As long as data is collected and stored it has the potential for abuse. It doesn't matter if it's held by private companies or a centralized agency. People are by nature corrupt and whoever has access can be compelled through any variety of ways to cooperate with nefarious intentions. Be it by governments or corporate conglomerates. The real answer is just say no. Don't give them your data.

For want of an edit button.... I wanted to add right after I hit submit that most corporations will not go to Proxmox because it's not really an enterprise solution. I like it, and I think it's a great VMWare alternative for a lab or non critical environments. Our department ended up going with Nutanix. We're not Internet connected (electrical infrastructure). Our management sees open source as a four letter word. There's no one to sue if something goes wrong. But for those who have Internet access the least expensive solution (up front anyway) is cloud based.

Unless they were paid by the cloud providers to force everyone their direction.

Now days there's a big push toward the cloud. VMWare has gotten very expensive. So much so that we replaced it with Nutanix because we can't put our system in the cloud. I suspect Broadcom is positioning VMWare to die. When it was just starting out it made sense to get community IT people using it so they'd push it in the IT environment. They don't want that anymore.

Whereas we currently have a left wing administration in the US and they're still setting Waymo cars on fire here. What exactly was your point again?

All the posts that have been censored because they were deemed "misinformation", harmful, or otherwise in conflict with the narrative being pushed. This has already been happening for years.

Right, but that limits the usefulness of what you're paying for to protect their profits. Much like software licensing, DRM, copy protection, all of which do nothing to benefit you as a consumer. It gets in the way, breaks what you've already paid for, limits your ability to use it and the pirates just skirt right around it. It doesn't stop them at all.

Brought to you by the state that's going bankrupt despite having one of the highest rates of taxation in the country. They've done such a great job of managing the lives of their citizens that they're going to branch out and save everyone from themselves.

If you think he's wrong I would suggest you forget everything you've been taught by your professors. Go do some research and get yourself an actual education. Socialism requires the government to control the means of production. Communism is always where socialism leads. Every time. There is no where communism has worked. If you think the disparity of the haves and have nots is bad under capitalism then brother you're really going to hate communism.

I often wondered when all of those engineers at google walked away from a pentagon project if OpenAI might have been a response to that. Now that all the work on the engine has been done it's time to pivot.

There are penalties if you are off by more than 10% of your withholding. You don't want to be stupid about it, but within 5%? Why give the government an interest free loan for a year?

The one here if those guys were any slower they'd be dead.

I'm not opposed to the idea of a livable wage. Everyone should be able to pay their monthly bills and still eat. But there's a big difference between the McDonalds employee who listens to what the customer wants and presses the appropriate button (half the time getting it wrong) and the server who takes the order from the customer, ensures the cook gets it right, and has to repeatedly check on the customer throughout the meal. The McDonalds employee is usually getting at least minimum wage. The restaurant employee is typically making what's known as a tipped wage well below minimum wage. The idea being that by tipping in restaurants you weed out bad service. Those who aren't attentive and don't do their job don't make enough tips and they go find another job somewhere else. Now it's become an extra expectation for anyone who has to interact with the public even though they're already making minimum wage. Another aspect to this is the more we increase costs for business owners the more they pass on to everyone else. At some point only the extremely well off will be able to afford to dine out. And they aren't the ones who typically dine out. Which means businesses will close and jobs will go away.

Sounds like Hanford.

Oh don't leave out the US. They've had their share as well. INL was home to the first US nuclear accident in the 1950s (SL-1). There's a video on youtube. Guy inserting fuel rods got pinned to the ceiling. Or Simi Valley, Three Mile Island.