Counting in binary is kind of possible with fingers
Kind of? It's quite possible and easy. I spent an afternoon counting syllables to create shitty poetry, and my fingers started counting on their own. Now I can count to 31 on 1 hand and it's surprisingly useful.
And what improvements could come from incompetent fucks knowing your hostname, mac adress, and other identifying information? Aside from improving their financial status that is...
It's ok at best, when it works. When it runs out of API hits for the day at noon, you need to use something like https://searx.neocities.org/ and retype your search multiple times until you manage to hit an instance that can actually perform a search.
I mean, it's not like he's going to say "I've got a few mil in redhat stocks, and they signed a new $800+ mil deal with the DoD 2 months ago, so we've got to clean house"
Though even if they weren't, it is the morally correct thing to do to give Russian state actors the boot.
Meanwhile Linus is fine with supporting USA DOD and making a profit from it. Funny how morality changes when you introduce other interests... It's a purely business move and has nothing to do with ethics.
Worst case scenario: there's a lot of shit you can do when you control a closed source app store, and canonical has a history of doing sketchy shit like selling user data to Amazon
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