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I ran from Reddit, it be like that
- Comment on A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it 5 days ago:
The classic definition of workstation is “immensely powerful, probably tweaked single user production computer”, which can of course be racked and remotely accessed, but we’re talking late 90s then.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 week ago:
Sorry, i meant the comments under the article on toms hardware. I see this on a every tech site: research says it’s impossible amount of power used, and everyone in the comments below will do half arsed calculations with other made up numbers, trying to disprove the researcher, and always only to defend and legitimise their use of ai.
FWIW I’m not saying that the research here is garbage; it’s a decent attempt estimating by at assuming what you don’t and cannot really know, as long as an OpenAI and their doesn’t publish the data. As far as I know only Mistral published anything at all. - Comment on All I Want 1 week ago:
What a radiating smile!
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 week ago:
Of course there are comments doubting the accuracy, which by itself is valid, but they are merely doing it to defend AI. IMHO, even at a fifth of the estimates, we’re talking humongous amounts of power, all for a so-so search engine, half arsed chatbots and dubious nsfw images mostly. And let’s not forget: it may be inaccurate and estimates are TOO LOW. Now wouldn’t that be fun?
- Comment on Maybe with cheese? 2 weeks ago:
* MICHEL LOTITO HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
- Comment on What will the AI revolution mean for the global south? 3 weeks ago:
More climate problems, much more
- Comment on There is a federation problem on Programming.dev 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, thanks for updating my knowledge.
- Comment on There is a federation problem on Programming.dev 3 weeks ago:
Substack is cofounded by a right wing extremist so yeah. They have had a nazi problem for years with their users and don’t take any action.
- Comment on DNS security is important but DNSSEC may be a failed experiment 4 weeks ago:
Nice opinion piece, but I disagree with the core idea that dnssec’s biggest problem is visibility (also, there hasn’t been any padlock icon in years in browsers). IMHO we have 3 main drivers that made https a success, and dnnsec (and smtps) not:
- enforced by browsers: while you could file it under “visibility”, the difference to me is that browsers refuse to load your site without https. If they had resorted to a mere red address bar, https would never really have taken off.
- ”atomic”: a site with failed https is only 1 failed site. Other sites, APIs, mail servers etc under the same domain will still work.
- DNSSEC is HARD. Yes, your dns./website provider makes it look easy but really, this stuff is seriously hard to do right now, and there is little tooling to help you with it; the same reason smtps (and maybe ipv6) failed so hard, I think.
- Comment on Microsoft saved $500 million using AI — after slashing over 15,000 jobs in 2025 5 weeks ago:
lmao they just cut jobs to pay for their trashy ai.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 5 weeks ago:
Because he was smashing the burger, not femanon.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 5 weeks ago:
Yes, I know. Unfortunately, rest of the world is not doing that much better.
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 5 weeks ago:
Those GBUs were designed by Boeing to fall, crash and explode… checks out.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 5 weeks ago:
The UN should consider nuking this… this … whatever it is that is left of the USA to Kingdom Come.
- Comment on Barbers HATE this one simple trick 1 month ago:
You and me both, my friend… remember Balding Elon Musk? I think it’s not so much the lack of hair, more like the lack of ethics.
- Comment on Guys on dating sites be like: 1 month ago:
As a tactic to impress women, it must be the absolute worst. What do these guys think???
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Every. Goddamn. Time.
People will say to vegans, pet owners etc: “DON’T HUMANISE ANIMALS”. Then, some tech bro feeds them an inflated Markov Chain statistical nonsense chat bot and they go all “ZOMG IT IS CONSCIOUS ITS ALIVE WARHARGHLBLB” - Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 months ago:
If we would talk like this, we’d end up in a padded room and drugged to kingdom come. And for good reason, I should say.
- Comment on More orders of magnitude, please. 2 months ago:
We moth listen very carefully to this!
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 2 months ago:
Why all the effort? Wait a few weeks and Microsoft will have renamed it themselves anyway.
- Comment on Why is someone always cheating?!? 2 months ago:
Ah ha ha turning the picture upside down to give us anxiety hm? Not gonna fall for that trick!
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 2 months ago:
Also, I think the Register’s point was not about feasibility or profitability even, but more that no one at STEP can explain where the money is going at all; it might be research and reactor, but just as well shiny new macbooks as a New Year’s present for everyone and ’is mum.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 2 months ago:
Cold fusion is a different and entirely mythical idea.
And I agree, I meant that I’ve heard both hot and cold fusion predicted.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 2 months ago:
Be that as it may, I’ve been hearing that (cold) fusion is just 30 years away for about 40 years now. I appreciate the effort but simply burning money would probably have generated lots more energy than fusion.
Grumpy whining aside, the problem here isn’t the expensive research per se, but more that STEP can’t explain where all the money is going into:As for what STEP has done to encourage that added investment, that’s anyone’s guess - by all accounts it doesn’t seem like a lot has happened with the project of late.
- Comment on Thirst quenching 2 months ago:
That’s all nice and dandy, but can you point us to the EU alternative?
- Comment on What a mess 2 months ago:
If your junk is making people uncomfortable, you should probably pull up your pants and close the zipper.
- Comment on xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
See, believe it or not but as far as we can tell, Signal is just less convenient for large groups and it very much looks like Telegram is worse. But it doesn’t matter: it’s about AI (Grok) being integrated with an environment known for bad data. Grok will interact with bad actors and train on awful data.
- Comment on xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Oh wow. Integrating an LLM AI in the absolute bottom in human communication; CSAM, drugs, revenge porn, criminal chats, illegal weapons trade and so much more … this will work out well.
- Comment on Piss off! 2 months ago:
That cicada is one massive fucker, I get why the wee-wee is strong in this one.
- Comment on Don't do Caffeine and Complex Analysis, kids 2 months ago:
I drink this shit for breakfast, noobs