You should consider reading the article before “just sayin.”

Eww, no. Gross.

My gyno jerks off my cows like a civilized person.

They don’t care if the service is good or not because the days of companies actually competing for customers are rapidly coming to a close.

If they can drive the private hardware market into extinction, then they become the only option.

Its most likely just a front-end for one of the command line tools anyway, so you’re probably still using them.

And if it’s the easiest way to get what you need, then it sounds like you’re using the right tool for your use case. That’s a good thing.

…or the OP believes the myths, isn’t trying to be funny, and is legitimately confused?

jerkies

Reading the plural form of “jerky” makes me feel oddly uneasy.

Is that just like… several pieces of beef jerky or deer jerky?

Relevant: https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/myths-about-disk-wiping-and-solid-state-drives/

If you don’t even know what encryption is, that passwords need hashing and what not, then you should really question what you’re doing

I agree with your point, but I would phrase it more generally: when we’re assigned a task in a problem space we are unfamiliar with, we should always take some time to research that space before designing our solution.

After all, if we don’t know what encryption or password hashing are, how could we know that we need to learn about them first? But spending just a couple hours one morning reading about password and authentication management would have given the developer a good sense of best practices.

So she either, A) didn’t think to familiarize herself with a new topic prior to working on it, or B) did read about it and ignored general industry guidance. Both of those options are more problematic to me than simply not knowing specific things. Those are process problems that need to be addressed to build her skills as a developer.

But ultimately, in my opinion, this is really all the fault of the cheapass director who didn’t want to pay any experienced professionals to handle the task.

But now the surveillance capabilities of both the state and large corporations have been ramped up to infinity and beyond. I’m expecting a partnership announcement between Micron and Raytheon any day now, where Raytheon gets free DDR5 and Micron gets armed and autonomous security drones.

Kind of \s, kind of not

I don’t think most of them will.

1. They will use enterprise editions internally, where their IT team will have much more control over behaviors they don’t like at the group policy level than home users do.

2. The executives at the big software conglomerates have the same AI boners that Microsoft does. They’ll be looking for ways to integrate new Windows features and use them as selling points for their own products.

3. They don’t care about the privacy nightmare Windows has become because they implement and benefit from the same telemetry and data collection practices with their customers.