I think the issue is that this marketing consultant didn’t build anything. They just prompted an LLM to generate output

Microsoft is still who vetted and hired the contractor and who selected the location.

And yeah. Past CEOs of Microsoft have continued to be shitty. They’re who’s responsible for what’s going on. I just wanted to talk about the ways white knight philanthropy doesn’t help, it just perpetuates colonialism, and Bill Gates+Microsoft have always been in lock step in this regard.

The point is the true villain here is colonialism

So construction waste is a subcategory of industrial waste. Typical industrial waste includes toxic materials like excess cement, fiberglass, bits of plastic from wires and cables. But once the data center is in place, most likely the waste will be e-waste in nature. Think heavy metals, copper, and yet more plastic. And the thing is… This is why they’re putting this data center here. Disposing of this toxic waste will be cheaper because it’s less regulated. The long term cost of high tech industries like this to neo-colonialized communities like this is the communities themselves. It doesn’t matter to Microsoft they’re making the water undrinkable. They don’t have to live there.

And realize, too. Bill Gates’ philanthropic missions aren’t accidents. He may not run the show at Microsoft anymore but he still benefits greatly from their business. His philanthropic efforts aren’t about making the lives of people who are exploited better. They’re about maintaining that cheap form of labor just a little bit longer. And that may not be Bill Gates’ actual intention, but the fact of the matter is he’s a billionaire. He could make much larger changes in the world by not being a billionaire. He has power and influence to do things the rest of us can’t, but instead of treating the illness he treats the symptoms. His actions sustain the system he benefits from

Correction: yes it will. Source: that’s how I installed it

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Super cool that new privates headed to Iraq weren’t alive when that particular conflict started. Super cooool

I wonder if its because Beehaw is staying on 18.x while awaiting Sublinks

Lionir is talking about API implementations for everything to go off a single CSS file or a single icon pack. Not about the implementation of your personal desired aesthetic (I refuse to use the term rice, it has origins in racist car and motorcycle culture)

The ad company blocking an ad blocker is totally about security

- Google stans

Yeah please stop trying to act like multitasking on a small screen is something anyone wants. There’s enough bugs out there for app switching to fix that you coulda focused on that instead of adding another half assed product on top of your current half assed product

Privacy law considerations. Germany is downright good for its citizens. The US has a round about spying industry. Brazil basically has mandatory mass surveilance. Everyone else’s laws are more or less the same. Not identical. But Mozilla can meet their requirements pretty trivially

Legitimately! Early Metallica was all about liberatory politics. Then it turned into center-right american politics. The kinds of dudes who really have hard-ons for how great the status quo is.

Hey good news. Turns out you can use bing and not get back Reddit results

And what do you think the negotiators are negotiating about? Why do you think anyone took Martin Luther King serious? They were fucking scared of Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey. “We make a deal with you so the scarier people don’t get any scarier than they are right now”

And Martin Luther King STILL got killed for speaking out. You’ve shown some really ignorant and privileged views in this thread. I’m glad Sweden’s been so kind to you, but maybe don’t chirp about shit you don’t know about if you don’t want people to say you sound like a tool for oppressors, especially when your nations wealth comes from the fossil fuels that’s killing everyone else. You are a beneficiary of colonialism even if you’re not the beneficiary of colonialism.

I read it as a law that the bootloader has to be unlockable so that the phone can be serviced by the end user past the manufacturers end of support

Conspiracy theory: got paid to write a smear piece about a piece of technology the spies of capitalism doesn’t like

Um… What fucking paradox? Authy is a know security vulnerability. If you’re installing GrapheneOS before switching away from Authy, you’re putting the condom on after getting fucked

If anything they’ve gotten more specific with their language. They’ve made an adjustment in language to reflect there’s rednecks out there who aren’t on board for fascism. They’re speaking about EXACTLY who they mean now

So they changed it from redneck to MAGA, and you felt fucking called out? They wrote a fucking ALBUM about how subsets of america are dooming everyone else during the Bush administration and you didn’t fucking realize Green Day doesn’t like conservativism and you went to their concerts and bought their music? Man WHAT THE FUCK ARE YALL OFFENDED BY!? THIS IS WHO GREEN DAY IS. THIS IS WHO THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN. THIS IS WHAT they’ve ALWAYS STOOD FOR.

100%. I wanted to summarize things as succinctly as possible but its basically impossible to deny this person is a complete bastard