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Police have little intelligence of their own

And in 10 years they’ll agree to a small website that suggests that maybe Europe might want to open a place to store source code that’s European hosted… In another five years.

Stocks of these firms have dropped. Trump and friends will now buy up the stocks. Then the statement will be rolled back, the policy will never be implemented, and Trump and friends will sell the climb.

Typical grifting and corruption in America these days.

EU tech companies keep letting themselves be sold to US tech companies, or re-HQing to America.

Capitalism can’t solve problems created by capitalism. The largest companies will always gobble up the competition, eliminating the alternatives.

The family who owns most of the shares, and who were the authors of the anti-lgbt donations policies, vowed to replace the company’s direct contributions with their own contributions sourced via the company’s profits and dividends.

It moved who does the direct donation, but buying from Chick-fil-A still funds anti-lgbt efforts.

Americans will never take the action necessary to remove bad politicians who are destroying their lives. Never. The politicians will allow them to vote, only because they can manipulate the narrative during elections using excessive campaign contributions, making the public blame their neighbors instead of the corruption at the top.

Put backdoors in government systems for Musk corporations and foreign adversaries to exploit. Provide Musk with a cache of any government data he wants, including the personal financial records for every US taxpayer.

Democrats forced a 43-day government shutdown over the issue.

Then backed down when white collar flyers might become inconvenienced by ATC disruptions.

reviewing redacting

That’s such an obvious deflection, though. My last car was a GM vehicle, with built-in OnStar right there in the box behind the rearview mirror. Built into the price I paid was hardware I didn’t want, didn’t pay a subscription for, yet was collecting my driving data and selling it.

Building a functionally useful infotainment system to replace Android Auto, with all of the bells and whistles needed to complete, is going to cost them the same or more. The difference is the rent seeking behavior, the demand for subscriptions, and getting more opportunities to spy on their customers for profit.

Mine didn’t go up at all… because I moved to the Netherlands this year, where this is a sane medical system. Not perfect, but sane.

Rent seeking behavior. They want subscription revenue instead of wanting to deliver what consumers want.

And AI generation vendors get a free pass for generating child porn

I keep a small Win11 partition on my 2022 gaming laptop in case I need to take a cert exam or use a gov website, and I booted it for updating for the first time in 6 months. It took over 6 hours and 6 reboots to update! At one point, it was going bu-ding every minute from random notifications so I had to mute it.

Meanwhile, my 2012 Thinkpad T420 needed a full Fedora version upgrade, and that finished in 15 minutes.

No wonder MS is losing users