I’m just some guy, you know.
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.
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.
The right wing is trying to start a race war in Ohio, and people are posting pictures and videos of themselves pretending to cook and eat their pets, and remixing Trump’s racist statements into songs.
People need to stop blasting Trump’s own bigotry like it’s a meme, and start defending Haitian immigrants from hate and violence. Nazi groups are Marching on Springfield already.
Yeah, people are dancing on TikTok to techno remixes of Trump saying that Haitians eat cats and dogs. People are normalizing it because they think it’s funny.
No, he’s saying racist shit about immigrants. It’s worth ridicule, but it’s not a joke…
Ultrium media has a lifetime of 30 years after the first write to the cartridge, and that’s assuming you write to it up to the maximum number of full writes (260).
Assuming you write to your cartridges once, store them (and the drive) in an airtight dustproof box, and don’t expose them to extreme temperature or humidity, you’re pretty much guaranteed to have complete data integrity after the 30 year mark.
At that point, you can probably transfer all the data into your petascale holographic storage installed at the base of your skull.
There are way too many jokes and way too little counter-narratives to this racist hoax.
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.
Supporters of Jill Stein (Instagram)
Jill Stein is liking pro-Trump comments on Instagram. She backs him over Harris (just like you). Trump backs complete Palestinian genocide (just like you).
If your source is an anonymous rando posting on Elon Musk’s right wing propaganda machine, and you’re still consuming content delivered from said propaganda machine, then I suppose I understand why you post so much right wing propaganda…
Trump wants to turn Gaza into a crater, and Harris has pleaded for the humanity of Palestinian people… Plus, Trump is a racist.
What a stupid “both sides” argument you’ve made…
I guess when you’re a single issue voter, and your single issue is “Everyone who isn’t as anti-Zionist as me is pro-Genocide”, everything looks like genocide.
Where’s the lie?
Well, you said “Not all Trump supporters are racist”, so that alone…
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.
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.
Is it though? We can show an AI thousands of hours of something and it can simulate it almost perfectly. All the game mechanics work! It even makes you collect keys and stock up on ammo. For a stable diffusion model that’s pretty profound emergent behavior.
I feel like you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think this has real world applications. This is the kind breakthrough we need for self-driving: the ability to simulate what would happen in real life given a precise current state and a set of fictional inputs.
Doom is a low-graphics game, so it’s definitely easier to simulate, but this method could make the next generation of niche “VidGen” models extremely accurate.
once it’s generally accepted for this type of ad to be displayed they’ll jump on it real quick.
That’s inevitable, but in this scenario they own the patent.
Our wetware neutral networks probably aren’t supposed to engage with synthetic content like this either. In a few years we’re gonna learn that overexposure to AI generated content creates some sort of neurological problem in people, like a real-world “nerve attenuation syndrome” (Johnny Mnemonic).