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I am astounded that the maintainer and inventor of Wireguard is in this position. Microsoft even supports Wireguard in Azure Kubernetes Service.
It's got a lot of analogy to restaurants banning Uber delivery for not handling their food to their standards.
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It has been clear for a while that certain providers and services need to be regulated as utilities - Microsoft, Google, Apple, Visa, Mastercard, and soon Openai and Anthropic. It should be illegal for these companies, just like utilities, to deny service to anyone or any entity in good standing for dues. There is little hope for getting this through in the US where most politicians of any stripe hate the public, and…
If it is regulated as a utility, the government will want to ban these hacking tools.
Linux is the only hope at this point for the future of computing. Windows and macOS are just too risky to do any business with. Waste of all resources.
and yet... still unusable by the mass majority of people.
Linux is the most obvious, but there are numerous flavors of BSD as well.
> and yet... still unusable by the mass majority of people.
That info is 20+ years out of date. Distros like Suse and Ubuntu made Linux "click, click, click, it's installed" more than two decades ago. i've watched complete non-techies switch to Mint Linux long-term, the only intervention from me (their resident techie) being showing them how to boot up the USB stick installer.
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And someone once raised their kids speaking Klingon, that isn't a good excuse on why it's a language others should use. For the vast majority of people MS365 is a requirement, but really the issue is that even minor fixes require the command line on Linux and that makes it unusable.
I guess it means that even when something is (arguably) objectively more simple, people still won't bdge just because they don't want change. They don't want to learn new things. I myself am quite different. I have thoroughly had it with my current iPhone and am eyeballing /e/OS, before that I really started to find Android boring, before that Windows mobile (the nice one with the cards). I switch Gnome, KDE, some ot…
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I blew the lid on X today: https://x.com/i/status/2041698657368703484
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2) they got 120,000 views, 400 retweets, and 1.7k likes in ~12 hours. that is a good amount of awareness. certainly more than i would get from a tweet. certainly more help than whatever you are doing here.
They need to get some tech site like Arstechnica to write about it, like they did when neocities couldn't get ahold of bing. The only way to contact these tech companies to speak to a real human being and not a chatbot is if you know somebody who works there or if the media writes about it.
I blew the lid on X today: https://x.com/i/status/2041698657368703484
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Is this another example of their old modus operandi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... ?
No. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish was replaced by the AAA strategy: Acquire, Assimilate, Abandon. They were trying to be more Google-like with that "Abandon" step I think. They've since moved on to the SSS strategy: Ship, Slip, Slop.