world governments currently waste $13B a year on publication fees -that’s money that should be in labs doing research.
And only a tiny fraction of that $13B can buy a lot of lawyers, lobbyists, and favors to make sure things don’t improve.
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7·3 days agoBut 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.
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The original tweet with context:
“If it’s not explicitly written out in a way that I can understand, then you must be full of shit.”
Allow me fill in the gaps for you so you don’t hurt your thinky parts:
I don’t think most of them will.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.