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return2ozma@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

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Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

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Iran says it will target Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others.
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    Fine. But you better not target our health insurance companies … I mean it. No drone attacks on them or any multibillion dollar corporations or the US public will shrug and keep going on.

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    You can tell America is in a pretty bad place when Americans aren’t too broken up about this development. Or actively cheering it on.

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  • merdaverse@lemmy.zip
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    AWS has had major outages in UAE and Bahrain since 1 March. That’s a good start!

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    Aught to make for a fun April fools day.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    Well they fucked up the helium so…

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    he can start by targetting the datacenters.

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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      That could be a huge double edged sword.

      On the one hand less propaganda, on the other less documentation.

      • rose56@lemmy.zip
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        50% if fediverse would go away lol

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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        That seems like a win-win to me.

      • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
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        Propaganda is a lot more dependent on centralization than documentation, and though I get that their power is tempting change will not be made with the tools of our oppressors

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        They aren’t keeping any documentation.

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    Oh no. Please. Not NVidia, or Meta, or Amazon, or Google, or Apple, or Palantir… Oh and don’t forget… Uh, I mean not Mircosoft.

    • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Microsoft is a huge liability. They’ve forced companies and home PC users to be needlessly dependent on their cloud services to be able to do just about anything. They own the hugely popular GitHub and NPM developer platforms, and indirectly control other developer platforms through GitHub integrations. They’re one of the major cloud service providers. They have a system that forces home and small business PCs all over the world to execute arbitrary code. They’ve been replacing their developers with incompetent AI systems. A major Apple or Google attack has the potential to break nearly all mobile devices, but a major Microsoft attack could cripple businesses everywhere.

      Facebook and Palantir on the other hand could just disappear off the internet and we’d be better off.

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        Glad I went Linux and moved house to the berg

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        Laughs in Linux

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        Any open source project that still use github should be boycotted in my book. That simply doesn’t respect the licence.

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          What does licensing have to do with it?

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            Well if it’s on github it’s not open.

    • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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      X. Surely X is a Tech company. Tesla too. They are as much tech as automobile.

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        I mean automobile is a technology

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        All EV manufacturers are as much tech as automobile today, I would argue.

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      I concur, please levea the big tech alone, they are doing so much good for the world, cogh cogh, I meant for shareholders.

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    Finally a news story with multiple reasons for a cheer and support.

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    “Residents within a one-kilometer radius of these terrorist companies across all countries in the region are also urged to evacuate and move to safe locations.”

    Americans: “The fuck is a ‘kilometer’?”

    Also Americans: “The fuck is a ‘radius’?”

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      Interesting that they put their data centers near civilians population. Wouldn’t that make them human shields?

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      Also Americans: “Move?! You fascist! I’m tired of being harrassed by the fitness movement! I have the Constitutionally-protected right to sit and remain passive, you woke Communist Socialist!”

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        Pass the ranch dressing, please.

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      There’ll be like two actual Americans there, but the rest of the workforce won’t explain it to them because they’re sick of everything being compared to “back home” all the time.

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    Going to be checking Google maps for the Gulf of America Iran in the morning.

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    Please do it

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      no don’t do it

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        Do it harder

        • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          no stop

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    Its fair game I guess.

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    US: “You won’t attack us.” Iran: “April fools bitches.”

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