The thing I'm wondering about is why they didn't make use of StackOverflows bew Collectives feature. Yes, launching your own thing gets somebody promoted, but in this case I think collaborating with SO could have made sense.
lol poor guy who launched it slaving for the whole year thinks it will get him promoted. Wait till he goes through a cycle, gets shot down, demoralized, leaves AWS and they backfill with fresh meat.
It's mind boggling to me, that Microsoft went with a redesign here. Personally the Windows UI never bothered me that much. I just feel like that they could have focused more on things like, stability, the search functionality or, and I'm not even kidding, printer and scanner support.
There's nothing wrong with redesign as long as they do it consistently across the whole OS, but from my experience, they reskin like 30% of the stuff and everything else stays inconsistent [0]. If they're gonna work on UI, I'd like to see them actually grow that 30% rather than keep changing things up.
I agree, they should have done the boring but worthwhile work of updating the control panel, font selector, etc. But nope. Add more inconsistency. And make the start button harder to click while you're at it.
Sound can be used to detect many kinds of events, like medical symptoms, usage of kitchen appliances, and doors being opened. However, nobody wants an always-on microphone that is able to capture speech when the system gets compromised. A consumer microphone will only capture sound within the audible spectrum, so filtering out the range of speech leaves too little information to work with.
This study shows that infra- and ultrasound also works well for detecting significant events. PrivacyMic uses hardware filtering to remove the range of speech, so it cannot be used to gain sensitive information even if an attacker had full control of the software.
Yeah. No. Many advertisers rely on Cloudflare. If Cloudflare would choose to block ads, I'd imagine that lots of folks would ditch them and use some other DNS provider instead.
Don't use LastPass. It's a nightmare. Terrible sync and thinks like "Do not make password visible to shared contacts" are a huge PITA with no real benefit
> "Do not make password visible to shared contacts" are a huge PITA with no real benefit
While it is an inconvenience, like most security, I suspect the benefit is that folks can't just write down or copy a shared password somewhere else. It keeps it relatively contained, for times when employees leave the company. I'm unsure whether or not a determined user could get the password anyway.
The sync is slow-ish; I moved an entry to a shared folder and it took 20 minutes to become available to others.
