TeamViewer sold out long ago, formed a new company (AnyDeak), fooled us all, sold out again, and there's still people trying to use the same business plan.

There's zero money being spent on security, this is pure profit extraction.

I think it's more likely that someone is trying to keep competitors from mining it for a short term advantage

I feel like this article took a quick turn from "Bing went down" to "Google bad".

I am glad more people realize who's actually behind DDG and such.

It's one thing to make a tool accomplish a task.

It's another thing to beat the engineers until grandma can operate the tool.

I didn't like the guy either, and found it funny that his own bullshit killed him in the end, but he did add "value".

His point wasn't to find a CPU, it was to make a political post in a tech community.

That's what they said about Internet Explorer right up until the moment where Microsoft wanted everyone to switch to Edge. Not only could you suddenly uninstall it, but it even started uninstalling itself!

Funny how that happens

We did fine without it for a very long time. We still do with a lot of software. It's called voluntarily submitting a bug report and/or core dump.

The problem with Windows Updates is that they force new 'features' on you along with the patches.

With Linux you get to choose how bleeding edge you want to be, and can generally avoid the monetization crap.

Spot on. The availability of CSAM was overblown by a well funded special interest group (Exodus Cry). The articles about it were pretty much ghost written by them.

When you're the biggest company in porn you've got a target on your back. In my opinion they removed all user content to avoid even the appearance of supporting CSAM, not because they were guilty of anything.

PornHub has been very open about normalizing healthy sexuality for years, while also providing interesting data access for both scientists and the general public.

"Exodus Cry is an American Christian non-profit advocacy organization seeking the abolition of the legal commercial sex industry, including pornography, strip clubs, and sex work, as well as illegal sex trafficking.[2] It has been described by the New York Daily News,[3] TheWrap,[4] and others as anti-LGBT, with ties to the anti-abortion movement.[5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry

Software radios can do many things that are against the rules, the governing bodies only care about how they're actually being used for the most part.

Also, the measurements are over time. It's possible to exceed the total allowed in short bursts.

Lemmy has downvotes, but some specific instances (servers) do not allow them.

Unfortunately they've recently stopped doing this. It was a great way to stick it to the man though