And just like Jarvis, he’ll have access to that commenters personal data, and so much more! Fuck Google. Fuck a lot of them but fuck Google in particular.

Well, Davies has a point, communicating scale is the difficult part.

So, for those familiar with computers, think Scott this:

A typical Word doc or PDF is several hundred KB’s (kilobyte =1000 bytes) to 1MB (Megabyte 1m bytes) a jpg picture your phone takes, is 3-4MB. A full HD movie streamed online will be about 9GB (Gigabyte =1b bytes) of data. Obviously a movie is thousands of “images” stitched together so is file size with be significantly more. The same goes for that energy usage.

Similarly, Homes are measured in kW usage (technically usage per hour or kWh) on a monthly basis. You might use ~800-1,000kWh per month, maybe 10,000-11,000kWh a year. But let’s call it 1000kW are used, so 1mW or 1 megawatt. This data center would need at least 9,000x more energy per month as it’s gW scale, not mW or even kW… Plus, its power plant will be close by, so you’re creating heat and pollution to make the 9+gW energy and then USING up that energy and dumping 8+gW of heat, so his example calculated 16gW of heat being generated… That’s the equivalent of a good 16k homes, or ~60,000 people use.

THE KICKER that’s just to run the data center, think of the demand for the HVAC and ecological damage to using a lake’s water to cool equipment (water would be coming out over 100⁰F)…

Fuck AI!

I used to be the same way where I utilized LinkedIn and I’ve been on the platform for a long time, but the hoarding of data and now their partnership with Amazon to access that data, I’m just sick of being for sale, especially since we don’t even profit from it ourselves! It’s OUR data from OUR lives, yet we’re not allowed to keep it ours. So, I finally ditched it a couple months ago.

I know it has value, but I’m going to utilize a federated version or stand up my own Domain and link it that way.

What do you do for people with no social media? And I’m not talking its private, or hidden, I’m straight up talking someone does not exist online. I’ve got no SM for 10+ years, within the last year no reddit, Imgur, not even a LinkedIn or indeed anymore. Honestly, when I had LinkedIn, its full of self-righteous assholes, humble bragging, and corporate brown-nosers. It’s toxic work culture IMO.

But say I found a job posting or heard of your company and applied directly on the portal, is that a deal breaker?

You honestly could get a Lenovo tiny PC with 2 bay so-dimm RAM. I’ve got a i5-10500T and 32GB DDR 4 RAM with 2TB NVMe and 2x 2TB SSDs for various stuff. You can loaf A LOT on those since it’s not Windows. Maybe lol into Yunohost for apps, or ZimaOS.

Yeah, let’s build data centers where it’s hot, humid, and affected by severe weather…

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Aww I love Greys!! They’re so smart and have such a wide vocabulary.

We sort of happened upon them from a couple who needed to surrender, but a Blue Fronted Amazon and more recently, a Goffin’s Cockatoo.

Well, just like the minimum used to be 2GB for windows 7. That’s the MINIMUM for the OS. But then you’ve got Dell, HP, Gateway, etc loading their bloatware, and then you’ve got Geeksquad or someone loading AV stuff, and soon it needs 8GB itself. And I’m talking regular users, not Lemmy people using GS…

Oo what kind of parrot? And what country do you guys love birds that much? I want to visit 😁 we have 2, ourselves.

I’ve got 64GB DDR5 desktop RAM, Windows 11 still makes me worry! Some days at work I’m running mostly browser windows and still during at 30GB used with another 20GB+ cached. It blows my mind.

Less and less everyday, unsurprisingly. /s

Wouldn’t surprise me. It’s a good thing the attic at work is a graveyard of old servers and PCs…I might rehome some

Feels like a class action waiting to happen… However, it’d likely only result in a slap-on-the-wrist fines and no action taken.

Reading mode on Waterfox only grabs up into the subscription part.

Though few have noticed, Mexico has reduced its daily homicide count by 41% over the past 18 months, owing to President Claudia Sheinbaum’s pioneering new strategy for confronting organized crime. Such a sharp reduction is an historic achievement for Mexico – and puts Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s thuggish methods to shame.

MEXICO CITY—El Salvador’s homicide rate, previously among the world’s highest, has dropped dramatically under President Nayib Bukele’s authoritarian rule. Bukele argues that there is no alternative to his model of crime reduction, which includes a persistent state of emergency, mass incarcerations, and widespread human-rights violations. Institutional reforms move too slowly to mitigate the daily harm caused by gangs. No one, he claims, has ever come up with a security model as successful as his.

Check these out with similar info and no pay wall.

https://mexicanpressagency.org/newsroom-posts/mexico-reaches-lowest-homicide-level-in-a-decade/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-mexico-city-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-violence-b2897140.html

I’m off all social media (over 10 years) off reddit for 6+months (banned), closed LinkedIn (2-3mo ago and sick of the data siphoning) closed Imgur about 4-5 months ago (just because). It- honest to God, is SO freeing!

I’m only on my phone for work calls, maybe a few email (use rotating addresses to cut spam), and a game or two from F-Droid if I have spare time. Otherwise it’s just a few Lemmy pages about privacy, security, or self-hosted… My 4+ year old phone battery still lasts about 1.5-2 days with mostly WiFi and BT, some GPS and data. It’s nice it lasts so long.

Most other free time is family or maybe hobby stuff.

I think it’s high time I join you on that

You will own nothing–because you can’t afford it, and be happy

Privacy badger is from EFF so I’ll trust them to block cookies and hidden trackers. I’m sure it’s accomplishing the same thing. Ublock has made a good name for itself though too, no doubt.

Right, my thought exactly. How ironic though, right? It’s contradictory IMO, and maybe legally they have to have something existing and that’s why is buried several links down? Idk.

Yes, just like political and racial divide, it’s all a distraction from class warfare happening.