captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
…What forces defend these datacenters? Could a platoon of motivated civilians armed with pump action shotguns carry all the RAM out of one?
No but anyone with a a cheap vintage military rifle with 2000 yard/meter iron sights could reek havoc by lobbing a few bullets at like a mortar from extreme range. It would be ridiculously easy to get away with with doing a few times. Just do it at random times and in different locations.
They will have to start building these things in the Nevada test range if enough people took up this new hobby.
You remember a few years ago when some random town in North Carolina made the national news because some Proud Boys shot out the substation because there was a drag show at a local downtown theater?
I’m from there.
What I learned in those four days without refrigeration or air conditioning is that substations aren’t bulletproof.
Yep, I’m from NC too. When shits gets real it’s going to be normal to not have water, power and internet because we sold all of our critical infrastructure to parasites who extort us but won’t spend a dime on redundancy. People really don’t understand how easy it would be to shut the country down if a critical boiling point is reached.
theparadox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They use a different kind of RAM.
It’s the capacity to make RAM and the materials required to make RAM that is going to datacenters.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I probably got an adapter somewhere
pigup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What’s more is they use HBM RAM, which is very complicated to build and has a much lower yield than the much-cheaper-to-make consumer ram.
So, not only are they dedicating all of their resources to billionaire assholes with fantasies of mind control over the masses, but they’re also wasting much more materials and energy to make this stupid ram.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This you? :P
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
So we should just straight-up vandalize them? As much property damage as possible, forget the shotguns, bring bulldozers, gasoline and road flares?
iopq@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lemmy.world runs from a data center, and virtually all other instances
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Oh no!
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
You should target their internet connection. Fiber cables are easier to damage and harder to protect. It’s also easier to fix so longer, organized campaign would be needed but I think it would be possible to avoid capture for longer.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Whose this “you” you refer to? XD