TalkingCodeMonk

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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
The premise here is rather ridiculous, and only entertainable if you don't know about the recent history of the admin declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk because they required the government to agree to ethical clauses that would&#
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
> I'm not sure why you got down voted. Maybe people are perceiving some subtext that I'm not. Probably because the vast majority of politicians who attack taxation do so specifically to destroy social programs and quality of li
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
From their about page: "Thunderbird operates in a separate, for-profit subsidiary of the not-for-profit Mozilla.org. This structure gives us the flexibility to offer optional paid services to sustain Thunderbird’s development far into
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
I wouldn't say Mozilla has reached this stage of fraud or exploitation directly yet (to my knowledge), but the decisions they make consistently indicate they are on the path to that level of corruption and enshittification, and history
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
This is why I refuse to donate to Mozilla, despite only paying for open source products, believing that 100% open source should be mandatory in every democractic government, Firefox and Thunderbird being my daily drivers for many years, and
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
> What do you think his party was when growing up? This is indicative of Americas mental illness epidemic. You believe the neoliberal pro-corporate oligarchy party, that hasn't had a leftist president since Carter, is "the left
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
How is it a romanticization to assert what the entire history of global demographics and statistics support? The distribution of work vs financial security was not uniform, but every developed economy had a greater distribution of wealth an
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Given long term trends, Googles official motto next decade: "BE Evil"
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Those contrasts only exist among the general population, which Americas political class have not represented for generations. Can you give any examples of major corporations who do not have a verifiable history of corruption or anti-consume
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
There is credible evidence that Trump — that bastion of the far-left — has been a Russian asset since the 1980's...
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
I never implied the 1950's was the pinnacle of morality. I was referencing the tropes that "traditional" "conservative" politicians since Reagan have consistently virtue signaled, while they aggressively worked to a
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
That is a false dichotomy. The solution to failed laws and regulations is not crime and corruption. The solution is to hold the policial and business leadership accountable; to fix the laws and regulations. The entire American tech industry
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
> In an NSA presentation slide on “Google Cloud Exploitation,” however, a sketch shows where the “Public Internet” meets the internal “Google Cloud” where their data reside. In hand-printed letters, the drawing notes that encryption is “
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
What if the CA certs are compromised, as was alluded to for GCP in the Snowden leaks? All server security measures are irrelevant if every client req/res is dragnet siphoned off to NSA servers in plaintext. It would also afford the cor
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Interesting. I don't remember calculators or engines being required to solve the problems they created... nor monthly subscription fees to maintain protection from those problems... nor the companies responsible profiting off the ampli
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
The lesson is you gotta incorporate your crimes. If you kill a person you face life in prison. If you are a decision maker at Boeing who lies to regulators and customers, committing fraud that killed hundreds of people [0], you receive a go
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Why do you believe morals and ethics do not apply to software? Would you say nuclear weapons are "just physics"? What about the software involved? In that context, software is a tool that can make or break civilizations. Honestly,
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
So the solution is for FOSS developers to pay large sums of money to AI companies, to solve the problem that the AI companies created, for profit? ... and you typed this out as though extorting charities were a solution, instead of a grotes