As far as I‘m aware, Time Machine is a local backup which means the data never even reaches Apple‘s servers.
Additionally, you can and should encrypt your data which Apple allows to do using FileVault.
Again, the encryption key never even reaches Apple‘s servers except if you use the iCloud Keychain. And even if you do and you store your key there, Apple wouldn’t have the key for your iCloud Keychain and thus couldn’t do anything with that data.
It's still a privacy nightmare. Your encryption key "never reaches Apple's servers" until the company that built your computer and signs your safe executables force-installs some binary that gives them data about every single backup you ever made.
Microsoft is not breaking new ground in killing your privacy. Customers already don't know or don't care that $bigcorp is watching everything you do and choose to give them all their data.
Interestingly, as a German who lives in a bubble where people take their jobs very seriously, I was equally surprised when I experienced pretty much what you described while visiting the US.
I guess there are “proud to be lazy” kind of people in any country. It’s definitely not a widespread German cultural thing, though, from my experience.
I think it's that when you're a tourist visiting somewhere you're far more likely to encounter people without jobs wherever you go, as the people with jobs are at work working, then go home to their families or friends or chores then go to bed, not hang around all day in the city center cafes chatting up tourists.
Ah, Technology Connections. Such a great channel!
If you enjoyed this video, make sure to also watch his video about the color brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
> For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and
Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which
are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox
development to Git.
It was Mercurial-only for a long time. Then people got used to git and asked for a mirror to stop dealing with whatever was the layer providing mercurial access for git locally. Apparently, now there are more git people out there than Mercurial.
It really has, Android actually has privacy controls now which they definitely didn't in 2013. Developers can't request your location 24/7 without you even being aware of it like they could 10 years ago.
The point of the slides was Google, not third party developers. I feel things have gotten worst. Google controls not only the device itself, but also most people’s browser and tools when they decide to use something else.
I guess my point is that I think even Apple likely has different policies or talking points around this now as opposed to a decade ago. Probably some more and some less troublesome than what's shown here.
Additionally, you can and should encrypt your data which Apple allows to do using FileVault.
Again, the encryption key never even reaches Apple‘s servers except if you use the iCloud Keychain. And even if you do and you store your key there, Apple wouldn’t have the key for your iCloud Keychain and thus couldn’t do anything with that data.