https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Black reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith-Abteilung (Hollerith Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of IBM’s punchcard technology.[2]: 351  In his book, Black charges that “without IBM’s machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler’s camps could have never managed the numbers they did.”[2]: 352

Yup. Idiots incapable of compromise, so they get nothing.

Snapper saved my ass so hard last night! I’ve tried all the other major distros and TW is where I stayed.

IBM sold “inmate” counting machines to Nazi Germany. Like, sent techs there to the camps to size up the requirements and everything. It should NOT come as a surprise that they’re back on X - they’ve never had an issue with Fascism (or any other ism) as long as they had money to spend on overpriced iron.

In Canada. If I get canned my severance is 1.5 years salary. (Based on length of emplyment.) It’s even better in Europe. It’s what happens when a country doesn’t flipflop between two right wing parties and actually has a party focused on the working class.

Omg, that’s hilarious!

Exactly. Always wondered what he was thinking the second time, lol!

Worked at IBM. Co-worker was in the datacenter, saw a bluescreened machine, and rebooted it. Much chaos ensued. Machine was part of a stability testing project, team running it was OTW to the DC to look at the machine, and were very confused when they arrived that it was running. “Helpful guy” was chastised, given a warning about touching machines that weren’t his responsibility.

Two weeks later. Same guy. Same machine. Same bluescreen. Guess what he did? He rebooted it. Again.

Walked to the door that day.

Doctorow is a gem. Great article, thanks for posting. I basically agreed with everything he said.

Ya, good thing they stayed home. Gaza and Ukrain will thank them. (/s in case it’s not blinding obv. Fuck everyone who didn’t vote, yall are morons.)

Come on up to Canada. We’ve been suffering brain drain for ages, and could sure use some scientists and doctors!

I ate your bees!

Skrillex - Bangarang

https://youtu.be/YJVmu6yttiw?si=UyE6XIFBeiDNsWKQ

Great! That means we can harvest 20% more customer data with only 7% more slowdown!
-some MS exec, probably.

They don’t care if we want it. They want the info it’ll give them. This isn’t for us, it’s for them.

The rich control the laws and they don’t want to contribute.

Yes.

I just got a Keychron Q3 HE and it’s amazing. Bit pricy, but it’ll last forever because it’s fully repairable. Even comes with all the req’d tools to disassemble. QMK/VIA, too!

Yup, that’s what we do as well. 30tb of music, TV, and movies. All available to me and my friends wherever we are.

Though true, doesn’t answer the asked question in any way. You still get to choose between shitty and fucking horrific AND shitty. So why abstain?