You see what's happening right?

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

You see what's happening right?

They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.

At astronomical rents.

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

[tinmouth@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart found 3 spindles of dvd-r's the other day, I'm gonna get archiving 😂

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@tinmouth Finally my M-Disc writer makes sense

[galacticstone@mastodon.social]

@mttaggart Suddenly all that retro "obsolete" hardware isn't so niche and worthless. I have a stack of old laptops to cannibalize - enough to last a Linux lifetime.

[tinmouth@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart had to go look that up! It's true none of my cd-rw's from the late 90s read anymore.

[tomcat@mstdn.starnix.network]

@mttaggart

Phase 1: force AI adoption by removing other options to not use it

Phase 2: make computing unaffordable for the masses by buying up all stock of components, driving up demand while building datacenters.

Phase 3: further increase demand for and adoption of your cloud computing/AI datacenter by making people reliant on crappy cloud PCs/PCaaS devices with little horsepower to do much else

Phase 4: use telemetry/spyware in said datacenters to surveil/harvest data from every user of said cloud PCs and use it to serve hyper-targeted ads (everyone knows people love hyper-targeted ads) and send drone fleets to respond to/harass dissenters domestic terrorists

Phase 5: profit

[tschenkel@mathstodon.xyz]

@mttaggart

I regret having delayed upgrading my old 4x2TB NAS array, because I didn't want to spend that much money on HDDs. Seems like everywhere is limited to 2 drives per account where I am.

May need to get a hotswap enclosure and pick out all my old 0.5TB drives for less frequently used stuff.

[bloc@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart I hope this will help break the mental cycle that mandates the necessity of having to buy new stuff regularly instead of using what's already there up to its actual lifetime. That way, this would in the long term hurt companies who's business model relies on creating artificial demand instead of providing actually necessary products and services.

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@tschenkel @mttaggart I am suddenly very, very lucky to have 85TB of spinning rust

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@freya @tschenkel I gently submit you were already lucky to have all that!

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@mttaggart @tschenkel I mean yes, I misworded that, I meant I suddenly feel very lucky, not discounting the fact that I already was, I just hadn't internalised it

[tschenkel@mathstodon.xyz]

@mttaggart @freya

Indeed. I feel like we are the avantgarde with cobbled together IT. Feels like a Gibson novel, and unlike the tech-bros I did not read those scenarios as aspirational.

I just wanted to retire my beowulf cluster (12 old HP Z210 to 240 workstations and a few switches) because the gen7 i7s got a bit long in the tooth. But I may go and update that for a few more years and try to ride out the AI bubble.

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@tschenkel @mttaggart oooo pretty machines. I'm on Dell R720 and a T340 all running FreeBSD and Solaris

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@mttaggart I am so sick of these fucks.

[raymierussell@mastodon.scot]

@galacticstone @mttaggart
Yeah, all those TV cash-for-gold adverts are gonna get dislodged by cash-for-RAM and cash-for-hdd's/sdd's

[botolo86@mstdn.social]

@mttaggart I still have my Commodore 64. They will never trap me. 10 PRINT “C64 RULEZ” ; 20 GOTO 10 ; RUN #c64

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@mttaggart argggghhh

[chillybot@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart
Wooo compute gouging 😑

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@mttaggart

Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@lemgandi This is actually malice! It's rapacious greed, the purest evil!