Two guys literally got arrested at Defcon because HOTEL SECURITY told police the Flipper Zero was a hacking device.

The police responded by doing a felony arrest. They were released later when it was found that...the arrest was unlawful because possession is not a felony.

But the cops...trained professionals....took the word of fucking casino rent-a-cops of what the law was.

Clearly you don't understand supply and demand.

To start with...no one is producing consumer ram. No one. Everyone is focusing solely on high-end memory.

They have already stated they have zero intention of producing it again. None. Not one single person has said this will be over by summer...if anything...every company has said the shortages will continue in to 2027.

If no one makes it, there's nothing to sell. EVen if the bubble pops...it takes time to retool.

They quit producing consumer ram to meet the demands for AI. If you really think the corporations aren't going to take advantage of this; well I think we have a whole history of times where shortages lead to price increases that stayed permanent. The prices of everything went up 5 years ago...and did not go down when the supposed problems were solved. If those prices were high due to shortages, they should have dropped....but they didn't.

If they can get people paying $1500 a gig now...then why stop? You don't. You keep charging the stupid high rates and make them the new normal.

Actually, I say that's by design.

People can't buy computers if they can't get RAM. If they can't buy computers, then they'll be forced on to another option...like a hosted desktop. Then you have no options and no freedom....just a walled garden where every move you make can be watched.

Brand new motherboards and CPUs cost less than last years stuff; and last years stuff is getting stupid expensive. It's hit a wall. There's no incentive to sell new stuff because no one can use it. Can't afford the last generation because everyone is buying that instead.

By destroying the consumer side first...they can force everyone on to hosted platforms...where they'll ensure a revenue stream and make sure the bubble doesn't pop. Because right now the corporations have every incentive to invest every dollar they can because they know the future for them will be wage-free world of AI workers.

"It might cost us a trillion now but it will save us trillions in the future"

They talked about replacing income tax with a flat federal sales tax for years.

Well..they've effectively put a federal tax on everything we buy...AND they're keeping income taxes.

So...no...the problem is you don't pay for what you use. You pay for what everyone else uses and some fuckers gold toilet.

When toll roads are 100% run by the states...maybe.

But the ones in our state...are run by fucking Australia. They get their cut...then the state gets theirs. As a result...they get to do this like misread your tag and bill you $95 for it. They close toll gates and force you to pay by phone.

Maybe if the tolls weren't run like a scam. But they are...and I'll be damned if I'm letting some foreign company get a huge cut for something the state should be doing.

That doesn't mean we agree with it.

I don't drive that stretch of 95 in MD. I don't drive interstates in PA.

I pay enough in fucking insurance and other things I'm required to pay for in order to have a car; I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $23 to drive on a fucking road on top of it.

We're seeing it. It's AI. The minute they can replace those people with a clanker; they'll just do that.

Trust me...I'm having to develop a system that's going to replace most of the humans where I work. Chances are once it's done...I'm gone too.

The goal is to ruin the hobby.

They did this with RC aircraft by trying to require a ham radio license. That didn't work.

They required FAA approval to cut down on private drone flights. That didn't work.

Now they've decided to start banning them.

I got sad news for you; they don't care about your hobbies. At all. They don't.

That's what they want.

They want you to not buy anything going forward.

I mean they are literally doing everything they can to make sure it's permanent. To the point they want people to tattle on their neighbors for not thinking like them.

Yeah...you're fine with it. Fuck you.

IT's a shell of what it once was. Radionomy bought it for the shoutcast IP so they could restructure to a paid platform. You want to run a server, you have to pay them. You want to get listed in the directory, you have to pay them.

Then there was Winamp. They had no interest in it; so they ruined it too. Winamp For Creators was just bullshit crypto and NFTs. That's all. It was literally just a useless NFT marketplace.

And let's not forget the "open-source" fiasco. It wasn't open source, it was source available. They pushed it as open source, but the reality is they still had full control over the code and none of it was open.

The only thing this article did was drag Opera's name through Winamp's mud...which we all agreed should have been buried and erased at this point.

Plain and simple.

All she did was give that money to swindlers.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Makes me wonder what other standards they consider "good enough".

I wouldn't fly them now. Their 100% standard seems to be low....and I'm going to assume that carries over to everything in the organization. That 100% may be more like 89%...and I don't think I want to take an 89% safety rating.

I don't care if it's true...if they make stupid fucking decisions like this based on bullshit numbers; then we should all go on bullshit made up numbers.

People will just go Disney+. It's by design. They don't want to be on Youtube and take a smaller amount per subscriber. IF anything I'm pretty sure Disney is pushing people away from Youtube doing this.

It's by design. Big business stomping on big business. Eliminate the competition by cutting them out. It's classic business move.

Pretty soon *every* provider will be third tier when we have to pay the networks directly with no other option. Once broadcast TV is reduced to infomercials and fourth-rate sub-channels; the big providers will lose it too.

The last couple of years the disputes have gone from each side telling people to call the other to the one side just saying cancel your service and sign up for us. When the cable companies were forced to distribute sports channels to other providers if they were pushed by satellite....comcast/nbc put them all back on microwave and fiber distrubiton....just to keep them on their service.

The entire entertainment sector has gone to shit. They're all whores that only care about money. Fuck them.

It's pushing FOSS away from the people and in to the hands of a chosen few. While I admit security flaws are a problem; I think a pragmatic approach is still better than blind realism. It's like the flaw might be rated 9.9; but you need physical access to the motherboard and remove 3 chips to make it happen....that's not a realistic security threat to most people.

If this continues, who will want to contribute to anything? If I write a project only to have a company with billions of dollars start picking it apart and not taking in to account I'm one person....then my reaction is to say "fuck this community".

FOSS is dying. Corporations don't want to contribute, only take.

The problems should be fixed....but trying to beat it in to a volunteer project is bad. Google should have had more tact; or let their fucking AI fix it themselves.