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And if it's not Google it's Microsoft. Which is, and I can't believe I'm saying this, the lesser of two evils at this point. There's a 2003 me staring through a
by ChainOfFools 3y ago
And if it's not Google it's Microsoft. Which is, and I can't believe I'm saying this, the lesser of two evils at this point. There's a 2003 me staring through a time travel portal absolutely aghast that 2023 me is saying something like this.
- doctor_eval 3y agoMicrosoft has always been an apex predator, like a lion or maybe a hippo. It can end you in a single bite, but at least you know what you’re dealing with. Google is more like a malaria carrying species of mosquito. Little bites that you barely notice, but in aggregate are actually much more dangerous. I know the metaphor is a bit stretched but even in the late 90’d it was clear what Microsoft did. Google has gone from “don’t be evil” to “this is the definition of open source” to …
- aetherson 3y agoHippos aren't predators.
- doctor_eval 3y agoTrue, but they are widely known as being one of the most dangerous animals in Africa; number 11 on this list [0]. So you (probably) know what you’re dealing with. Of course my point was that the mosquito, whose bite is far less “annoying”, is actually #1. [0] https://www.sciencealert.com/what-are-the-worlds-15-deadliest-animals https://www.sciencealert.com/what-are-the-worlds-15-deadlies...
- sneak 3y agoAll big tech companies that store non-e2ee data are equally evil, because they all by law must make that data available to government spies without a warrant. (They know this, and they still collect the data.) These same government spies run an international network of torture centers.