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There's a good documentary about this.

Maybe good news, maybe not since you can't really trust people involved in these things. For all we know, they're still doing some other kinds of deals behind the scenes, if not straight-up lying here.

From the article:

In a joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the Guardian revealed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure.

The project began after a meeting in 2021 between Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, and the unit’s then commander, Yossi Sariel.

And now their justification for cutting off access is this:

Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.

So the fucking CEO personally helped get this deal done, but now they're trying to frame it as "oops, we didn't know what Israel was doing until we investigated", and they're claiming simple terms of service violation to end the contract.

If we're all still alive by the next decade, I hope the people prosecuting this genocide don't forget about these sneaky fucks and their role in it.

I see you are a man of culture.

I wonder (fantasize, really) if this is in response to more and more people moving towards Linux and alternatives to MS Office? If it's about the threat of being sued over the DMA, a one year extension seems arbitrary and probably not enough to address whatever the legal issues would be.

bash supports this feature too btw

Legit unsarcastically nocap fr fr, it might be time to update your eyeglasses prescription

This is extremely naive. We're on Lemmy, I'm on programming.dev, you run your own instance. You and I know how crypto works, how to use it, how to protect it and ourselves, etc.

99.9999999% (nine nines) of the population is not prepared for that. Most people who buy crypto are going to get scammed, either via petty theft/hacking like in the OP, or via large market manipulation scams that nobody can protect against because lol decentralization. The only way to make crypto safe for mainstream use is to reinvent the wheel of regulations and centralization that already exists for existing financial systems. In the mean time, scammers/dictators/psychopaths are going to make a lot of money.

For the people who find themselves swept up by the fantasies of decentralization, they can get the same high by buying doomsday food buckets at their local Costco.

And when the MAGA are out of power, Google will release a statement admitting the Trump administration pressured them into admitting the Biden administration pressured them into censoring Americans.

And throughout all that time, Google will continue getting slaps on the wrist from the courts whenever they break the law.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the point of this is to reduce overhead associated with virtualization (aka VMs). Few workloads are able to take advantage of the massive compute resources that a single beefy machine has, so partitioning it is the most efficient use of resources, especially in data centers where maximizing efficiency is important.

This is probably the only time I actually feel sympathy for someone getting scammed like this, because cancer sucks and it affects everyone in some way eventually (my family has had to face it too). If they ever catch the guy that did this, his property needs to be searched for corpses because this is some hardcore psychopath behavior.

But the lesson of this is the same: don't ever use crypto currencies. Don't accept them, don't buy with them, don't mine them, don't even look at them. Even if you don't get scammed, your engagement with the ecosystem supports people who do shit like this.

My (expensive) Frigidaire microwave has a feature where you can 'add 5 seconds' to the timer by pressing a button on the touch screen. However, if you press it when there's less than 5 seconds left, the timer display freezes and it doesn't add any extra time. This shit infuriates me like you wouldn't believe. Either they're so lazy/incompetent that they didn't test this one edge case, or they did but didn't care enough to fix it. If I wasn't a programmer, I probably wouldn't be bothered by it, but seeing such sloppy code seriously pisses me off. A fucking unpaid intern could fix that.

My head would probably explode if someone I loved was killed by a software bug. This is why I'm terrified of people trying to shove AI into every product. 99% of these people don't know what the fuck they're doing, and even the experts who created the model they're licensing aren't able to solve critical issues like hallucination.

This article was written by an anonymous/throwaway Medium account. For all we know, it was written by a PR firm they hired. Corporate propaganda has zero credibility, and the anonymity makes it impossible to verify that it's anything else.

And if anything, now that time has proven that Trump/Vance were, in fact, worse than everyone was saying, it's further reason to hate Proton for using their influence/reach to support them. Did it help them win the whitehouse? Hard to say, but even in the best case scenario, it comes off as a lame, opportunistic move to advertise their services to MAGA and profit off political turmoil.