krashmo
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- Comment on It slaps tho 1 day ago:
That’s what she said
- 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 6 days ago:
Those same things were said about hundreds of other technologies that no longer exist in any meaningful sense. Current usage of a technology, which in this specific case I would argue is largely frivolous anyway, is not an accurate indicator of future usage.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 1 week ago:
Yep, the only thing I’m 100% confident about in this whole mess is that Trump will find some heretofore unimagined way to make it worse.
- Comment on Jokes on you, I don't want to work 1 week ago:
#synergy
- Comment on Lifehack 1 week ago:
What’s with the switching back and forth between “you” and “u”? Either one is fine but pick one and go with it.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
Lumen and Verizon both have subsea cable connections to Europe. EXA Infrastructure is in the process of acquiring Aqua Comms, both of which own subsea cables. Google, MS, and Meta have all invested in subsea infrastructure to varying degrees as well. These are not monopolies in the classic sense of the word but they’re not exactly owned by benevolent interests either.
That said, the point is that a malicious government with sufficient pull, for example the current Trump administration, wouldn’t have to bully very many people to severely limit the flow of information between North America and Europe. So much of the internet depends on US infrastructure that this wouldn’t be terribly far off from censoring the entire internet. In that scenario there isn’t much that can be done about it. Europe can control their own information flow to Asia and Africa but at minimum this would be a severe disruption for a significant amount of time. Other entities might take such an opportunity to impose their own restrictions and make the situation even worse.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
They do wade into the IP / transport territory a bit but those are not the 6 companies I was referring to. I was thinking of Verizon / AT&T / Lumen / Zayo / etc.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
Except that never happens. They get millions and then go bankrupt some other company.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
Your last sentence is spot on but it doesn’t capture the full weight of the impact rich people vibes have on the world. The perceived value of every stock, and by extension the economy as a whole, is almost exclusively a vibe check of rich guys. There is no objective information about a company that is more indicative of that company’s success than how rich people feel about it.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
While there are interesting projects in that list, everything that I see is either only useful in a local setting, like wireless mesh networks and their derivative protocols, or assumes that no one is actively restricting what can be transmitted over the privately owned long haul fiber networks that make up the backbone of the internet. How would someone in Seattle transmit more data than can be sent via a ham radio equivalent signal to someone in New York without the use of those fiber networks?
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps you misunderstood my point in your haste to make a complicated problem seem simple but no, my argument has not changed.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
No it isn’t. Either traffic is allowed to flow freely or it isn’t. Once you start down the “isn’t” path there’s not much that can be done to get around the fact that a few people control a huge chunk of the infrastructure.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
Please explain how you can bypass carrier enforced traffic shaping policy.
From geti2p.net:
I2P’s protocols are efficient on most platforms, including cell phones, and secure for most threat models. However, there are several areas which require further improvement to meet the needs of those facing powerful state-sponsored adversaries, and to meet the threats of continued cryptographic advances and ever-increasing computing power.
The people involved in the project you’re referring to acknowledge that governments can, by influencing carrier policy, disrupt and subvert the project’s intended function. Why then are you implying they are incorrect?
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
So do a million different forms of encryption. That doesn’t make the infrastructure any less centralized. If the people who own the fiber decide to only allow pre-approved types of traffic to cross their networks then it doesn’t make any difference what sort of protocols exist. Building free cross-country or subsea fiber routes is not economically viable and the internet doesn’t exist without them.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean by that? Most of the infrastructure that makes up the internet is owned by like 6 companies.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 3 weeks ago:
Some of these facilities do generate a significant portion of their own electricity via various means. It’s not like that amount of energy is just sitting out there on the grid waiting to be used. Somebody has to generate it and if you’re already investing millions in rectifiers, batteries, and other data center power systems, why wouldn’t you consider taking it a step further?
- Comment on NO! I don't want to download your app and set up an account. Leave me alone 3 weeks ago:
It’s not
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 3 weeks ago:
That just means you don’t have any good secrets
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 3 weeks ago:
If they’re coming for us anyway then give them a middle finger instead of a whimper. Wear your buttplug with pride.
- Comment on aspect ration 3 weeks ago:
That was a terrible movie. It went so far up it’s own ass that it came out it’s mouth, twisted around it’s body, and went back up it’s ass a second time.
- Comment on Inflation outpaces wage growth for over 40% of Americans 3 weeks ago:
Sure, that doesn’t make it a practical solution for everyone though
- Comment on Inflation outpaces wage growth for over 40% of Americans 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, “rising wages” are mostly due to the wage offered to new employees. Existing employees don’t get shit and inflation is still eating away at their buying power.
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 4 weeks ago:
Technically it was invented by Xerox then developed for the military. The 1990s version of the internet was more akin to what you described but I wouldn’t say it was designed with that in mind.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 4 weeks ago:
What are you talking about? Things seem to be rapidly deteriorating to me. There are no problems being rectified.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 4 weeks ago:
This is an interesting discussion topic because both angles have good points and that feels unusual these days. On the one hand I think you’re right that some people need the work and that can justify pushing some minor ethical boundaries. On the other hand, the “I’m just doing my job” line of reasoning has been used to justify some pretty horrific stuff throughout history.
A line separating the two should certainly be drawn somewhere but I’m not sure exactly where to put it. I’m pretty confident that a lot of the bad stuff happening in the world right now would improve if more people were more thoughtful about where that line should be.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a decidedly generous interpretation of events
- Comment on Trump doesn't care about American's, only himself and insider trading 5 weeks ago:
Strike, subvert, assassinate, etc. All the things we’re hoping someone else will do for us so we don’t have to.
- Comment on Trump doesn't care about American's, only himself and insider trading 5 weeks ago:
We can, we just aren’t
- Comment on HMD is ‘scaling back’ in the US, killing Nokia all over again 5 weeks ago:
They manufacture a significant portion of the transport hardware that makes up the backbone of the internet. They also just acquired Infinera who had another sizable chunk of that market.
- Comment on Investors snap up growing share of US homes as traditional buyers struggle to afford one 1 month ago:
Too much work. Let’s just make em a foot shorter and call it a day.