karambyt

Wait til you find out there are people with VK accounts supporting the war in Ukraine working for Microsoft's top-level management for security and compliance.

Maybe China should stop kneecapping their own tech by injecting backdoors, layering hidden circuitry into motherboards, and harvesting US and EU user data for whateverthefuck their end goal is.

I mean, I get it, "poor put-upon China!", but let's be honest here: China needs to stop fucking around, lest they find out.

I hate this argument because it's fucking stupid. I think we can draw a clear and logical line between "gun" and "doomsday device".

The US has ITAR. If you have certain government contracts you are prohibited from selling products or providing access to certain foreign nations (blacklists), or a complete export blanket ban.

For instance, I recently started investing in an excitingly expensive hobby, night vision. The tubes in those things are so heavily restricted that I cannot even let a foreign national touch them, technically. Which makes it interesting considering my girlfriend is a Tunisian foreign national here on a work visa, so technically I cannot show her my cool new toys I spent thousands of dollars on.

Yeah but they can't let you look inside of it, you just have to have faith that it generates energy as they say it does. Dum dum dum dum dum!

Twitter was a great idea, the issue is at some point the company decided it wasn't going to implement bot countermeasures that did anything meaningful, and that it was going to allow anyone willing to pay an advertising fee to use it as an advertising platform without proper vetting.