Glitchvid
@Glitchvid@lemmy.world
- Comment on datacenter liquid cooling solution 1 week ago:
Expanding on that, direct water cooling becomes more common the higher power density the racks are.
So as you get into 35kW+ racks it becomes the only way to get that much heat out, lots of GPU compute racks are water cooled by default now, the El Capitan super computer is entirely cooled through direct liquid interfaces, for example.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people 2 weeks ago:
What a coincidence, I was just reading sections of Blindsight again for an assignment (not directly related to it’s contents) and had a similar though when re-parsing a section near the one in the OP — it’s scary how closely the novel depicted something analogous to contemporary LLM output.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
I mean a backup of a RAID pool is likely just another RAID pool (ideally off-site) – maybe a tape library if you’ve got considerable cash.
Point is that mfg refurbs are basically fine, just be responsible, if your backup pool runs infrequently then that’s a good candidate for more white label drives.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had the same experience. The first HDD that failed on me was a Barricuda 7200.11 with the infamous firmware self-brick issue, and a second 7200.11 that just died slowly from bad sectors.
From then on I only bought WD, I have a Caviar Black 1TB from oh, 2009-ish that’s still in service, though it’s finally starting to concern me with it’s higher temperature readings, probably the motor bearings going. After that I’ve got a few of the WD RE4 1TBs still running like new, and 6 various other WD Gold series drives, all running happily.
The only WD failure I’ve had was from improper shipping, when TigerDirect (rip) didn’t pack the drive correctly, and the carrier football tossed the thing at my porch, it was losing sectors as soon as it first started, but the RMA drive that replaced it is still running in a server fine.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve got a RAID array with 1 or 2 parity then manufacturer recertified drives are fine; those are typically drives that just aged out before being deployed, or were traded in when a large array upgraded.
If you’re really paranoid you should be mixing mfg dates anyway, so keep some factory new and then add the recerts so the drive pools have a healthy split.
- Comment on Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. 3 weeks ago:
And the long term plan there is to strangle sites and take %100 of the adrev spend for themselves since users won’t ever leave the Google site. Either way Google as a search engine enters a death spiral, it’s already bleeding users.
- Comment on Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. 3 weeks ago:
Google used to provide a ton of traffic, they hoard it all themselves now through AI and summaries of content. Eventually the balance of cost/benefit will shift and Google will suddenly see itself rejected from scraping, furthering the product deathspiral.
- Comment on CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests 4 weeks ago:
Imagine the price hikes when they need to get that return on hundreds of billions they’ve poured into these models, datacenters and electricity.
- Comment on Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations 4 weeks ago:
EU should forge ahead and just wait for America to hopefully come to senses and end it’s entitled temper tantrum.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 4 weeks ago:
Some do, but a lot also use it with a touch pen for notes.
Honestly tablets are perfectly sufficient for most education related things, plus they’re thin, light weight, and don’t need to be plugged in constantly unlike the goobers who bring gaming laptops.
I would’ve sprung for an iPad and done the same (though used a BT mechanical keyboard instead a chicklet one) if I wasn’t in a CS degree that requires me to have a real OS that can run compilers, interpreters, multiple browsers, and uses a real folder structure.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 4 weeks ago:
As a student, yeah, I see lots of people using tablets for their work instead of laptops.
- Comment on Iran Disables GPS, Joins China’s Beidou — The End of U.S. Satellite Dominance? [19:23 | JUN 28 2025 | GVS Deep Dive] 5 weeks ago:
Echoing this, civilian GNSS is a passive system, and I’m all for redundancy, you should be using all four constellations for the highest accuracy and fastest lock.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Republicans are the biggest suckers there are. There’s a reason as soon as the jig is up grifters pivot to conservative talking points.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s easier to scam someone than convince them they’ve been scammed.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 month ago:
Art is people making stuff, without the people… it’s just stuff.
- Comment on Fatphobia Is Fueled by AI-Created Images, Study Finds 1 month ago:
There are definitely folk who see obese people as an acceptable target because they can hide behind (valid) health claims, and then justify their moral superiority because they don’t have those “personal failures”.
The litmus test is if they think Semaglutide/GLP-1 is “legitimate” or obese people using it are “cheating”.
- Comment on Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations 1 month ago:
Turns out burning thousands of kW, cooling, building datacenters, and filling them with the most expensive
shovelschips, is actually just more costly per real unit work than paying a real person. It was a gift the entire time! - Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 1 month ago:
Republican (but lets be fair here, most) states basically just threw their hands up and left it up to the “experts” (or their friends in the cable/local phone monopoly) for planning BEAD funds. Really it’s a failure of American politics and a case study on how baseline corrupt the average state is.
The only place that has actually gotten its shit together is, of all places, North Dakota, they have almost universal fiber access across the whole state, if you have power, you probably have fiber. All of contiguous America could have the same, only politics stands in the way.
Utah has also built out locally owned open-access municipal fiber, despite the best attempts from the Comcast/CenturyLink lobby and state legislature to kill it; among other projects in WA, TN, IA.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 1 month ago:
My bad, I thought they were moving from Apache to something more restrictive / less open (the way so many have recently), especially by their wording — which conveys to me they’re frustrated they aren’t capturing the “value” of their code.
AGPL is not my favorite license but it has its purposes I suppose.
- Comment on Canalys: Companies limit genAI use due to unclear costs 1 month ago:
Not too surprising, it takes a 100kW AI rack to accomplish a fraction of what I can wrt writing code, and I can run on tacos and diet coke.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 1 month ago:
Google themselves don’t really follow material all that closely over their entire product line.
Android 6 was basically the peak of the UI, IMO, the icons were very consistent and nice early material.
In later versions the shrink the icons and stuffed them into circles and started using a horrible color scheme, then they killed blobmoji and started outright copying Apple’s hideous emojis with that awful gradient and pseudo-skeumorphic visuals.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 1 month ago:
I only “follow” because whatever Apple does gets broadcast by every media outlet in existence. Also Google started blindly following Apple design since they killed my beloved blob emojis.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 1 month ago:
Also not a fan of the critical UI elements being popped out into floating islands, very easy to accidentally hit underlying page content when there’s effectively zero padding around controls (on touch devices, as the ad companies have discovered by making the × icons smaller and smaller).
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 1 month ago:
Frutiger Aero.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 1 month ago:
Usually is. Still common among network admins to hear dumb shit like IPv6 being less secure because no NAT. 🤦♂️
- Comment on [JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS. 1 month ago:
If it was a simple geoip lookup that isn’t really reliable wrt anycast addresses (or even addresses in general). 9.9.9.9 for example gets reported as Berkely, CA (US). Which is only partially accurate, for complicated business holding and ASN reasons, but is not representative of what DNS PoP you’re actually using at any given time.
- Comment on [JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS. 1 month ago:
Quad9 is a Swiss org, but it operates at hundreds of PoPs inside many different countries (anywhere PCH has a presence), their addresses are anycast so it’ll use whatever the upstream routes/BGP dictate.
Both Quad9 and CloudFlare have the closest DNS for my network, at around 1ms RTT. However CloudFlare doesn’t support ECS, so I use the alternate Quad9 service that does, since it gives me better performance on a number of CDNs.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
Moderately, it’s still not as good as Play Music it replaced, and frankly the only reason I use it is because it comes with Premium (and Lite gets ads so fuck that deal), otherwise I’d subscribe to something else for music (aside from growing my album collection on Bandcamp).
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 2 months ago:
Getting vertical video before modern codecs (AV1∨HEVC), and the same bitrate limitations since it was justin.tv.
It’s impressive how stagnant Twitch is, and how expensive it’s purported to be.
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 2 months ago:
The ‘enthusiast’ side where all the university students and tinkerer devs reside is totally screwed up though. AMD is mirroring Nvidia’s VRAM cartel pricing when they have absolutely no reason to. It’s completely bonkers. AMD would be in a totally different place right now if they had sold 40GB/48GB 7900s for an extra $200 (instead of price matching an A6000).
Eh, the biggest issue here is that most (post-secondary) students probably just have a laptop for whatever small GPGPU learning they’re doing, which is overwhelmingly dominated by Nvidia. For grad students they’ll have access to the institution resources, which is also dominated by Nvidia (this has been a concerted effort).
Only a few that explicitly pursue AMD hardware will end up with it, but that also requires significant foundational work for the effort. So the easiest path for research is throw students at CUDA and Nvidia hardware.
Basically, Nvidia has entrenched itself in the research/educational space, and that space is slow moving (Java is still the de facto CS standard, with only slow movements to Python happening at some universities), so I don’t see much changing, unless AMD decides it’s very hungry and wants to chase the market.