RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116380757133934018
This is particularly concerning as multiple nations have started to use AI products to literally write legislation.
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I write software, and for this crime the gods have afflicted me with opinions 🤦♀️
nixCraft 🐧I have said this before and I will say it again, it is time that taxpayers, who are the majority of regular folks in every country, should not pay a single penny to the likes of Microsoft. Taxpayer money should only go to FLOSS. Enough is enough with these big corporations. They have failed to protect user privacy and safety and obsessed with AI like teenagers.
Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high profile open source projects without any notice or giving any reasons. Look like microsoft ID verification is taking place in Microsoft world and now devs accounts getting suspended https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-suspends-dev-accounts-for-high-profile-open-source-projects/
The list of affected projects includes, but is not limited to, WireGuard, VeraCrypt, the MemTest86 RAM testing and diagnosis tool, and the Windscribe VPN software.
Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
Microsoft has suspended developer accounts used to maintain multiple high-profile open-source projects without proper notification and no way to quickly reinstate them, effectively blocking them from publishing new software builds and security patches for Windows users.
@inthehands Currently out of work, and I've been struggling with this. On the one hand, I have a strong conviction that what I do matters, and will continue to matter, and is (among other things) a form of art. On the other hand, it's incredibly jarring for the economy to do such a rapid 180 on whether I have anything useful to offer, and it leaves me feeling like a leech on my partner's salary, wondering how long it's going to be before I can bring money to the household again. I think it's going to be a capital P Process to figure out how to carve out a niche in this broke new world.
Thanks for this thread, btw. It helps.
LinuxiacFrance is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.
https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/
@jalefkowit You can tell people that one of fascism's signature operating principles is taking the ever-shrinking safe zone of a battle royale video game and applying it to society itself, but there really is no substitute for actually seeing it happen in real time.
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Nowhere GirlAmericans are up in arms about the Iran war, about Israel, about the affordability crisis, about ICE, about rising fascism and the threat to their neighbors, and meanwhile, Democrats are obsessed with fucking Hasan Piker, who you've probably never even heard of.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116375727351230267
Whole thread that's worth reading here.
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