Damn. Thanks for letting me know. I really need a browser plugin that lets me know immediately if a celebrity is a monster or not before I say anything about them lol.
Right now the USA would need revolutionary rhetoric, talk about political and physical violence to restore democracy and the constitution. And that's what they can't have. They rather side with the fascists than allowing any kind of revolution.
At least not in the USA. Supporting regime change and coups and political killings overseas is perfectly fine.
Honestly TVs were the original "insidious technology". I always hated advertising and the constant brainwashing. After going off to study and watching movies and shows on a PC for a few years, coming back home and seeing a TV run in the background is so fucking grotesque. And that was before they added extra ads lol.
Well they will probably be massively over capacity. But then you could run the for half a day during sunlight hours and just use solar. Solar PM and wind kite power basically gives us near infinite super cheap energy at certain times, so you could still make use of those compute centers. Turn them off during the night, modernize the cooling and noise dampening, add some solar and you can use the compute to run models to create new medicines like anti-cancer meds or protein folding. Unlikely that's going to happen but that is what a sane civilization would do with all that compute.
Yeah space compute centers are idiotic. Even if it could be made profitable it would be such a stupid idea.
The people pushing for privatization of space desperately are looking for profitable uses cases. There is a recent breakthrough with "hollow fiber optic cables" that makes the future promise of faster ping with Starlink mostly irrelevant too.
We should be building a moon base and explore mining and industry and something like a railgun to shoot back stuff back to earth. That would be the logical next step for humanity. But don't try to commercially exploit space, that is just stupid.
"internet indexer" should really be a government / EU / UN sponsored public utility thing. And then you have front ends that can improve the search query and filter and sort the results.
I don't know how much it would cost / how large a data center it would take to cache the web pages like google does. But there is just no reason to have so much wealth / advertising drain from the public for such a fundamental thing.
I guess one solution to that is to have a second used or ultra low cost phone just for your personal ID and banking stuff. But then it's no longer really mobile lol.
I mean they did experiment with solar panels that contain lenses to intensify sunlight and increase efficiency, but it's almost always cheaper to just buy more solar panels. Not even MPPT solar chargers are worth it vs buying one more panel.
This space mirror is really the perfect example of the pathological stupidity in our era. You just have to listen to the experts, but everyone just wants to push clickbait engagement, so they get funding by some equally moronic investors lol
This article is disgusting neoliberal disinformation because it hides this simple and easily provable fact. Probably frames it as a debate with pro and contra. But it's fundamentally moronic.
The speed of light in fiber optic cable is ~66% of what the speed of light in vacuum is (or radio signals in atmosphere). Signal first has to go up but then travels faster than in fiber optics cable and arrives faster. Hence faster ping.
Well with the new hollow optic fiber you would be right.
Average ping time between Europe and US is 100-150ms, which is high for e.g. gaming. Satellite constellations could cut that down by 33%. Which was a huge promised benefit of starlink, even just for HFT stock trading which is like cheating and mining gold.
But yeah with hollow optic fiber being able to do the same, much of the value of Starlink should be wiped out! SpaceX stock should take a massive nosedive lol!
Afaik you're wrong about overhead with atmosphere and dish.
The only value internet constellations now provide is universal coverage. But that could be achieved cheaper with a higher orbit of 2000 km instead of 500km. Coverage goes up to 12% instead of 3.6% so you need like 9 times (square) less satellites? I think? And the ping would be worse but still acceptable like 200ms between EU and US if you live somewhere off grid or on the ocean.
Hardware compatibility is the major problem with alternative android. Basically I have to buy a 10 year old used phone as is. Would this only make this worse?
Anyway, maybe AI code generation could actually help with things like hardware compatibility. Things like an AI agent could iterate on reading about a smartphone model and testing various configurations and patch drivers to make it compatible for many more devices. Not sure if AI is suitable for that, but you should be able to define stringent test cases for this.
Unfortunately as long as the idea of the haunted house persists, you'll have to keep dealing with the nonsense.