Coupling those things causes lock-in with little upside. My VPN and email provider have no symbiotic connection. Lift & Shift leverages the key value of the free market; competition. “Ecosystem” is marketing speak for captive customer, not customer value.
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Diamonds are an excellent product with horrible labor practices. Decent people don’t use products made by malevolent companies. Moissanite is fine in place of diamonds for most uses, and it’s easy to replace Proton.
- Mother, Jugs, and Speed in The Ass
- Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels in The Ass
You can inflect them to imply all three things go in, but I prefer pausing after each comma, suggesting that the third item in the list includes “in the ass” as part of its identifier.
311·7 days agoDear Proton Engineers,
He means they won’t do it yet, because the backlash is causing problems. Either because they fear the loss of customers, or because they fear the engineers leaving before getting their replacements trained.
I suspect some folks would poison the training while looking for another job.
futurism .com links often seem like clickbait for people who are skeptical of the broligarchy.
I’m all for covering that side of the story - we need a lot more resistance against the oligarchy. But clickbait is sleazy no matter what story it’s pretending it can tell.