Microsoft, 2015: "We want to move from people needing Windows to choosing Windows, to loving Windows. That is our goal."

Microsoft, 2024: "We want to move from people choosing whatever, to holding them ransom with ads and threats until they have no choice but to use only our products and services."

#Microsoft #Windows11 #Advertising #ClownShow #KnockItOff #ChoiceIsGood

Fanboyism towards any company that makes money off of you and has no reason to provide you a good or privacy-respecting service will never cease to fascinate me. #Apple fanboys are some of the most interesting in the category. They will pay Apple way too much for a device, get no choice at all and still voluntarily find a way to try and justify this. Apple has successfully turned lots of people into free advertising sheep. This phenomenon needs to be studied.

#ChoiceIsGood #psychology

I am making the move to Hachyderm. I am SO grateful for all the work both @jerry and @nova do, it's insane how impactful you are being along with your volunteers, admins and moderators. Both communities are thriving because of you.

I am making this move for personal reasons, mainly that I find myself more and more being generalized in tech and not security specific, and while InfoSec.Exchange has a lot of that, the decentralized structure of Mastodon means that there is this opportunity to shift to places where it feels more of a natural alignment. As Jerry himself says, people can and should move around, it's a Good Thing!

I may be back, in the future I have visions of being more of a pure security geek again, and this would be The Place To Be.

So thank you Jerry, and thank you Nova, and I know this process is seamless, so I'll see y'all in the ... next post :)

#InfoSec #Tech #Mastodon #ChoiceIsGood

You don't like how this desktop runs? Then go run your own goddarn desktop!

#YearOfTheLinuxDesktops #Plural #ChoiceIsGood #TrustYeGods