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Comment Re:Doing what? (Score 3, Insightful) 26

It is the new antivaxx. People who know a little more than the average non-techie person based ofc on mostly secondhand sources amp up the scare factor and get positive feedback in terms of clicks & attention and -- if they graduate to grifting -- ads. Yeah it is all a con stochastic parrots biggest bubble since tulips scorch the planet yadda. Meanwhile materials scientists using it to make better solar panels, plasma physicists using it to enable fusion, medical science unlocking the proteome for personal designer therapies.

People should spend their energy learning how the tools work, and how to use them well.

Comment Re:Who didn't immediately disable Pocket in Firefo (Score 5, Interesting) 62

If I had mod points I would upvote this. Please do yourself a favor and use LibreWolf. It is literally just Mozilla with the adware/telemetry ripped out, uBlock0 preinstalled and good privacy-preserving defaults while maintaining usability. In other words it is what people who donate money and code to Mozilla are trying to help create, namely, a non-commercial open source browser for users by users.

My only complaint is that they will not shut up and take my money

Comment Re: Data centers in space... not cheap... (Score 1) 76

Seriously there is no engineering benefit to the vast expense and difficulty in putting compute in orbit. The power supplies are ON EARTH, cooling in space is damn near impossible (radiative only), servicing/hw upgrades untenable, There is obviously a reason, but whatever it is it is not technical

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