This was a flex.

- Trump is a piece of shit public servant, not a king. I have as much authority to rename landmarks as that ambulatory colostomy bag. So do you.

- I expect decent humans to stand up to authoritarian shitheads. Granted, Google leadership exited the "Decent human" category a long time ago, they've become the short of trash you don't call back. But the point holds; if you're going to support ethnic-supremacist authoritarians in my country, fuck you, you will not see a dime of my money and I will do what I can to hurt your business, because it is just as much my adversary as the rest of them.

- I empathize with wishing to avoid politics, but you cannot. Word to the wise - eventually politics comes for you, and then you're at a disadvantage because you were trying to ignore it.

Think gated community dwellers, rich elderly, and other chronically afraid people.

Have no idea what a real city is like. Get back to us when you've visited somewhere you have to wear shoes.

Worked for chess.

Your king will ensure you and your wife will be subjects of struggle sessions soon enough. Worrying your pretty little head about disclaimers and other stupid shit will seem quaint.

Enjoy.

and contrary to popular belief, the government does not pay for that data

It really depends. ATT makes substantial amounts on their LEO customers. I understand Verizon has a similar program, and after Worldcom, all smaller the telecom companies fell in line.

Give Google and Zuckerbook and the others a decade of mature market profits and it'll get around to optimizing lines of business like that, too. They just make more money on other stuff now so they don't bother.

Don't forget Costco. As far as I know the only public company doing so.

Like most companies, Apple has been ethical when it suited their interests. There's always been a slimy side there - Jobs cheated Woz before Apple even existed.

No, What Apple lost was taste.

They used to profit from producing products they'd want to use. Now they make profit-maximizing devices.

I'd argue that the OSes are starting to suffer, too. I mean, bugs are up again, but that's always been cyclic. But I feel like they're losing coherence, too. And a lot of subsystems more technical users like are rotting or being made much more difficult to work with (Gatekeeper and shell scripts, for instance). (I also find it ugly now, but that's subjective and it has has ugly iterations before, too.)

Anyway, yeah, Apple will make a ton of money for a long time to come. But I'm pretty sure it is losing its sense of taste. It might make the most popular and most profitable phone, but they aren't trying to make the phone people want anymore.

This is just Qwen with an installer.

I mean, yeah, wouldn't surprise me if this thing phones home. But I wonder how many folks there are who own a 3090 or better who also can't handle Ollama or a firewall.

"We're trying out an all-new, never before seen type of evil. If this thing works out, we put you out of work, fuck up culture and then burn down the planet. If not, we just fuck up culture and burn down the planet."

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.