I'm hoping someone will have some info about what happened because it seems strange. What does this mean?
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It's a ruse to pretend he has a gf
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It is actually pretty easy to answer questions like this by searching the web. Below, I have done some work for you.
First, though, gotta say that the most generous reading of your arguments is that you are philosophically defeatist and suffer from "the perfect is the enemy of the good"---- why do anything except the one final action that will solve it for good? If that is your attitude, why bother posting on a forum? Why bother doing anything?? To learn about the broader strategy, you could try Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions - Wikipedia. Nobody is arguing that MS should be targeted instead of promoting governments to sanction and remove the subsidies that keep it afloat. But Brian Eno thinks he has more sway with MS than with the US government, so that's what he's throwing his back into.
The protests come a few months after the publication of an investigation by The Associated Press which found that Israel's use of Microsoft and OpenAI technology "skyrocketed" following Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which prompted Israel's deadly campaign on the Gaza Strip. Multiple human rights groups have said Israel is guilty of committing genocide or "acts of genocide."
Specifically, the investigation found that artificial intelligence "models from Microsoft and OpenAI had been used as part of an Israeli military program to select bombing targets during the recent wars in Gaza and Lebanon."
Ex-Microsoft employees expose company's role in Gaza genocide, quoting Hossam Nasr:
there needs to be a focus on Microsoft's actual business practices as they affect Palestinians in Palestine and as they directly contribute to the genocide and the horrible scenes that we were seeing coming out of Gaza.
And two, the need for a strategy to put pressure on executives rather than trying to appeal to the humanity and moral character of these executives.
We started researching Microsoft's complicity in the genocide, trying to find out exactly the target and strategy for this campaign.
We then formally launched No Azure for Apartheid in May 2024, with four main demands: IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) off Azure, ending all sales of any Azure cloud and AI services to the Israeli military and government.
Two, disclose all the ties between Microsoft and the Israeli military-industrial complex, the Israeli government and the Israeli military.
Three, calling for a permanent and immediate ceasefire to honour an earlier petition signed by over 1,000 employees.
And lastly, to protect employees and uphold free speech by ending the discrimination and the double standards against Arab, Muslim, Palestinian and allied employees.
According to human rights and media reports, since the beginning of the ongoing war on Gaza in October 2023, Microsoft has provided direct technical support to the Israeli occupation army worth at least $10 million through its Azure cloud platform.
Reports revealed that Microsoft’s support included data management services, the development of targeting systems, advancements in surveillance technologies and the provision of cutting-edge AI tools. These include ‘Lavender’, an AI-powered system designed to identify bombing targets, which has faced accusations of being linked to the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza.
Furthermore, the reports accuse Microsoft of supplying biometric surveillance technologies to track Palestinians. This comes as the death toll has surpassed 50,800 people, including more than 18,000 children, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
In a statement, Skyline asserted that Microsoft’s continued support of Israel violates the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The organisation urged the company to transparently disclose the nature of its relationship with the Israeli occupation and to terminate all forms of cooperation linked to military activities that breach international law and human rights.
massive overreach by the companies?
The US is a world leader in the "corporations are people" shenanigans. The massive overreach is fait accompli.
Corporations get to do their "Speech" in all kinds of ways such as funding political initiatives, dictating the healthcare their workers receive, etc. In this context, your point falls very flat.
Also, it is general practice in many places that businesses (even those who are not "people") can refuse to service customers for arbitrary reasons as long as they do not break some superseding law in the process. You can refuse entry to people with dogs, if you don't like dogs. But usually not to people with service animals, because having a service animal may be a protected class. (On the basis of having a service animal. Of course, if someone comes with one pet dog and one service animal, you don't have to let the pet in.)
I do not know of any jurisdiction that sets out doing genocide as a protected class.
they blocked "palestine" but not "palestinian"?
If it isn't open source now you shouldn't say it's open source. You should say it's partially open source with plans to get the rest out soon.
doesn’t exploit the copyrighted material for financial gain
@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone mentioned Alexandra Elbakyan. Do you know who that is? Aaron Schwartz ended up dead just for having a lot of journal articles and giving away a bunch of public domain materials.
bulletproof servers
Oh my.. You sound really unprepared for what you are getting into. There is no such thing as perfect security. And if someone sold you on that premise, you were tricked.
Even if your host is doing the absolute best job possible, your group can still screw it up any one of a million ways. Given the cavalier attitude here, that's going to be happening soon and happening often.
Honestly you sound like a total heat score..
extremely self aggrandizing analogy to say the least
Thank you so much this is exactly what I needed to know!!
You should post it somewhere people can find it like trash guides or smthg. Surely I am not the only person who doesnt have all this knowledge to start with.
That is great info thank you I have been bothered by this issue for years and never able to find any useful insight into solving it. Because everyone who care about audio has fancier equipment of course. It makes sense I will try to select stereo instead of surround. I just use the TV speakers.
I'm actually using Audiobookshelf as my main server. I just wanted Readarr to get metadata and organize the folders. Do you have any workflow tips for that?