I’m just some guy, you know.
So you’re saying that we should be concerned with datacenters more than things like factory farming and oil & gas?
I don’t follow. I need a lot more evidence of harm before I become “very concerned” about datacenters specifically.
Between AI and shitcoin mining, these two “technology branches” already consume more power than all the green power added to the grid combined.
I think you would be shocked if you learned what some other things in our world cost in CO2.
The energy costs of cryptocurrency mining are easy to calculate because the system is extremely transparent. AI is a little muddier, but we know how much big tech is expanding data centers, and we know how many enterprise GPUs Nvidia sells, so we get a decent estimate.
But these things don’t actually do as much damage as compared to other things. Imagine how much energy is used for Gaming PCs and consoles. It’s probably up there with Crypto and AI if you consider all running consoles and PCs, plus all the multiplayer infrastructure. But we don’t have numbers because this is hard to calculate.
And then there’s stuff like personal automobiles, that completely blow these other things out-of-the-water.
That’s all newsletters. I promise.
Now you’ll have a pile of emails you can actually parse, and all the newsletters clogging up your inbox will stop arriving in the future.
Do this every time your emails start to get away from you and you’ll be golden.
Didn’t this used to be common? One button glows in the dark, and if you push it a few seconds of backlight illuminate the rest of the buttons?
I swear half the remotes when I was a kid did this.
Rarely do I think a shitpost is too contrived, but bro, get some sleep.
I remember when the FediPact people were saying various fediverse instances needed to defederate from Threads because Meta was going to use it to scrape comments…
My brother in Christ, you’re spewing your comments in a million directions with the ActivityPub protocol. They don’t even have to scrape, and defederating them won’t do shit.
Yeah, but the disc drive is the first thing to break, and replacement parts don’t sell more consoles.
Now that the Console is overpriced to the extreme, modular parts are an added luxury.
I think a nuanced opinion is possible.
I think that AI is a technological step forward with a lot of future applications that might be successful, but I also think it’s currently over-hyped and getting shoehorned into everything for dubious reasons.
I think it’s problematic how AI companies are enriching themselves with other people’s content, but I also have serious disagreements with Intellectual Property law, and half-agree with those companies on the free use of information. I’m more forgiving of training AIs for research purposes rather than immediately monetizing models trained on other people’s content, likewise I am more supportive of openly licensed models you can download over proprietary models like ChatGPT.
I think that AI generated writing and pictures are boring compared to the things human beings create, but I still find Generative AI software to be intriguing and have found entertainment in playing with various text and image models.
I find AI Evangelists and AI Luddites to be equally annoying, because neither has a rational opinion, usually because neither of these groups actually knows anything technical about AI. The former will tell you that AI is already experiencing basic consciousness, the latter will tell you that AI is merely a buzzword and AIs are nothing but stupid token-guessing machines - the truth is a moving target somewhere in between.
Ask the instance admin?
Or just join another instance and don’t get bent out of shape about a ban?
Me, rubbing my fingers across the metal bars of the instrument: “This isn’t a xylophone, you fool! It’s a stinking glockenspiel!”
This is like when Republicans complain that Biden detained record numbers of border-crossers, and I’m like “Isn’t that what you guys want him to do?”.
Track_Shovel be like “Cool meme I found on 196. Better post it on 196.”
Your brand of meme-theft is getting lazy…
Not really the same thing. “Lifetime warranties” have for decades now referred to the lifetime of the product as stated in the warranty, not the lifetime of the consumer.
Any consumer still interpreting “Lifetime” in this context to mean “the rest of my life”, is just being stupid. Read the terms of the agreement before assuming you know what it protects…
“Perpetual licensing” on the other hand, is pretty clearly defined as “pay once, use forever”, so to sunset that agreement and start charging subscription fees is fraudulent.
Not well versed in bird law, eh?
Yeah, it works, but it’s really quite clunky…
Tl;Dr: Sharing Nude scenes out-of-context are considered a form of involuntary pornography in Denmark (portraying artistic nudity as pornography) and this man was arrested for compiling and sharing nude scenes of Danish actors from Danish films and sharing them while inside Denmark…
This has nothing to do with film studio profits or piracy, this is a man who ran afowl of his home country’s laws about pornography.
And to be fair, a woman appearing nude in a film doesn’t mean that sexualizing the shit out of her publicly isn’t scummy fucked up behavior. I think I understand the law here.
Amazingly, this is an actual photograph. It was published by Pearson. Also, there’s a back:
And a horrendous use of resources.
This was a stable diffusion model trained on hundreds of thousands of images. This is actually a pretty small training set and a pretty lightweight model to train.
Custom / novel SD models are created and shared by hobbyists all the time. It’s something you can do with a Gaming PC, so it’s not any worse a resource waste than gaming.
I’m betting Google didn’t throw a lot of money at the “get it to play Doom” guys anyway.
I mean, yeah, there’s code, but none of it is Doom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
347 Mbit/s maximum. (But don’t expect that at 9.9 miles…)
The "WiFi HaLow"name itself indicates lower power usage than traditional Wifi, largely because it uses the 900MHz band instead of the 2.4/5/6GHz bands.
Likewise, it isn’t compatible with existing WiFi client devices that don’t operate at those bands.