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fer··on Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading
>"dummy load"

You mean crypto miner.

fer··on Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination
>2. "Uncontaminated" data will be difficult to find. What with archive.org, gutenberg etc.

But recent uncontaminated data is hard to find. https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md

fer··on Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
> It must be a daunting chore to maintain all the legacy pages

I always wonder who's the one maintaining the "poke" feature in Facebook.

fer··on What happens when people don't understand how AI works
> More means more

You could have used "loool" vs "loooooool", "xDD" vs "xDDDDDDDDD", using flags doesn't change a whole lot.

fer··on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
> Pair everything to a €5/mo torrent-friendly VPN

Or a usenet subscription + sabnzbd, and you get direct download speed, plus the extra protection of a (nowadays) arcane technology that's too hard for legislators to understand.

Also, Soularr works with Lidarr for Soulseek (which is still alive and the only solution for rare releases and the bottom end of the underground).

fer··on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
Uh? Veo 3 is arguably the result of owning YouTube and tapping into its content. No need to torrent much if you store the largest amount of footage on Earth.
fer··on Buttplug MCP
Something something code injection.
fer··on ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine
Previous discussion (46 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358682
fer··on Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
No, the armed forces have their own fuel locomotives. I imagine any sizeable military does the same thing. Plus most (all?) cargo trains still use fuel. 100% electric is just passenger traffic.

https://www.outono.net/elentir/2021/10/23/the-spanish-army-r...

fer··on Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
How do you use the keywords after? I have Immich running which does some analysis, but the querying is a bit of a hit and miss.
fer··on But what if I want a faster horse?
I have something worse. One morally questionable video popped in my Instagram that showed some disabled person doing something outrageously stupid capitalising on their disability for engagement.

I didn't like it, I didn't share it, I didn't do any other thing than just stare at it in shock.

Big mistake.

For over 6 months that became +50% of my feed. Incredible and depressing amount of people monetising the disability of their friends, siblings, children, or their own. Really effed up content that makes you stop and say wtf out loud. But they also earn a living. But they should do it in a honorable manner. But maybe they don't have the chance. So I flag as not interested but that just swaps those videos with new BRAND NEW "content creators" of this kind that I hadn't yet seen. Wow thanks Instagram.

At some point they changed something in the algorithm and now those videos rarely pop anymore, and I'm wary and scroll away fast.

fer··on An FPGA-based LGP-30 Replica
I haven't done it, but 7-series is theoretically supported by SymbiFlow tools[0], even though the bitstream generation still requires Xilinx's bitgen.

[0]https://github.com/symbiflow

fer··on RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)
ctrl+f the doors

Looks like I'm the first. Panned by the critics, but excellent movie about the craze of the 60s leaving a purely countercultural vision slightly aside (already thoroughly documented) but showing how it damaged one of its major stars.

fer··on An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us
And eventually everyone's ads.
fer··on European Cloud, Global Reach
> This should be disclaimer at your first message when you compared AWS with UPCloud.

Fair, my bad. Still obviously misleading.

1. DB instances "starting at $144", I have a $63 in my basket at the moment, and also Aurora Serverless charges on resources used and can be potentially cheaper depending on the workload.

2. "$82.8 /mo" for a 2 core 8GB server is actually just under 50.

3. European DC locations: 8 for both. Unsure what UpCloud means for them here[0], they look like actual, individual DCs, but AWS has 8 European regions. Each region has normally 3 AZs which are physically separate DCs (which can be in proximity or not) and can be composed of multiple DCs each. Plus there are localzones depending from certain regions, each with at least one DC (and there are 11 of those). So the AWS number is certainly over 30 if we compare apples to apples.

The rest I don't have time to dive in, or are just opinions (certifications needed for proficiency? really?)

>TBH, I would not trust AWS with countering the Patriot Act.

AWS China wouldn't have happened if they didn't offer enough safeguards. Complying with Patriot Act will guarantee enormous fines for AWS in the EU, so I'm sure legal and finance did their homework for AWS not to end up between a rock and a hard place.

[0] https://upcloud.com/data-centers

fer··on European Cloud, Global Reach
Having worked at AWS, no, it's a separate partition under a separate legal entity, and the EU framework is specifically designed to counter Patriot Act, CLOUD Act and the like. It's gonna be similar to AWS China, and potentially more restrictive in some senses. That leaving aside regions we're not allowed to talk about.
fer··on European Cloud, Global Reach
Very disingenuous comparison. The actual main gap is being closed with this: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/europe-digital-sovereignty...
fer··on Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
Not sure how all NC earpones work, but I'd say you still need the delay to properly process the sound and mix it with whatever is playing (unless you rawdog the input flipped and amplified directly in analog).

Normally sounds don't change in frequency that often so that's good enough (tm). I can hear myself typing now (short burst of sound), but the washing machine nearby, which is louder without earphones, is completely gone.

fer··on Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts"
>The result is that web browsing in Spain on weekends, when football is on, is severely impaired, with thousands of web sites going down as matches play.

At the risk of non-Spaniards being unable to understand: that's the most pandereta thing I've heard this year so far.

fer··on Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car
Simply there are more eSIM providers than traditional SIM ones, so there's more competition and lower prices. That alone is enough.
fer··on Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120?
> why do we usually need to build software for a target architecture/system on the same architecture/system?

Because that's the path of least resistance in terms of development, at least unless you need to industrially build for many architectures. If the compiler runs on $ARCH, the output runs on $ARCH, I guess there's some exception but it's that, an exception.

> Unless the build includes tests

Build should indeed include tests, unless you want to ship software that potentially fails in architectures you claim to support.

Cross compiling isn't a first class citizen in many languages, and when it is, cross testing usually isn't, but you can have a toolchain that includes qemu (as a vm or as a dynamic binary translator) to cover those cases.

fer··on Remote code execution via MIDI messages
Yeah, same thinking here. No standard, manufacturer-defined, everything-goes kind of messages.
fer··on The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless
You skipped:

> They are ceasing development of new ANT+ Profiles

Which kind of ensures a slow death, as new devices potentially would require them.

fer··on XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor
> of the languages spoken by five million people or more within a thousand miles or so of where you live, what percentage do you know

By that metric you shouldn't feel bad for not speaking Russian in most of Russia, or for not knowing the most common languages in your immediate surroundings in large swaths of Africa (i.e. most Bantu languages would be excluded).

fer··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
How? it's just a UAV, quad version of a V-22 Osprey. Maybe I'm missing something peculiar about it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey

fer··on RISC-V HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with Ubuntu Now Available
> You should think of this more like a raspberry pi than a pc motherboard.

For the price tag I think it should be more like a motherboard. Especially when Raspberry Pi 5 has official m.2 hats.

fer··on Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history
Just for the last 5-10 years. Before, BTC was cool.
fer··on Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history
He's been crypto-friendly during the campaign, but last spike is probably related to this[0], which solidifies state support for what was born as a state-independent asset.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/sec-chair-atkins-gensler-investor...

fer··on I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
And that's why you can have the giant tailwind css file instead of "building" when you're developing.
fer··on I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
Yeah, using EKS isn't the same thing as "administering k8s", unless I misread you above. Actual administration is already done for you, it's batteries included, turn-key, and integrated with everything AWS.

A job ago we had our own k8s cluster in our own DC, and it required a couple of teams to keep running and reasonably integrated with everything else in the rest of the company. It was probably cheaper overall than cloud given the compute capacity we had, but also probably not by much given the amount of people dedicated to it.

Even my 3-node k3s at home requires more attention than what you described.

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