We got click-baited into reading about Microsoft doing shady shit with their browser default settings (again, no less!), but that part wasn’t even mentioned in the article.

Siding with Russia really pays off, huh 😂

Is that you, Sam?

I said not normally, meaning yes I do (and just did), but in this case I do not feel bad because Sam Altman plainly sucks ass and deserves to cry for his numerous blights on humanity.

What is the point you’re making?

I wouldn’t normally make fun of someone’s looks, but this guy is a boat anchor on humanity. There’s enough cheek there for three orangutans

https://www.animalspot.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/The-Bornean-Orangutan.jpg

Caw caw mother fuckers

nelson_laugh.mp3

comparing ad breaks to: hacking our infrastructure, spreading disinformation, sowing discord and tilting our elections is the real humor.

Yeah I get that, but it’s more about stepping on the water hose.

Also, it’s a hell of a lot easier to police inside our own borders. Guess what happens to the nice folks who run this shit within our borders?

Then enlighten me! Explain to me this great societal benefit we get from leaving them on the 'net. Because it sure seems 90% of what’s coming out of Russia is: hacked infrastructure, spreading disinformation, sowing discord and tilting our elections. I understand that it’s unfair to the Russian people, but at what point do we stop drinking the poison that is being dished out by their government? We shouldn’t all be a victim to their government’s motivations.

Yeah I get that, but it’s more about stepping on the water hose.

I never said the Russian people are bad. I said it seems the majority of Russian influence on the greater Internet seems to be motivated by ill intent. I was merely asking at what point do you take action to prevent them from: hacking our infrastructure, spreading disinformation, sowing discord and tilting our elections? Seems like a high price to pay to share memes on Lemmy if it means the Russian government has free rein to do as they please.

I’m all for an open and free Internet, but at what point do we cut off bad actors whose largest “contribution” is to spread and manipulate through disinformation? I can’t imagine there’s a wealth of culture and good will coming out of Russia via the Internet today, but it seems I hear about this week after week.

First, you need to separate power hungry crypto from AI, one provides a real benefit while the other is a useless fiat that can be accomplished without dumping gigawatts down the drain. If you want to trade crypto that’s fine, just don’t use a vulgar amount of society’s power to do it.

Queue “I can’t believe the leopards ate my face”

Never a missed opportunity to grind the poor into the dirt, am I right republicans? Oh, but they’ll lobby for billions (with a fucking B) to give away in government subsidies to AT&T and other broadband providers all the while abolishing Net Neutrality.

If you have any illusion to think republicans are helping you at all, look no further than their jaw dropping history in telecom policy.

I had to think about this before it became apparent to me as well. Adobe is and probably will be one of Figma’s biggest competitors and they just let Adobe see how the secret sauce is made. At least they walked away with a fat check for it.

All you little tech companies out there need to be alert. Be it Adobe, Apple or some other tech giant: if they come knocking with a proposition to acquire you with a check that has stupid number of zeros on it, they might just be stealing your IP while you’re giving them the full tour of your company only to leave you high and dry afterwards. Guess it only makes sense at least when it comes to Apple and Microsoft stealing all that precious IP from Xerox PARC.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/413400

Kim would give your data to Satan himself for a can of Pringles

Guess you forgot the other 20+ charges Kim Dotcom plead guilty to over the decade before he decided to host.

Embezzlement ✅

Selling stolen property ✅

Data espionage ✅

Who the fuck takes up for this moron? He’s obviously a shit weasel for life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom

Peak comedy is someone believing convicted felon Kim Dotcom is going to treat your data or privacy with an ounce of respect.