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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?

A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago

As much as I lean to hate this despite it not even affecting me as a Linux user...

I’m going to structure this as a Q&A with myself now, based on comments online

What is that? "I'm going to pretend to ask questions that I'll then answer myself the way I think it'll outrage that most people do I'll get a lot of clicks on this shitty article"? What crappy excuse for content creation is this? I hate it.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago

I follow Kevin on Mastodon. He’s the real deal and is absolutely not interested in the clicks or outrage. He’s trying to make it accessible.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Agreed. The way i took it was "i am going to write 'questions' based on the concerns people are commenting online and give the answers to those things people are interested/worried about"

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I gotta say that I read the article and it seemed pretty reasonable in terms of content. The fake-Q-and-A thing wasn't quite my cup of tea either, but eh, I don't think it was all that problematic.

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