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  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Google open source engagement
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    8 months ago

    But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

    That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.

    For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.

    There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgtoNews@lemmy.world•ICE Contractor Locked a Mother and Her Baby in a Hotel Room for Five Days
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    8 months ago

    trump and Mike Johnson convicted and executed by firing squad

    Trump will probably die of old age, sadly. Vance might get to be tried though, if he takes over the regime.

    But they won’t be shot. They’ll be hanged. Execution by firing squad is a military “distinction” - at least when it’s carried out as part of a lawful sentencing process - and it’s considered one notch above hanging, which is reserved for common criminals and is applied to particularly disgusting characters as a mark of shame.

    That’s why a lot of Nazis were hung rather than shot. I don’t think we’ll think of high-ranking MAGA officials as worthy of a firing squad.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgtoNews@lemmy.world•ICE Contractor Locked a Mother and Her Baby in a Hotel Room for Five Days
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    8 months ago

    Only the top Nazis and the most egregious underbosses. Hundreds of thousands of former SS, waffen SS and Gestapo officers went through the denazification process for a few months, during which they underwent a kind of reverse brainwashing - which also served as a probationary period to make sure they weren’t ultra-Nazis trying to hide their true feelings - then they got reabsorbed into German civilian society.

    Other German-occupied countries went through the same process. France for example, had roughly half a million civil servants who previously worked for the Vichy regime - some of them having done some pretty unsavory things.

    It’s one of the great untold shameful stories of those countries, that everybody at the time swept under the rug because they - understandably - desperately wanted to move on, and also because, like it or not, the countries simply couldn’t function without rehabillating those disgusting people and their former skills.