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I've been following Techlore from the early days Go Incognito, and I've definitely noticed a change in his content too. He seems to have lost some of his idealism and is more focused on convenience and the just works mentality. The shift started to happen around the time he started collaborating with the admin team from Privacy guides more often.
I get it that a person may get to a place where their approach to privacy takes on a more general and unfocused approach, but his videos do seem a little tone deaf to the specific audience he spent years creating ๐
did not these guys get discredited?
Not to my knowledge, privacy guides is still the gold standard of open decision making.
But if there is something, I'd love to know about it as well
I'm unaware of any specific failings as well, but I think there can be some issue with the very specific set of priorities that shape their recommendations. It was one of their main admins that corresponded for Techlore at the Synology conference in the video mentioned by the OP, promoting closed source software. That's all based on your values though, as closed source software can still be privacy respecting. All in all they are a good resource, but it seems like they, along with Techlore, have shifted focus to convenience and centralization instead of more rigorous compartmentalization and FOSS.
I just checked their website, they don't actually recommend Synology in the website in any of the guides I could find.
So I think it's reasonable for a person to have personal opinions they state, but in their official work not expose those opinions.
And the criticism is fair, everyone should be open to feedback, but I don't see a smoking gun here that discredits the work they've done so far
Certainly not, as a resource they are invaluable. Just a few trends that I personally take in to account when it comes to their leadership. Kind of like recognizing a news outlet has a slight political leaning.