Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1
(gizmodo.com)
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from return2ozma@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 31 Mar 20:07
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Its fair game I guess.
“Residents within a one-kilometer radius of these terrorist companies across all countries in the region are also urged to evacuate and move to safe locations.”
Americans: “The fuck is a ‘kilometer’?”
Also Americans: “The fuck is a ‘radius’?”
There’ll be like two actual Americans there, but the rest of the workforce won’t explain it to them because they’re sick of everything being compared to “back home” all the time.
Also Americans: “Move?! You fascist! I’m tired of being harrassed by the fitness movement! I have the Constitutionally-protected right to sit and remain passive, you woke Communist Socialist!”
Pass the ranch dressing, please.
Interesting that they put their data centers near civilians population. Wouldn’t that make them human shields?
US: “You won’t attack us.” Iran: “April fools bitches.”
Offices in the middle east, in case you’re like me and thought they were talking about stateside offices.
I thought they were talking about cyber attacks, which honestly would put much more pressure on the US government I think.
On April Fools Day? I’m expecting mild pranks, like TP’ing Bezo’s house, ding-dong-dash a Elon’s, and maybe a few car bombs at the data centers.
Oh no. Please. Not NVidia, or Meta, or Amazon, or Google, or Apple, or Palantir… Oh and don’t forget… Uh, I mean not Mircosoft.
Microsoft is a huge liability. They’ve forced companies and home PC users to be needlessly dependent on their cloud services to be able to do just about anything. They own the hugely popular GitHub and NPM developer platforms, and indirectly control other developer platforms through GitHub integrations. They’re one of the major cloud service providers. They have a system that forces home and small business PCs all over the world to execute arbitrary code. They’ve been replacing their developers with incompetent AI systems. A major Apple or Google attack has the potential to break nearly all mobile devices, but a major Microsoft attack could cripple businesses everywhere.
Facebook and Palantir on the other hand could just disappear off the internet and we’d be better off.
Glad I went Linux and moved house to the berg
Laughs in Linux
Any open source project that still use github should be boycotted in my book. That simply doesn’t respect the licence.
What does licensing have to do with it?
Well if it’s on github it’s not open.
I concur, please levea the big tech alone, they are doing so much good for the world, cogh cogh, I meant for shareholders.
X. Surely X is a Tech company. Tesla too. They are as much tech as automobile.
All EV manufacturers are as much tech as automobile today, I would argue.
I mean automobile is a technology
The assets they have in the middle east, not on american soil.
Microsoft has offices in Qatar, Dubai, SA, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, and more I’m sure. Oracle also has offices across the region.
These come to mind, but there are many other companies I’m sure.
Yet another really good reason to work from home.
<img alt="old timey propaganda poster similar to the “when you ride alone you ride with hitler” poster except it says “when you work in the office you work for Iran. Work from home today!”" src="https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/0c6aeee4-aec6-431a-a7ee-34b9f626a34b.png">
If Oracle was on the list, they’d tell their employees to come into the office anyway.
Well all but about 30k of them
Dodged a bullet
most likely a bomb
Probably ask them to stand in front of the building.
No more water for you for the rest of the week
it is considered rude to show ai slop to other humans
they just cut 30k employees, freeing up money for more data-centers.
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April Fools! <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9a6d54e8-747c-446e-b0ce-988f67e227ab.jpeg">
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How difficult would it be to smuggle and assemble a variant of the Shahed drone into North America? Dissembled and separated, it would look like lawn mower parts, sheet metal, and ewaste.
Iran could win the hearts and minds of americans by feeding bezos shahed for breakfast.
Actually this might be the best news I’ve ever heard come out of that country
Do it, I dare you. Seriously though, take them down because our government won’t.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Iran could really fracture the country if it chooses it’s target strategically
they seem to be doing a good job in the middle east, targeting other ME countries had made them question thier reliability form the USA, they saw no protection/or retribution against IRan once thier missles start targeting oil infrastructure.
April 1 - “lol check out this silly thing that Google maps is doing!”
April 2 - ( ˶°ㅁ°)
Please do it
no don’t do it
Do it harder
no stop
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So people will think the news about it are april 1 jokes. Pure genius
Going to be checking Google maps for the Gulf of
AmericaIran in the morning.Finally a news story with multiple reasons for a cheer and support.
he can start by targetting the datacenters.
That could be a huge double edged sword.
On the one hand less propaganda, on the other less documentation.
That seems like a win-win to me.
Propaganda is a lot more dependent on centralization than documentation, and though I get that their power is tempting change will not be made with the tools of our oppressors
They aren’t keeping any documentation.
50% if fediverse would go away lol
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Aught to make for a fun April fools day.
AWS has had major outages in UAE and Bahrain since 1 March. That’s a good start!
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Fine. But you better not target our health insurance companies … I mean it. No drone attacks on them or any multibillion dollar corporations or the US public will shrug and keep going on.
You can tell America is in a pretty bad place when Americans aren’t too broken up about this development. Or actively cheering it on.
Well they fucked up the helium so…