Seems like the system is heavily stacked against detainees, regardless of whether they are actually innocent or guilty.

> Seems like the system is heavily stacked against detainees, regardless of whether they are actually innocent or guilty.

The vast majority of folks who get detained in Japan either did something particularly obvious (DUI, violence with a weapon, etc.), or they had been warned multiple times about illegal behavior.

Sometimes the crime they are busted for seems trivial (e.g., Al Capone and tax evasion in the US), but there are other more serious crimes that they have been involved with or expected to be involved with.

I have literally never heard of any innocent person being detained in Japan, but I’ve seen it happen multiple times in the US (esp. for peaceful protesters).

That said, I know of many cases in Japan for which very guilty people were given appropriate warnings rather than detention and prosecution, and behavior changed.

More, many more. See the bug reports linked in the post. I checked a few, and all of them had an exploit in them, and there are definitely more than 1 bugs listed.

Well, depending on how you define "exploit"; some might only read arbitrary pointers or just out of bounds. Those would be useful primitives in a chain of vulnerabilities, not exploits themselves. You'll have to read through the first comments yourself, but if you're hoping that this is all nonsense and ignorable hype, you're going to be disappointed.

> It takes a certain amount of entitlement and lack of awareness

It takes integrity and bravery to challenge the lies of the powerful.

I suspect some of the problems are not due to Wayland, but due to Ubuntu.

I recently revived a decade-old PC with a dual-boot setup: Windows 10 and Ubuntu 24.04. While Windows ran fine, Ubuntu was a nightmare—constant freezes, random logouts, and daily crashes.

After hitting my limit, I wiped Ubuntu and installed Debian. What a difference! It’s been months without a single crash. If you're struggling with stability on older hardware, Debian might be the "boring" (in a good way) solution you need.

The projects might fail, but knowledge accumulated and scientists / engineers created from them can bring success to other areas

If you define failure as a form of victory then success is inevitable. However, in the spirit of some vague sense of accountability, it seems like an unreasonable position.

If failure is defined and victory and one succeeds do they actually fail

> If you define failure as a form of victory then success is inevitable.

No, you can also do just enough to slumber away in mediocracy forever.

>knowledge accumulated and scientists / engineers created from them can bring success to other areas

Japanese companies and institutions hate sharing knowledge (read: trade secrets) with each other.

> The lifespan of a laptop is not tied to a replaceable battery

This applies to me. My laptop is 10 years old, has 16G memory and is running Linux. I have replaced battery once before (and definitely need a new battery again now).

Edit: replace 9 years old with 10 years old

Same here. "just do X" is more informative that "do X" as it infers that "do X" is a simple thing. I would like to know that.

Also "just do X" infers that the person is very confident that "do X" will solve the issue. I like to get confident advice.

I really hope they (non-tech folks) know that a $300-$600 chromebook is way better.

One side story. There is no comments / voice on the AA side. Read like a biased article. "become a must-have" reads like exaggeration

There are no comments/voice on the AA side because they are likely 'accidentally' dodging labor laws (by laying obligation of checking legality on the attendants) through obfuscation of this data. That seems a large part of why it's become a 'must-have.' That kind of behavior merits this relatively 'soft' one-sided take in my opinion.

Then perhaps AA corporate should have responded more promptly to the writer’s request for information had they been interested in being more fairly represented.

By that reasoning, if the company refuses to comment an article should not be published, or if published must be rejected as one sided? That's convenient.

You can always still publish when they don't react within a reasonable time, and add a comment to that effect, as you can often see in newspaper articles.

From the article: "American Airlines has been contacted for comment." Evidently they did not respond.

Ah, I overlooked that. But I would have searched for it before posting a comment like nnm's above.

> American Airlines has been contacted for comment.

They have been asked for one.

It is commonsense to use the hardware/software authorized by your employer to do the work.

This is nonsense.

This would be like claiming you have to use a company-sponsored to-do list app, or a company-sponsored git client, or a company-sponsored text editor, or a company-sponsored FTP client.

I'd hate to be at any job that enforces any single one of those. There are many arguments against this app, but this is not one of them.

I'm not entirely sure that is a nonsensical argument.

I am permitted to use any client I like to perform SQL queries of our customer data, but if the client were to happen to route the data through a third party, I would be in employment-jeopardy breach of our security policies.

Similar rules goes for hardware: I can bring my own device for reading and locally storing our email and chats, but customer data is not to be accessed on any hardware not authorized by the company.

Roster data is not customer data, and there are reasonable arguments to be made that this is not an exact parallel. But in principle, I can understand a company wanting to have control over certain types of data and how it might be exfiltrated from the company, even if it is intended for employees to use to do their jobs.

But in this case, isn't the "third party" just a piece of client-side software that performs a bunch of http requests to systems the client user is allowed to access, on a device the user is allowed to use, in order to aggregate the results and show them all in one spot? It's not being sent to third party systems off the user's phone.

Banning it would be like restricting certain sql clients, like allowing the CLI clients, but banning pgAdmin or MYSQL Workbench.

I agree with you!

I also don’t really agree with the ban, and seriously doubt that they have any reason other than, “We dunno what this is, and are too lazy^H^H^H^H busy to think it through, give a decision, and deal this the precedent of allowing screen scraping and/or third-party clients.”

All I was trying to say is that while I may disagree with their call, I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s “nonsense.” Just wrong :-)

Really? Maintaining consistency across users is a huge part of IT. I can't imagine working somewhere where everyone just uses whatever software they want. Support would be a nightmare.