skuzz

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Use 1984 rules, reverse everything they say, that is the actual goal.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 days ago

Instead, all that money is being used to accelerate our doom. AI datacenters unnecessarily consuming power and drinking water in small towns everywhere. Many just dumping humidity into the air and letting that water literally blow away via lazy evaporative cooling. Most "normal" water consuming processes consume, treat, and return water to the downstream-traveling aquifer.

Now, couple that with an overall warming climate. When air is warmer, the more moisture the air can hold. So we end up with more water vapor in the air than normal. With the weirding factor of climate change, this means more water energy for more powerful and destructive storms the likes of which humanity has never seen. Which feeds back into more ice melting, oceans rising, permafrost melting, cycle, accelerate, cycle, accelerate.

Also, real curious to see how millions of warehouses belching humidity and heat into the air across the surface of the globe can affect the general weather patterns, but that sadly won't be known until after the damage is done.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago

And every fake-friendly long-winded response consumes more electricity and water than it should, while also being useless.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 days ago

This is also why the AI datacenter race is so asinine. All the datacenters drinking all the water and power will end up being even more pointless wastes of resources in short order.

Obviously the tech bros are just doing the datacenter land-grab as a pissing match because they're bored billionaires that need to get a life, and love creating nonsense contests. It is just terrible that so many naive communities will be bilked out of resources (or made sick and die from the pollution) as a result.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

They stopped coincidentally around the same time Google announced that no third party messaging apps would be allowed to use RCS.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Totes. Gotta murder the Samsung keyboard though, or it's still harvesting while using Futo. Ask me how I know.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The real challenge is De-Samsunging it. Can only disable Samsung's keyboard and many other things via ADB commands. The keyboard itself is some kind of data hog that can consume gigs of space. It also has a 40+ slot clipboard history that it will retain even if you aren't using the keyboard. It no longer saves the clipboard once you disable it via ADB though.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Translation: These features were using too much compute in their "AI" datacenters and they're cutting costs.

Bubble so close to popping!

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

IDEs just get worse, bellwether signal for where software companies think software in general is going, if the dev tools are already going to crap.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

The Federal government should not be allowed to directly tax anything. All should go through the states. This direct taxation is how we are stuck in this Nazi Feudalust situation.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

There is a term for that. Duopoly.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It will be once the bubble pops. Small local tuned models for specific tasks that the user powers are much less expensive for the tech companies than tech companies powering and watering datacenters.

Right now the tech bros genuinely think people will be cool paying hundreds of dollars a month to rent a GPU for all their Internet tasks. AI fatigue is already setting in.

The tech bros' investors will pull funding once they realize how asinine that is long-term. Probably already starting to, with the likes of Zuck trying to use green charity money to fund his LLMs.

 

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