> It used to be my go-to site for all things computer related.
Me too.
They were slightly cheaper than Amazon for the same product, then I did a big project which got slightly downsized and I wound up with $400 in "restocking fees" for a couple of pieces of factory-hologram-tape sealed network gear, after I paid $100 in return shipping.
Learned my lesson real fast.
There's really not much worth reading "on the internet" anymore.
It's meaning inflation. The more words published, the less value per word.
Or, there's the same amount of stuff worth reading, but it is being diluted by a much larger flow of sewage that isn't worth reading.
The idea of people bathing in the effluent of a datacenter is peak dystopian. I love it.
What in the world do you think happens to the output of sewage treatment plants? Do you think it's teleported to Pluto?
All the water you ever bathed in has effluents that have gone through the kidneys of scores of animals. Merely warming water by a few degrees is trivial.
They never heard of direct to air cooling? There is no need to evaporate clean water.
Air cooling is quite inefficient compared to water cooling. The heat of vaporization of water, 2260 kJ/kg, is remarkable. It will remove a lot of heat. Even the thermal mass of water, with a specific heat of about 4.2 kJ K/kg, is pretty impressive.
AI Slop, all of it. "A theocratic sunk cost trap"?
Not sure why you think this is AI slop. It's an interesting argument. Not sure I agree, but it's a different take.
I admit religions are a cost trap, but they are not connected to data centers
The connection is right in the subject line: it is comparing AI to a "sacred prestige competition." The central idea is that AI is like religion in that it promises great and wonderful rewards in the future if we make sacrifices in the present, and if we don't see any of these great and wonderful rewards: that's because we're not sacrificing enough. It becomes a death spiral: the worse things get, the more effort goes into propitiating the gods (rather than growing food).
The idea that some past societies have collapsedbecause when times were bad the theocracy responded by building more temples and making more and larger sacrifices instead of putting resources into solving their problems) is not new. I don't know if any actual historians credit this theory, but it's been proposed.
Them: Why don't you act your age?
Me: Well, I've never been this age before.
Like buying booze, renting a car, purchasing a handgun, buying a lottery ticket, getting a tatoo?
(some of these vary by state)
I don't see how you're too immature to order a Chianti with your steak dinner but you're mature enough to go $200K in debt based on a sales pitch of returns after investment.
These aren't even reasonable equivalents from a neuroscience perspective.
A read is supposed to be fine. At read time the firmware *should* rewrite the cell if the read is weak.
The firmware also *should* go out and patrol the cells when idle and it has power.
you can dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=2M once a year if your firmware behaves.
If your drive is offline you could
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdX bs=2M iflag=fullblock conv=sync,noerror status=progress
to be sure, though write endurance is finite.
If you're running zfs you can 'zpool scrub poolname' to force validation of all the written data. This is most helpful when you can't trust the firmware to not be buggy crap. Which only applies to 90% of drive firmware out there.
Well 0-clicks and OTA attacks but yeah, to your point, device compromise lets you use apps on the device.
News at 11!
> I have found that streaming directly to my Plex home server over TLS is generally smoother without going through Wireguard. Not quite sure why.
I recently had to solve this.
Wireguard should work with a regular 1500byte MTU connection at 1440 or 1420 bytes (the default) --- however --- if your ISP is routing your IPv4 using 4-in-6 internally (like my major cable company) everything goes to hell.
Try dropping your wg MTU to 1360, MSS at 1320, and set up a mangle table to clamp MSS to PMTU (e.g. iptables rule).
I got a 10x bump in TLS over wireguard throughput.
Total pain in the ass and lightly documented.
I upgraded from a Pixel 5 to 6 a couple years ago due to the unfixable OTA hardware security bug in the 1-5 models.
Some days I'd like more storage but really I can't see what else a newer device would get me. LineageOS 23 is asking me to upgrade to it; I guess I should after the December patches land.
JPEGXL really does everything webp does and so much more, and it's well thought out.
WebP isn't terrible; they are smaller than I would have guessed given that they have the container overhead, but there's no stunning argument for it. "Better than PNG for what we used PNG for." OK, true, but.
Google should just let AV1 be AV1 and focus on pushing HEVC out of the market with it. The real opponents of progress have left the image space and are mucking around with video and VR now. Google has the capability to do something about this and foster innovation.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (6) Them bats is smart; they use radar.
