• kablez@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Meanwhile the Chinese government have their own Linux variant Kylin which is developed as part of a national resilience and strategic initiative. It’s wild to me that in this day and age few governments will spend even $100,000 on open source expertise but they’ll throw billions at idiots like Microsoft because some politician was wined and dined by their sales people. If more people knew how broken the procurement system was and how their tax dollars were wasted on corporate welfare they would riot.

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      16 hours ago

      Its way too tin-foil-hat of me to bring up how Bill Gates was in bed with the shadiest world leaders and how that might influence these sort of decisions, right? I’m definitely just being a conspiracy theorist here.

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        No he was in bed some russian women and almost certainly under age girls with Epstein, it is after all, why he got divorced.

        But yes, NSA_KEY, skype, bitlocker, etc…

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        14 hours ago

        I don’t think it’s too far fetched given the evidence we have that these people all hung out in the same social circles.

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          9 hours ago

          I heard they even had a special island where they liked to meet up. Allegedly.

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          I don’t think it’s too far fetched given the evidence we have that these people all hung out in the same social circles on the same Caribbean island…

          Ftfy