All I know is that Facebook's recommendation systems always show me things that I hate to see. I suppose they may "work" at scale, but at an individual level it's epic failure.
I was lucky enough to stop working in 2019 at age 49. I decided I would rather volunteer for charities that work on poverty, using my second set of technical skills (bicycle repair). I wish I had more opportunities, but it's been a lot more fun than "working". To start, I set a target of delivering more value than the amount of money I was donating to poverty-related charities while I was getting paychecks. Secondary goal is to train others to replace my volunteer labor after I am gone.
Comment from my 87yo father in law, a retired attorney: "Years ago I represented Yasser Seirawan, then the U.S. chess champ. He was interested in the Washington Square scene so I took him downtown. Of course, the hustlers were after him: he looked like a reasonably prosperous guy. He accepted after playing a little hard to get. The shock was obvious when he played much faster than the clock and won easily. He wouldn't take their money and when he told them his name they loved having played against him especially since he didn't complete the hustle by taking their money."
I've never worked at Okta, but I've worked with several production ticketing systems at big and small companies, and all of them contained critical information about customers and operations. Including credentials.
I understand too. However I didn't pay for a huge portion of those LPs, because people gave them away by the box load, including a long time subscriber of the Capitol Records club who didn't play them. I lucked out and I'd rather keep playing them than subscribe to anything.
I feel very fortunate to have grown up before streaming (ie, music you can't own). I collected about 800 CDs that I still have and listen to, and about 1200 LPs mostly given to me by people getting out of vinyl. I love the big artwork of LPs, and the ritual of cleaning and playing them, many of which are unavailable online. I ripped most of the CDs so I can avoid losses due to damage and listen on any device. I pay zero dollars to streaming services, nothing paid to Apple, and nothing supporting Joe Rogan. The down side to this approach is mostly just space for storage.
Google is not a neutral arbiter of search results. They always have their thumb on the scale, pushing low quality results down. That's appropriate here. State propaganda is low quality information.
Even so, delicensing existing installations would still have a significant effect. The blockade doesn't have to work perfectly to cause more economic disruption.
If software vendors want to really turn the screws on Russian aggression, I have a suggestion: break license checks from Russia. Microsoft Windows, Office, Sharepoint, looking at you in particular. Delicense existing installations.
The reason I use an ad blocker and noscript is because focused reading is impossible without these countermeasures. It's as if they don't want me to read and pay attention what they wrote.
One thing I've been wondering is whether self driving cars could result in lower emissions by never exceeding the speed limit, and by driving more smoothly than a human operator. Additionally, I wonder if having even say 10% of cars on the road that never exceed the speed limit would result in most other cars nearby driving the speed limit as well, since they would effectively block non-self-driving cars from speeding in many areas. Speeding is dangerous for all other road users, so there should be safety benefits as well. Why not require all self driving cars to drive at legal speeds?