Posts by TheRON

Graph database shows Biden outspends Trump in social media ad war

Put the tabulated data on the IPFS

That's it. No commentary needed, all we need is data to be remain the same for eternity.

Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI

We are building a technological civilization

We are not building an Elvish utopia. Of course the railway system too could have been evolved with burning less coal too and with less loss of lives, especially from retrospect. In a few hundred years the EVs and the AI going to be something far more functional and efficient the same way. Every piece of technology is too polluting, too damaging, too expensive - until you lose it, and then you'll spare no effort and cost to get it back.

IMF boss warns of AI 'tsunami' coming for world's jobs

We pay taxes to the Governments to take care of us, we have laws and policies such as Social Security, we have civic institutions such as insurance and investment banks. We have political parties to "fight for our needs and our rights", grassroots who promise to fix the problems with the governments, the laws and policies, with the civic institutions. We have churches and charities such as the United Way and Feed the Children. We have so many good-doer organizations that it's not possible to keep track of them. Yet some things will never change, one of them is that solutions painted with a wide brush, such as the Universal Basic Income, are doomed to fail, they are always too big and often too generous to succeed.

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

Today, unless the data is stored on immutable storage it has zero authenticity.

Is the long awaited Raspberry Pi flotation about to happen?

I never cared for its Desktop "capacity" if you can call that. GUI support sure helped sales but for the most part the Pi was great as a headless low-power platform. I think in someways it also lost out to containers and other VMs, which were still evolving. I was sincerely hoping the Pi would bring hardware clusters or something equally exotic as an alternative - like the Ubuntu MAAS. In any case, the Pi is no longer any contender for a modest low-power platform free of feature-creep.

Mastodon delays firm fix for link previews DDoSing sites

There are other clients besides Mastodon

Some of us on the fedi are trying to convince users to try other clients such as Hubzilla / Streams which have alternative native protocols. ActivityPub is not fully developed as there is little demand - which did not stop the Zot folks to code and fully evolve Zot. As more protocols are put to use these sorts of issues going to be less of a problem.

Bookings open for first all-electric flights around Scandinavia … in 2028

Electricity cannot be "stored". Even batteries are "generating" electricity, not storing it. The more batteries they use, the more morbid these EVs become.

If it was not for the buzz around hydrogen powerplants I would say battery-based EVs are the stupidest idea, but here comes hydrogen: "hold my beer"!

Guess who is collecting and sharing abortion-related data?

Conspiracies are not Theories

During COVID I got "tested" so hard in my nose that I had some bleeding. No doubt, my DNA was more evident on the sample than the pathogen. And who did not get identified and tested for COVID?

If you ever signed up with a "family tree builder" chances are your genetics are collected by some clandestine organizations. Life Insurance companies at your employer "saves you money" if you share your medical records with them. Going forward its easy to fathom how some corporation who has access to donated blood going to sell information about the blood.

Once a 'conspiracy' happens for the first time, it stops being a "theory" and it becomes part of history.

NASA's electric plane tech is coming in for a late, bumpy landing

Storing electricity is not cheap

The thing electricity does the quickest and the best is expire, and arrays and banks of balanced caps and cells do not scale well or on the cheap. The best example I know of, where electricity is used for propulsion is the diesel-electric railway engine, where the power-plant is directly coupled to the generator, and the electricity is consumed immediately.

Maybe storing electricity is not such a bright idea.

Multicloud isn't necessary, says Gartner … until it is

What about the actual datacenters?

Purposing something like a Metal as a Service in small, localized "datacenters" might also be an alternative to AWS, GCE, and others. I am fully aware that something on the scale of a server room is not a "datacenter", but they could be linked up. I could imagine these "datacenters" operated on the city-ward, township level, especially by region-specific supply chains and service providers. Besides the cost savings the biggest benefit would be controlling the upgrade and migration cycles. Large cloud providers create and disappear services all the time, GCE is really good at that, or create security models nobody can understand, which is a specialty by AWS. Maintaining a MAAS is far less costly and less difficult than any "cloud", and still provide the essential virtualization and container choices.

China cracks down on AI-generated news anchors

The AI cannot contradict itself

All bets are off between the delusional humans and retard machines.