If it was purely an issue of "on by default" I think it would be one thing. But because it is often, it appears, enforced as unavoidable private company data collection pushed through school policy then it becomes a much bigger issue. That means that government, albeit local government, is basically selling the right to student monitoring to a private entity that has promised not to collect that very data targeted at students contractually.

The issue when schools require Chromebooks be used in a certain way means that the students are not given the option not to be monitored. "By default" is one thing and potentially problematic on its own. But if schools are requiring that students submit to being tracked by a private company without oversight that's a much, much bigger issue.

It is a chain reaction: school is a requirement, parents and students are not given a choice about the tools that they use, tools are enabled to track students, no opt out.... students are simply required to be tracked. It's not a "direct" situation, it's big brother via a chain of circumstances and rules that result in the same thing. A serious situation needing attention for sure. Thankfully it looks like the EFF is on the case.

@johnhooks said:

@RojoLoco said:

@johnhooks said:

How to find music on google:

intitle:"index.of" (mp3) "string to search for"

mp3???? Ewwwwww............... search for music in a better sounding format, please.

The chances of finding other types are slimmer. I haven't had much like finding other file types.

DEATH BEFORE mp3!!!!! No musician alive would be caught dead searching for mp3 specifically.... I need to flush my brain out with some freakin analog, vinyl, warm, good sounding recordings now..... shudder

an aside to the Google drive issue,.. there was a window of time this afternoon I was unable to sign into my email. Possible that it was related.

I am not surprised, Chromebooks are so cheap, stateless and easy to use. I can only imagine that it would be pretty tough for a school to really want to do anything else.

@JaredBusch said:

What the hell is up with the author of that article basically down playing the entire thing because it does not prevent SQL injection?
Seriously WTF?

I agree, that is a bunch of BS. This is about on-disk data at rest security and is a decently big deal.

Found this on Googles Support site:

Force browser processes to close

Chrome uses a "multiple processes architecture", which means its processes are designed to work independent of one another. So issues in one tab shouldn’t affect the performance of other tabs or the overall responsiveness of the browser.

What happens when one process keeps the others from working or closing Chrome completely?

@StrongBad said:

I think that this is just standard repositioning of a company. It doesn't hide anything or change any litigation or investigations. That stuff carries on as usual. It just makes managing, bookkeeping, selling or whatever much easier for the different business units since each one is quite large and many have very little to do with each other.

I would not call it standard, as there are not that many companies that grow into something like this. But nothing here should affect lawsuits at all.

@scottalanmiller history | grep Roboto reveals these:

sudo restorecon -v /home/john/.local/share/fonts/Roboto-Black.ttf sudo semanage fcontext -a -t FILE_TYPE '/home/john/.local/share/fonts/Roboto-Black.ttf'

@nashbrydges said in Is it possible to get Hola VPN to work on a Chromecast or Amazon Fire TV?:

Are you having issues because of locality (videos only play based on your location)? If you have a server/PC at home running, would ZeroTier be a viable solution for this?

Nevermind. Re-read your original post. I clearly didn't pay attention.

Now if only MS and Google could patch things up and MS get google services on MS Phone 10.

Yeah I know, don't hold my breath.