At this point, I feel like all of big corporate tech is just manufactured demand. Very little of it solves real issues, and when it does it makes it so inconvenient and trashy it's basically no easier than not having it. In many cases the widespread adoption of new tech is either neutral or net negative for average quality of life.
The privacy might not be perfect, but the entire population of China can if they want get acces to uncensored internet through them. And Russia. And many many more countries.
@stooovie@nixCraft which is often exactly that?? I mean yes also privasjie, but the main angle and the one I think most people actually care about is watching Netflix shows not in their country etc. so that's basically getting around restrictions
@nixCraft I don't know in the US, but in Brazil there's a trend that people will do a 6 months bootcamp and become a fullstack developer with high sallaries, lots of people are falling for that.
On my last job as a Tech Lead I used to do interviews when we had positions for our backend, and I had to deal with lots of people that didn't even knew how to do a simple iterator thinking that they would land a job x.x
@nixCraft ah yes I love it when they forget the "P" in VPN
I'll add another one: Antivirus on Windows other than Defender. Any article or research that claims otherwise is funded by third party antivirus vendors
@anthropy@nixCraft A friend of mine told me just that the other day. Has Defender really got that good? It’s been years since I’ve used Windows effectively for more than 5 minutes
@mrvideo@nixCraft Microsoft has a reputation to keep up, Windows Defender did definitely get a lot better compared to the Windows 7 era, and the detection statistics show it's basically identical or better compared to other tools.
I also don't really use Windows though, which I can also much recommend as the best security measure one could take; Windows has many issues, some it refuses to fix (just google "PrintNightmare"), Linux is simply a lot more secure by design :)
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