If a thrown-together-quickly-with-left-foot tool is more or less as good as Atlassian's products, I wonder why they have been used in first place. Surely it can't be quality of the products. Nor price, as there are existing (even open source) alternatives that do the job well enough.
Even if they didn't track all possible details of current adults, they would contain the details of future adults.
But maybe this is yet another attemption to produce mindless factory workers who won't rise against their lords even if someone inserts something something to them. While recording it, of course. For the profit... Erm, science.
To be fair, this is just the automated version of the kind of brainwashing that happens in cults and religions.
And also in the more extreme corners of social media and the MSM.
It's not that Google is saintly, it's that the general background noise of related manipulations is ignored because it's collective and social.
We have a clearly defined concept of responsibility for direct individual harm, but almost no concept of responsibility for social and political harms.
LDAP Kerberos 5 SSSD is pretty easy to configure and more or less maintenance free for a small set of servers and users. By my personal experience.
The costs usually come from complexity: every new user needs its credentials, guidance to services and help in error situations. New services need to be integrated to existing systems. But those won't go away, be the system anything.
It's really funny for how all the talk of AI safety what has resulted is precisely the exact series of steps one would take if one were to intentionally design some kind of dystopian AI system.
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