Jonathan Anderson
@trombonehero
Associate Professor. Computer Security. Sometimes grumpy (but I repeat myself).
And also, there's no jail! An OS "jail" (docs.freebsd.org/en/books/han...) provides guaranteed limits on a program. To "jailbreak" (e.g., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jai...) is to find a flaw that breaks those guarantees. "Guardrails" aren't guarantees: they're guidelines.
The animals looked from pig to researcher, and from researcher to pig; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
The final fulfilment of the vision included "Canada Down Under" web.archive.org/web/20090103...
Once upon a time, two visionaries saw the world not as it is but as it could be: web.archive.org/web/20090103...
I shall tell OneNote what I want to do: "download onenote". It doesn't give me a "Download" option, but there is an "Open in Desktop"... this sounds promising! 11/12
Still no Download buttons! But hmmm, there's a "Tell me what you want to do"... 10/12
This is what I see after signing in. Note the continued absence of a Download button... how about I click on the collaborator's notebook that's been helpfully shared with me? 9/12
Do you see a Download button? I don't see a Download button. Maybe I have to sign in first? 8/12
OK, Copilot, let's see what you've got. Tell me how to download OneNote! Hmmm, go to microsoft.com/onenote and click "Download"? That sounds pretty easy... 7/12
And that portal gives me... not OneNote, not a link to OneNote, but an opportunity for conversation. A conversation with Copilot. This isn't going to be easy, is it? 6/12
Looks like that institutional page (which is clearly a @microsoft.com template) has an HCI problem: above all those big, beautiful links to M365 apps, there's also a tiny little link to portal.office.com. OK, let's try that! 5/12
Clicking on OneNote brings me to a page called "OneNote help & learning", whose only prominent link says "Buy Microsoft 365". I don't want to buy Microsoft 365, I want to use the Microsoft 365 that my institution already bought! 4/12
OK, let's see if I have more luck with the M365-provided version that's different from the one in the App Store for some reason (not very "one" note, but I digress). My institution has an M365 page with a bunch of links to @microsoft.com apps: 3/12
Hey kids: there was a time when the whole Web looked like this (but with a grey background instead of white). It was glorious. “OK, grandpa”, etc. www.sce.carleton.ca/netmanage/to...
Shoveling accident… These should not be made, they must not be made, etc.
Yellow alert! (First of the new colour-coded weather warnings for St. John’s #nlwx) www.canada.ca/en/services/...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! @munengineering.bsky.social @memorialu.bsky.social
And then I go and spoil it all By saying something stupid like I love you