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a company making money by taking it from the police and state to finance open source :pikachu:

@liaizon @theruran @alcinnz @tigase

Sorry to pop everyone's bubble but XMPP is also widely used in police and military applications. People need to be a bit more realistic about the dual-use nature of internet and computing tools.

It's a bad look to be advertising your cooperation with cops and fully mis-reading your audience here. Also, I do not condone it. However, to the audience: what did you expect? Secure communications is first and foremost a defense industry need.

If use and engagement with police and defense is your standard for whether or not to use a particular set of tools, then do I have some bad news regarding all of open source for you!

@bonifartius Why eat food, when there is data to consume?

wired.com/story/microsoft-neth

Why build houses, when you are in the cloud?

Funny how the telegraph doesn't mention the new developments.

Housing should be a fucking commodity. This is a psyop to make non-homeowners suddenly no longer want to crash the housing market.

thinking about how gamedevs forgot to make cute characters expressive and it's all sterile these days

> “There will first have to be nitrogen cuts before there is room for new development such as new houses and sustainable energy investments. It is our economic lockdown,” she said. “My message is not the message [farmers] want to hear.”

playing people against people.

also this wording: "economic lockdown". tinfoil hat is right every time, turns out handling of covid was "preparing the society" for other things.

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