A human runs about 100 watts to a few hundred watts with extreme athletes hitting peaks of 2,000 watts.

How fast can these machines run if limited to the same power?

There was a huge amount of firewood rationing and shortages as well.

Whoops - that's actually $390 AUD per 128Gb! Looked at the invoice properly.... On June 16th 2025, a 64Gb kit was $195 AUD...

I upgraded both of my home lab Proxmox servers to 128Gb of DDR4 - cost me $390 AUD per 64Gb kit (2 x 32Gb sticks).

Could sell that second hand now for over $1600 AUD... Problem is, then you have nothing to replace it with because everything else is just nuts.

A while back, I upgraded from an AMD 5700XT GPU to a 6700XT and it cost me ~$200 out of pocket... Mostly for the mining craze wanting the 5700XT...

I haven't bought any real major upgrades since - its just too expensive...

One would hope that given this guy was deprived of his freedom through no fault of his own that there would be substantial compensation due.

It's one thing to just vacate the sentence, its another to make up for what those actions of the state did to this guy...

Free speech includes lying.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

I have been playing with routing tables. I have a few virtual machines around the globe that have full BGP routing tables and that gives me great IP -> ASN details. That means someone comes into a server and that might get redirected to as1221.my2026.example.com but that is a virtual web server with a few hundred thousands others. Everything nice and fast until there is a problem. Once that hits, that ASN gets redirected to the slow scrape box.

Also there is ipasn.net created at APNic. host -t txt 8.8.8.8.ipasn.net gives ownership of the block and other details involving things like its Route PKI status. It is part of their lab so I'm not sure how much traffic it can cope with.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

Worst part, you can only screw a community so many times before they just decide not to play ball anymore.

At that point, its almost impossible to restore the status quo - which is likely bad for everyone using MS kit at that point.

Does DNS over HTTPS (aka Private DNS) not fix this issue?

A former head of AT&T back when it was The Phone Company made a comment along the lines that the long distance network had to be built to cope with with mother's day and everything else was free. It was used as an example of how guesses about CapEx vs OpEx can go very wrong. It might have been Fred Kappel who said that.