you mean the parts that are a part of the EU that directly benefit from support from some of the richest countries in the world?

when a multibillion conglomerate sets their eyes on you, do you really think anything will stop them from acquiring you?

I would rather sabotage the whole product, but what’s stopping any of the devs from taking a copy and building it again for the conglomerate?

you can’t put the genie back in the bottle once you set it free.

I wanted to build something similar but included a Reddit style posting community.

I ultimately didn’t because the fear of a hostile takeover like what happened at twitter made me rethink allowing such a platform to exist.

I know I wouldn’t use any of the data to monitor users, but there’s no reasonable way to stop others from abusing the system I created.

it would be unethical to create such a system knowing it would eventually fall into some private investment firms hands.

push your local governments to tax companies that replace workers with AI at a higher percentage.

this tax can then be used to offset the socioeconomic stress that the job losses will impose on your region.

not enough engineers use LSD anymore because they’ll lose their entire career over it and be blacklisted from government contracts forever.

the McCarthys won.

rule of thumb. any backup you don’t regularly test isn’t a backup.

very much so. poor people don’t buy things that aren’t necessary like internet access.

edit: just to clarify, poor people don’t have the expendable income to pay for both home Internet AND a mobile phone.

top 10 richest countries on the world adjusted per capita.

notice something missing from that list?

oh wait…look who is on the list?

is it because Switzerland is like 2% the size of America with like 4000% the GDP because of all the banks with illegal funds there?

not trying to diminish the message, but you can’t hold a pope of “today” responsible for what happened for centuries before.

I don’t deny that roadmap, but there is nothing I can do to stop this.

we can try all we want, but it still won’t stop them from moving the goal and trying again.

I’m tired of trying to convince people the worst is yet to come. all I can do is help myself and protect my family.

maybe for you…but not for me.

I’ll switch back to a dumb phone and run a Linux distro so obscure nobody’s seen it for 25 years.

fuck em. I’ll never comply with this shit.

tar -xcvf file.tar.gz /dev/random

so you’re telling me that all those times I said google was listening to me through my phone, and like a thousand people said I was full of shit, I was right?

if you have anything publicly exposed and you’re not using a siem solution you’re gonna have a bad time.

if we weld the circuits together it might.

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