Cursor didn't expose it, you did when you decided to use Cursor. You're using an editor that is owned by a company with analytics built in. You're handing over your data.
Stop using company hardware, software and subscriptions to do _anything_ personal.
Yes, this is the right answer. Compartmentalization is a basic principle in security. I never do anything personal on company hardware and vice versa. I keep both separate. It just makes things so much easier to manage in the long term.
What exactly is the point of this article? If you're not a white male and from a wealthy family, you should fall in line and work for someone else because freedom isn't in your cards.
No. Here's the same author with a different article: "A UBI would free Americans to shift from scarcity to abundance mode, which would enable more people to take risks and engage in a greater, more expansive vision for their future. Yang’s freedom dividend would give Americans greater agency to leave codependent relationships, professional or otherwise, and operate as the CEO or entrepreneur of their own lives." https://qz.com/1687957/the-case-for-andrew-yangs-ubi-plan
What exactly do people have against DHH? I only recall people being upset when DHH banned political discussion within the office of 37signals. Besides that, I had no idea people were upset with him.
There are quite a few that I just found out today. Defending Andrew Tate for example. Andrew Tate is a predator/entrepreneur that I really is making the world a worse place.
Maybe I'm old, jaded, stubborn and paranoid, but something about a coding editor that is controlled by a company is off-putting to me. It's even more off-putting when you add Zoom, Slack and everything else into said editor.
…you’re free to use other editors? People like Zed. They like IntelliJ. They like VSCode. If you have an aesthetic preference against all professionally maintained IDEs, I think you’re in the minority.
The issue is with social features you might be forced to use it, like Slack instead of Email. I've already had cases where I've been forced to use VSCode to collaborate at work.
while technically possible with massive projects like these its not as simple to simply fork it, because of the man hours involved . its better to keep in the product stands enshitification while one uses it or just use something else.
I'm not really here to defend OR condemn Mitnick. I was just always fascinated with his story, from the first time I read that Hafner & Markoff book Cyberpunk back in the early 1990's. Anyway, one of the notable aspects of his story was the way he was held for a rather long time without even so much as a bail hearing... something many people believed (and still believe) was blatantly unconstitutional. That was, as I recall, the motivation for a fair amount of the "Free Kevin" rabble-rousing, even among people who acknowledged that he had broken the law and deserved some sort of punishment.
By the time I bought that particular laptop and put that sticker on it, (about 3 years ago now, I guess) Kevin had long since been out of jail, had gone legal and was running his own security consulting company. I put one of those one mostly out of nostalgia and as a conversation starter. Perhaps surprisingly, I've had a modest number of people approach me when I was out in public and ask "Who's Kevin?" or say "Kevin Mitnick, right? Yeah, I remember that guy... I was at DEFCON this one year and ... <conversation ensues>".
It's funny, I am in cybersecurity but I have always liked keeping my laptop free of stickers. Always seemed like "trying too hard" to me. And as much as I love my laptop, much like my Fluke 87V, I value it as a tool, not a means of self-expression.
Maybe I am just boring, lol. I did use an original copy of the PGP source code book as a monitor stand though!
I used to keep my laptop sticker free. I changed that once I discovered how much easier it makes it to recognize which laptop is mine. This was really driven home when one year everyone at work was gifted the same macBook Air as a holiday gift by the company.
Our cyber security team told people not to put stickers on the laptop as it can be used to spear phish the owner, can open to industrial espionage.
They even showed us this cheesy video showing.
1. A woman chatting up a developer based on their stickers on the laptop they saw earlier.
2. Someone targeting the laptop for theft because of the stickers.
People still do it, but I've only seen it on the junior people trying to express who they are.
Yes, we live in a time where we worry about offending people with the wrong pronoun or stating there’s only two genders. I think we are far away from the cojones we had in 40-60s.
Stop using company hardware, software and subscriptions to do _anything_ personal.
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