I certainly don’t assume that.

I expect your elites to operate with the same selfish motivations as ours. That includes wanting to exploit the situation in order to utilize public funds to grow a private tech sector where they stand to profit immensely.

They will also want to protect themselves personally from continuing to be predated on by their elite counterparts in the US who utilize this technological dependency for spying and coercive tactics.

Our elites and politicians share a similar playbook when it comes to doing exactly what they want while pretending to struggle to do anything else.

Technology is important for making the government run more efficiently and the US tech sector has historically provided the tools for making that process more efficient. It was easier to use the tools available from a close ally than it was to devote the resources towards building up a domestic technology sector.

We’re in a different world now, both politically and technologically. The US government has been using this dependency to gain advantage in other areas by spying on our allies. The trend towards right-wing nationalism also creates a real danger that this could escalate into even more coercive tactics.

Now, the cost of cultivating a domestic tech sector is now much lower than the cost of having all of your government functions held ransom by a foreign power. Especially when everyone can see how rapidly the US’s posture towards allies has changed.

That being said, it takes time to build a tech industry and swap to domestic production. The US’s tech sector growth was subsidized by the entire world and built over decades. It will take time to replicate that in the EU (and even longer if there isn’t a unified initiative).

Until then, your governments cannot help but be dependent on Microsoft and other US technology companies who are using emerging technology to enable new capabilities (i.e. Palantir).

As one commoner to another, I hope your country is shocked by the turmoil that we’re going through and can build something better.

It’s overselling it, but the move towards digital sovereignty isn’t a passing fad.

The various revelations over the years about the US spying on allies and Microsoft famously telling the EU(?) that they could not guarantee that their data would not be turned over to the US government has all but ensured that this is going to happen as a matter of national security.

They can’t have their government dependent on systems that could be disabled at any time for political reasons, like the sanctions applied to the ICC judge on the genocide case against Israel.

It was one thing when the US was an ally, but now we are not a dependable ally and these countries are reorganizing their security posture in recognition of that fact.

Linux is the only viable operating system that is not vulnerable to US government sponsored supply chain attacks. While it may not be deployed everywhere immediately, the directive to agencies to start planning for the transition is the first step in the process and critical services will transition much sooner.

This will happen regardless of what happens in the election, Trump has exposed the weaknesses in our system of government and the attitude of US elites towards other countries. No sane country would trust US tech given the direction of things.

And this, for the readers in the future reading this post from their flying cars on Mars (or Roko’s Basilisk), is what we call trolling in the ancient times.

Let’s leave it unsettled so future nerd historians, 100 years from now, can hate us for not asking and write books speculating about it.

If you wear programmer socks you get a pass

I think we’re passed the statute of limitations now, but I clicked the “I am over 18” button when I was not over 18.

Please don’t tell the Interney Police

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Good job, you caught the one person who failed to read the TOS before making their account, which we all do always every time.

That hypothetical doesn’t seem to have happened in reality, because these terms have been standard in almost all TOSs for decades and yet age verification is not suddenly an easy sell.

Do you not read the terms of service before creating an account on social media?!?!

I’m sure exactly zero kids have read the TOS and left the site. There isn’t so much as a pop-up that attempts to enforce it.

As others have already mentioned, most Lemmy instances have this exact term in their TOS (which you read, right?)

Now the question is, did he put the x as a variable i.e. they couldn’t agree how to write it so he used x as a stand-in, or was he using x phonetically.

Probably the latter, and yet…

we need sl for ncmpcppc

Can’t accidentality start blasting music if I never stop

My goto is:

nc CTRL+R

Well, I’ll give it one thing. It’s easier to spell than my current terminal music player: ncmpcpp

I love that Claude.md file, fucking awesome.

TLDs are getting out of control, it didn’t even occur to me that the link was anything but a link to the github repo.

It’s a good thing that it appears to be squatted by Anthropic and it redirects to their documentation instead of a shotgun blast of assorted browser exploits.

Acting self-righteous and outraged feels good.

Some people haven’t learned that this doesn’t mean that it is good.

Here comes the Nazi Bar analogies.

Now everyone posting in this thread which promotes Framework has become a Nazi by the transitive property of Nazihood. Now your family are Nazis with Nazi pets who eat from a pet store that is run by a Nazi (on account of supporting Nazis by selling them pet food, you see) that banks at a Nazi bank in a Nazi financial system run by a Nazi country on a Nazi planet.

…and just like that, every person and thing in the world has become a Nazi. Thanks a lot FRAMEWORK, if only we’d listened to the toxic trolls and avoided being associated with any person on the off chance that we’d catch their 4th person inherited nazihood.

/s, obviously.

There’s no topic to engage upon.

Everyone doesn’t know the things you know.

You are here, in a new post, making conclusory statements without backing them up. How do you expect other people to become aware of this thing that you think is so important if your (or whoever’s) first reaction is to attack people as if they disagree with you instead of explaining your argument?

It reads like drama farming and the toxic behaviors of the other people on ‘your side’ only adds to that impression.

Support or don’t support who you want.

How you and your friends here present your arguments and interact with the community appears more like chasing the high of outrage and drama farming than attempting to engage in a conversation on the topic.

Doing things like putting words into other people’s mouth, and then attacking the strawman of your own creation for example:

Not supporting fascists is self-righteous now?