misk
@misk@piefed.social
Mastodon: @misk@pol.social
Lemmy: @misk@sopuli.xyz
Opinions exclusively of my own and of voices in my head.
Autism, communism, arthitism, cannabism.
- Comment on AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025 5 days ago:
Crypto mining is still a thing? Capitalism is truly the best at efficient use of resources.
- Comment on Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says 5 days ago:
According to Ryan, “Dutch company ASML commands a global monopoly on the microchip-etching machines that use light to carve patterns on silicon,” and Nvidia needs those machines if it wants to remain the world’s most valuable company. Should the US GDP remain reliant on AI investment for growth, von der Leyen could use export curbs on that technology like a “lever,” Ryan said, controlling “whether and by how much the US economy expands or contracts.”
Glossing over details. Nvidia doesn’t buy ASML equipment. TSMC, Intel and Samsung do. How is EU going to make them stop supplying Nvidia and on what grounds?
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 1 week ago:
It is possible to be right for wrong reasons.
- Comment on AMD will pay Trump’s protection money— The company is willing to pay 15% tax on AI chip shipments to China. 2 weeks ago:
What’s the alternative? Exit US market and be subject to US sanctions anyway?
- Comment on Digital ID debate: Privacy group warns of 'unprecedented tracking' and 'surveillance' 2 weeks ago:
I always get amused by this kind of thing. Governments keep track of you using multiple different IDs already so those rights groups are essentially advocating that data analysts have to join some more tables before getting the results we’re being warned about.
- Comment on EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally 2 weeks ago:
No new impact, because the ruling is about online marketplaces, which pre-scan / moderate every new posting anyway due to multiple legal obligations that exist already. TechCrunch analysis says that the ruling is too broad and applies out of this context but I don’t see it there and the case they’re making isn’t very solid. I think they recognise this as an attack on how ad industry works because checking if the ad is legal before allowing it would be a huge boon to societies worldwide, but also an enormous cost for companies selling ad-spaces.
- Comment on World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops 2 weeks ago:
£3.1m is like a yearly salary for a team of hardware engineers. This sounds like a token investment that looks good in a press release, or token investment that will go into pockets of someone closely associated. Or both.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 4 weeks ago:
It’s normal for a person experiencing psychosis to have trouble understanding reality through a lens of a sane person, yes.
- Comment on SmartScreen for Internet Explorer and IE Mode on Windows 11 deprecated 1 month ago:
IE mode was still a thing? 3 years ago I was updating ancient automations at company I work for due to imminent IE mode deprecation, huh.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 1 month ago:
I’m sure Microsoft can outspend Joe Shmoe on electricity so just buy more, duh. „Satya Nadella drowning in pussy, Microsoft CEO says” has about as much credibility though.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 1 month ago:
$6400 per layoff.
- $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffswww.windowscentral.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 30 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Datawww.wired.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Google Chrome to revoke notification access for inactive sites 2 months ago:
My potential father in law is very good at it.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 14 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 7 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 37 comments
- Comment on We Need To Rewild The Internet 2 months ago:
I moved to Posteo. A thing that might attract some is that even though it’s a paid service, you can pay for it in cash over mail anonymously.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 3 comments
- Comment on SWIFT and top global banks working on blockchain-based overhaul 2 months ago:
I don’t think that it’s meant to.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 9 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcriptstechcrunch.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments