BakerBagel
@BakerBagel@midwest.social
- Comment on Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power 1 hour ago:
We are looking at the mistake of allowing capital to offshore everything in the 70’s and 80’s. China didn’t force those companies to stop maintaining their existing infrastructure and outsource all their manufacturing overseas, they chose it in the interest of lower costs.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 7 hours ago:
See, my first thought would be to crack down on the tech parasites that are ruining out society instead of changing the law to accommodate them. But I’m just a dumb American who lives in a place where corporations are allowed to do whatever they want including killing whistleblowers, but I’m sure that the fascist parties taking power in Europe won’t do that.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 7 hours ago:
There is nothing stopping the EU from going the DeepSeek route and just stealing the finished LLM’s from American companies. But the truth is that the EU shouldn’t want to have all these data centers training generative models. The us is already dedicating 4% of our electricity production to them, with people in states along the Great Lakes and Eastern seaboard seeing massive increases in their electric bills to pay for them (~30% for me in Ohio, ~75% for my brother in Virginia). I can understand if you are a technocratic neoliberal in the EU parliament that is taking bribes from tech firms why you would want this, but for anyone paying attention, rhe promises tech companies are making to burn hundreds billions of euros while gutting privacy, 🔏IP, and consumer protections at the top of the bubble makes no sense.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 5 days ago:
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 5 days ago:
You can hold someone accountable when a person runs over a child or a pet. Who is the responsible party when a waymo kills someone?
- Comment on Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring 2 weeks ago:
They thought like would go up forever, and now that the line is starting to slow down, they gotta do a sacrifice to make the line look like it is still going up
- Comment on Fictional 2 weeks ago:
Why use a ratio of the length of the Earth? Why not the Moon? Or the Sun? Or Mars?
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 weeks ago:
It’s gonna be like the dotccom bubble in that only the wealthiest and dumbest investors will be hurt by it. The majority of people are too poor to actually be affected by the stock market, and all the investment in AI has been under the belief that companies can use it to replace their workers.
Next week when SNAP/EBT benefits aren’t renewed is when shit is actually gonna hit the fan
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 weeks ago:
I live in Northern Ohio 40 minutes from Lake Erie. We have COLD winters here with wet air. Plus, my shitty soft top VW Bug with a busted window lets in more than enough cold air
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 2 weeks ago:
It’s typically best not to use things dependent on wealth to assess age groups. A kid growing up in Hamtramck had very different experiences from a kid growing up in Birmingham Michigan, even though those two areas are only 10 miles apart.
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the cutoff line. But i would typically say Zoomers are too young to remember 9/11 and old enough to have grown up with Marvel movies. Born late 90’s-early 2010’s. 30 is around the cutoff between Millennials and Zoomers so that wwill come down to individuals. But also, generations are pretty suspect as a concept outside of the Baby Boomers since that was an actual charatable phenomen
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 weeks ago:
You know you can adjustt the temperature AND air flow, right? You can blast the air to accelerate to the desired temperature and then dial back on the air flow and temperature to keep the car actually pleasent. I only say this because i have a friend who cranks the heat full blast in the winter and then rolls down his windows while still max blasting the heating! Dude has serious brain worms.
- Comment on 2,100 arrested for carrying Palestine Action signs 2 weeks ago:
Labour has been an effectivly useless party since Blair took over. The modern leadership doesn’t realize that their ideas are wildly unpopular and thatcthe only reason they have power is because the Tories literally destroyed the British economy. Labour is dead and will only have themselves to blame when Farage takes over in the next general election.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 weeks ago:
I was going over the numbers and i realized last week that I, at 30, make less money per year than my parents did when they were 30 WITHOUT adjusting for inflation. My rent and used car payments are also larger than their mortgage and mew car payments were. Coffee has nothing to do with it
- Comment on Louvre security vs CVS 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fight me 2 weeks ago:
So the heater takes all energy you put into it and turns it into heat at a 100% efficiency
- Comment on Fight me 2 weeks ago:
What happens when photons emittes from the heater hit items in the room? That energy is imparted into the object, heating it up.
- Comment on Fight me 2 weeks ago:
Light is just heat energy
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 weeks ago:
Or you can get a window unit if you want your bedroom cooler in the summer and a heated blanket for the winter for a fraction of the cost. And once again, neither of those options will spy on you or stop working just because Amazon shit the bed 1000 miles away from where you live. IoT devices are a luxury tax on people too stupid for all their money.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 2 weeks ago:
The top 1% of earners in the US made over $1 million last year. I doubt any lemmy users are in that category.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 weeks ago:
I have a mattress i purchased for $100 of my buddy when he moved out the country. He ordered it online the year before for $400. I can just throw it on the ground and sleep on it no problem when i move. Not sure why a mattress would ever need an Internet connection other than to spy on you
- Comment on Back in my day... 3 weeks ago:
Plus you could keep the phone in you pocket while you texted in class, meaning the teacher couldn’t see you
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 3 weeks ago:
If daddy croaks now we will see how much is actually David’s doing vs Larry
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
Except it didn’t matter if Blockbuster’s headquarters had a power outage since tour physical VHS from them worked fine where ever you were. Pretty much every major web service uses AWS, so if AWS goes down, so does the Internet.
- Comment on May or may not be based on some comments I've read 3 weeks ago:
Some of the smaller instances really struggle to load self hosted images during busy periods.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 3 weeks ago:
The author works for business inside. He’s 100 % on board with all the heinous shit tech companies are doing
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure the Catholic Church was collecting money from across Europe to build oppulent fortresses and cathedrals way earlier than the 50 years ago
- Comment on Poor salmon 5 weeks ago:
Still involves the fish dying
- Comment on Simpler times? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, i have worked at restaurants. Server staff are always consentually harassing each other
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 5 weeks ago:
It hasn’t been able to thus far, same as every other “free” social media site other than Facebook. The problem is the sheer scale of the data that these sites have to main makes their overhead costs insane. To make profit from those ad spaces would require those ads to be too expensive to justify to the companies. It would be like trying to operate the New Orleans Superdome purely on ad space. The rate would be way too high to justify to potential customers.