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@donmoyn.bsky.social You mean to say this slack-jawed Adonis had *gasp* work done?

@donmoyn.bsky.social That stupid song gets played at the end of citizenship swearing-in ceremonies, and even before Greenwood became an avatar of this stupid administration's jingoistic mendacity, it was still a fucking terrible piece of work.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange I'm no saint, but I was a Catholic long enough to know what a shitty example of the faith JD Vance is. All day, every day. It's too bad it's just not done anymore.

@donmoyn.bsky.social I think I speak for everyone when I say "why are these people so fucking weird?" Why are they declaring war on key fobs?

@rpmik@avgeek.social @paco@infosec.exchange @bastardsheep@aus.social I will surrender my 2014 when the wheels fall off.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social @hannorein@mastodon.social A lot of the work I see from my colleagues these days is vibe coded. And there's not necessarily anything _wrong_ with it, but it's SO FUCKING LOQUACIOUS and I honestly only have so many hours reading paragraphs of low-density comments in hopes that one of them will be genuinely meaningful. The struggle is real.

@faithisleaping@anarres.family @sundogplanets@mastodon.social No, they don't. 90% of my job is verifying that GPUs perform to spec and the rest is identifying which approach will satisfy the RMA gods. We don't host dead compute, because that still costs money.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange It seems so unlike an undemocratic shitbird like Carr to attempt something this draconian.

@carnage4life@mas.to Also invoking stochastic terrorism against journalists and immigrants which no one seems to want to mention.

@gregdoucette.bsky.social God, that's absolutely stomach-churning cruelty. I wonder when he's going to make sheriff.

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org I think we're well past that point by now. Big Tech is the handmaiden of federal authoritarianism.

@donmoyn.bsky.social Eating steak is woke.

@donmoyn.bsky.social The only bright spot here is that we may finally see a team from AFC or CAF in a final ... but at what cost ...

@dell.bsky.social https://x.com/dril/status/831805955402776576

@carnage4life@mas.to @grok sell me some magic beans

@aka_pugs@mastodon.social If the collapse of the AI reduces me to indigence while simultaneously making a pauper of the Ellison clan, it _might_ be worth the inconvenience.

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org Kodak is, however, greatly diminished as an entity as a result of its failure to anticipate consumer digital photography in its zeal to hold on to the film marketplace. What's really a shame is that a lot of the early generation of digital cinema was built on pioneering software and formats like DPX and Cineon.

@donmoyn.bsky.social I bet they could run on a moratorium for new AI data centers and some meaningful privacy legislation as well, although it would rankle tech factotums like Schiff. But yeah, they're squandering the moment not being _for_ something.

@donmoyn.bsky.social You've probably already seen the story but this is of a piece with Katie Miller calling for his imprisonment despite the fact that he _personally_ was actively involved in supporting her during an early COVID infection while she was pregnant and was quietly losing her shit. These are people totally without honour.

@carnage4life@mas.to I wonder if this means he realized that going public with his primary income vehicle means that he can't lie his drug-addled ass off anymore ..

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org @rrb@infosec.exchange OUTLOOK CLOUDY PLEASE TRY AGAIN

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@rrb@infosec.exchange @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org If you're already on board with the aggressive quackery of RFK Jr., though, is this really such a shocking development? Facts, evidence, data, these are all trifles to disciples of woo.

@faithisleaping@anarres.family @sundogplanets@mastodon.social The DCs powering AI are quite a different beast—modular DCs are still a thing but have different economics, and in the case of a neocloud, those DCs are monetized by having every GPU available working at full throttle. A dead GPU means compute capacity not being sold, which is already a loss, but if you're still consuming power and/or cooling, additional money left on the table. It's also worth noting that some model workloads can span multiple servers, so having "holes" in the rack makes the logistics of that kind of workload more complicated (because you have to deal with latency differentials, etc., going east-west that are faster going north-south.) The economics of a neocloud DC are also why they're so terrible for electricity and water consumption: idle nodes don't generate revenue.

@donmoyn.bsky.social What a time to be alive and living in the USA.

@donmoyn.bsky.social We've seen the GOP openly reject the will of voters in almost every state of the union, so they've clearly been practicing.

@dangoodin@infosec.exchange If a corporation can pay for speech, then a corporation can be held liable for criminal activity.

@davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social You _can_ do it, but the costs are (without irony, word choice intended) astronomical. You could liquid cool the inside of an orbital DC, but you'd still need a TON of surface area in external heat exchangers to passively radiate that heat away, since you can't rely on either convection or conduction—which are much much faster for heat transfer—but also aren't possible in a vacuum. A DC in space is basically the inside of a giant Yeti thermos, and that inside has an operational temperature range up to about 80C, but without cooling will easily get up to 140C or hotter—at which point stuff fails catastrophically; you have move a lot of Joules to keep things operating in range. Which is all to say that it's not _impossible_, but it IS nonetheless wildly impractical. It can also be estimated: DC math isn't hard, and manufacturers include power inputs and thermal outputs in their spec sheets—so omitting that seems very deliberate.

@donmoyn.bsky.social In fairness, Newsom has always been this terrible a neoliberal stooge. He's just not scorchingly racist, which somehow makes him left-of-center man of the hour.

@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org @oneunderscore__ Every terrestrial mammal cleans its asshole with its mouth. This guy is literally claiming his shit doesn't stink.

@raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @carnage4life@mas.to @fraggle@social.coop Yeah, from what I've heard, being Mediterranean in the US a century ago (Greek, Italian, Spanish, etc.) meant you weren't "white". But these weirdos bellyache about even the most tepid efforts at representation and even if the source material is pure fantasy, that's still an egregious attack on their warped notions of racial purity. "Elves can't be black! That's not historically accurate!" My guy, elves aren't real, they can be whatever we want them to be as long as it makes sense narratively. That's what storytelling is about.

@carnage4life@mas.to Peacock kinda sucks though

@gregdoucette.bsky.social Does this mean GitHub will deliver better than five 8s of uptime again?

@donmoyn.bsky.social Peter Dinklage should sue for NIL theft.

@surcomplicated.bsky.social It is not exactly a secret that both the Nazis and the Italian Fascists were super into drugs. That old PSA about how drugs will ruin your life really needs to include "drugs may turn you into an asshole fascist weirdo" as a possible outcome.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange Excommunication.

@natematias@social.coop Paul Kagame of Rwanda is something of a pioneer here: a dissident who had fled and was living quietly in exile in Southern Africa was nonetheless tracked down and killed by government operatives in order to keep him silent, and the crime had Kagame's prints all over it even though he denied any involvement.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Admittedly I don't know much about astronomy but I know a shit ton about data centers and server infrastructure, and this _has_ to be a grift of some kind. Compute is nowhere near reliable enough to be thrown into orbit for 18+ months without something failing: a fan, a heat sink, a power supply, a DIMM, what have you—that kind of shit breaks DAILY once you get above a certain quantity of systems, and it's pure fiction to think you could just strand it all in space and expect nothing to go bad—even the very reliable enterprise-grade stuff is not reliable enough to be left unmaintained indefinitely. And that doesn't even touch the stupidly complex problem of cooling high density, high power compute in a vacuum (which I assume their white paper just winks at) ... and the gobshites at the FCC won't push back on any of this, probably because they'll want to cash in on the scam, too.

@carnage4life@mas.to "Baby, I totally didn't mean to have sex with your sister and she meant NOTHING to me, I swear" Still blows my mind that this doofus with all the charisma of lumpy mashed potatoes is seen as the future of the party. He'd struggle to sell lemonade in the Sahara.

@donmoyn.bsky.social I think it's overly optimistic of you to expect ersatz Lex Luthor to face any real consequences for his homicidal inclinations. If he had reasoned his way into these positions, then shame and opprobrium might work, but ... he didn't get there through reasonable methods.

@noupside.bsky.social I guess there's only a finite amount of hopium in the known universe, and he done huffed it all. Shame, really.

@donmoyn.bsky.social Siding with diarrhea is a bold move, Cotton, let's see how it plays out

@donmoyn.bsky.social We are days away from learning that Mamdani is Lone Starr's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

@willrosecrans.com Schiff is fucking useless and this protectionist line is such tired bullshit.

@faithisleaping@anarres.family @sundogplanets@mastodon.social GPUs also often wear out inside of months, or fail spontaneously, or are installed in systems that fail spontaneously, because compute hardware is just not built to last like this.

@cbcnews@flipboard.com @world-cbcnews LOL the fuck we do

@gregdoucette.bsky.social Their interest in sport is just thinly disguised misogyny so a woman getting abused was never going to move the needle.

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org I'd argue that Ilsa doesn't even aspire to be tough art, though, it was lurid sleaze from the jump. And given Salò's source material, you could argue that the film is an attempt to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but I think comparing Ilsa and Salò is akin to comparing "I Spit On Your Grave" and "Irreversible".

@SeanCasten@mastodon.social "gun influencer" ... *shudder*