Pup Biru

the mozilla foundation is largely responsible for the whole adtech and ai slop nonsense that nobody asked for

the mozilla corporation is responsible for firefox. there is no way to support firefox development

selection of stuff they think sounds really good for business stuff, all the buzzwords

aka brochureware

of course you’re right! we should just shut down some of the largest mines in the world

i foresee no consequences from this

(related note: south australia where one of the largest underground mines in the world is, largely gets its power from renewables)

people should probably move from canada and most of the north of the USA too: far too cold up there during winter

sounds reasonable… i’ll just go tell large parts of australia where it’s a workplace health and safety issue to be out of AC for more than 15min during the day that they should do their bit for climate change and suck it up… only a few people will die

there are lots of different covers for license plates which block photography only, and allow humans to see the plate. i’m not sure how all of them work

for the tricks that mess up AI, yes

but i believe this comment was talking about things like IR blocking covers and such

and they’re probably highly illegal pretty much everywhere because they stop speed and red light cameras working and that’s exactly their marketed purposes

this is their patch for the whole disk data loss debacle

you might be able to try a live version of a distro to see how your hardware functions before taking the plunge

yes. the comment was

Well one thing’s for sure, data centers are going to be insanely cheap in the near future.

which i think broadly agrees with your thinking… the hardware will be sold, but the building and utilities will remain… thus, data centres will be cheap to buy and repurpose as AI companies try and offload them… might possibly see some cheap AF colo or dedicated options in the future

yes, but we’re talking about hardware requirements… data centres aren’t really designed for the software that runs in them; they’re designed for the hardware… a “GPU optimised” data centre just has a lot more power running to each cabinet, and has to have a lot larger cooling capacity in a small area

the hardware inside the data centre can be swapped out: it’s not like GPUs are built into the foundation of the building

that’s actually okay… the only thing that’s different about GPU workloads is that they’ve very energy dense… as CPUs and other hardware progress, their energy requirements get more dense… 10 years in the future, today’s GPU optimised datacentres will be perfect for standard workloads

… unless they’re centrally liquid cooling the whole DC, which i’ve heard discussed but is a very new concept with a lot of unknowns

that’s not entirely true for windows. windows does have containers natively, and there is a native docker engine for windows that runs native software

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-docker/configure-docker-daemon

they also support containerd and some other runtimes

in certainly not an advocate for windows, but it does exist if you’re a complete masochist

6 is the “one of the good ones” clause

The thought of relying on Microsoft services for something sends shivers down my spine.

government (including most chillingly, international governments) and hospitals pretty much all use microsoft tools - outlook, sharepoint, etc - to run huge parts of their organisations

that’s the truly scary part

ambient: we will do things without asking

pervasive: we want to be everywhere in your life

multi-modal: and by everywhere we mean FUCKING EVERYWHERE

it was always wild to me back in the day when so many container images were based on ubuntu… was like PLEASE debian is functionally identical here at like 1/10th the base container size!

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/main/.github/workflows

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/actions

they do in fact make extensive use of github actions

it’s even worse than that tho: donations are for the mozilla foundation which is doing all the nonsense everyone hates… firefox is the mozilla corporation, which is a distinct entity

IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO DONATE TO FIREFOX

right… i think that’s less of a problem with PD chargers and more of a problem with non-compliant A chargers (and the device itself being non-compliant): wattage/amperage at these has nothing to do with the protocol (other than auto shutoff under a given current draw, but that’s not instantaneous)

i believe that the USB spec says there needs to be a resistor bridging one of the pins to receive power? i can see USB-A chargers just dumping 5v through the cable no matter what and USB-PD more reliably implementing the spec because it’s more complex, so less reason to cut corners