@gdkar @Eramdam Don't they still get paid by the UK government to maintain "Windows XP for Nuclear Submarines"

@elomatreb @Eramdam yep. the us military has been actively on mandate ( especially since recent incidents ) to upgrade systems to windows 10. like, yeah, it's fuckin' ~everywhere~.

that's not even getting into stuff out of microsoft research.

it's just that we're used to that.

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the reason to be angry about google is that we thought they might be better than everyone else and they spat on those dreams. is mostly it. i think. 😣

@gdkar as much as I agree with you I think there’s a distinction to make between “having your stuff used by Bad Actors” and “actively trying to please Bad Actors and make it sound like it’s a cool thing to do”(Google’s project Maven and how enthusiastic their execs were about it is scary as fuck)

@Eramdam hmmm. idk. i guess as far as i can tell that's still kind of....

idk. not saying we should cut google slack for this ( and we ~did~ think they were serious about not being evil, and they did definitely jump on the evil bandwagon pretty fast. )

just that, like,.... that's honestly kind of business as normal? really?

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just that "business as normal" is.... bad. v_v

@gdkar of for sure. I didn't mention it but comps like Palantir have been doing that kind of shit for years already. "Business as usual" doesn't automatically equates to "good" as you say :/