ben

@zzt checking a codebase for slop earlier I found a commit titled something like “ensure single blank line between changelog entries” and the entire diff was deleting one extra blank line. Assisted by Claude Opus 9000 or whatever

@autiomaa it’s a good thing that i never said, and don’t believe, that European companies are more ethical than US ones.

Taking a step back, though, also, it’s worth bearing in mind that there was no legal obligation of any kind placed on Google, Apple, or any other private entity, only on the US government executive branch. Anybody outside the government has chosen to do so (perhaps due to fear of ‘unofficial’ negative consequence), rather than being legally obliged to do so.

@jwildeboer

@jwildeboer Sure. But I think people are expecting these companies to weigh ethical factors higher — resist threats etc because it would be moral. So when they’re driven only by amoral business calculations, people are disappointed.

@jwildeboer the surprising thing to me is that people are expecting Google and Apple to be ethically driven, I suppose.