The cloud is kind of an odd one out here, cloud providers are bringing in like half a trillion dollars a year from willing customers

Debian is perfect in particular for work. Stable, free, capable. Hardly more to want. And it’s been almost the only stable bedrock in my tech career of over two decades. I’ve probably made over a million USD with it, while everything else eventually gets taken by a corporation and becomes folly to build on. Free software forever

not if you kill google first

Not if this abuse finally succeeds in driving away other peoples’ customers. Captcha losing people money makes captcha go bye bye

Are you saying FATCA continues to apply for 7 years after renouncing?

It’s the same as the “protect the kids” argument for policing overreach… never about actually protectinp, all about overreaching

I’d say it’s certainly possible for the economics and business strategy to shift in a manner where consumers get a much worse deal like this indefinitely. But it’s really haad to say if it’s actually going to play out that way or we experience a return to the previous equilibrium

there’s a utility named rename that will rename based on regular expressions. I think all the things you listed can be done by making a suitable regexp for each case

As far as I can tell the AI thing is an excuse; the jobs are really being cut because we’re reaping a harvest of policy so bad it’s indistinguishable from sabotage, and the AI thing is being used to ease the fall without spooking investors straight into a stock market crash

It’s a pretty complex topic but ever more valuable skill. I too believe AI will be used for mass surveillance that I don’t want to be a part of. Free, open source software is your best friend in general.

Windows and microsoft are particularly nasty in that they’ll record you where you interface with the computer (i.e. what the screen is showing and what you tell your own computer to do) and at some point will offer everything to the highest bidder. The offences of ISP and websites are pale in comparison.

if you’re so generous Google why have you moved to stand between me and my hardware?

oh I’m sorry. it’s checks watch samsara o’ clock

It is right at all times, for we ever only live in the now

Their casting choice for sandman was really disappointing to me. His appearance is so distinctive and strangely dignified in the book but they cast some conventionally attractive guy with for the lack of a better term little prick vibes

poor T aminals 😢

Nazis’ whole deal is crushing those who can’t or won’t crush back. Calls to not oppose them are fundamentally calls to enable their conquest and terror

wow this is really good writing, answering such a complex question so thoroughly

The front page I’m getting is certainly kind of smelly

The people who actually defeated fascism last time would be rolling in their graves if they could hear that assessment

We as a society should be rethinking the term “security”, if it’s come to mean submitting to being jerked around however best suits some private company’s interests instead of our own. If there’s a central platform for its security benefit it should be democratically controlled instead of controlled by what are effectively feudal lords, or perhaps even an occupying force