And while we are there, let us index things and send them up to our cloud for, you know, sampling and training purposes. Not to train our super intelligence, mind you. Trust us. We would never do that without your consent. This may or may not be hidden in the fine print of one of our terms of service, agreements or other rules at any certain point in time in between your access to the Microsoft website and the tool execution.

We are friends. We love Linux. We will not disappoint you.

The message on digital sovereignty and the choice to have no sovereignty by moving to open-source projects whose directions can still be well influenced by paid developers of foreign countries is questionable. Improbable but not an impossible scenario, albeit better than relying on foreign closed source tools if they can follow China's model of using open source and in house tools and services. Best of luck for you all.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of smart folks from India working on these named companies. Yes, it is disheartening to spend months of your time writing knowledge base articles, documents and train your replacement. Been there, done that. Meanwhile, others have ways away to be considered for a junior role yet rock a much higher title on their signatures. Exactly as some born and raised here.

The obvious outcome: companies will start eliminating positions on US soil and hire even more positions from their IT partners. Or just move roles to subsidiaries elsewhere in the globe. The past 5 years have shown IT workers (not the dumb social butterflies who share business hours errands for the entire world to see) can work pretty much from anywhere, and the only reason why many are on site is either for valid technical reasons (hands on), for their own self stupidity, or have a micro-manager incapable to accept workers can be productive while not being under their noses. Which shouldn't be a problem for a company like, let's say, Microsoft, who has developed an entire suite of performance and analytics of any Microsoft software managers can get a report in a few clicks and know when someone is working and when it has an auto clicker keeping Teams active.

In the end, C suites are there to appease shareholders, and shareholders always win.

If examples include Sam Altman being arrested as the head representative of a company found hacking multiple countries' government sites, or Jensen Huang and the major tech companies' heads charged with fraud via circular financing, then yes, please, we will gladly accept these.

When the "doxxed" is an elected representative of the people. Someone paid by taxpayers, with work tools paid by taxpayers, is paid to work for the people. But once again, the media want to portrait anything they disagree as [insert today's narrative here]. Sen Cotton isn't being arrested, as Flock has incorrectly doxxed many others in the country. He's just publicly called out to do what he was put to work for.

By... building a social app?!

Where is the logic here?

I have another fix. Turn off the TV, disconnect the power cable, and if possible, return to the seller. If not, grab a different manufacturer. Problem is finding a trustworthy one...

Are apparently trying to make a right in the WP world?

âoeDid you mean Gameslop?â Gemini, probably,

“He who oppresses the riches to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, will surely come to want more”

Could unbundle bags lower air fares?
Could more ethanol on gas lower gas prices?
Could more efficient vehicles lower vehicle prices?
Could reducing chocolate lower its prices?
Could replacing chocolate with
Could smaller boxes of cereal boxes lower cereal prices?
Could reducing coffee can sizes lower coffee prices?
Could streamline rental cars reduces rental prices?
Could more efficient water heaters reduce its operational costs?
Could subscription services save money?
Could eco-friendly, smaller ink cartridges save money?
Could cloud storage plans reduce storage costs?
Can simplified fee structures reduce bank charges?
Could plastic engine components make cars cheaper?

Should I continue?

Why does developers must pay a fee to link to an external payment service? Developers are not using anything from Apple. The app wasn't sold for a penny, it was free. They are not using the App Store for a global distribution of their apps. Not using Apple's SDK to develop the app. Not using any of Apple's security tools. Not using Apple's code validation and safety. Not using Apple's tech support for the OS and hardware. Not using Apple's update on the users' devices. Not using Apple's hardware to earn an income. Not using Apple's marketing of their own products and services to provide a solid user base for their apps. Not using anything of Apple's ecosystem of wearable, mobile, portable, vehicular, residential or computer based.

That is just Apple's immense greed. Apple should've been paying app developers, as they are the sole reason there are billions of Apple devices globally. Burn, Apple, burn.

Considering those gamers living in momma's basement and maybe working at 7 eleven or Walmart might have clocked in more hours playing video games which nowadays are not too different from an actual simulator used by Boeing or Airbus, just in a smaller scale, but with all its supporting functions being delegated to those willing to do it, than someone who never ever seen what an ATC job entails but wants a 6 figure job to pay for their unrelated college education? Yeah, better those 7-eleven or Walmar gamers living at their momma's basement with actual interest and knowledge in their future profession to actually become professionals on their field, than bureaucrats doing a 9-5 for the paycheck and caring less if their NPCs made home by the end of the day.

The amount of racism and prejudice on your note is off the charts, congratulations.

the Orwellian surveillance designed to "protect us" is being used outside the planned scope. Just as expected and intended: anything that looks too good to be true, fails the moment humans touch it.

"forcing academics to pay "hundreds of dollars a month," said Duncan Allen, a research officer at Democracy Reporting International (DRI) in Germany."

Meanwhile, also in Germany: 'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown':

"Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country's political speech laws "unusually stringent for an EU member state."