FacelessOne

The damage has already been done. Apple, Microsoft, Google(Alphabet) and the many other Corps exist and these monsters will never stop in their efforts to generate more profit. They have the technology and resources to predict markets, moods, exactly the things to trigger the human in whatever direction they choose. An entire generation has generously devoted their lives to generating information for them to collect, they have palaces with reflecting pools in which to relax and bask in the glow of the all powerful meta data.

RunningShark

I thought he gave up?

Amateur_Wizard

smokescreen

Pawn

some people can't be kept down.

WhiteRonin

["The Kopimashin does make real copies of the track, but they are sent to /dev/null, which means that they are not permanently stored."]

Does a file really exist if you haven't visually seen its output or heard it through speakers?

Here's art!The Kopimashin does make real copies of the track, but they are sent to /dev/null, which means that they are not permanently stored.

Here's art 

cp file_name
Total = total x value
mv file_name /dev/null
print_r(total)

Oh fuck! I'm gonna get sued for copy right infringement!

Why Python? He could have probably done it in Bash and saved a lot in memory!

To protect your self just: 

cp file_name /dev/null
Total = total x value
Print_r(total)

Only 1 copy has ever existed :p

luckyguy

Why python? Speed. He wants to really rack up some cost. Of course the bash could nearly be sped up like so. 

while true
 cp file_name /dev/null && ((COUNTER++)) &
done

Problem, doing multiple actions concurrently means a subshell which means that variable isn't really counting.

Let's use some node cause that's easier to do async than bash in one process. 

var async = require('async');
var fs = require('fs');
var exec = require('child_process').exec;

var count=0;
var rate=0;
var lastrate=0;

function cp(cb) {
 //We are going to use cp to utilize the kernel's sendfile module and get cpu heavy stuff out of our control process.
 exec('cp ourfile /dev/null',function () {
  ++count;
  ++rate;
  cb();
 });
}

function noop(){}

var timer = setInterval(function grow() {
 if(rate<lastrate) {
  //We are no longer speeding up.
  clearInterval(timer);
 }
 else {
  lastrate=rate;
  rate=0;
  async.forever(cp,noop);
 }
},2000);

setInterval(function printCount() {
 console.log('Count:',count);
},10000);

Also, on an unrelated note what does this article have to do with conspiracy? Is /v/conspiracy just an ironically better version of /v/news ?

WhiteRonin

Awesome :-)

But is this art?