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bryan_w··on Root shell on Samsung TV
And what stops Elon from becoming the person in charge?
bryan_w··on Samsung TV privacy issues
What do you mean? I can post whatever I want on Reddit and I can make it have as many upvotes as I need. They basically make bot farms undetectable, by hiding histories and automatic username selection. Literally nothing should be considered truth with Reddit as its only source
bryan_w··on Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened
I'm not a lawyer, but it feels like you should consult one. If you have the legal information of this person and they have possession of your activation locked phone, sounds like you could at least sue him civilly or in small claims court for the value of it, if the DA won't do anything
bryan_w··on The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck
That leads to a situation where some are more equal than others
bryan_w··on Waymo in Toronto
Waymo, Cybercab and Zoox fleet has never killed another human. Uber had 1 death, and who can really say about FSD
bryan_w··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
The correct amount of spies found at a company is non-zero
bryan_w··on Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
But construction workers are still people and they would like employment
bryan_w··on Why the AI future will be awesome
This is same thing someone in 1926 would say about your cell phone battery
bryan_w··on High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days
Thank you! I don't know why they keep sticking to their scripts when it doesn't apply in this case.
bryan_w··on World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months
No.
bryan_w··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
But are the NDAs new, or were you manipulated into caring about them this time and not the 1000's of other times it's happened (across various industries)
bryan_w··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
It doesn't even have to be competitors their suppliers would love to know the total amount of widgets that they'll be buying. That way they know if they're the single supplier
bryan_w··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Not saying that increases in power bills aren't caused by ai datacenters at all, but I would like to remind people that there is currently a conflict going on that is impairing 5-50% of the worlds energy supply, which even if we used none of it, still would impact us (LNG exports) and getting people angry at tech is a good distraction for this time of year.

I think there's more to the story than only AI causing higher electricity bills

bryan_w··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Is it? Can you give me a link to a video that shows the issue in a straightforward manner?

Most of the shorts I've seen about this use an overlayed sound or synthetic sound of some sort.

I've also seen ben jordans price on "infrasound" but that was inconclusive (and not very scientifically rigorous).

I did see one video that measured 60db from the front yard, which I can admit could be problematic, but that fails to show that it's a pervasive or unsolvable problem

bryan_w··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
This is what misalignment looks like
bryan_w··on Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
Are you ok?

Facebook and Google were one of the first major online services offering an "takeout" feature in service of data portability. FB had multiple rss feeds. It's graph API was around quite early due to demand.

bryan_w··on Claude Opus 5.5
Y'all don't know about NASCAR and it shows
bryan_w··on I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB
Hyperion.
bryan_w··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Ok, Doomer
bryan_w··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
It's fixed enough for how much they want it to be fixed (I.e. how much they are being paid to fix it)
bryan_w··on 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres
Exactly this.

If people were just honest with their objections, then we could be unified, but currently we're fighting misinformation that are trying to stop 5MW computer closets and projects that are trying to be a drop in replacement for a _steel mill_ (which should be an automatic approval)

bryan_w··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
If you go to doomer places on the internet (this thread included), you will see the internet as doomed
bryan_w··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
Imagine a steel mill trying to exist in America today...
bryan_w··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Sell attention for ad space? That describes both of em
bryan_w··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Here's one account, @rooey.wav

https://www.threads.com/share/BAQzYUI7Nf/

There's another account that I thought was something like @stopdatacenters but I'm having trouble finding it atm

bryan_w··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
This is about a DC in Nashville -- it is on the Cumberland river.
bryan_w··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Is this DC even for LLMs? I've not seen any sign of that.

Considering that the initial build out was only 10MW, it seems unlikely that was the primary usecase.

bryan_w··on No Data Centers in My Backyard
They allow the "infrasound" people go unchecked even though they are basically the same as the tin foil hatters.
bryan_w··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
One of the guys leading the effort is active on threads (probably twitter too). He has no interest in negotiating. He is gloating over his win hardcore and has very absolutist views when it comes to datacenters
bryan_w··on Waymo in Dallas
You fell for some kid's story and should feel bad for repeating it unsubstantiated.
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