Summary: Tim and Roy produce their 2nd audiocast since TechBytes returned
In this episode: Roy and Tim (TechBytes hosts)
Show notes 08/05/2021 (by Tim)
In today's show we focus on privacy, talking mainly on the subject of social media, we ponder the questions of what is this data being used for and by whom and also speak on the VPN and how vigilance is still required.
We look into the wider implications of privacy, Google services, working from home and ways that you can protect your privacy/data.
The appeal/lure of social media comes up and we consider promoted/paid-for # (hash) tags.
Should you be held accountable for things that were acceptable in the past but not in the present? We talk about this in relation to cancel culture and the wider implications.
We briefly cover Microsoft and talk about the future of Windows, including Windows 10X being apparently discontinued.
Tim covers a very affordable USB HDMI capture device and the topic of cheap technology is briefly covered.
All signs indicate that Microsoft wants to "exit" the XBox business (not brand), but it does not want to publicly admit this as it would alarm staff and shareholders
Considering the huge proportion of Web requests that come from LLM bots (more so this past year or two), statCounter may struggle to justify the operating costs
The corporate media is projecting or signalling its own dishonesty when it tells us that Microsoft is a very "valuable" company while the data shows Microsoft is also a "market leader" in layoffs
For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company
In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
