Mr. Adequate is would just be fine, and a whole lot more economical.

"We do not accept that data in the temporary storage location was 'publicly exposed,'

Then I suggest demonstrating your sincerity. Dump your intimate photos and PII in your temporary storage location.

The old-school methods might be making a comeback.

Gitlab spent insane money chasing Github's lead. As I understand it they do make money now, but only on their enterprise offering, not the SaaS.

And Gitlab actually has nice features; this looks like a weekend project.

Add to that I don't think your average enterprise is going to be all that hot to rent what's supposed to be boring infra from the Space Nazi.

Although the fact that Microsoft can't seem to keep Github operational is starting to leave an opening, so depending on how incompetent they get, maybe there's an opening there.

Most of the risk of de-anonymization comes from "enrichment" - you may not have a name in this dataset, but say you have birthdate, gender and zipcode. In that dataset you have names, and you match them up based on the other attributes.

If you read claims about anonymized data closely, you'll notice the providers are well aware of this in how they phrase things.

Of course plain old incompetence also does the trick.

Micopilot Copilot.

One name, every product.

You realize this is Telecom, not FAANGXia? (is there an acronym for the current stock hotness?)

These are the oligarchs that came out of the post-WWII gravy train. The ones that partnered with NSA while building a middle class.

Not the new ones you're thinking of, who are building their own intelligence agencies and attempting to destroy the middle class.

It just raises the cost. I'll get a separate phone for the car that holds only my ID plus numerous videos of the 4th Amendment recited by furry cops in helium voices.

I already limit what is on/available from my "walking around" phone. Now we're just specializing for particular audiences.

Your car phone will have no need of a SIM, at least, so an old one will do.

That is a recipe for throwing a bunch of cable guys in prison.

I guarantee you if that happens once, nobody with a title above manager will ever have heard of it. "Nine one what?"

This is what inflation looks like in a single product category.

Something happens to break the former equilibrium; in this case, a few things happened - Covid, then LLMs, and now rapid changes in international commerce stability. This causes uncertainty, disruption and shortages, all of which spikes prices.

Then the opportunists see an opportunity. (And to be fair, prices are going up on everyone, even opportunists.) Prices are already going up and the bulk of buyers have no good reason to be knowledgeable or engaged enough to understand component-level price pressures. And even if they did, what are they going to do about it?

Then everyone else in the supply chain realizes not raising prices is a missed opportunity and they're the suckers if they don't.

Buckle up, this is going to be "normal" for a long time.

Zuckerbook's extruded wheeze was predictable based on the existence of the others - the cool kids down the hall were getting attention for doing it.

It won't matter. We're destroying our universities anyway.

In a decade folks will get their pass/fail participation trophy by correctly answering questions like, "Should Americans be more thankful to Jesus or Don Trump for their record breaking average salaries of $16000/year for only 72 hours labor per week?"

It will qualify them to whip productivity out of their inferiors so long as the report enough subversives each week.

Give give your comment its due, we agree there are powers no state should ever have.

And, if one isn't careful, it isn't hard to creep up on a mode where it seems like giving the state this little bit more power is no biggie. My guy is running the show, it fixes a real problem and it isn't a big deal, right? And at some point you've crossed a line.

However.

Here we are. The barbarians are not at the gate; they are literally redecorating the White House. And you're worried about fantasy commies.

Perhaps we can compromise. "No ubiquitous surveillance for anyone, inclusive of fascists, commies, AND Unitarians."

And you remain free to test your water for fluoride before drinking it (at your own expense).

How's that?

Yep. Municipal power is a natural thing to do - it is a situation where the locals are about as close to fully aligned with one another as they get - everyone wants reliable, cheap power and responsive service when you need it. So you make a captive company with a charter that keeps it aligned with its customers instead of Wall St. You don't take silly risks because you're not chasing infinite growth, customers gets decent rates, the area gets some decent local jobs out of it. Everyone except the predators are happy. If only other all local problems had such great solutions.

But, ohhh, booga-booga, that's communism. (Please just ignore Trump seizing the means of production.)

Learn to read.