Who do you think is the biggest supervillain in the tech industry?
Who do you think is the biggest supervillain in the tech industry?
@nixCraft Pick your favorite billionaire
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Anyone who patents technologies that could be the foundation of great things and really advance the world, but instead just want to make money and squander its potential.
@nixCraft Why, the old school Bill Gates of course.
@nixCraft I think google at least intearms of free users tier they have almost every app you need as an ordinary office worker but they are spywares in disguise and they are improving gemini and other ai they are a formidable contender in ai,browser market,mobile os market, free software market they are like everywhere its like you are given physical freedom but digitally an entitiy is watching everything from your browsing history keyboard login credentials banking details in gpay so google win
@nixCraft Whoever decided to kill Google Reader
@nixCraft the way the educational system is managed, everywhere.
@nixCraft I have a second candidate: that one forker who came up with the idea to start locking down bootloaders. Fork that one in particular.
@nixCraft Depends on the day.
@nixCraft Oh geez this is a tough one. There are so many people who are just... spectacularly garbage right now in the tech industry.
I guess I have to go with Musk, but only by a narrow margin. Open nazi who used his money and influence to indirectly hack the US election and get us into the current hellscape rushing towards an apocalypse situation.
But Altman, Zuckerberg, heck, even Bezos... So many others have done such horrible things and are effectively part of the same issues too.
@nixCraft Peter Thiel?