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phatfishon Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

You can't control the water cycle over a datacenter and its water source, it is a global system.

phatfishon In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults

On "greenwashing". As the article said, the environmental aspect is at the bottom of Ukraine's list of concerns at the moment.

This is the most concrete evidence (if it wasn't clear to anyone not lobotomised by the fossil fuel industry propaganda already) that renewable energy is a sovereign asset, not an external risk like shipping gas and oil round the world from mostly western-hostile nations.

Ukrainians are fighting for their country and this is the route they take. Any government not doing that same is deliberately weakening their country.

But check the position of supposedly nation-first right wing political parties in the west and they all LOVE making their country energy dependent on Saudi Arabia or the US, or Russia. I wonder why that could be...

phatfishon Muse Gadgets

Hey now, setting a timer or playing a podcast without unlocking your phone is important!

phatfishon Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

The US Gov can just ask, and American corporations will deliver. No need to get their hands dirty.

phatfishon <input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard

True, a pass phrase is a reasonable use of "passwords" >20 characters.

phatfishon <input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard

Brute force a strong 20 character password? Won't the sun have burnt out by the time that is done?

I use strong 12 character passwords at work, on the off chance i have to type them out. And as a favour to anyone else that might have to.

phatfishon The last time my family was replaced by technology

The internet enabled the massive complex systems we have today (public cloud being the largest in scope probably, but there are sprawling libraries like everything around JavaScript, modern web browsers themselves maybe).

Without the internet these systems can not be maintained, we need all information about them available instantly. We also need people sharing how to solve problems at a global scale which the internet enables.

Personally I think LLMs will just allow even more complexity. This will create more situations that need human intervention to solve problems. And also new problems we have never seen before.

phatfishon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

America in a nutshell (or a wine analogy).

phatfishon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

This site is good fun, thanks.

phatfishon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

In the UK at least gym membership is up, nights out with drinks are down.

My pet theory is alcohol helps when you are out socialising IRL, and the gym helps you look good on Instagram/TikTok/whatever.

phatfishon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

14-16 weeks off a year is no compensation for dealing with little shits 5 days a week (and their parents), while attempting to teach the minority that want to learn.

phatfishon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

Hellbound was on Netflix around the time of Squid Game. Less popular obviously, but an entertaining take on the cults they are famous for.

phatfishon ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

They didn't manufacture it (Chernobyl did that), but they certainly help an issue along when it is in their interest.

phatfishon Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

Better than Facebook censorship. I can vote for my government. I have no control over the whims of Zuck (or the US Gov).

phatfishon Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

You are right, and it's the reason Meta and all the other American billionaire owned platforms need to be null routed outside of the US.

phatfishon Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

That doesn't sound like studying.

phatfishon Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

Maybe not when internet was an open platform. Now it is controlled by a few American billionaires that love they have a US Gov administration that thinks the same way as them.

phatfishon Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]

She is supposed to be mindlessly scrolling TikTok/Instagram (or Chinese equivalent) by 6, not developing an attention span and problem solving!

phatfishon People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

It WAS useful for quitting, until the tobacco companies leveraged vaping as a skirt around the regulations on cigarettes. Now those wanting to using vaping as a method to reduce/stop smoking have to avoid getting addicted to vapes instead.

Also, vaping is fucking obnoxious for non smokers, clouds of awful smelling residue, and plastic shit everywhere. I'd rather people smoked, ideally those e-cigs that burn tobacco but cut out most of the toxins.

phatfishon US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

It's fun watching the right wing try to square this circle. Especially in the UK where we import most of our fossil fuels.

We could have sovereign control over our energy supply with renewables and electrification. Yay, we become a great sovereign nation free to do whatever we want with our great British energy supply!

But no, the right wing answer is to develop a couple of gas fields in the north sea that would supply a tiny amount of actual energy requirements, and do nothing for prices as it all goes into a global trading platform.

I know the reason, it's hard to say no to all that money from the fossil industry, and walk back decades of indoctrinating your base at their behest. Even if it means making your country energy independent...

phatfishon Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

As long as they are the ones on the Sev 1 bridge when shit is down 6 months later I'm happy for them.

phatfishon ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

What can the Kremlin do that is worse than the tech bros? Leverage data to deliver people additive divisive content until it all boils over into the "real world" and splits society? Oh wait...

phatfishon Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic

Some (well, two of them obviously) major world powers have forgotten that "winning" wars is a lot harder than starting them. Especially with drones and AI narrowing the technology gap.

phatfishon More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

OK bro.

phatfishon 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

Fair enough. But SBF chose to associate with "effective altruism".

Did Holmes create the "I'm an amazing FEMALE entrepreneur" persona? Or was she focused on the scam and the narrative was created around her?

phatfishon 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

https://every.to/p/twitter-s-future-is-a-return-to-elon-musk...

https://archive.ph/nRXv1

phatfishon Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

I wish i could forget the last 6 years as well (to be clear, post COVID nonsense).

phatfishon Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

Maybe the depth of a game is related to whether it will scale. Go is played on different board sizes and still works.

If you make a Backgammon board bigger it would just be a slog and no real increase in tactical challenge.

Chess rules dictate a set size of board, which I guess has been refined over time.

If a Go board is made bigger or smaller it just adjusts the problem space, the rules and core of the game remain the same.

phatfishon GPT-6 Astra

OK thanks, so the neural net (that no one can explain fully) generates a "stop" signal at a certain point.

phatfishon GPT-6 Astra

I thought it was Cmdr Data from Star Trek, but Sam's version is the certainly the one the c-suite think they want.