“You’ve read your last free article.”

Do they know how ominous that sounds? It reads like they got mad at my freeloading and sent out a hitman.

Does it include the truth about Israel’s genocide of Palestinians? Or is it still terrorism to speak that?

Grammar is for sheeps.

Can’t tell if joke.

I’ll raise my glass of delicious, cool Coca Cola to that!

You mean ordinary Americans will. It’s not like he’ll pay anything.

So does the US Government. If you’re in any way active in left-wing politics, or what the fascists would perceive to be left-wing politics, it’s unwise to use Windows.

My Apple-using friends seem split on this when I ask them whether Macs are stable these days. I’ve heard from several people that their reputation for stability is a hangover from the past, and updates in recent years have been somewhat unreliable. But it would be hard to get good comparative data given that the companies won’t be eager to share the numbers.

They have the Windows Insider program, which is basically beta testing - and maybe sometimes alpha testing these days.

As the article mentions, it’s because Microsoft cut down their quality control to the point where they’re just sending stuff out then reacting when people report what breaks. Sure they have their “insider” builds but that program isn’t working very well to catch these issues that find their way into release builds.

Back in the day they had a massive testing lab and a big team of testers. Then they fired them all just over a decade ago. We can thank Satya Nadella I guess. He’s more of a line-go-up man than a good quality products person.

In a blog post published in May, the company said it had “found no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza.”

But Microsoft said this month that it had enlisted the law firm Covington & Burling to conduct a further review after a report that Israel’s military surveillance agency intercepted millions of mobile phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and stored them on Azure servers. That trove helped inform the selection of bombing targets in Gaza, according to reporting by the Guardian newspaper, Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, and Local Call, a Hebrew-language news site.

Who are you going to believe? The company that stands to make big profits from collaborating with genociders, or the independent journalists calling them out for it? It’s a tough one.

These people will kill you and/or your children for their own short-term gain. They should be treated accordingly.

I’m using several of them too, but the update refuses to uninstall. Oh well, fingers crossed eh? Thanks Microsoft.

He took a principled stance when he left Spotify too, after they paid hundreds of millions for Joe Rogan’s podcast.

Edit: Disappointingly, it turns out he went back to Spotify after a couple of years.

You know what could really improve infrastructure? Taxing billionaires and their corporations and spending that money on all the things the USA is currently defunding.