I think it's too easy to leap to a conspiracy theory when well known facts explain things perfectly well. Every one of the major tech companies is shedding tens of thousands of jobs. This is simply a market correction. They had massively over hired, massively overextended, all on the expectation that the ludicrous growth of the last 20 years could possibly continue. All while working on the technology that would make obsolete a lot of jobs, including those within the company.

I don't think it takes conspiracy to explain that they just can't afford it anymore.

Why? And what does fair have to do with it? It's unfair to me if I pay for the storage, and they have an undocumented limit that I run into. But exactly where does fairness come in here and why is 5 million "fair", but 5 million and one is not?

Maybe he can fund it with profits from Twitter.

Yeah - and it kind of started around the time they dropped their famous slogan. Seems that implying one will no longer operate ethically may have had some knock-on effects.

Customers too. It's been noticed and noted a lot lately that Google's search quality has gone down significantly.

I was, but there was outside influence that warped that to some degree. Society does an awful lot of telling you what a good job is, and most of that is flat out wrong. Knowing what you want is like saying know yourself - super easy to say, rarely ever attained.

Took me most of a lifetime to understand this. Lots of terrible "dream jobs" - good pay awful bosses and no upside for future. Took me 5 years to recognize that my current job is the right one for me.

Why don't you think it's possible? Are you aware that right now, the location and position of every person in a room that has wifi can be detected externally, as one example? This isn't the tech to scan brains (maybe), but it's an example of how extreme we can go.

Unfortunately, it is their level best.

It's kind of too bad Microsoft's login doesn't work with popular password managers. They have so little I need, that not being able to log in has been no problem. And I'm a Microsoft developer.

Their public offerings just stink, and have gotten consistently worse. Technical offerings are pretty much a joke - the disparity between what they tell you when they train you, and what actually happens in the real world is such a huge gulf, that it's hard to credit any claim Microsoft makes about its products. They consistently underperform, have critical bugs that have been multiply reported for decades, and I do mean decades, that get the most canned responses, some of them having thousands of corroborating reports. The whole Microsoft devops program is a huge failure. Their own products attest to this.

This used to work incredibly well with smartphone cameras, but I believe they've corrected algorithms some years before, and it doesn't wipe it out completely like it used to. Not sure about infrared specific cameras though.

As kid I lived in a residential area of Southern california, and in the neighborhood there was a house, with a tall-fenced backyard, but large enough to easily be seen over the fence was a huge concrete boat, that must have been built in that backyard. It was there for the entire 19 years I lived there.

Bluetooth does its own lossy audio compression. So if you're listening to am already lossy stream, BT could make it worse but it definitely will reduce audio quality of an otherwise lossless stream.

This. Unless your music stream makes a point of being "lossless", then you're listening to music that has downgraded sound, in order to stream faster.

Don't bother, he's been around a year and has like five comments, totaling negative 19 points. This is a real nobody, who apparently gets on for the occasional troll thrill.

All The President's Men Wanking

The coat was not stolen. Your father placed it in a foreign territory, and it was duly Incorporated through imminent domain.

Of course they're going to deny it - Facebook just was ordered to pay over 275 Million USD for a very similar breach in both size and scope.

You mean Meta?

Well, we don't do that here. You can however convert 3 years into the appropriate number of quarters, eights, and 16ths.

Well, that last sentiment surely didn't last. At least with twitter, he's opting for nobody at all.

Pretty sure that's actually James Hetfield dressed as a small kid.

We are similar. Same age, same era, same city. Did the band thing, the Sunset Strip thing.

Yeah, we're now in the era where billionaires compete to be compared to Tony Stark, except all of it is vaporware.

Yeah, but when it comes to not replicating, and needing another life form to do so.. sounds like an analog for sexual reproduction. Virus needs some of the mechanisms in another cell in order to produce. A human needs some of the mechanisms in the opposite sex in order to reproduce.

Sexual reproduction as such, it is not a requirement for life, it's just one of the most common ways life works here.