You have described all of the guidelines that NIST, Microsoft, GCHQ and a few other institutions now recommend for password security.

And yet I still have to have this argument with so-called security engineers and my favourite, compliance officers.

I’m in the UK, they force you to turn right.

As much as I love to rag on the rich, this isn’t a useful way of thinking. Plenty of poor people have had to have pay cuts or be forced to pay more and need to find some way to manage that to survive - so it’d be really easy to claim they could afford it after all and thus the logic of “if they can afford it they were paid too much” could apply to anyone.

Make sure your ublock lists are up to date, sometimes the extension gets a bit stuck and needs a nudge to update them.

It’s an arms race and Google hasn’t won it yet.

… But he did run and he did win?

I think it’ll be somewhere in the middle. Quite a few people have not had to deal with ads in streaming for many years now, if it’s suddenly forced it’ll piss off a lot

I don’t think they’re all going to suddenly pirate again, I think many will just switch to other streaming providers.

If they all start doing the shitty ads, we’re fucked.

I’m getting paid. Not with money, but pure schadenfreude.

I don’t think that’s a new trend

I recognised it as well!

Absolutely, when you look at what Linux does get used for and where it’s dominant, there’s shit loads of money getting poured into it.

I’m not complaining about GIMP, I’m complaining about the attitudes people have towards potential users of free software.

Linux is getting more popular because corporations like valve have put the effort into refining the user experience. I’m not just talking about a pretty UI either, I’m taking things like proton that makes playing games on Linux as easy as playing on windows.

I’m not saying there aren’t people out there that demand free labour from volunteers - of course there are; I maintain and have contributed to a few open source projects myself so I know all too well what that’s like.

However, I would say those folks are a very small (albeit vocal and annoying) minority. The vast, vast majority of users simply dismiss Linux/GIMP/Whatever because it’s not suitable for them. They don’t go screaming into GitHub demanding features, they don’t post on Lemmy that the software sucks or otherwise create a fuss, they just gravitate towards the stuff that works for them (usually something proprietary) with the least friction.

Yeah you’re right, it’s the users that are at fault.

I think your response is unintentionally proving my point lol

The sub operates in cycles and it’s like clockwork

Trump (or republicans in general) do something outrageously bad.

Sub is in uproar about it.

People start accusing /r/politics of brigading.

About a day later, the sub has it’s marching orders in line and it’s no longer upset about the thing.

About a day after that, nobody on the sub was ever upset about it and everyone agrees it was actually a good thing.

Every. Single. Time.

Yup and honestly the hostility those users get when mentioning it is the same reason Linux doesn’t get more traction in the mainstream.

When a lot of users expect software to work in a particular way and it doesn’t, you change the software - if you insult, belittle or otherwise expect the user to change their working habits then you’re going to have a bad time and be all shocked Pikachu when the user doesn’t use the software.

Apple is (was lol) the most valuable company on the planet because they understood that the user experience is the absolute most important thing. They are the textbook example of vendor lock in and yet people flock to them because “it just works”.

Docker is a great example because podman basically is a drop in replacement.

Best to do both tbh.

I actually think Google is going to win this one, they’re the only ones making their own hardware to run their own models. Open ai are starting down that road but they’re years behind.

When you look at the pricing of all the AI companies, Google’s is so much cheaper (orders of magnitude) and they’re not having to pay Nvidia billions to do it.

Companies are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. All the best security on the world will never prevent an attack from the universally weakest link - humans.

Best you can do is identify the humans that are likely to fall for it and remind them to be extra careful when clicking links in emails.