And got owned by China in the process?

There is always some good news. Money going to Accenture really is wasted. The less of that the better.

Sunlight and wind is literally free. As much as you like. But if you want to pay more for energy you can do that.

I've used Azure. It was just bad. Every now and then you get a hint at just how bad it is from communications with their higher level support. It's literally designed by fools and falling apart internally.

AWS is the best at product width, depth, security, and reliability. It would be far better for the market if they had some sensible competition, but they don't right now.

The real tragedy here is Google cloud. Google had every advantage and blew it with their customer hostile nature and arrogance.

The US government paid Microsoft to buy and backdoor Skype. The peer to peer nature of old Skype was a threat to US government surveillance.

It can be made legal with a little lying. See parallel construction.

So does the US press though. The fact you didn't know that proves it works.

Classic internet content thread. Straight to abuse.

The problem here is the app not using encryption plus and the servers being Chinese. Open source has literally nothing to do with it.

Doesn't everyone use Bluetooth these days? Cables are annoying.

If you call robots slave labor.

There isn't much off-grid left though. Yes, there is plenty of land and sea with no connectivity, but few people out there.

A two year suspended sentence for trying to defraud billions seems too light to me.

There was no evil genius plan, that's not how reality works. There was a simple plan that mostly went wrong.

This belief in some super-genius evil plan is paranoid. Nobody can predict the world with enough accuracy to pull that off.

You're not wrong. A massive number of talented people went into finance because it pays better than everything else. It's a parasitic industry.