I may have already posted this, but I didn’t see it when I looked, so here it is again.
#Amazon is connecting Ring and Echo devices across individual networks, so that neighbors with slow networks or network downtime can still use their devices via bandwidth provided by their neighbors’ Amazon devices. This, of course, completely short-cuts your own network’s security settings .
This is opt-out (on by default), not opt-in (off by default), so those who have such devices must follow the instructions to change them.
@mangeurdenuage Yeah, I don't see why cloud customers don't default to multiple zones, so a localized outage doesn't take their whole service down. I mean, I know it costs more that way, but "more reliable" is one of the main selling points of #Amazon #AWS and other big clouds.
I often try to avoid #Amazon, but this time, I ordered from there. One of the things I dislike about Amazon is when I order items for multiple children in the same house, and they spread the delivery over a month's time. It's really a lot easier if everyone gets their stuff at the same time, even if they have to collect everything at one warehouse (ship it to that warehouse) and then ship it all together to the customer.
In this case, besides my order, #sonOne purchased clothing and shoes for #Little_Girl_A3. All of her things have arrived already, but for the boys, only a pair of t-shirts have arrived. The rest will arrive in (what looks like) 4 more shipments between now and the end of November.
I still haven't ordered their shoes. And I don't know whether #sonTwo ordered their socks yet.
"New reality show idea - "the great package race" wherein contestants all order something simultaneously from Amazon."
Interestingly (at least, to me), the purchasing folks at $EMPLOYER are not allowed to use #Amazon specifically because a single purchase gets broken down into multiple transactions and shipments. It triggers the auditors, who suspect this kind of activity is a way to get around spending limits and ethics restrictions.
Three #Amazon employees who were publicly critical of the company’s treatment of employees during the #COVID-19 outbreak have been fired.
Also, the #SBA expects the full !smallbiz support fund to be committed by Thursday (2020-04-16). Hopefully President #Trump and #Congress can get their acts together to add more to the pot.
I should note that he did not order it from #Amazon (but he didn’t use #Target, either, and I could have picked it up from the store during yesterday’s walk).
Yes, this is a good trend, but if it stops with Google, it is an absolute failure at protecting privacy. Instead of “De-Google” it needs to be DecentraLife (including giving up #Google, #Facebook, #Amazon, #Microsoft, and other large corporations that spy on users) ... avoiding the concentration of users and resources that enables these companies to abuse users in the first place.
I'm still not happy with them and especially not with their marketplace vendor (who claimed that we damaged the Citrix server and therefore were not entitled to a refund). I'd love to send them the photos of the packaging and the server itself (including something hanging off the back, a corner taped shut with gaffers tape, both of which look like pre-shipping damage).
I've seen this story elsewhere, but it bears repeating. Giving so much information & power to one entity is always dangerous, whether that entity is Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, some other company, or the government.