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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

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  1. askonomm · · focus · HN ↗
    Any move away from the abusive big tech that exists in USA is a good move in my book. Microsoft just recently made a new patent where they will monitor you via camera and microphone to block your program/game to show you ads, and per ads viewed, you then earn credit to be able to use your program/game. It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.
    1. MonkeyClub · · focus · HN ↗
      Black Mirror has unwittingly been offering a lot of nice, horrible ideas.
      1. teekert · · focus · HN ↗
        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fifteen_Million_Merits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fifteen_Million_Merits
      2. throwaway270925 · · focus · HN ↗
        Too many people seem to have taken it as a todo list instead of a warning...
        1. amiga386 · · focus · HN ↗
          I&#x27;m sure Black Mirror could offer up a cautionary tale like Don&#x27;t Create The Torment Nexus

          (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AlexBlechman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1457842724128833538" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AlexBlechman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1457842724128833538)

          1. DavCreator · · focus · HN ↗
            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xxcancel.com&#x2F;AlexBlechman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1457842724128833538" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xxcancel.com&#x2F;AlexBlechman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1457842724128833538
          2. Thanemate · · focus · HN ↗
            And it would still be shot down by optimists as &quot;just fiction&quot;.
        2. ragebol · · focus · HN ↗

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      3. m4tthumphrey · · focus · HN ↗
        Well I&#x27;d like to think Charlie Brooker, like many of us, could clearly say where humanity was heading. Some of the episodes that were considered far fetched 15 years ago are probably considered plausible at best and likely at worst now.
        1. janlaureys · · focus · HN ↗
          Some episodes are currently being played out live in Ukraine.
      4. maxschub · · focus · HN ↗
        Seems like many films and books have been taken as inspiration for making &quot;hypothetical futures&quot; true. E.g. Her - take AI as your girlfriend... was creepy then, still is now.
      5. wartywhoa23 · · focus · HN ↗
        Sometimes good people are able to think like villains and predict their next moves, sometimes villains themselves declare their intentions via proxies.
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