It appears that these changes are not coming to UK. I wonder how UK users feel about it.

Why would they, when they left the EU years ago?

If anyone is looking for an alternative, I have been using my script below for two years without any issue.

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I do not know how to format code here.

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Another attempt to format code here.

# Step 1 Save script below to your local drive. For example, `/Users/xxxx/Documents/Scripts/DarkMode/darkModeWatcher.sh`

  #!/bin/zsh
  # ref: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/526097
  # start time is 18:33 -> 18 * 60 * 60 + 33 * 60 = 66780
  # end time is 07:33 -> 07 * 60 * 60 + 33 * 60 = 27180
  # install gdate via `brew install gdate`
  
  if [[ $(uname -m) == 'arm64' ]]; then
      secsSinceMidnight=$(( $(/opt/homebrew/bin/gdate +%s) - $(/opt/homebrew/bin/gdate -d '00:00:00' +%s) ))
  else
      secsSinceMidnight=$(( $(/usr/local/bin/gdate +%s) - $(/usr/local/bin/gdate -d '00:00:00' +%s) ))
  fi
  
  if [[ $secsSinceMidnight -lt 27180 || $secsSinceMidnight -gt 66780 ]]; then
      # turn on dark mode
      osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to true'
  else
      # turn off dark mode
      osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to false'
  fi

  

# Step 2 run `crontab -e` and add script below

  # cron job for enabling macOS dark mode periodically
  # darkModeWatcher script is executed 60s after reboot. After that, it is executed at 35 mins of each hour if the display is not asleep.
  # replace xxxx with your username
  @reboot sleep 60 && /bin/zsh /Users/xxxx/Documents/Scripts/DarkMode/darkModeWatcher.sh >> /Users/xxxx/Library/Logs/systemDarkModeWatcher.log 2>&1
  35 */1 * * * if [[ -n "$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | /usr/bin/grep 'Asleep')" ]]; then newDisplayStatus=0; else newDisplayStatus=1; fi && if [[ $newDisplayStatus == 1 ]]; then /bin/zsh /Users/xxxx/Documents/Scripts/DarkMode/darkModeWatcher.sh >> /Users/xxxx/Library/Logs/systemDarkModeWatcher.log 2>&1 ; fi

FYI... last time I tried, I could get the equivalent of a HTML <PRE> block by putting two spaces at the beginning of every line. Here's an example. Each line was indented two spaces:

  #include <stdio.h>
  
  int main() {
    printf( "Bonjour, totes le monde!\n" );
    return( 0 );
  }

Looks like it worked. It looks like it's rendering with a mono font.

Thanks. It works.

Curious to know whether the Linux VMs on Apple Silicon Macs are also based on arm or not.

Configurable. Also runs ARM on Intel Macs if you want.

Curious to know how long this VPN can survive in China

It appears to me that this solution is only designed for macOS. Anyone knows any cross-platform solution? It would be very interesting to see how the same keybindings are implemented in Windows/Ubuntu/macOS.

Another quick off topic question related to 2FA. If students are required to complete the 2FA to access to university's learning resources, is the university responsible to provide a hardware token if some students cannot afford/use the mobile phone to complete the 2FA?

A quick off topic question related to 2FA. If an employee is required to complete the 2FA to access to the company's system, is the company responsible to provide the employee a necessary device (either phone or hardware token) to complete the 2FA?

In what way? Morally and ethically, I think you're going to get a resounding yes from people here. Legally, I very much doubt it, but I am not a lawyer.

Legally. In my opinion, if something is required for a worker to finish the job, the employer is obligated to provide it for free. I could be wrong. Curious to know other people's thought.

I’m not sure what the laws are, but it would seem pretty silly to fire an engineer over the cost of a device like this. Of course it is important that you don’t have a cellphone, from your employer’s point of view.

Or “I don’t bring it to work, I want to focus on your issues 100% no distractions, boss :)”

Legally you would be wrong.

See the entire food delivery industry

I don't see many jurisdictions where food delivery drivers are employees.

We are factoring this into our "should we buy company iPhones for all employees?" conversation right now.

There are much better alternatives than buying a smartphone if all you want to provide is a 2FA device. Yubikey is one alternative, as a consumer you can buy it for ~50 EUR but I'm sure if you buy 100+ for employees, you can get some sort of deal with them.

Agreed. This is about much more than just 2FA. Compliance, conference calls, etc. are also on the table.

If we decide to go with a BYOD or other telephony option, then I'm going to push for standardized 2FA hardware devices.

They sold them for $5 for Ignite. I'm SURE you can get them very cheap if you're buying them in any sort of bulk at all.

You don't need iPhones though.

If the company provides employees with a key to access the office, are they obliged to provide the employee with a keyring on which to put it? A pocket to keep it in? Or are they able to assume that the employee probably would prefer to keep the key on their own keyring, in their own pocket?

I feel the same about 2FA tokens. As a matter of convenience I install the tokens my employer gives me on my personal phone because it makes it easy for me to keep them available at all times.

If for some reason I was unable or unwilling to do so, though, I might expect to be allowed to expense a yubikey.

We actually wanted to give company phones to the staff for this purpose among others but there was a rather big pushback, people didn't wanted another devices to carry.

You don't need a phone or a hardware token. e.g. https://github.com/rsc/2fa

Absolutely yes.

Hardware tokens cost <$50, compared to what companies pay employees on a monthly basis it's peanuts.

I can use Teams on the stable version without any issues. You might have cross-origin cookies disabled, which will stop Teams from working. PS. FF:v110.0.1 (64-bit), macOS: 13.2.1.

Oops, sorry. I was using the Office 365 Teams (teams.microsoft.com), which runs ok on FF. I can confirm the Teams for the personal account (https://teams.live.com/_#/unsupportedBrowser) is not supported in FF.

Those cookies are disabled by default in Firefox. Are you saying that to successfully use Teams one has to alter their browser configuration to make it _less secure_?

I believe it's website specific. Office 365 Teams (teams.microsoft.com) will request users to grant certain permissions when it's visited.