If that’s what installing Linux is like I don’t want to know what installing Windows looks like.

Also, in unrelated news, I’m now available for Linux installs…

You don’t need to.

By using metrics like IP address , age, gender, race, religion, city, workplace, application, website, favourite song, colour and flavour, throw in a few more questions and you can lucratively target specific groups of people.

By COMBINING those metrics you can target extremely small groups of people, groups with precisely ONE member.

No need for a unique GUID at all.

Effective for whom?

The users who’s data was disclosed, or the company that made the disclosure?

I hear you, but in the last year I’ve begun wondering if full public disclosure isn’t a better way to go these days.

The sheer volume of breaches is overwhelming and in my experience (of over 40 years as an ICT professional) many companies sweep their failures under the carpet, hide behind crisis management teams and marketing speak, and ridicule those bringing issues to their attention.

Their disclosure is abysmal if it’s made at all and there are precious few who reveal precisely what data was exfiltrated or how the issue was remediated.

This way anyone can verify the issue and companies cannot hide, everyone sees precisely what’s leaked and can act accordingly.

If you know of a more effective way, I’d love to hear it.

That’s interesting, I didn’t know that.

Minimum expense to you is YouTube, but your videos will be their product which is fine for some use cases.

There are fediverse video platforms, but their longevity is not guaranteed.

You could host your video content on AWS S3 and have it mirrored by the Wayback archive. There is a cost to hosting on S3, but it’s not massive.

I use S3 for my audio podcasts and import them into YouTube, it’s available on archive.org