Javi

Ah so you think datacenters aren’t metered. What an interesting existence you live in.

P.s: it’s Krueger. Not kruger

https://edisontechcenter.org/Meters.html

It’s funny that you think you have the capacity to educate anyone when you’re so blatantly misinformed.

Freedom advocate my arse.

“Choose from A or B, do not form an opinion”

Hiding datacenter energy use is much harder than anything else

What? Humanity has been able to measure electricity usage since the 19th century. Why do you think we couldn’t do it with tech based usage?

If I understand correctly, you are saying we can both confirm LLM datacenters are using green energy, despite there being no evidence of new green energy sources, and that we’re unable to track what energy they use, despite humanities relatively long history of measuring electric usage.

why do you think I give a shit if the democrats have support? I can point to fascism from the current gov without supporting the limp dicked opposition. Stop treating politics like a sports event, it’s embarrassing.

facts tend to be unconvincing when you consider fantasies like “LLMs are being powered by green energy” a reality.

“yet this is what breaks this person’s brain?”.

“AI fears are so overblown”.

“some people are really overreacting”.

Sure this little subset of the internet is aware that LLMs arent going to cut the mustard. But the general population isn’t, and that’s the problem. Companies are forcing LLMs on staff and customers alike. Someone suggesting that this is being managed appropriately and sustainably is either ill-informed, or intentionally misleading people.

The conservatives introduced the online safety act. Labour enforced it, but labour haven’t been a progressive party in the UK for decades.

“Increasingly far left government”, tell me you know absolutely nothing about the subject, without saying you know absolutely nothing about the subject.

The US (more specifically Project 2025) is a huge driving force in this, they’re just domestically focused on the “make America white again” stage of their plans to return to a nuclear family, but that won’t stop them using their lobbying powers, or control over tech monopolies to strongarm other countries into submission.

Project 2025 - porn ban.

Project 2025 wants to bring back nuclear families. .

Project 2025 proposes a comprehensive ban on pornography.

I wholeheartedly refute the assertion this comic makes that the word ‘lock’ is onomatopoeic.

Damn you sir, you didn’t need to call me out with that last paragraph.

No, I know it wasn’t my shoe, but look at how well it fits!

Activism like this isn’t for people on Lemmy, who have already been exposed to the likes of decentralisation, open source Vs closed source etc… its predominantly for those that still think brand name = quality.

I don’t use social media these days, but i do have inactive accounts; I’m considering logging in and changing the pictures to clippy. It may have absolutely no effect, or it may be the 16th clippy PFP that someone sees, which may then prompt them to ask why everyone is changing their photo to clippy.

So whilst it won’t change anything in a large way, it can act as the catalyst for those who are still unaware to try and educate themselves on the subject, and hopefully lead to them leaving Microsoft products altogether like you’ve alluded to.

For example; I’m already not using any Microsoft products, so continuing to not use their products is less impactful than by changing my mainstream photos to clippy, even if it has no effect.

We can try to tell people about the evils of microsoft until we’re blue in the face… But if they “research” it themselves, it’s far more likely to stick.

Oh I see what you’re talking about. I thought you meant the link to fffmpegs forgejo site rather than the crosspost link.

Maybe it’s just the app I’m using, but sync was able to redirect me to the Open source community that this was originally posted to. (It’s hosted on lemmy.ml, but the poster is from Lemmy.zip, which is why the post link is Lemmy.zip).

When I open via browser though, I see the OSA block that you’re referring too… An interesting difference for sure. But I suppose if all posts from lemmy.zip were blocked, we wouldn’t be seeing this one either, so I’m guessing it’s just post shares that won’t work?

You sure that the issue is geographical? I’m in the UK and was able to access the site without using a VPN or anything like that.

" …some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the wood burn "