If the poster stopped acting like an emo teen from the 90s (“Clownflare”, really?), he would be aware of the why of the late Linux usage spike, but maybe he wouldn’t like it (it is mostly because of “Omarchy”)
You didn't switch away from windows to get superior software?
Also, the statement was valid because it will be true for most. It doesn't matter that you read it and it wasn't true for you, as long as it's true by the numbers, it's true, because it's one-to-many communication not one to one.
My reasons to switch to Linux from Windows were very little about "security" and plenty more about freedom. Sure, it was very nice avoiding running an antivirus, but that was just the cherry on top.
I wanted the freedom to change and "rice" my desktop however I wanted, and the Compiz cube looked awesome. I found Windows condescending and restricting in that regard. Yes, my first reason was the aesthetics, kick me out of the nerds club. (That was also the reason I switched to Mac for 10 years).
My second reason was that I suspected I could learn so much more about computers using Linux full time. And I did.
I was also younger and used to associate Windows with soul-sucking corporate jobs and Linux with new ideas and experimentation. It was us-vs-them. Open Source vs Micro$oft and all that vibe.
While I don't want to discuss the quality of any distro vs Windows, there is a big reason most of us use free software: because it is free.
Whether for you it is because of free as in freedom or free as in beer specifically, quality may not have much to do with it.
In EU at least you can almost get free as in beer Windows, you can buy a fully legal 2nd hand (resold) Windows license for about $10, the price of a fancy beer.
I'm sure "superior software" is true for most, but that's a much wider goalpost than the people specifically worried about security/vulnerabilities. One of the biggest factors pushing people to Linux lately is the increasing number of ads and annoyances being crammed in to Windows. Security has been moderate for a long time.
Hmm. Having read your post, surely the bug is having a function where
set(foo, false)
removes foo entirely. What if you want foo to have the value False? Even besides the unintended behaviour where 0 is coerced to a boolean value, this function seems poorly designed.
(And even if it were a fibre connection, those usually have dedicated Cable Landing Stations which are mostly concerned with separating the power & data cables and dealing with the power & cooling. Datacentres tend to be further inland)
One big problem is that lately this kind of extremism has become more like a cult: even considering the idea that the “others” might have some truth (while being wrong about the rest) is treated like blasphemy
Last year alone, 40 people died in Spain in a train derailment. In total, how many people have died over the last 100 years because of something a software engineer did?
ETA: Admittedly the above is getting off-topic from YouTube, but I can easily imagine a scenario where an instructional video was deleted due to a spurious copyright strike or some other stupidity.
Not just accidental, there are many tools/processes/weapons that are powered by software written by engineers who knowingly write their code to do harm.
But people gotta eat and all so who am I to blame.
Probably many, but how many is the result of the title of someone's IP leaking? Other than private video titles, what can this AI actually access? I doubt it has bank account information or any other PII that could cause actual damages. The risk is real but the impact is incredibly low.
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