Post #658244
2026-03-15 00:59 UTC
Replies (40)
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@sa@chaos.social 2026-03-15 01:04
(the answer is obviously no it's a stupid idea but i had fun)
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@andrew@ottawa.place 2026-03-15 01:34
@sa This is *delightful* - thank you for sharing!
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@hank@mastodon.design 2026-03-15 04:55
@sa You might like https://futurerack.info/main.php
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@indigoviolet@tech.lgbt 2026-03-15 05:21
@sa Wait racks are being sold for cheap?? Oh it’s bad bad
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@WTL@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 09:36
@sa @andrew This is pretty neat and I appreciated the Fifth Element joke in the cron job.
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@tarmil@mastodon.tarmil.fr 2026-03-15 09:48
@sa Oh, when I saw the salad photos and read the beginning of toot I thought this was a Liz Truss "Will the bubble last longer than this salad?" thing.
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@faket@veganism.social 2026-03-15 09:57
@sa Do you know Jeb and the Kratky method ? https://youtu.be/5z0NaYpVHMs
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@theraspb@aus.social 2026-03-15 11:01
@sa aziz LIGHT!
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@Bit_form@corteximplant.com 2026-03-15 12:16
@sa I....Want.This.
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@agowa338@chaos.social 2026-03-15 13:00
@sa I kinda want to put one of these pictures on linkedin and /cc AWS and ask which of their services I've to book for this :p
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@tk@sunmine.de 2026-03-15 13:27
@sa the 19inch racks are also nice for lfp battery storage, maybe there is an opportunity for further experiments?
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@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com 2026-03-15 14:12
@sa Mmm, microplastics in my lettuce.
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@bangskij@climatejustice.social 2026-03-15 15:10
@sa this is the future they took from us
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@adipoeserPursch@troet.cafe 2026-03-15 15:31
@sa Liz Truss in a rack...
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@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca 2026-03-15 15:36
@sa maybe some of the latest liquid-cooled racks will include all the necessary pumps and plumbing for hydroponics? That could be a factor when millions of them are dumped onto eBay for almost nothing. Maybe they'll come with nice GFI breakers, those are $$$.
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@sikorski@alive.bar 2026-03-15 16:05
@sa Category: This made my day - used for today with this post. P.S. If the metal parts are powder-coated and there's no damage, which there shouldn't be, then moisture won't harm them.
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@Boerps@nrw.social 2026-03-15 16:41
@sa Yes‼️ That's it!
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@davep@infosec.exchange 2026-03-15 16:47
@sa Excellent stuff 😁
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@su_liam@mas.to 2026-03-15 16:47
@sa I just want the RAM, GPUs and SSDs. You can do what you like with the rest.
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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org 2026-03-15 17:20
It *will* burst,but studying past bubbles (incl. industrial revolution),it's years until burst after an obviously ridiculously overvalued market (eg: pundits predicted a DotCom bubble burst in 1996)! IMO this'll last *longer* than DotCom—in part—b/c most wealthy tech bros invest heavily in #LLM-backed #AI. Analogy: ∃ enough money to keep music playing. Musical chairs doesn't stop until music ends. If only we *could* predict burst date: we'd get so much 💰 shorting that we'd fund #FOSS forever!
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@mason@partychickens.net 2026-03-15 17:27
@sa I'm up for power-efficient self-hosting and more citizen science. They don't all need to be torn down. There's good that can come from computers too. They can connect us and help us share ideas. We just don't need to blanket the landscape with data centers and use them for power-hungry hallucination engines, domestic surveillance/surveillance capitalism, or cryptocurrencies.
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@clew@ecoevo.social 2026-03-15 17:36
Ha! but I’d be interested in some rough calculations of energy/energy cost for Silly Server Salad vs other kinds. You can work out electrical and water costs relatively easily, you could weigh all the plastic that went into the system. You could weigh the consumer plastic per salad bought from stores.Harder to calculate the plastic used in fields esp as it varies by farm and crop. (here I always arrive at: I wish we priced externalities into everything so $ cheaper was actually cheaper.) @sa
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@afilina@phpc.social 2026-03-15 17:55
@sa Fun fact: in French, "telling salads" means "telling lies". Very a propos in this context.
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@x0r@mamot.fr 2026-03-15 18:12
@sa Behold: Salad as a Service.
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@30p87@chaos.social 2026-03-15 18:13
@sa Growing my weed between my UPS and switch now
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@ehashman@toot.cat 2026-03-15 18:30
@sa the key missing detail: no notes on ventilation setup. (I strongly recommend using fans to avoid mold/mildew issues)
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@CliffsEsport@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 18:46
@sa I am disappoint. No Sugar Snap or other Peas taking over the server room.
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@wanwizard@mastodon.scot 2026-03-15 18:55
@sa Can't come soon enough. My servers are 400 miles away because rack space is unaffordable locally.
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@vikonava@techhub.social 2026-03-15 19:39
@sa @Gargron oh this is way too fun
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@mackreed@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 20:48
@sa SERVER. FARM.
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@praetor@mstdn.social 2026-03-15 22:55
@sa They're probably not using racks like that in the AI datacenters. They're probably using the ones with no bottoms, and the wider sides for water cooling....which means...all the plumbing and power is already available for something like this. Better use than a huge Halloween store.
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@Antigrav@mastodon.nz 2026-03-16 01:23
@sa , haha, priceless.
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@cjust@infosec.exchange 2026-03-16 01:59
@sa GrowOPS
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@rossmadness@infosec.exchange 2026-03-16 03:34
@sa I wonder if I can rack mount a fish tank.
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@adnan@ap.aelaraji.com 2026-03-16 05:07
Brilliant! xD I salute your thinking out of the box Rack!
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@softspeak@defcon.social 2026-03-16 06:17
@sa To be honest it's not data centre racks that are in short supply, but the stuff (RAM, Graphics Cards) that goes into those racks that's in short supply.
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@PartyPlantain@computerfairi.es 2026-03-16 07:29
@sa (…) and cheap (personal) data in huge quantities 😞. Can we use it to grow mental well-being?
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@mbpaz@mas.to 2026-03-16 14:25
@sa lettuce? Can I suggest... beer?
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@liquidparasyte@app.wafrn.net 2026-03-16 22:27
do feel free to spill where you can find cheapo excess server racks 👀
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@alanbuxey@freeradical.zone 2026-03-16 23:19
@sa it's okay for leaf nodes but without deep soil you are going to have issues with any large root permissions. But a gem of an idea not to let the racks romaine unused, this sort of investigation must be just the tip of the iceberg?