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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:25:31 JST silverwizard
   I went to sign up my kid for the local school's stupid SaaS product that, according to the school, has the main feature of adding a 2.9% transaction fee to all trips and other assorted school fees.
   
   First, they tell me my password is too weak because it's over 20 characters
   Second, www.school-day.com/en/terms-of…
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:36:59 JST silverwizard

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     gg4l.com/rampant-sharing-of-st… Oh.... I don't like this
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     Kicou (kicou@kicou.info)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:43:35 JST Kicou

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     @silverwizard you'll love it when your kids receive a Chromebook and do everything in Google Classroom

     (oh, and the phone app wants admin rights on your device)

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:43:47 JST silverwizard

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     • Kicou
     @kicou it can have admin on a VM which only does things to annoy the Admin
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:45:43 JST silverwizard

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     • The Corodon
     @thecorodon you mean to be attacked by vendors? Yeah it does
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     The Corodon (thecorodon@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:45:44 JST The Corodon

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     @silverwizard
     School superintendents' main function seems to be as an attack surface for vendors like this.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 23:10:43 JST silverwizard

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     • Kicou
     @me @kicou We have compliance and security policies. How the fuck do I know if these people comply with PIPEDA?!
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 23:10:44 JST me

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     • Kicou
     @kicou @silverwizard If I had kids, stuff like this would drive me crazy.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 10:40:16 JST silverwizard

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     TIL www.school-day.com/en/terms-of… works fine
     
     Defaulting to https was our mistake
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 11:40:19 JST silverwizard

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     • Kicou
     @kicou my main problem is that my browsers all replace http with https for me and then don't let me go back without real effort
     
     Also the https version exists,.just is a 404
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     Kicou (kicou@kicou.info)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 11:40:20 JST Kicou

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     @silverwizard that's a good site to bookmark in order to pass some free wifi captive portals that insist on hitting an http site to validate your connection