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Aral Balkan

Nah, don’t worry, it’ll be ok. They’ve been sponsored by Google for years. Even Facebook at one point.

It’s open source… it’s about the source being open. It’s open as in “open for business”.

The “F” in FOSDEM is silent.

It’ll be fine…

ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-a

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Aral Balkan · I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy. You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.
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m0xEE

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Well, if Aral has no problem using a laptop made by Apple running an OS made by Apple and building his web development kit on top of Node.js, for which V8 — a project headed by Google, is a hard dependency*, then there is indeed nothing wrong with them 😏

* — there were attempts to port it to other JS engines, but none stuck, all of them are abandoned, therefore Node is built on Google technology

Aral Balkan

@m0xee Yeah, man, exactly the fucking same thing. Thanks, I know we live in a sewer and I’m doing the best I can by USING what’s there. How the fuck is that the same as TAKING MONEY FROM them?

But yeah, sure, what the fuck ever.

Jan 22, 2025, 10:40 AM·Quiet public·Mona for Mac
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