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IsoKiero

@ IsoKiero @sopuli.xyz

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  • If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time

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  • Fines are just the cost of doing business.

    In theory fines in EU don't have a ceiling. 10% fine of companys turnover with OpenAI (or any other company running on borrowed money) would be a pretty steep cost of doing business and I don't think all (if any) of AI-hype entities could actually swallow that.

    Obviously that's just in theory, so far the fines have been a slight slap on the wrist, but mechanisms are in place to give actually meaningful fines for unethical practices. No one will go to jail tho, as EU doesn't really have the power to jail US citizens.

  • Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

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  • That style stoves are pretty common around here on older buildings. We have one and it really helps during winter and cuts down the electricity bill, at least as long as we have enough firewood to keep that thing going.

  • Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

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  • The main material could be smashed/pulverized glass.

    As in sand. Glass is recyclable material, it makes no sense to use that for this kind of application since sand is already everywhere. Also at least some flavours of glass can melt on temperatures used on these which I'd imagine could cause problems.

    I hear aircrete is an insulation thats already prevalent in europe is this true?

    At least here in Finland it is not. It could be, but it's not really widely available right now. Maybe in the future, but that would need at least some changes on how things are built.

  • Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

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  • It's interesting piece of technology, but it's not 'radical'. The company behind the storage has done their homework and they seem to be well engineered, but the "technology" itself is pretty much as old as bonfires, people have used hot rocks to heat up tents for 'a while'.

    But sand has pretty good thermal properties and size of these new iterations of old tech makes them pretty decent solution for energy storage with renewables. I've been following various 'sand battery' products for our own house, but the main problem with all of them tends to be the size required. In practise for our own house we'd need a sand battery roughly the size of 6m storage container (with heat pumps and all the other hardware) and that'd be so expensive that the investment wouldn't pay itself back in my lifetime.

  • Telegrams t.me domain put on 'Server Hold' effectively disabling it worldwide.

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  • 15% of GDP just from TLD is wild. But they have only ~10k people there, so makes sense that their GDP isn't really high.

    Montenegro is 'a bit' bigger country by GDP, so for them it's a lot closer to rounding error.

  • Telegrams t.me domain put on 'Server Hold' effectively disabling it worldwide.

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  • Theoretically, yes. But .me domains are pretty cheap, ~10$/year from Joker and likely even cheaper elsewhere.

  • Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?

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  • unless the data is off site, its not truely a backup

    Two is one and one is none. No matter if it's offsite or on top of your main server. Also 3-2-1 is an industry standard for a reason. Plus unless you test that you can actually restore your backups they don't really exist (also known as Schrödinger Backups).

  • Meta's AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria

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  • Don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say anything about not needing to be concerned, I was just interested on what kind of virus they cooked in the datacenter-incubator and how that might affect on a general population. "Deadly bacteria", while not incorrect, is a bit clickbait-y, as it doesn't just kill everyone and their dogs.

    Of course there are reasons to be concerned and Meta should absolutely throw boatloads of money to clean up their mess. I was just interested about the bacteria in general, where it came, how it works and so on, nothing more and nothing less. I'm across the big pond and in here environmental regulations actually work, so I personally am not the one who should get angry about the situation, but it doesn't mean that no one should, even if I don't explicitly say so.

  • Meta's AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria

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  • Yes, but infections are somewhat rare on healthy adults, at least based on a quick search around the net about the virus. If you have some underlying condition you're more likely go get the infection in the first place and as your immune system is already weakened by something it's going to be more dangerous.

  • Meta's AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria

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  • Apparently that particular bacteria is basically everywhere on the environment and amounts of it around is pretty harmless. Datacenter just offered a nice and warm environment for it to prosper and then dumped the shitload of bacteria into water treatment system and the treatment plants can't manage that much of it properly.

    Also, while it could be deadly, it's more likely that you'll have couple of miserable days on the porcelain throne. But almost any underlying condition (being old, having any kind of gut issues, having flu...) can tip the scale and instead of literally shitty ilness you'll end up in a box.

    While Meta is of course guilty here on multiple things one might argue that local government is equally responsible since they allowed Meta to connect their sewer pipe in the first place without proper precautions. But maybe Zuck just had to have a new limousine or whatever so responsibility part was skipped.

  • Help with my Proxmox-Setup

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  • i still need to find a way to setup a simple sambashare via a web gui and a good backup solution.

    I'm running openmediavault as an VM for file shares and backups with proxmox backup server. Works pretty well. I've got a physical backup server in detached garage and another in a VPS which syncs the most important parts to remote location.

  • Help with my Proxmox-Setup

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  • I definitely didn’t suspect there to be a whole new standard of wireless communication to that.

    There's multiple. Some devices are on wifi, some on z-wave and as zigbee is getting quite a lot of support from vendors I'll likely add that to the mix soon-ish. Also I could use bluetooth for some automations, but at least for now I don't really see any advantages over that.

    As for pihole, it's main DNS server for devices in my network and rest of the family uses the net quite a lot too (IPTV and streaming services included) so any longer downtime would cause at least annoyance for them so it's nice to have an option to keep things running and take my time to maintain hardware or whatever. I of course could change DHCP server to offer something else too, but it's simpler and faster to just migrate a VM to another host.

  • Help with my Proxmox-Setup

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  • Is there a benefit for splitting your services on 2 hosts?

    I don't know about OPs situation, but I have a mini-PC as proxmox hypervisor too addition to my main server. Mini-PC is located middle-ish of the house as it's running home assistant with ZWA-2 and the location helps a lot with Z-wave coverage. But added benefit is that I can (within the pretty strict resource limits) move VMs to the mini-pc when doing maintenance on main server. It's pretty handy to move PiHole and some other small stuff to another host so that everything on network still functions even if one hypervisor is down.

  • What kind of things do you think movies are most dishonest about?

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  • I'm an IT guy and we have mandatory password changes. I just increment the numbers on my password every time since it (at least for now) is sufficient for our ruleset. I assume that majority of our users does something similar.

  • What kind of things do you think movies are most dishonest about?

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  • And speed is relative to point of view. If you look at an airplane from the ground it moves pretty fast but for the people on board their reference is the plane itself and they're pretty much stationary. And, similarily to airplane, when craft speed or direction changes the force required affects to people on board too and that's where limits of the human body come up pretty quickly.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • I've been working on IT for quite a while now and the only certain thing on this business is that hardware breaks down. All of it. Only questions are 'when' and 'how'. I'm pretty sure you can't get NBD support to the orbit. And I'd guess that shaking the shit out of the hardware during launch won't really help.

    And that's of course just a minor detail, the whole idea is so stupid on a very fundamental level that I don't know why it's even a news worthy.

  • Class Action Lawsuit Accuses The Three Largest RAM Manufacturers Of Colluding To Drive Up Prices

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  • Nothing much has changed. During the gold rush people who actually made money sold shovels and pickaxes, only very few got rich by actually digging dirt.

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    I am new here. Scared and Confused

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  • On a bit more serious note, instances are commonly ran by individuals or small groups and the hosting expenses are paid out of their own, personal, pocket. So, to keep things running, many instances have set up a patreon or similar so that their users can throw a coin in the hat. Even if instances are free to use and ad-free there's still very real expenses running for the hardware and bandwidth and they need to be covered by someone.

    You don't get any perks, blue checkmarks or anything from it but the warm and fuzzy feeling of being outside of advertiser mandated content and being a part of something pretty cool makes up for that many times over.

  • Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

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  • It's not just the price. If you get excavators to your new chip factory plot today to start building foundations it'll take several years until you get first chips out of the line after everything is calibrated and ready to go. By then you've thrown few hundred millions on the building, machines and all the physical stuff. Hired and trained workers, managed supply chains and built a system which is pretty expensive to keep running.

    So, you're betting quite a lot of money and time against that the market stays like it is for the next 10 years (give or take) to just break even. If the bubble bursts in 5 years you have incomplete factory without potential market and a metric shitload of debt on your company. And that's the same odd you're betting against when trying to raise funding. Venture capital understands this risk too pretty well and that's why everyone and their dogs aren't building chip factories right now.

  • OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions

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  • You're correct, current is RFC2822 (I think). The point, besides being a smartass, was that checking email address validity with just regexp is not a very good approach anyways. What you described makes much more sense, specially by verifying that the address is not just technically correct but that it actually belongs to the person filling the form.