America creates the blueprint. As they say, we are #1 (at speedrunning towards a cyberpunk dystopia)

For things before 2023, there was sexual harassment (multiple) bullying and hostile workplace and their excitement over NFT. They had a boys club and made it a really toxic atmosphere, where the CCO literally said “Women don’t sell”.

The best way from my perspective is to show them.

At tech events and meetups, I’m showing them Linux.

When my friends come over, I show them my self hosted solutions on a Linux.

At work, where we use Macs, we talk about open-source, including Linux.

Put your private citizens data on US servers?

Nah. More like giving your private citizens data to US government.

My theory is that it’s just a handful of people who are using anything free to mirror that content, out of fear of losing it.

It’s a lot of maintenance. I’m not knocking it, I’m just pointing out how difficult it is.

I hosted a pixelfed server for my city and it cost a few hundred bucks out of my own pocket. It was a test run so I can push my city to move their social media to open-source.

But the constant need to apply spam protection and abuse from visitors, not to mention abuse from users like copyright shit and even CSAM. My expensive side project became a full time job.

Jokes aside, a Double VPN exists, which masks your VPN with a VPN.

What does age verification mean for VPNs?

Because if I’m using a VPN using a UK server and I get any issues, I can switch to Spain, or Italy, or Zimbabwe or whatever. Is that not the case?

$68 million is chump change to Google.

This is like me getting a speeding fine for $1.

This is the cost of doing business for them.

The Internet calling it MicroSlop is probably getting to him.

From tech bloggers calling them out in adding AI to everything including Notepad, to journalists raising eyebrows to their confusion why other companies aren’t shoving AI into everything, to this:

https://lemmy.nz/post/33323830