Are they getting rid of Flock only to switch to competitors like Axion? Or are they holding against all of the surveillance companies. (The Axion solution clips onto normal street lights and blends in. They can be painted to be unnoticeable).

Also, remember if you have a newer car, pull apart the dash and unscrew the permanent cellphone modem antennas. Screw resistor packs to them to keep your data private.

Why is the panel of oncologist better than the laymen? They haven't done even 1/8 of the research themselves. They're depending on information dissemination. Everything they read might be backed up by their observations, and might be entirely wrong (like the famous WW2 airplane diagram and survivors bias). Sometimes it takes an independent observer to realize things like Fen-Phen can kill people and Viox can destroy your heart.

You're making an appeal to authority.

> this is the result of any lack of legislative progress on a national ID or any better way to identify people online so instead we have an unenforceable patchwork of standards and now we'll have an unenforceable patchwork of state laws on top of that. What a mess.

Um... so... good? I'm all for bureaucratic bullshit preventing the government from taking away our rights and increasing surveillance. Unfortunately this isn't all that true as the government will just contract all this out from the private sector.

Also, three in five Americans are fucking retarded. If you want your kids shielded from the Internet, don't give them devices! Unfortunately when they get old enough it becomes unavoidable, it involves sending them to the expensive schools that don't use devices. At the local level, all you can do is fight back against your local school system: "No my student will NOT have a Chromebook and mandatory Google account. I'm supplying my own Ubuntu laptop. He/She can print out their papers because I will not allow them Google docs account."

Very few parents are that autistic, or even have the time (if they do have the knowledge) to de-Google their phone and keep their family's systems privacy aware. If they are, they can probably afford to homeschool.

Except this is a first step. You think they're going to stop here? This will also means a lot of Linux/BSD systems won't be able to connect to a lot of websites once California starts requiring that "signal" to be sent from the OS to the destination site.

or they just made the entire thing up as a propaganda statement to make it easier to campaign for more war.

Except that might not really be true. I had a friend of mine die of brain cancer in 2019. Dude was constantly on his cellphone when he was younger, and it matched the side of his head in the MRI scans. Could it be coincidence? I think it's much more likely some people are genetically sustainable to biological damage to non-ionizing radiation. It's probably a small percentage, but there are a lot of cases in the courts, even with modern LTE phones. The phone companies are going to do whatever damage control to make this seem like it's a non-issue, while at the same time any couple trying to have a kid will have fertility experts tell them to not carry their cellphones in their pockets.

These are also slow cumulative effects, so it's not like these people won't pass on those traits. It might be another century, but at some point clusters of families with brain cancer won't be deniable. For the vast majority of peoples it's a non-issue, but I don' think it holds true for everyone. People going on about how it cannot possibly harm DNA are probably just going by news articles vaguely based off studies that are probably funded by cellphone research groups.

I've stopped caring. When I had good karma and got mod points I'd vote up all the -1s that made perfect sense and try to fight the deranged one-sided echo chamber Slashdot has become. It was never like this in the early 2000s when I started using it; lot more debate and reasonable people. My karma is sliding back towards terrible and that's a good thing. It's easy to vibe code a user script that highlights all the 0 and below comments to find things that are truly insightful. It's also why you should read from the bottom of ranked comment sites:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

It's bullshit. I don't understand how they can claim these kinds of numbers. It's probably to sell you stuff that will give you Alzheimer's, just like how the COVID jabs gave people heart disease and turbo cancers.

Preventative medicine is a scam. They "find" things that aren't real problems, charge your insurance thousands to "prevent" them and it will probably end up killing you. Colonoscopies can cause gastrointestinal problems, and if they fuck up, they can cause damage leading to infection. A biopsy pierces a cyst or tumor over a dozen times! Your body is trying to cover misbehaving cells to kill them and the doctors are literally spreading malignancy by letting them loose. Mammograms squish women's breasts painfully and older women almost always need an ultrasound anyway due to their increased breast density.

It's all a scam. If you need any proof, look at the damn Amish. Modern medicine can be amazing when it comes to reattaching fingers and saving people after car wrecks. But vaccine adjutants are incredibly dangerous and cause allergies. We like to think modern medicine is some type of rational science when it's a lot of religious beliefs and not that much different than bloodletting.

> AI is adding adding trillions of gallons of greenhouse gases

Challenging one religious narrative with another doesn't help. You don't have to believe in the religion of hydrocarbons do understand the tangible and easily measurable impacts of speculative data center expansion.

I do entirely agree with the assessment that we're losing our cognitive engineering skills. That is a real issue. I've written about it here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

We're also nowhere near global capacity for data centers. I doubt any company is even using half of the capacity built. If it wasn't for two decades of moving everything to "the cloud" instead of building local talent and locally hosting all our shit (including security cameras), there would be more demand for local AI hardware running open weight models and all this subsidized speculative token use wouldn't be remotely viable. I'm wondering if Anthropic's recent limits were real or completely manufactured.

These data centers are not primarily for coding agents or making girls with anime titties. There's no way we need this level of capacity for those operations. No, I think there's something more sinister going on. The psychos like Altman (literally: Alternative to Man) are part of an elite Epstein class that honestly thinks the high dimensional space these models operate at will somehow give them access to something supernatural (call it AGI, multi-dimensional beings or whatever). I don't think that's true, but that's likely the real reason behind the tulip mania.

How much of this $10b comes from what they saved via the CHIPs act? Fuck Micron and their murder of the Crucial brand to intentionally drive up prices. It's obvious they're colluding with Samsung and SK to drive up prices (the previous ram company cartels have been found guilty of this in multiple courts over the past several decades, but barely faced any consequences).

Micron can go fuck themselves. I doubt this will help Boise's economy in any meaningful way either. It's just more of these shit companies contrasting supply and fucking over their former customers.

Take Cxmt needs to come off the sanctions list. I know they're output isn't high enough to put a dent in ram prices right now, but we need more real competition in this insane market.

Pluto will rise again

Openrouter doesn't even have the Noromaid model, so probably not a lot to worry about

Jebus shut the fuck up already. NOBODY CARES!

Amazon's total retail revenue is 1%~2% a year. They literally make nearly nothing off retail. The majority of their business is AWS (and most Americans outside tech aren't even aware Amazon is one of the three largest data center companies in the world next to Microsoft Azure and Google's GCP). They don't actually need to make ANY money. They just need to not lose too much. (Amazon's retail revenue fell to -2% the year they invested in Rivian out of that division).

Very likely has nothing to do with Machine Learning. My old mentor worked for a defense contractor where they had 6 SPARC processors in a missile for its advanced guidance system. Thousands of dollars worth of compute, used to guide a missile accurately to the point where it would explode. What a damn waste.

These are likely chips used for missile guidance and thrust/fin control.