The entire "diversity" push is artificial and wrong.
I've worked for places that said, "We need to hire x number of women, blacks, and homosexuals." Most people in the meetings were like "yeah, whatever..."
Every time I've worked for some douche bag management team that pulled something like this, it went pear shaped. Hiring people because they are women, black, or homosexual does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to bring in talent. IT is, by nature, a meritocracy. I don't want to work for anyone or any place that does not exist as a meritocracy. People should be judged by the value of their contributions, not by any other criteria.
Before anyone gets started, even if a potential candidate was perfect and was a woman, black (or other), or homosexual compared to a typical American/Canadian IT worker (white male or Asian male/female), I would hire the best fit for the culture at hand. Most IT shops are politically incorrect lairs of gaming lore, cursing, off-colour humour and odd banter, and it needs to stay this way. I dislike forced political correctness and so do most IT people.
Spot on. Chrome is not the standard by which all others are judged. Like some others here, I've used Firefox since it existed, even when it was Phoenix and Firebird. The only other browser I will use besides FF-based browsers is Uzbl. Firefox allows me to lock down and customise my browser in ways Chrome does not. Let's not even go into the privacy nightmare that is Chrome.
At the rate surveillance is encroaching upon us, how long before we start receiving visits from Grammaton Clerics? Or precog women in bathtubs are reading our thoughts?
The issue with Windows is the telemetry. You simply cannot disable it. Yes, you can waste time ticking everything off, but with the next update, it's back again. No, thank you.
I want to use an operating system that respects my privacy. For me, this is OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or Fedora/Debian Linux.
I use Windows at work, too, and am horrified daily by how utterly difficult it is to use compared to Linux or FreeBSD.
I'm envisioning servers running anonymous services that one could connect to ala proxy for mobile devices that anonymize traffic, strip out all ads, beacons, traffic, allow choice of region to appear from, etc. No logs.
Desktop service would allow a secure connection to an anonymous, secure desktop of your choice (Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Window Maker, Openbox, etc.) anonymize traffic, offer an ad/beacon/traffic-free stream, and again, no logs.
I've worked for places that said, "We need to hire x number of women, blacks, and homosexuals." Most people in the meetings were like "yeah, whatever..."
Every time I've worked for some douche bag management team that pulled something like this, it went pear shaped. Hiring people because they are women, black, or homosexual does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to bring in talent. IT is, by nature, a meritocracy. I don't want to work for anyone or any place that does not exist as a meritocracy. People should be judged by the value of their contributions, not by any other criteria.
Before anyone gets started, even if a potential candidate was perfect and was a woman, black (or other), or homosexual compared to a typical American/Canadian IT worker (white male or Asian male/female), I would hire the best fit for the culture at hand. Most IT shops are politically incorrect lairs of gaming lore, cursing, off-colour humour and odd banter, and it needs to stay this way. I dislike forced political correctness and so do most IT people.