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by hashim 1y ago
I agree that in-OS advertising for a paid product is dumb, but a) I thankfully still use Windows 10 which doesn't have those, and b) those are ultimately UX concerns, not ethical. And no, Microsoft doesn't sell your data no matter
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by hashim 1y ago
You know a boycott movement is effective when Israel has tens of lobbies like the IAF that are dedicated entirely to passing legislation to make it illegal. Germany has already passed it and the UK is unfortunately looking very close.
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by hashim 1y ago
"Software with slightly worse UX than the competing products" is not an ethical concern.
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by hashim 1y ago
What concerns me is that Project Nimbus is a public project that is still actively being enabled by Google and Amazon. Secret projects are one thing, but largely meaningless, because companies, people and governments have shown they don&#x2
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by hashim 1y ago
Modern by definition means the modern day, I'm not sure what 2019 was but we don't get to redefine terms for our own use. The list is only "additive" if the criticisms still apply. Your presumably best example was a cor
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by hashim 1y ago
As someone who's been boycotting Microsoft in line with the BDS movement, I welcome this (belated) move, but seeing Bill Gates on stage laughing (maybe nervously) at Ibtihal Aboussad's (now validated) protest still makes me uneasy
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by hashim 1y ago
So the criticisms from the 90s that I mentioned in my other comment? Yeah, I prefer to live in the modern world. It isn't Microsoft that needs to be hit with antitrusts in 2025. It's Apple and Google. Live moves on, and in 2025, M
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by hashim 1y ago
I'm not sure you know what "beyond the pale" means. You probably shouldn't look into the history of the suffragette or civil rights movements, for your own sanity.
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by hashim 1y ago
Not just some people - a lot of people, and an increasing amount of people in the last year or so, including whole countries like Ireland, Spain and Slovenia. See the BDS movement/website/Facebook pages. As a lifelong Windows user
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by hashim 1y ago
What other reasons are Microsoft very very bad? Genuinely curious about what your definition of "very, very bad" is and whether it aligns with mine.
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by hashim 1y ago
Well, to their credit, they've also seen that IBM, Volkswagen and Ford were still allowed to do plenty of business with no repercussions whatsoever (that I know of).
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by hashim 1y ago
No, it isn't ignorant, it's history, and pointing to other historical examples of colonialism and imperialism doesn't make modern colonialist states legitimate. Romans lived in the UK over a thousand years ago, but that would
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by hashim 1y ago
"Squeezed"? I think you mean invited. Assuming you're not being disingenuous, which is unlikely given your other comments and clear hate for Palestinians, maybe you should look at the One Million Plan and the many similar mov
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by hashim 1y ago
Why would anyone in Palestine, including Gaza, care about helping the people who have occupied them since 1948, with the help of the Brits and funding of the US?
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by hashim 1y ago
They don't actively civilian deaths, they just don't particularly care about them for pragmatic reasons, because killing a million people is much less plausibly denial genocide that wouldn't fulfil the former conspiracy theor
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by hashim 1y ago
Yes, unfortunately this is what happens when you have people who are constantly critical of Microsoft based on what they know of the company from the 90s and 00s, it devalues genuine modern criticisms and makes all criticism meaningless.
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by hashim 1y ago
Companies excluded from the fund on ethical grounds: https://www.nbim.no/en/responsible-investment/ethical-exclus...
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The world's largest sovereign wealth fund(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by hashim 1y ago|1 comments
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by hashim 1y ago
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Zanana(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by hashim 1y ago|0 comments
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Legal Doublet (Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by hashim 1y ago|1 comments
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by hashim 1y ago
Both of those were violently killed by the US. Death tends to be a lot worse than arrest, but I agree that I'd like to see both Trump and Biden dealt with in the same way.
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by hashim 1y ago
Someone parroting the far-right propaganda that British-Pakistanis are culturally serial rapists also believes the hasbara that Israel is a perpetual victim that was forced to convince (i.e. terrorise, via the Irgun and Haganah) the Briti
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Gustave (Crocodile)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by hashim 1y ago|0 comments
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The Martians(en.wikipedia.org)
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Wicked Bible(en.wikipedia.org)
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French petitions against age of consent laws(en.wikipedia.org)
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Pinkerton(en.wikipedia.org)
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Sally Clark(en.wikipedia.org)
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A23a(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by hashim 2y ago|1 comments

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