Post #3879167
2026-07-17 07:05 UTC
That's it. That's the whole reason.
The 'arms race' is manufactured FOMO by tech bros with media connections. And they fooled a lot of people. The panic buying started, then the energy shortages, and the water shortages, then the hardware shortages followed.
It's the new grift. The same happened on a smaller scale with Big Data, Hyperconverged systems, The Cloud™, and now 'AI'.
Now look where we are. a Raspberry Pi is nearly £400.
But...
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@ADHDruid@infosec.exchange 2026-07-17 07:09
There another unintended side effect of this, which is a result of the boom being followed far too quickly by a bust. The control of the web as we know it. See, I think the tech bros thought they could string this grift out a bit longer, get more entrenched before people realised it could do none of the things promised, so they had to pivot, and fast. What's the only pivot available to you when you've spent billions stealing information? Make a new Google, a new World Wide Web. Then gate keep the fuck out of it. Except it's the old World Wide Web. In a dusty bottle. It has dementia. And it's going to start serving you ads, because it doesn't know any better.