Freedom from overregulated and antiquated retail banking especially wrt cross-border transfers.

I guess it isn't that noticeable from inside US, but the rest of the world is grateful.

> the rest of the world is grateful.

Maybe speak for yourself? As part of the rest of the world, I am not grateful.

And I do. Speak, that is.

You can verify yourself using company email address - maybe I am being naive to think that it’s much safer, but it’s way better than handing over your ID data.

I never understand why people supply too much info about themselves for small gains.

People at LinkedIn wants you to believe that your career is safe if you play by their games, but ironically they are one of the main reasons why companies nowadays are comfortable with hiring and firing fast.

> You can verify yourself using company email address

LinkedIn does not support smaller companies; it appears to rely on some kind of whitelist or known-enterprise system. This option is simply not available for at least 90% of users.

> LinkedIn does not support smaller companies.

Pity, but even then is it worth to hand over your very personal data to multiple companies for the sake of blue tick? Not judging, genuine question.

Remish was truly amazing.Even if you were not into music or guitars you must have known him if you were born in Azerbaijan. He was a guitar hero. R.I.P.

> This means that a malicious attacker on your network, or a nation state that has access to your ISP can easily perform a MITM attack and replace the network response with any malicious executable of their choosing.

I am pretty sure, a nation state wanting to hack an individual's system has way more effective tools at their disposal.

Presumably, all Windows installations running on AMD are auto-executing this auto-update program.

I am pretty sure nation states hire people smart enough to use whatever works.

What the hell is more effective than getting root with a trivial MITM?

Not only is it effective, it's stealthy, in that it doesn't out you. It's obviously possible to both find and exploit it without a huge investment, which means nobody knows you're a nation state when you use it. You don't have to risk burning any really arcane zero-days or any hard to replace back doors.

Nation states are absolutely going to use things like that. And so is everybody else.

I guess one should keep their eyes out on the next big BGP hijack.

...such as talking directly to AMD or even Microsoft, which is scarier as Windows Updates are signed, and as long as they can be convinced to sign the right thing, it'll look even more legit.

Mostly true, but AI accelerated that process:

- Senior Engineers now often is sufficient for most tasks, Junior Engineers seems like a burden rather than a boost during development process

- Companies feel comfortable with hiring fast and firing fast

- Tech Market is now flooded with not-so-good engineers having good experience with good AI coding assistants - which already are capable of solving 80% of the problems - they are ready to work for much less than really experienced engineers

In general, yes, companies overhired many software developers, hoping they will continue hyper growing, but then reality has kicked in - this was not sustainable for most businesses.

This is why piracy is gaining more and more traction lately.

Glad that I removed my SoundCloud account right on time.

I think it’s only a matter of time before a service gets breached.

It's best to use unique random username, email, and password for every online account. Also, providing only the bare minimum of data and faking as much as possible is helpful in cases of data breaches.

Since when Cloudflare started to fight for Open Internet? Thanks to them last year we weren’t able to visit many websites. If that’s how they perceive openness, they have to think twice.