we host for my lab to the university network. If I want a server, it has to be fully managed by IT. There is only one network and it has hospital grade cybersecurity requirements, which I fully understand, but why can’t there be another network where labs can host their own databases, file servers, compute servers, and can connect their own PCs? I used to build pcs for dirt cheap for stuff like controlling instruments, now I have to buy from a short list of pre-defined configs from Dell or Apple, and have IT install Windows or Mac, add it to AD, and fully control everything on it. They do create an environment where trainees don’t even see that you can build and manage your own devices to meet your needs from a small budget and using free open source software. All they encounter is using their domain login to see a bloated Windows 11 desktop with stock market tickers and political news, and commercial software with proprietary algorithms and GUIs that hide what they do under the hood. They learn how to click around to get what they need, not to think about how the task should be done and what’s a good way to implement that.
Anyways, this is just one small aspect of university life but one that is not going in the right direction.

That’s not a very good example, because good and bad people drink water, pretty much everyone does. Here is a list of communist states:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states_(communism)

I’d say that all of these sucked to live in. There are definitely states that treat their citizens better than these. If something always leads to death and suffering, maybe we can conclude that it’s a bad idea. Communists are not “associated with“ communism, they are communism.

How can you equate “seize means of production” and “class warfare” (things in OP) with 40 hour work week (not in OP)? Are Stalin’s and Maos bloody dictatorships that terrorized, tortured and murdered millions, hundreds of millions of people, examples of progress of society? I can list a bunch of countries that are relatively free, and have high rates of literacy and strong worker protections, that are not communist (pretty much any developed democracy since the late 20th century). There is literally no communist country where people are acceptably free and don’t or didn’t want to get out to flee to one of the not communist countries. I hate the “its such a nice ideology just every single fucking time its followers came to power they had to torture and murder their fellow citizens to stay there”. You know, “seize means of production” in practice means that the government, or people who have friends in the government, go and take away other peoples shit: farmers, small businesses, house, a pig, anything they want, and all they need to do is call the victim a bourgeois or capitalist. This is how it worked in practice in every socialist/communist country that ever existed, lmk if you have a good counter example. And guess what: people get hurt in the process, lives are ruined.
Class warfare. Who the fuck wants to live in a society where everyone is a worker? Economically, a worker means someone who doesn’t own anything other than their future ability to work and earn wages. Every society that looks remotely liveable has a strong middle class: people own real estate, business, investments. These would all be crimes in communism. And now you can explain me that no, that’s not what’s so fucking cool about communism, I still get to keep my house and retirement fund, just have to work less and get more free stuff from the government because the only reason I wasn’t getting those things previously is that they didn’t realize how cool communism is. btw I don’t want to read a bit about the ideology, I was born in a communist country and have a pretty good idea what it was like for people living in that system. Edit: removed an offensive statement.