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Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault (www.theregister.com)
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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Benevolent dictator for life" is a common, funny title for an important, founding person in a certain tech company. It is not supposed to be taken literally

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Fuck is also not benevolent

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I only ever heard that in the open source context.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Guido van Rossum is "benevolent dictator for life" of the pyhton foundation. Also Andrew Kelley for the Zig foundation.