Fake surprise - it's obvious that would happen, he did it deliberately for clicks and engagement.

It's plausible, but there's every reason to believe that someone would trust the technology handed to them by a megacorp to do as advetised.

The 'deliberate failure' is on Meta here.

Or he just wanted to test if it works for clicks and engagements, and he got a result he didn't anticipate.

This reads like fetish fiction. Maybe it is.

And none of the quotes from that Pickering guy actually made any sense

This. They are buying a brick in the xkcd #2347 diagram

Also they bought the company which develops the open source slurm scheduler which is the primary and defacto standard HPC scheduler on the market. Bit of a concern to say the least

baseball cap and sunglasses will do just fine.

Humans are able to identify a person just with general dimensions and how they move. It's probably within the reach of today's machine learning techniques...

They have a store selling caps, t-shirts and keyboards. That's one way to donate while getting cool stuff

Isn't that the same problem though, that the profit goes to the foundation not the corporation?

However it is a nice idea, I would love a firefox mug or something. Microsoft has lobbied our company to remove firefox and chrome from all computers so we must use edge everywhere and it would be a nice passive-agressive move for me to have firefox merchandise everywhere. I work in IT so the people that decided this shit are around me.