Comment Re:Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 1) 42

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:48PM (#66366624) Attached to: Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy

All you constraints you advise are reasonable. I have no problem with "socialization of risk" ... as there IS nothing else, but social wants/needs. i would of-course strongly limit :"privatization of benefits". Wealthy workers can with great effort reclaim enshitified land. Citizens of my home-town of Scranton Pa got screwed-over by the mining interests, who took their profits from raping the beautiful valley ... ditched the miners ... and left town. Scranton never recovered, and I suspect the same will be true for those providing energy/land for the LLM-farms.

Comment Re:Efficent code (Score 1) 65

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:30AM (#66366414) Attached to: Micron Projects Tightening RAM Shortages Through 2028 As It Generates Record Profit

Home and hobby users already have such an "efficient" system. My Debian-13 / MATE / Librewolf system running on 10 Y/O XEON-1240 / GF 3050 and 24-Gig DDR3 barely uses 15% of RAM during active surfing. Eight-cores are mostly asleep. I'd guess many of us non-gamers have skipped the "RAMpocalypse". Granted , I'm on a slow WiFi network.

Comment Re:Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 1) 42

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:55AM (#66366354) Attached to: Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy

A well-spoken argument ... and to be balanced against the human desire for warmth in icy winter and coolness in roasting summer. Those are health, productivity & agency issues, crucial to risk/reward judgement, and even more basic than toxic radiation. Stated crudely ... live like a savage or < threat of > die by radiation poisoning ... or coal-smoke ... of frack-contaminated water ... or three weeks of no sun & no wind ... or a huge solar-flare that takes out all common energy-producing electronics. Indeed: the only case worth considering is the "worst case" ... because that's the one that kills you. Thus ... those few who live unaccustomed to physical risk are poor judges of energy sourcing options.

Comment POS (Score -1) 160

by noshellswill on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:09PM (#66364002) Attached to: Sam Altman: 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of AI

Altman really is a sociopathic piece of shite; toxic as lead-sweetened wine. Probably thinks HE is in good company. As a deep red social conservative, I can see -- thru Altmans' et. al. behavior -- the triggers for rational "progressive" social views & actions. Damnable person.

Comment Re:The difference between a laboratory and a facto (Score 0) 68

by noshellswill on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:31AM (#66363698) Attached to: Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of 'Unknown' Infection

"ye olde genetic bottleneck means all humans are fairly inbred" Yes, this is standard dogma. And yet ... look around you . How many base-pair changes are required to change an average-human into a raving "mongoloid" ? Is that number 10^3 or 10^6 or ... just ... 10 ? One unfortunate change in amino-acid sequence can destroy an enzyme function. I know ... "...compared to other species..." , but that is not the issue.

Comment Re: Karma score (Score -1) 124

by noshellswill on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:53AM (#66363638) Attached to: Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida

Thin-blue-line mentality ... same behavior as teachers unions defending pederasts and incompetents . There's a good reason unions got a bad name.

Comment bad (Score 0) 124

by noshellswill on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:45AM (#66363620) Attached to: Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida

Privacy rape is NOT a corporate profit center , and power-hungry cops who pimp-their-ride fully share the onus. FLOCKers need to be hurt ... bad ... by the yeomanry they assault.

Comment Re: Why not Rust? (Score 0) 146

by noshellswill on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:37PM (#66363120) Attached to: Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser 'Northstar'

Nice ! I don't have the MODS ... but I rate your post = 5. Picasso briefly noted .... ' everything after cave-art is decadence '.

Comment Re:Crowbar! (Score 0) 24

by noshellswill on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:29PM (#66363104) Attached to: FSF Sponsors 'GNU Boot', a Libre, Ethical Replacement for Nonfree BIOS Or UEFI

I'm thinking as you ... about installing libreboot on my "mature" Xeon-1240 system. Surely all "LLC" BIOS are leaky, while GNU/LINUX/FSF code shows "best effort". But, I do not own a crowbar ... as my PTs would have two cows.

Comment Re: Why not Rust? (Score 1) 146

by noshellswill on Sunday October 04, 2026 @01:36PM (#66362534) Attached to: Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser 'Northstar'

Do you prefer reading Caesar, Cicero and Ovid in English ? I trust not ...

Comment Re:Those aren't threats from AI (Score 0) 40

by noshellswill on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:01AM (#66362328) Attached to: California's Governor Wants Worker Protections from AI. But FSF Thinks Kill Switches are 'Dangerous Precedent'

" Again, wrong target. Humans need to *use the tools carefully*." You are assuming humans are rational agents, and in addition act in-good-faith. You make the classic "Platonic" error, that virtue = knowledge. You imply < know the proper use of AI & all's well >. A sadly false assumption . More robust and lower-risk is to make the Calvinist error : that all humans are fundamentally irrational & corrupt ( in dealings with other people ). Then "physical" kill-switches make sense : kill-switches on AI ... kill-switches on insurance ... kill-switches on banking ... kill-switches on physicians : of-course the phrase [ kill-switch ] needs appropriate interpretation(s), but the meme is clear --- self-limiting tools ---> "this far and no farther".

Comment corrupt (Score 0) 9

by noshellswill on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:23AM (#66362294) Attached to: Researcher, Dartmouth Professor and Provost Face Accusations of Secretly Using AI

Scandalous, actually that academics at major institutions have been AI-compromised, top to bottom. Three cheers for Uni students calling-them-out ... and damnation for the puerile excuses given by faculty. Were those excuses also written by AI ? I have yet to see academics use the stock-industrial excuse ... that competition - natural and necessary -- drives quality to the lowest order. Added-value really is (almost impossible ) , so slop commercial software/video/fiction/services out-compete human agents for cheapness and control-ability . That also must hold true for academics , where creativity is sparse as structure in a janitors closet. Nice work .../code/devs/slopper ; META force be with you.

Comment Re:This shit needs to stop (Score 0) 19

by noshellswill on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:01PM (#66361522) Attached to: The University of Washington Is Moving a Graduate Program to Microsoft's Campus

Prussia invented ... what ? If memory serves, Sumerian scribes beat them to it by a few millennia. And Thespiae required <music> of their children ... to prevent savagery ! I'm ignorant about classical Chinese education, but ... Historically, the list of indoctrinating states is very very long.

Comment rephrase (Score 0, Funny) 40

by noshellswill on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:30PM (#66361480) Attached to: California's Governor Wants Worker Protections from AI. But FSF Thinks Kill Switches are 'Dangerous Precedent'

"FSF: Having control over the technology we use is a fundamental part of software freedom. Without it, you simply don't have the basic freedoms you deserve when doing any type of computing, large or small. " Please allow me to rephrase that: < FMF: Having control over the machine-guns we use is a fundamental part of firearms freedom. Without it, you simply don't have the basic freedoms you deserve when doing any type of machine-gunning, large or small. > So true ... unless we are machine-gunning /JapeChat/dev .... then the Free Machine-gun Foundation speaks without merit.

Comment Re:Why it can work (Score 0) 122

by noshellswill on Saturday October 03, 2026 @01:45PM (#66361426) Attached to: Google Tests AI Data Center In Space

Nope ... not on short time-scales. Some of the absorbed energy is stored as material temperature and another byte may be converted to (reduced ) configuration entropy. Maybe. You are correct once equilibrium is reached ... if it ever is !

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