todd_bonzalez
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 3 weeks ago:
Elon Musk parody accounts no longer required to advertise themselves as parody, since they really are Elon Musk now.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 3 weeks ago:
Very true. If it could happen to Google, it could happen to any one of us.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 3 weeks ago:
This is a tech company blog, not a news website.
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 4 weeks ago:
I dunno. If an axe isn’t getting the job done, I don’t know that a window punch is going to be any better.
These windows were designed this way, because Tesla’s “safety” features for the cybertruck are for delusional men who think they need to survive a highway gunfight, rather than to be able to escape the car in the event of an emergency.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 weeks ago:
We live in hell
- Comment on Nvidia to cap game streaming hours on GeForce Now instead of raising fees 1 month ago:
The government of China has legal limits on how many hours per week minors are allowed to play video games. A US based company putting a time cap on the amount of cloud GPU you’re allowed to use is not even remotely the same thing.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
Yeah, but imagine if microplastics had terabytes data on them. Finding plastic fibers in your testicles is a bummer, but finding the Lord of the Rings trilogy Director’s Cuts in 4K? That would be pretty rad.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 2 months ago:
This is correct. You don’t need potable water for cooling systems. Releasing vapor returns natural water where it came from, without adding any more heat to the environment than you already were.
The environmental cost of AI needs to be measured in gigawatt hours, distributed over different energy generation methods.
Adding heat to the system isn’t a big deal if you’re powered by solar energy, for example.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 3 months ago:
Ultrium media has a lifetime of 30 years after the first write to the cartridge, and that’s assuming you write to it up to the maximum number of full writes (260).
Assuming you write to your cartridges once, store them (and the drive) in an airtight dustproof box, and don’t expose them to extreme temperature or humidity, you’re pretty much guaranteed to have complete data integrity after the 30 year mark.
At that point, you can probably transfer all the data into your petascale holographic storage installed at the base of your skull.
- Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 5 months ago:
Thanks for helping me make the decision to uninstall Firefox.
- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 5 months ago:
I keep telling older people who seek IT advice from me that knowing how your computer works is like knowing how your car works. And then I tell them that they’re the morons who think the engine is magic, and never change their oil until the car’s in the shop with issues and the mechanic finds what looks like mud in the engine.
Boomers hear that message, it turns out.
- Comment on Humane AI Pin is a disaster: Founders already want to sell the company 6 months ago:
What the hell is a “cell phone replacement”? We repeatedly reengineered phones from voice carried over a telegraph wire, to a screen covered with sensors that fits in your pocket.
Aside from a brain implant, what possible innovation is left other than tweaking with hardware and upgrading silicon?