archchan

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He claims he was then strip-searched, forced to give blood samples, a facial scan and fingerprints.

Imagine having your biometrics taken and your blood forcibly siphoned by state-backed goons with guns for a meme.

Heads need to roll.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We call it Linux.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China.

Here as well.

$1.2bn contract with the Israeli government. Known as Project Nimbus, the joint contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021 aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology services to the Israeli government and its military

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It was never off the menu, just rebranded a little bit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

There's only a JD Vance there.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dark mode is supposed to be released this weekend! 50 weekends ago.

I stopped keeping up with him to save my sanity and excitement for when I can actually see for myself what has changed with an update.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Corpo marketing to obfuscate the idea of installing software and nurture dependency to pre-installed proprietary repositories for an entire crowd of dependent non-tech savvy users that doesn't know what an apk is probably.

I avoid using the term unless I'm being cheeky about "sideloading" from Google Play.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Hydrofluoric acid

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I disagree, Proton is a privacy company with more followers on Mastodon than on Threads and TikTok. Should they also drop what Linux support they have to focus only on Windows because it has a large base? This feels alienating to their privacy conscious users if anything.

 

Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

McDonald's wants your IQ too. Seriously, it's in their privacy policy.

 
view more: next ›