Let me get this straight. They pulled it offline because it was overrun with bots, and legitimate users had no influence.

Their solution was to hand all influence over to a bot.

Genius. /s

Turn the tap off. Ask questions later. Stress test their data centre.

It’s absurd that they think they can just pay for the water they stole and call it square.

AI is “taking credit for the work of humans” all the way down.

I’m old enough to understand this reference.

Installed it this week on an old PC. It really is unusable at this point.

Fun fact: Australia’s youth social media ban was lobbied by crooked betting agencies so that they could run ads without restriction.

We almost had to mention standard cars, which are also half the size.

They didn’t look all that advanced…

Way to stand up to the man!

That’s about the same as Australia. It’s $2.50/L and AUD is typically close to CAD.

This is no different to the meta pixel localhost listener exploit.

This is absurd. They know we can go all the way to the root servers, don’t they?

There’s a “minimal” install that gives you a bare desktop. The only thing I would consider bloatware is snapd.

Agreed. It’s an uphill optimization battle. We’re now in a world where you need 6GB RAM to chat on Discord while scrolling Facebook.

Ubuntu and its apps (particularly Firefox) are incredibly efficient and respects your hardware resources. I can write a web page with a 5MB RAM footprint. It’s when you open the New York Times that your swapfile gets face-slapped.

Funnily enough, an Ubuntu server will run on a half-eaten potato. I’ve got 16GB in mine, and I’m running servers for LAMP (Nextcloud and Wordpress), NTP, Samba, Mail, Jellyfin, tor, XMPP, CUPS and a few other things. It typically uses around 2GB at idle.

There are more barriers to digital sovereignty every day.

My wife hit the 15GB Google limit last week. Holy shit.

Her phone storage was full, so:

• Photos were silently removed from the device and uploaded to Google Photos.
• Once it was full, it locked her out of Google services. It even locked her email and took forms offline.
• It then demanded payment to get access to her files.

Google Photos is ransomware by definition.

I ended up doing a takeout, and found that all the photos had the exif tags stripped and I had to re-merge them from a .json file that sat next to it. Otherwise they had no timestamp/location data and no other software would index it.

Fixing the mess required me to alter my photo import program (written in C) and use some scripts I found on github. It was a full weekend project.

I can see why a lot of people will just pay the ransom.

I’m in Australia. The only thing higher than the mercury is the power bill.

I skipped on solar when building the house. Maybe I should look at doing that. My whole cabinet idles at 100w. The RAM is in an old Cisco 1U server that idles at 130w and is actually slower than my 4th gen core i5 server. It’s never going into prod.

I have 96GB of ECC DDR3 laying around with nothing to put it in. I should find some low-power hardware that will take it.

It needs to function like a casino so that Trump can bankrupt it.

Price increases when demand goes up, or supply goes down.

It’s only cheap when supply exceeds demand. They’re cutting supply here.

To win the AI pop, you gotta have a supply of ECC motherboards ready to go when it all gets scrapped.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.