I used to listen to classical radio stations as white noise when I wanted to get to sleep.

More recently, if I wake up due to insomnia, I will watch YouTube ASMR Restoration videos. The sound of sandblasting and electrolysis and sanding and polishing acts as a soporific.

If that is what they truely believe, the only humane thing for them to do is to euthanise.

Can we make it crash!? And never work again?

In that case I will insisting that my real doctors put as many typos as possible in their reports.

This may be considered “Shitty Business Practice”, but it is the only asset they have that they can sell.

Their only revenue streams are leasing access to the service for commercial use and selling transcripts to each other, data brokers, and governmental agencies.

Their only other income are more venture capital in a Ponzi Scheme so large that it makes Bernie Madoff look like Alan Greenspan.

That would explain why he had to check in with his FSB handler in Alaska last week.

F3probe is a program for verifying the legitimacy of Flash media (USB Sticks, SD cards and SSDs)

A lot of the aftermarket flash media claim certain performance and capacity numbers that they don’t meet.

https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/man/f3probe

ThIs Is JuSt A rEiMpLeMeNtAtIoN oF tHe “RND()” fUnCtIoN.

Honestly though, all the Tech Giants need to come out and admit that Bullshit Generators are Bullshit Generators and admit that they have made bad investments in scam artists companies.

Tell me when there is a question that can be submitted that causes the entire Data Centre to Physically Melt.

The problem is that the money that these scam artists are pocketing should be going to Infrastructure, healthcare and social stability.

Well, at least when the bubble bursts, there will be surplus water supplies and electricity production; although it won’t be very well built and infrastructure would be for unused data centres.

They won’t need to acquire the companies; they have already leached their trade secrets.

They can just start poaching customers now and let the smaller business dissolve into nothingness.

The Bean Counters don’t care because they only have 12 month contracts.

As long as their P/E reports look good for the 12 months of their contract, it doesn’t matter to them if the business, industry and society collapse in 13 months time.

As long as no other Countries see the US trying it and think it is a good idea.

The way the US is currently a Pariah state (just like Russia and Israel are) I don’t think anyone is going to think it is a good idea; except may be Russia…

I was thinking of the Einstein quote about WW3 and WW4.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/einstein-world-war-iv-sticks-stones/

Do you mean that; TechBros will be more responsible in the future? Or Society will collapse?

I think that Microsoft, Apple, Google are too big to fail, regardless of how terrible they are being managed.

Exactly the same as GM, Ford and Chrysler were too big to fail during the last GFC.

So what you are saying is that the AI/DataMining bubble is all that is stopping the Advertising Bubble from popping and destroying al of Corporate USA.

Bring it on!

These nuclear plants were closed for a reason. It was determined that they were unsustainable and required major maintenance and reconstruction.

If Tech Companies (who have no experience in running Nuclear power plants) start recommissioning them, and don’t properly maintain them, it is going to get very disastrous, very quickly.

Well Akshually.

Misconfigured MIME types on certain old web servers would display the raw data of any file.

I had an Executive who wanted to watch a Video from some “Motivational Speaker” (scam artist) on her iPad. The Scam Artist (Motivational Speaker) had it wrapped in a Flash Applet and when she contacted them about not being able to watch the video, he started soap boxing about how terrible iPhones and iPads were and that Apple is Doomed.

I checked the website and found that the MP4 file had the MIME type Octet/Stream instead of Video/MPEG4 and I created a dummy xHTML page with the appropriate tags.

The video worked perfectly on her iPad and her husband went on to watch the video, believed the “Motivational Speaker” and was fleeced for thousands of dollars.

Once again, the EU ^^ is overstepping their mandate. There is no benefit to endusers if Google, Opera and Firefox are forced to use WebKit for rendering on iOS only. There are disadvantages for Opera, (who are Nowegian), but no other European companies.

There are huge benefits to endusers if their phones batteries last more than 15 minutes because Google and Opera are trying to backdoor their privacy.

^^ the EU’s regulatory bodies.

I think there is an ounce of truth in that, but Corporations don’t “want” things. Investors want dividends and ROI. Executives want golden handshakes. Employees want a pay cheque.

Someone is financing the Astroturf campaigns. Someone is directing who they lobby.