The cloud is kind of an odd one out here, cloud providers are bringing in like half a trillion dollars a year from willing customers

Debian is perfect in particular for work. Stable, free, capable. Hardly more to want. And it’s been almost the only stable bedrock in my tech career of over two decades. I’ve probably made over a million USD with it, while everything else eventually gets taken by a corporation and becomes folly to build on. Free software forever

not if you kill google first

Not if this abuse finally succeeds in driving away other peoples’ customers. Captcha losing people money makes captcha go bye bye

Are you saying FATCA continues to apply for 7 years after renouncing?

I had an old microwave that had a beep but a second after the cycle end so you had a whole second long window to open it peacefully. Beautiful lost technology.

It’s the same as the “protect the kids” argument for policing overreach… never about actually protectinp, all about overreaching

I’d say it’s certainly possible for the economics and business strategy to shift in a manner where consumers get a much worse deal like this indefinitely. But it’s really haad to say if it’s actually going to play out that way or we experience a return to the previous equilibrium

It seems to be trying to get rid of me already by making it take 5 sign in attempts to join a teams call late