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It is incredibly unfair to associate older people with legacy stack. Many older people are actually contributors and work on defining and implementing newer (modern) architecture like containerization and automation solutions. I think often younger developers and engineers are often taught on old paradigms and solutions, and then often get out into a position to ignore modern solutions and get vendor kickbacks to maintain long-term contracts utilizing antiquated solutions.

Time for my $0.39 check or a year of additional credit monitoring in exchange for my credit history and personal information.

Google Cloud doesn't charge for egress to Google Drive as well. If you use GCP to transfer files to Google Drive via rclone, then you can download them elsewhere without any charges.

Have you ever used tab auto-completion before? GPG's CLI is actually pretty intuitive and self-explanatory. You can also type:

  gpg --help

Or,

  man gpg

That's exactly what it is, but remember the government does this all the time. Even in their experimentation efforts of giving Sisyphus and having children eat radioactive material. They'll find psychologist to agree that something isn't morally wrong and use that as a basis for their experiments.

I'm all for calling out hacking attempts, but it was a phishing email which shouldn't have even made news. Also, Microsoft is heavily invested in Russia and all their internal builds leak on Russian hacking groups first like WZor. I'm actually frustrated that Biden is using Microsoft for his campaign.

That is what I was wondering, if you could grant it access to read/write to a specific folder.

Redshift does the same thing and is open source, and there is also a port for Wayland.

Gpg4win and Mailvelope are very easy for the average user.

HCL, Jinja, Go Templates, etc are much easier for people to read and understand than standard programming languages. If you're going to use a standard programming language to write your IaaS then you might as well just use the native SDKs rather than an overlay.

AMP isn't specific to Chromium

You forgot to read the part where they will block certain directories, and your 12 year old could easily install malware or give out his password, and Android did't fail in terms of privacy. Apple has failed by locking you into a closed-source ecosystem. Android is open source and has a lot of options, and a lot of open source apps you can review yourself and pick the best cryptography algorithms for password management, etc.

That's not how policies work. Schools, organizations and even home users can enable policies to block this feature altogether as well as many others:

https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/

Should they block online email providers too because someone might send a phishing email?

For filesystem access they are beholden to their enterprise users as well and Chromium still has a lot of open source developers that aren't simply looking out for Google's best interests. If they became overly hostile, then I'm sure we'd see a fork at some point. I'm not saying they are perfect, but a lot of Chromium hate is unfounded and exaggerated.

Data is easily harvested in Firefox and Safari too

It has a policy as well and will always allow you to disable it. No need for hyperbole.

Which has policies that can be enabled to block it if necessary

> VS Code is probably the most well written piece of widely-used software written in the last decade.

You're entitled to your opinions, but I think your judgement is skewed.

Antifa isn't a group they are just a right-wing strawman.

VS Code sucks and if I were to go the route of a different app there are lot better options out there for markdown editing. This feature has a lot of amazing potential, but some people like the Apple-model so much that they'd prefer only being told what they are allowed to do.

Do we need to just create a dummy proof OS for people that are oblivious and click yes to everything? Otherwise, why not give people choice? I mean you could create a pop up asking people for their passwords today on any browser, so how is adding a feature that requires permission any different?

Finally, we can have a local markdown editor with live preview. I just hope it can read files and folders in a particular directory as well, with permission of course.

It's a much better value than ProtonMail

I was anti-HCL/Terraform for a long time due to issues with state files, but lately I honestly prefer it over Ansible whenever possible.. although I'm still not happy with the way cloud-init works on various cloud providers.

If you want secure email on Google you can always use GPG with IMAP or Mailvelope. Additionally, for Drive storage you can use rclone with a crypt overlay.

I simply can't get around Proton's pricing model. A lot of services already work with rclone, which has a crypt backend on top that encrypts everything stored in the cloud. With ProtonMail's current Visionary plan, you get 40GB of storage for $30/mo and with ProtonDrive it looks like you'd get maybe 140GB of storage for $30/mo. G Suite is $12/mo and you get unlimited storage. If you're worried about security, you'd simply use GPG on top of IMAP or Mailvelope.

I absolutely love Inkscape for complex artwork, however I wish it would try to implement better conversion to the official web spec. After saving, I find myself manually optimizing the SVG and sometimes redoing it completely to remove a lot of fluff that isn't needed.

Google is FedRAMP compliant, however if you need to make sure it is encrypted then that is what rclone is for. You could setup an rclone encrypted mount and then share it on the local network.

A lot of employers have turned their culture more into a cult than anything else. I feel the same way about working for AWS.