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So what would it take to get you in one of these?


“And warned that they better not do it again before authorizing another shipment of munitions”



It used to be that only the telecoms and tech companies were consolidated enough to pricefix, now every sector is, and the economy is spiraling downward at record pace.


They don’t care about your security or privacy, they care about being the exclusive vendor of your personal information.






Lol using a “master password” is the “security concern”

Its going to get leaked again and they still won’t criticise company lol



What!? the company that weaponizes vendor-lockin the most is overcharging for their service!?!?!



Also regenerative breaking is not useful when you’re maintaining constant speed on the highway, but a huge leg-up in the city



Same thing with servers, but its monthly


It turns outcapitalism is great for maximising profits, but terrible for consumers, and demanding open-source products is the only way out of this hell-hole


Oh look! The government policing our words… Too bad the conservatives don’t gave a fuck about the first amendment


Redhat was bought by IBM for 34 Billion dollars.

IBM knew their proprietary crap could not compete with FOSS alternatives.

Unity could make plenty of money on the asset store, and would never have to worry about Godot eating their lunch if they open-sourced their game engine. But this type of stuff will force people over to Godot.


This has everything to do with FOSS.

If a company can get away with pulling the rug on you, they will.

Once you’ve heavily invested in using a a piece of software, the company behind it has leverage over you, but if you could pay for updates to that software from another company, the original company has no leverage over you.

The only reason these companies refuse to release the source code is because they are planning on fucking you over in the future. As consumers we need to demand open source products to prevent this sort of abuse.



its funny that some ppl are paranoid that bill gates is trying to microchip them with a vaccine when they probably already have been by the fucking itailians


Apple watching & logging EVERY APP YOU OPEN [Louis Rossmann]
A throwback to remind ourselves that apple is terrible for privacy
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the only reason apple cares about security is so theyre the exclusive vendor of your information.
they both play ball with everyone, apple just charges more

EDIT: IOS had a “feature” where it would phone home to ask if every application was allowed to launch, but it didn’t use any security like TLS. this is an unbelievable security hole that allows everyone on the wifi to see what youre doing and network admins to prevent you from running any program. this show how little they care about your privacy, and how much they care about control


why not trust safari?

because apple is just as bad as google