Humanius

Humanius , 2 days ago

Sadly it's tricky to separate the two.

Say if hypothethically we have a data center that is not connected to the grid, and is entirely running on solar power and battery storage.
If the grid still generates (part of) its electricity need using fossil fuels, those same solar panels and batteries could instead have been used to (further) decarbonize the grid.

While using solar power is good, increasing the overall unnecessary electricity consumption is still not great.

Humanius , 2 days ago

That is assuming that those data centers are necessary. If the data center is doing something that is not really needed then it is in effect wasting power that could have been used for other purposes. (e.g. using surplus power to make steel or aluminium for instance)

While I do think that AI-tools can be increadibly useful, the current hype surrounding it very much looks like a bubble akin to the DotCom bubble to me. Companies left and right are jumping on the AI bandwagon for the sake of using the buzzword "AI" in their marketing speech.

I don't consider that kind of use of datacenters to be necessary.

Humanius , 1 month ago

Guess I'll be contacting my MEPs, and looking into which MEPs support and oppose this plan.
Though I am glad to see my country at least has stated it finds the proposal unacceptable.

Humanius , 3 months ago

Be sure to make regular backups of your data.
... and using RAID is not a backup.

Humanius , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Thanks for adding the link to the article, but it might be more convenient if you also add the link to the post description.
Currently this comment is showing up at the bottom of the thread for me.

Humanius , 5 months ago

I mostly agree with this distinction.

However, if you are at the receiving end of a mistake made my either a classic algorithm or an machine learning algorithm, then you probably won't care whether it was the computer or the programmer making the mistake. In the end the result is the same.

"Computers make mistakes" is just a way of saying that you shouldn't blindly trust whatever output the computer spits out.

Humanius , 8 months ago

Just wait till Musk learns about banking regulations.
He's already complaining about the EU regulations on social media, but they nothing compared to what banks have to deal with.

Humanius , 11 months ago

I have a YouTube Premium subscription

Humanius , 11 months ago

It really boils down to a few reasons:

• I don't like ads, and I prefer not to see them
• Running a platform like YouTube is not cheap, and I understand that Google needs money to keep things running.
• The revenue of Premium is split between YouTube and the creators, much like ad revenue is. So it also supports the channels that I follow.

Humanius , 11 months ago

That hasn't stopped me from using other Google services like Gmail, Docs, or Drive either.

If I ever decide I want to opt out of Google's ecosystem I'll just serve them a GDPR data deletion request.
That's what I did when I deleted my Twitter account as well.