It's funny to see political ads by people running against data centers in this election cycle.

Why? Do you even pay anything for data? You probably pay a fixed amount for the physical connection and right to use your provider's network.

I just skimmed the comments, and I have to wonder what percentage were the results of AI prompts by trolls, given the utter lack of content related to the story.

Are you guys getting paid by tech bros to do this?

The police dept needs to be sued. Start with $10M, and perhaps the cops will be more cautious.

I would think that an audit trail only needs temperature readings, not adjustments.

You don't want to know who made the adjustment? Nor the time the adjustment was made? What adjustment was made?

Might as well gut audit logs in Windows or Linux if all you want to know is a reading.

It’s so sad that refrigerators cannot be airgapped...

The uni must be sure to have him bring his own fully-compatible software stack (including OS) that hasn't been modified or developed with the assistance of any AI tools, in order to "not use ai at work". It needs to run on hardware that was not designed with the assistance of AI tools too (he can bring his own to ensure this). There's no other way to sufficiently honor this religious exemption.

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

If you have hundreds of billions of dollars, you are hoarding.

Hundreds of billions of dollars. No one human needs that much money

IMHO: It's the hoarding that's the problem, not how much they "make" over their lifetime.

Better a few Boomers lose their shirts than decades or centuries of techno-fascism.

Because only boomers have investments.

Your whining is the same thing that has been said for centuries whenever a new technology or process has come along. I can guarantee you would have been one of those whining when the cotton gin was invented, or cars and airplanes started being made. This is how society advances. If you don't like, you don't have to participate.

P.S. Now of course the AI companies want to scrape on a completely different scale ... but they also can do things most scrapers can't.

Good luck to Reddit in trying to win a "CAPTCHA" battle between their engineer's ability to separate humans from bots ... and frontier AI's ability to pretend to be human.

I mean, kind of. Its like saying postal spam costs more than email spam ... which absolutely is true ... but that still hasn't stopped my mailbox from filing with garbage mailings.

Similarly, as a scraper I just need to get enough valid accounts to scrape what I want. All Reddit can do is try and raise the cost of me doing that, but for any reasonable amount of scraped data that cost simply isn't going to be prohibitive.

In other words, Reddit might drive the cost of scraping up from two cents to four with this change ... but that isn't going to stop most scrapers.

You need rage bait and outrage porn to engage people on the internet

On r/lawncare, it's people's shoes and dogs shitting on the lawn. On r/laundry, it's people either deliberately telling you what piece of clothing is dirty and asking how to clean it, or showing the labels.

I don't have an account, but even I can recognize this astroturfing. It's being deliberately done to get views.