I suspect GP's point is that every malware blocker in every browser is likely to treat this kind of script as hostile, except for Chrome because Google are currently nerfing the ability for blockers to intercept hostile scripts in one of the most blatantly user-hostile changes they've ever made.

If Apple play along with Safari then every other browser and its malware blocking plugins are about to be toast in a huge retrograde step for Internet privacy. But not even Cloudflare is going to get away with blocking every iOS device if Apple continues to allow blockers to intercept this kind of script.

Did anyone mention recently that simultaneously controlling both the most popular web browser and several of the most popular ad-supported web properties might be a little anticompetitive, and that it's about time that Google was broken up? It's probably time for that drum to start beating a bit louder again.

No, I think this guy's analysis is pretty sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I mean, you can hear how bad it is if you just look for local news clips of people complaining. I have a high school friend who is a logistics manager involve in plant construction and he's been contracted by his company to several of these data centers. He said the water stuff is overblown, but the noise, energy and general pollution are not; not to mention the scale and speed of the build-outs.

and just look at the citizen protests. They're very intense, and the local politicians (who are obviously bought and paid for by tech companies) and trying to act like the people protesting aren't even local:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I think it's worse than you realize.

Social media harms adults as much as it does kid. What defines social media anyway? A forum? An AOL chat room? Neocities? What is off limits now? Could a kid even make a Geocities or Tripod page today with these limits?

These types of laws go down the path where every website or app you produce will require registration to the government permanently tying what you put up to your identity. It has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children. That's the lie they sell. Facebook was literally started the day after DARPA shutdown Digital LifeLog, it was funded by Peter Thiel and it has direct ties to US intelligence agencies. It was always meant to control us, and I don't see how the EU really cares about meaningfully stopping that.

This is about control of adults. The OP's statement is not "objectively false." Its 100% true. This is the means by which you stop dissent, starting with kids.

Wow, that's a big change from their views back in 2014:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Carpet factories use more water and dump more waste. The water is an issue, mainly because they're pulling aquifers in the desert and the "closed loop" systems still have evaporation. That water leaves the watershed and travels hundreds of miles. Sure you can't destroy water, but drinking water is rare and difficult. Still, the water issues are not what people should be focusing on. A lot of that is not the core issue.

The core issues include electricity, building resources and noise. The low frequency sounds from the new generation of data centers is absolutely terrible, and they're building them just miles from where people live. There are countless videos were you can clearly hear them. I live near an airport, but airport sounds stop at some point, and people know what they're getting into when they buy. I hope these people recoup massive money from lawsuits, because there's no way they'll be able to sell their homes.

It's not just the surveillance state and the coding/image generations. I think there's something way more sinister we're not being told. There's no reason for this much capacity otherwise.

I mean, it might be propaganda, but is it wrong? I think people are pretty hostile to these things in their backyards to begin with. They're not creating ragebait, they're taking a serious, existing political issue and capitalizing on it.

Now the great irony is China doing this when they have their own horrifically worse massive surveillance state, but make no mistake: these Data Centers are for the AI surveillance state.

They're not using all that compute to make cat videos and write code. Our end uses can't even account for a fraction of the capacity they're building. These companies are lying to us about what it's all for.

They can take their robotaxis, scooters, ebikes and everything else with them.

Nah, the dockess ebikes are really popular for good reasons.

I mean sure lots of people complain bitterly about them "taking up space" but somehow the 40% of people gifted land for free car storage in my part of London never get a mention in this whole "taking up space" argument.

Lime isn't 100% without problems, but providing effective, theft resistant, low impact point to point transport when the rest of the options are often stuck in slow moving traffic clogged by a shockingly small number of private cars works well. Our society won't yet distribute space more equitably apparently.

And not everyone is a low income disabled plumber urgently rushing their elderly fridge to hospital.

Oh yeah and even with all the dockless ebike problems, they are still vastly safer than cars.

I have been quite happy with my heavily customized FVWM desktop for about 30 years now.

Same! It's just really good.

I have not yet switched over to fvwm3. I do not anticipate much pain.

Yes, I intentionally don't go to work because I'm too busy going to the Illegal Immigrant Volunteer Slaughterhouse. This means I don't have the money to feed my family or fuck hot chicks. It's a sacrifice we all have to make for the future of our children, though!

Man, they really need to pass a law or something to make it affordable to have healthcare in this country, man. Someone should run on that premise. It's something long past having not been tried.

How do you think those immigrants get those skills in other countries? Are they randomly birthed with them, perhaps assigned them? Bequeathed, like a royal bloodline?

Are you retarded?

No. There are 3 ways they get them, the same as in the US:
1) earn them
2) buy them
3) fake them

At the very least, they had to have the forethought to acquire them in piece or in farce before applying for the job, unless you're suggesting a very large percentage of India appears to have precognition as well as having a disproportionately high rate of supposed idiot savants/high functioning autists (and that 'functioning' is doing a lot of work).

I'm so sick of this shit. It doesn't matter what your political persuasion is, you've got to admit that this is completely self contradictory:

"shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction worker and airplane mechanics"

If there is less of something (labor) the value of that thing will increase due to increased demand. It does not matter if they were allocated by government fiat (a communistic thing, funny enough, given the prevalence of H1B as a so-called "capitalist" measure).

More H1Bs and 'helping' companies is more of a planned or managed economy. It's more communist. But the fact is that no amount of societal uplifting that will make an 80IQ citizen a 120IQ citizen so that there's enough doctors or engineers. The only real option is to pay more for it, as a larger incentive to allow those who are smarter to be more likely to pursue it. (After all: as much fun as it is to operate heavy machinery all day, construction still wasn't the career that the smart kids who liked to play into the dirt went into...)

Two tier policing is alive and well in the UK.

It is: right wing protests get the ultimate in soft touch policing, especially farmers. Protestors causing similar disruption but aligned left get massively harsh sentences. This two tier policing absolutely needs to end and the police need to crack down as hard on the right as they do on the left.

That way maybe the right will stop advocating for it.

It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

...facial recognition will alert shop owners when a compulsive buyer enters, so that he/she can be approached at once by shopping assistants.

What shopping assistants? They got rid of all of them which incidentally along with a bunch of other "cost saving" measures made shoplifting much easier.