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Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

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Re: Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

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Post by pietervdvn »

jchw wrote: post #2

Exactly my thoughts. I am unfathomably angry and I want to contribute to any effort to dismantle Google as a company.

Yeah, same. It is hard; we start to need a collective boycott.

We can all do our part, by using their products as little as possible, contribute to open alternatives (OpenStreetMap, Fediverse, Linux, Nextcloud...) and by stimulating our (non-techie!) friends and family.

But it is a lot of work :(

Re: Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

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Post by MSFT_Edging »

buran77 wrote: post #4
walletdrainer wrote: post #3

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The usual argumentation is "I need to make a living" and "if I didn't build it someone else would have done an even worse job, like this at least I could be an activist on the inside and guide the efforts to make it better".

Another method is to stall and sabotage the development via endless bike shedding, language changes, rewrites, refactors. All normal things in every project. Drag those feet.

Re: Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

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Post by deaux »

pietervdvn wrote: post #6
jchw wrote: post #2

Exactly my thoughts. I am unfathomably angry and I want to contribute to any effort to dismantle Google as a company.

Yeah, same. It is hard; we start to need a collective boycott. We can all do our part, by using their products as little as possible, contribute to open alternatives (OpenStreetMap, Fediverse, Linux, Nextcloud...) and by stimulating our (non-techie!) friends and family. But it is a lot of work :(

It's less work than 10 years ago. So many much more mature alternatives.

Re: Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

amazingamazing wrote: post #5

AI use is far more prevalent now than then sadly. This kind of scheme is inevitable since compute is not free.

Water use and mass displacement of labor get all the attention but there are so many other more subtle reasons like this that AI is going to be bad for society.
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