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akadajet posted:how many tech ceo's fortunes would it take to destroy homelessness? Bezos might be able to singlehandedly destroy homelessness, but it'll never destroy homielessness.
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Doom Mathematic posted:What if someone really senior in the company decides to invest unreasonably heavily in some kind of new technology which makes no sense and nobody wants and is horrible? Maybe that would do some damage. I assume you’re referencing facebook’s meta nonsense. but let’s not forget google plus, Apple car, windows phone, amazon Alexa, Intel anything that isn’t x86 processors…
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I think it would have to be some sort of big accounting fraud (even if it isn't necessary) or cover up but these companies are so big it would need to literally be the CEO to have long term reprocussions. I don't see how a knight capital style tech gently caress up would ever be enough. maybe data exposure?
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some core fb sdk overwriting disks with random data or disabling network access that requires manual intervention to recover or hey aren’t there ways to brick cpus somehow?
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The Management posted:I assume you’re referencing facebook’s meta nonsense. but let’s not forget google plus, Apple car, windows phone, amazon Alexa, Intel anything that isn’t x86 processors… i think intel's networking stuff is still decent? The Management posted:I’ve got bad news op, it’s likely impossible for most of the big tech cos by purely technical means. most have sufficient backups, redundancy, distributed services that they will eventually come up from any sort of failure. that's kinda why i asked how many people, obviously it'd have to be a real conspiracy in order to successfully sabotage the backups as well as the production stuff
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lets all burn down the datacentres closest to us, as a prank
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yes, youre not going to destroy a corporate entity overnight, thats something the company has to do to itself. The question is what is the value for N that you and N friends can gently caress up a major tech company bad enough to make it die eventually. for instance: all or nearly all user data on facebook is deleted, so everyone has to make a new account all email on gmail and all search indexes are lost and so forth
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The Management posted:I assume you’re referencing facebook’s meta nonsense. but let’s not forget google plus, Apple car, windows phone, amazon Alexa, Intel anything that isn’t x86 processors… Alexa seems like it was pretty successful. Those smart speakers were everywhere for a few years there.
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Poopernickel posted:Alexa seems like it was pretty successful. Those smart speakers were everywhere for a few years there. they sure were. sold at no margins with the hopes of making it up with, uh, … Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i think intel's networking stuff is still decent? I knew someone was going to bring this up. yes, they’re still good.
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probably about five: a gruff no-nonsense englishman, a french canadian chemist, a black guy with a heart of gold, an asian lady with the strength of ten men, and a nerdy white guy to keep them all together
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cool av posted:probably about five: a gruff no-nonsense englishman, a french canadian chemist, a black guy with a heart of gold, an asian lady with the strength of ten men, and a nerdy white guy to keep them all together rotor posted:i'd say five
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The Management posted:they sure were. sold at no margins with the hopes of making it up with, uh, … Low margins, but not a money-loser. Not at the scale they were built / sold. I'd bet the hardware sales were profitable but barely. Most of them were also whitelabeled from contract manufacturers / outside design houses. With that said, the money is in the collected data. Amazon keeps every Alexa query ever sent to them, forever. That kind of data gets used to build up their analytics on you (along with your Amazon purchases / searches, things you string on Prime, etc). Amazon sells that data to advertisers, uses it themselves, and also sells targeted ads. So the moneymaker isn't the speakers as a hardware product. It's the data the speakers enable them to collect.
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cool av posted:probably about five: a gruff no-nonsense englishman, a french canadian chemist, a black guy with a heart of gold, an asian lady with the strength of ten men, and a nerdy white guy to keep them all together yep
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Poopernickel posted:Alexa seems like it was pretty successful. Those smart speakers were everywhere for a few years there. they make it really easy to order stuff from amazon so it probably does what they set out for it to do
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it would only take a single bad enough dude to get elected president and nuke Facebook
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there would need to be some kind of gently caress up so bad that it completely eroded the trust of the user base enough that people just stopped logging in or buying their products. i am struggling to think of anything that would actually change the minds of the mass public so drastically, nevermind convincing everyone with irrefutable proof that whatever it was actually happened
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polyester concept posted:there would need to be some kind of gently caress up so bad that it completely eroded the trust of the user base enough that people just stopped logging in or buying their products. i am struggling to think of anything that would actually change the minds of the mass public so drastically, nevermind convincing everyone with irrefutable proof that whatever it was actually happened i think destroying all/most facebook posts and accounts would be enough to destroy facebook, for instance I agree, the bar for eroding customer trust is basically impossibly high. Ashley Madison leaked the name of everyone who was using it to cheat on their spouse and yet the site still exists. I think you have to reset them to zero users to make a difference.
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what about a company that makes hardware? i think tesla is proof positive that even if it is hilariously unsafe, demonstrably so, idiots will still not shut up about how much they love it
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if the ceo was a good person
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chaosbreather posted:leak deepfaked sex tapes with the ceo and all the board's partners might destroy the ceo but not the company
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totally. but then you do it to the next ceo. then the next ceo. then the next ceo. and eventually no-one will want it or they'll have to hire a eunuch
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chaosbreather posted:totally. but then you do it to the next ceo. then the next ceo. then the next ceo. and eventually no-one will want it or they'll have to hire a eunuch did ... did a eunuch write this?
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rotor posted:did ... did a eunuch write this? No, too much talk of Doin' It.
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that will be the year of eunuchs on the desktop
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chaosbreather posted:that will be the year of eunuchs on the desktop
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chaosbreather posted:totally. but then you do it to the next ceo. then the next ceo. then the next ceo. and eventually no-one will want it or they'll have to hire a eunuch wouldnt people just go "big deal, another deepfaked video, who gives a poo poo?"
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Achmed Jones posted:wouldnt people just go "big deal, another deepfaked video, who gives a poo poo?" yeah. not going to google it but there must be a bunch of like elon musk one's already or something
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animist posted:sneak into us-east-1 and release rats already thought this was the explanation for all the us-east-1 troubles
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animist posted:sneak into us-east-1 and release rats RATing into us-east-1 could probably let you do a lot of damage
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leaving an open gas can inside the air intake and letting hvac do the hard part
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remembering in the early days of the lockdown when facebook literally locked themselves out of their own data center. iirc they had to manually break in to regain access
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PIZZA.BAT posted:remembering in the early days of the lockdown when facebook literally locked themselves out of their own data center. iirc they had to manually break in to regain access iirc there was a physical key and physical locks to use it on, but the person who had the key was some amount of time away. apparently the amount of money they were losing by waiting for the key was more than the damage they caused by breaking in immediately
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alright here's the plan. these companies need to pay an annual fee or they face deregistration. we target their internal regulatory email accounts, and once we gain access we dump all mail relating to company registration. eventually the target company will be deregistered--effectively killing the company.
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what if you hooked up twitch chat to control the board of directors using the same technology was when they control pokemon etc
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Buck Turgidson posted:alright here's the plan. these companies need to pay an annual fee or they face deregistration. we target their internal regulatory email accounts, and once we gain access we dump all mail relating to company registration. eventually the target company will be deregistered--effectively killing the company. They all have their heaquarters registered to the same delaware office, demolishing that building would make a hundred thousand companies homeless
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