There’s a good documentary about this.

Maybe good news, maybe not since you can’t really trust people involved in these things. For all we know, they’re still doing some other kinds of deals behind the scenes, if not straight-up lying here.

From the article:

In a joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the Guardian revealed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure.

The project began after a meeting in 2021 between Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, and the unit’s then commander, Yossi Sariel.

And now their justification for cutting off access is this:

Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.

So the fucking CEO personally helped get this deal done, but now they’re trying to frame it as “oops, we didn’t know what Israel was doing until we investigated”, and they’re claiming simple terms of service violation to end the contract.

If we’re all still alive by the next decade, I hope the people prosecuting this genocide don’t forget about these sneaky fucks and their role in it.

bash supports this feature too btw

Legit unsarcastically nocap fr fr, it might be time to update your eyeglasses prescription

This is extremely naive. We’re on Lemmy, I’m on programming.dev, you run your own instance. You and I know how crypto works, how to use it, how to protect it and ourselves, etc.

99.9999999% (nine nines) of the population is not prepared for that. Most people who buy crypto are going to get scammed, either via petty theft/hacking like in the OP, or via large market manipulation scams that nobody can protect against because lol decentralization. The only way to make crypto safe for mainstream use is to reinvent the wheel of regulations and centralization that already exists for existing financial systems. In the mean time, scammers/dictators/psychopaths are going to make a lot of money.

For the people who find themselves swept up by the fantasies of decentralization, they can get the same high by buying doomsday food buckets at their local Costco.

And when the MAGA are out of power, Google will release a statement admitting the Trump administration pressured them into admitting the Biden administration pressured them into censoring Americans.

And throughout all that time, Google will continue getting slaps on the wrist from the courts whenever they break the law.

This is probably the only time I actually feel sympathy for someone getting scammed like this, because cancer sucks and it affects everyone in some way eventually (my family has had to face it too). If they ever catch the guy that did this, his property needs to be searched for corpses because this is some hardcore psychopath behavior.

But the lesson of this is the same: don’t ever use crypto currencies. Don’t accept them, don’t buy with them, don’t mine them, don’t even look at them. Even if you don’t get scammed, your engagement with the ecosystem supports people who do shit like this.

But can we, as a society, please get past this disgusting idea that a picture is really anything more than it appears?

Congrats: you won the creepy comment of the day award! This is bordering “age is just a number” logic.

This isn’t about spontaneous ejaculation upon seeing exposed legs; they could’ve been covered three layers of clothing and it’s still fucked up. Meta is using pictures of under-aged girls to entice a 37 year old man to join Threads. What kind of adult man would join an app after seeing those pictures? Who exactly is Meta targeting with these ads? I challenge you to come up with an answer to that question that isn’t “pedos”.

In a sane world, Meta and all the employees involved in this campaign would be investigated for human trafficking/csam/pedophilia/etc. If I was an employee I’d even go as far as to report any coworkers with kids who were involved in this to CPS. Children are trafficked all the time on sites Meta’s services, so this is a very serious and real danger to society.

Of course, that shit isn’t going to happen. Instead, it’s up to the sane people left in society to shame them for this disgusting behavior.

That, an “javascript” was a terrible name to begin with.

Why is there a picture of some random woman in your comment? Am I lacking in culture?

• Gitlab: has AI shit too (self hostable)
• Codeberg: saas version of Forgejo (self hostable)
• Disroot: saas version of Forgejo (self hostable)
• Tangled: AT protocol based (self hostable)
• SourceHut: git for boomers (self hostable)
• Gitea Cloud: saas version of Gitea (self hostable)
• Radicale: weird decentralized thing

switch today!

Another reason to use Linux is to spare yourself the Windows CMD prompt syntax