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Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] Madrigal 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And that’s their only “good” product.

The rest is utter garbageware, designed for one purpose: to check boxes on RFPs.

[–] Chocrates 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Java was nice for the time. Same with MySQL.

[–] 4z01235 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was also the original developer of Java. Oracle acquired Sun. So I'd say any niceness there is in spite of, not because of, Oracle.

Also... Java's still pretty nice :-)

[–] Cosmicomical 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah I heard it runs on 3 billion devices lol