• N3Cr0@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    I skipped briefly through the entire video and everything I’ve heard and seen was absolute bullshit bingo.

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      1 month ago

      Embrace, extend, and extinguish. They literally documented it as being their strategy. Now the justice department is chasing Google who despite being bad, at least provides enough source code where people have created privacy-focused derivatives of Android. I’d much rather see them go after Microsoft first but the government relies on Microsoft, and Microsoft relies on our tax dollars going to the government so they can get them.

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        I don’t really understand how Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is relevant to this, would you mind explaining?

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          Since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has advertised itself as a pro-opensource company despite never open sourcing its primary consumer-facing products like Windows & Edge. This initially attracted a lot of open source developers that Microsoft gladly hired, to turn around and turn their OS into a spyware organization.

          Microsoft learned that if they collected a bunch of data and shared it with the intelligence agencies, while making their OS a telemetry warehouse that tracks nearly everything you do, then they’d be able to attract and onboard the entire US government while making it nearly impossible for them to switch away in the future. At this point forensic companies aren’t shy that Windows is the worst choice for privacy.

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        Kill Google, kill Apple, kill Meta, kill Amazon. I’m not sure whether killing Apple is necessary - despite their problems, they at least have an honest business model (of profiting off a cult). I think yes, split them too.

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          I’m not going to defend Apple against being broken up, but those other companies are on a whole different level when it comes to invasion of privacy.

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          I’m not sure whether killing Apple is necessary

          They’ve taken to designing unrepariable e-waste garbage. let em burn

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            30 days ago

            Decided then.

            And that round building of theirs should be demolished, only Apple fans can think it looks futuristic.

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                I guess as a homeless shelter it’d be fine. There’s some value in all the glassy parts too - hydroponics would combine well aesthetically with a shelter.

                However, the space inside it should be treated carefully, or it can turn into something similar to Soviet micro-districts in the criminal sense.

                Again, maybe making it some kind of a huge pond and releasing fish there is a good idea? I dunno.

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                  29 days ago

                  or it can turn into something similar to Soviet micro-districts

                  I think you’re on to a great start for a new post apoc Sci Fi novel

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    All users activity open for us to scrape! Recall™

    The most open operating system!

    Microsoft: Fuck your privacy!©

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      1 month ago

      Want to Recall™ that specific porn your neighbour was watching yesterday?

      Subscribe to Recall Premium & watch the recording of their screen now!
      (Or Recall Premium+ to get fewer ads)

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    What happens when you favor marketing over anything else?

    You just lie, lie, lie, so many times that you actually believe your own shit

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    At least the Aptos default typeset they use is better than Calibri. I hate Calibri but I can’t quite articulate why. Maybe because it’s the default and I’ll hate Aptos eventually too.

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      Calibri isn’t strong enough in it’s convictions to be Helvetica. It can’t even offer a fight against the hard utilitarianism of Arial. It’s rounded corners and varying thickness show up terribly on anything but the highest resolution screens, where it still isn’t good, and it makes me feel the same way that CRT monitors did when I put my hand up to them. You know the feeling, that crusty, fuzzy, buzzy feeling that you swear you could taste.

      A nasty font, it can absolutely go fuck itself.

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          My favourite font is Apple San Francisco, but Inter is the closest font I’ve found that I can actually use in my projects. Along with an option to switch to Open Dyslexic of course!

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          what are your thoughts about Inter?

          More of an AC Milan man myself, or at least I was back in their 90s heyday. I don’t really follow the Serie A that much these days 😛