they could all be colluding with each other with master keys with the US govt.
Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
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Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#142This is a dumb take. They're both equally untrustworthy. VSCode has an insane amount of telemetry turned on, ChatGPT is monitoring everything you type, and GitHub was abused to train a LLM. Microsoft and Google have both shown they would sell your data in a heartbeat to make a quick buck.
Ehh, I think this is also a bad take. Turn off telemetry, delete ChatGPT conversations, and I like having an LLM for GitHub versus Give us all your personal data and we're sharing it with ad partners, your personal data is our number one product and secondary products are only made to support the first endeavor.
MS has lot more products were you can't completely turn off telemetry if you aren't using the Enterprise version.
Don't forget the Office 365 "productivity" measures.
And the latest insanity, at least for me, ads in the settings of Windows 11. Never ever put ads in any configuration menu of the operating system. That clearly says, it's not my computer, its MS's and they try to squeeze every penny out they can get. So they aren't any different from Google, they even try to push you to the Cloud and then make mistakes a cloud enterprise shouldn't make
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#143I love VSCode, I use Google Workspace for my domain, run a Mac and an iPhone (and use iCloud), a Surface Go 2 with Linux (quite workable), I host on all sorts of stuff. Uncritically associating "trust" with a brand is a mistake. Microsoft are no more on the side of the angels than anyone else (and are very clearly on the other side in some of the legal positions they stake out, such as their amicus brief in support o…
I can’t force myself to like vscode. I need to code right? So I need 1-to be able to write text, 2-syntax highlighting. VSCode is an absolute mess of unnecessary plugins and popup that reminds me of an internet explorer 6 with too many web bars and a bonzi buddy dancing at the bottom of the screen.
I also dislike Chrome and any chrome based reskin. I appreciate Firefox and even Safari. Specially Safari for the same reasons the average JavaScript Stan hates it: it’s keeping the web from implementing the latest usb-over-browser crap or wathever the-chrome-consortion (google) comes up with. Safari on iOS is the only thing that keeps “best viewed on Chrome” from happening in current year.
Those are personal opinions though.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am the last guy to play apologist to Microsoft and Google. While the potential for abuse is there, these are the same sorts of concerns raised over UEFI secure boot, and the sky failed to fall over that. You can still run Linux if you want, it's fine. Things will likely be OK. Maybe more annoying than before.
"can run linux if you want" - but it's difficult enough that most of us just give up and run one or the other and it's definitely not user friendly enough to ever teach a relative. I've been a casual Linux user for 25 years now. I've officially given up dualbooting. One software update by Microsoft or accidental EFI change the house of cards seems to fall apart.
live usb with persistence on the usb stick itself or on hdd partition running windows works like a charm. save your data on the hdd.
im on mx linux and life is such a breath of fresh air.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Google search has become nearly unusable This is a weird meme given how many billions of searches Google handles daily.
Not as weird as this meme. You assume it’s some signal expression rather than that I would just pay Google money every month to provide search results that don’t prioritize advertisements over more accurate results that don’t calculate a margin.
YouTube Premium exists and there are still masses of people that refuse to pay for it despite hating ads. You’re in the minority.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you go back enough, Microsoft was the scrappy upstart, sort of. They were this small software company loved by most, the creators of Windows and Excel and all that. The amount of fuckery going on the background never saw the light of day back then. People seemed to be happy with them bundling more and more crap in their products, a move that killed most of their competition. They haven’t given up on that, to the p…
> Microsoft has and will always try to control the entirety of the stack > from hardware to servers to operating systems to applications, in a way that would make any Apple exec salivate thinking about vertical integration Apple has the world's most valuable integrated stack. At scale nobody integrates more tightly or better than Apple, and nobody makes more money from that tight integration. It's the foundation of t…
Apple's vertical integration really ends at the cloud. There's iCloud, but that's a small offering. Microsoft has Azure, which extends their vertical integration in a direction Apple doesn't even try for.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#147You got to be an idiot to trust any public or vc company. You can use their products and services when it makes sense, you should never trust them.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#148The best part is that Microsoft and Google are working together towards the end goal of locking users out of their own machines. Microsoft is really pushing for its trusted OS platform, with a completely locked down kernel, that will grant them full control over what can and cannot be done on the computer. Google is pushing for the same, but in the browser space. Except their Web Integrity effort has no chance of suc…
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Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not as weird as this meme. You assume it’s some signal expression rather than that I would just pay Google money every month to provide search results that don’t prioritize advertisements over more accurate results that don’t calculate a margin.
YouTube Premium exists and there are still masses of people that refuse to pay for it despite hating ads. You’re in the minority.
Where did YouTube enter the discussion? Also yes the things I search for would be in the minority of overall searches, but apparently finding Google unable to fulfill searches for these things despite it being able to do so 7 years ago is just memetic transference and not an actual critique.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#150The mistake is to trust either. The areas where one should scrutinize either may have deltas, but there is massive overlap between both (and really, all of the industry big players) on "trust"