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Why the U.S. Should Sanction India Over Scam Call Centers in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

prison population is already being used as slave labor for the state and federal government, they're not gonna give that up for free if they're not benefiting somehow. That would involved the US government actually caring about its citizens and them not being victims (see the current state of crypto scams and its criminal prosecution). I also doubt any company would pay so that they can use prisoners since it would involve them spending even more.

While the country often looks like the mouth of hell itself due to its dirty environment and streets, its GDP per capita is actually slightly higher than Uzbekistan’s. ........ Unlike China, India is not an industrialized country. So the pollution you see there doesn’t really come from industrialization, but from a lack of civic sense – people throw trash wherever they want – and a lack of moral consciousness, which allows them to scam others. The real problem in that country isn’t economic, but cultural. And you don’t want that mess in your country.

also I don't know who wrote this article but is this really necessary to the discussion. Seems like more of hatred of Indians than just the scams

Why the U.S. Should Sanction India Over Scam Call Centers in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

a lot of firms outsource customer service to India because its cheaper for them to operate. The same giant firms that spend billions lobbying politicians to make laws that work only for them so they can keep making money. Noble effort but this will literally never happen.

Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

you can turn it off (for now)

far-left google news alternative... in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

do not use this site its filled with weirdos not to mention we don't need another echo chamber to radicalize more people

we created a google news alternative with only left-wing and anti-capitalist sources.... in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

another echo chamber is not a good idea that's the reason the US in this current state

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EnteAuth (and a bunch of other FOSS) take Microsoft's "free" money (github.blog)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51040952

I'm moving away from using products by big tech and I recently started using EnteAuth for 2FA. Today I got an email from them saying that they received money as part of GitHub's secure open source fund. Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I do not like this at all. Microsoft is not altruistic I don't care what anyone says. There has to be an ulterior motive for this. With even the recent news that github won't be so independent anymore and they're getting folded into the Microsoft umbrella this has me worried. But let's be real github was never independent just look at copilot being forced down everyone's throat. That's why I personally stopped using it.

According to the fund

Throughout this program, each project receives $10,000 USD via GitHub Sponsors (which breaks down to $6,000 USD during the sprint and $2,000 USD at 6- and 12-month security check-ins). Projects are also invited to a new security focused community, and office hours with the GitHub Security Lab, that they can take advantage of during the full 12 months. They also receive security resources to immediately implement in their project and Azure credits for cloud infrastructure.

Those sponsors include

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Express, Chainguard, Datadog, Herodevs, Kraken, Mayfield, Microsoft, Shopify, Stripe, Superbloom, Vercel, Zerodha, 1Password

Projects that are part of this even include nodejs, nvm, log4j, JUnit, and Matplotlib. Taking cybersecurity seriously is great but this just seems like a way to sucker them into their ecosystem to get them dependent on their products. Like I said maybe I'm being paranoid but I wouldn't be surprise when Microsoft suddenly buys these projects and we lose what made them so great.