I remember stumbling upon some random office building in China and was able to fully control every camera in the place. I never did anything beyond pan them around a bit—and nobody ever reacted to my antics—so I guess the camera movements either weren't very obvious or staff was just used to being watched by management/random people.

I've worked in multiple industries. Macs are not rare, but they aren't prevalent. Windows still has ultramajority market share.

On the server side, tons of things run linux. Maybe if you work for a tech company or are on a development team you use linux day to day, but this is generally a small subset of people at a company. This is not a forum for "developers" but for everybody. Someone in HR, Finance, Sales, R&D, etc is not going to be familiar with linux at work typically.

I don't doubt that there are companies out there that have linux workstations for normal users, I just doubt it's more than 2% of the workforce in the western world. It's probably way less than that.

The Apache http server was easily configured to allow per user websites and this was commonly done to give everyone a website. They looked something like a "www.example.com/~username" URL which mapped to a public_html folder inside the user's home directory. Apache would serve up any files or html that lived inside to the public.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/public_html.html

At the time, a lot of people didn't worry about anyone finding their obscure files, so put them there freely for family and friends.

Wild times!

I work in IT

linux "user experience"

Hmm something does not add up to me very well

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And so on, perhaps with some variations based on camera model. People uploaded their DCIM folders to their homedirs which were sometimes exposed to the web. You'd see so much private stuff this way.

Just tried and it appears such functionality has been removed from Google, because of course it has.