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Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK (www.theregister.com)

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In any case, Microsoft is so deeply entrenched in state digital infrastructure that it seems a practical impossibility to do anything about it. The company has a good 20 years' lead on its competition in bending the ears and getting its feet under the desktops of enterprise and state decision makers. While the UK government has had spasms of promoting open source — most recently in 2017 — these have seen little enthusiasm and less adoption. As SODGR notes, UK state IT lacks co-ordination, leadership, funding, talent and executive influence. 55 percent of personnel budget goes on outside contractors, analysts and consultants rather than full-time staff…

This might seem hyperbole, but the facts are indisputable. The US is not trustworthy - Trump's tariffs break existing World Trade Organization-governed treaties, a cornerstone of international regulation. Likewise, Trump supports the removal of regulatory or legal barriers to AI development, so what would happen if the AI lobby asked for access to national data from outside the US? SODGR is silent on this, because it seemed fantastical even six months ago. It doesn't seem fantastical now.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You see, "I will say what I say and speak how I speak." Is the very definition of "Shit ass behavior"

I prefer USA over russia and china, but lets be real, USA sucks ass. They have brought havok into so many countries just for money that its difficult to keep counting.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What's more, unless I'm missing some post history unknown to me, the OG comment that garnered such a vitriolic response from the angry guy here was more of an admonishment to Microsoft than the US gov. I get he mentioned the US too but the "subject" as it were was microsoft's long record of being untrustworthy.

Like, he even mentioned that the US gov used to be sorta trustworthy (which is pretty true, unless we want to lie to ourselves in either direction), that isn't Tankie behavior. In fact I checked like the last 6 posts just to see, and dude's an ex-American living in the UK. At no point were RU, NK, or West Taiwan even mentioned, he never said "west bad east good," the angry comment is almost an entire fabrication, again unless those two users have a past interaction I'm not aware of. I don't necessarily even disagree with the angry guy, just like, go say that to yogthos or davel or someone ffs, this seems incorrect and random.

Funny enough, mentioning previous interactions, I'm not familiar with the comment OP, but I am familiar with the angry guy, "dickalan." Perhaps unsurprisingly, every comment I've noticed of his in the past was him being a complete dick for mostly no reason. Perhaps it's a character?

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