rdyoung

rdyoung , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

That doesn't apply to mining crypto and the fact that you think it does tells me that you have no idea what is going on here.

rdyoung , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

Seriously. This is so much bullshit. The bigger operations are out in the north west where hydro power is abundant and cheap. I'm sure plenty of others have made moves to run on solar or wind as well. Power costs make or break profitability for a crypto mine.

Everyone downvoting this has no idea what it takes to mine crypto. If I cared enough about the peanut gallery here I would find one of my spreadsheets from years ago where I calculated the cost of mining versus buying directly. Most of the time for individuals and those wanting to hold it, buying was the best option. The only way these big operations make any money is getting kwh as cheap as possible and taking a fee from those paying them to mine for them.

Even with commercial rates, you'd have to be a trump size moron to setup shop in and around any city or town full of people.

rdyoung , 4 months ago to Technology in Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI

Can we get Samaritan? I'd love to join the fight against it.

Damn, now it's time for a re-watch.

rdyoung , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in I need it for art class

It's typically called a smock and people have been using it for paint and other messy jobs for a very long time.

rdyoung , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in I need it for art class

So they are easier to get off when it's covered in paint, without getting paint everywhere.

rdyoung , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Google seemingly embraces AI dogfooding with gutso — cancels huge contract which could see thousands of quality rater jobs terminated and change SEO forever

In addition, Googles search results have gone to shit. You used to be able to find what you needed (without drilling down with specific keywords) near the top of the first page. Now you usually have to go through a few pages to find anything close to what you want. You can thank the seo bullshit for this. So many shit filled articles now mostly written by "AI" clutter up the search results.

Basically these people apparently weren't doing a good job as it is.

rdyoung , 5 months ago to Technology in Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

What do you do with a drunken sailor?

rdyoung , 5 months ago to Technology in Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”

This was my problem with hulu back in the day. Short episodes like Futurama would have a commercial shoved in at like 3 minutes and then again at 10 or whatever, it was obnoxious and shittily implemented.

rdyoung , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in Private and/or cheap places to register a domain

I would stick with namecheap (for now) and pony up for a multi year registration. If in 5 or 10 years they are jacking the price up then you can use another registrars cheap port option to get a discount. I did this recently between godaddy and namecheap. I had one domain left with godaddy that I have owned for over probably a couple of decades at this point and they were seriously jacking the rate up on me, I ported it to namecheap for a massive discount.

rdyoung , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in Private and/or cheap places to register a domain

They aren't looking to host a website. They are looking for domain registrars

rdyoung , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16

That's more than simple geo location. That's a whole other ball of wax and it only magnifies how ridiculous this shit is.

rdyoung , 5 months ago to Technology in Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16

Please read my comment again. Unless someone is sharing their GPS, all they have to go on is the ip address. This is why a lot of people vpn into other countries to watch things on Netflix that aren't available where they are.

This also brings up another point. For reasons unknown, sometimes my cell phone ip address comes back as a Florida ip. If I happened to access it via an ip that geolocates to Florida they would have force me to verify my ID to keep using it. That opens them up to potentially having way more verifications to process and a much larger attack surface for identity theft not to mention the millions of people and their representatives that will be extremely pissed off.

rdyoung , 5 months ago to Technology in Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16

None of that is how this works. Forcing companies like fb that I wouldn't trust with a recipe to store (even temporarily) copies of peoples ID or other documents is not the same as having a store eyeball an ID or in the case of some places swipe or scan the ID card to verify that's its legit.

I don't disagree about certain versions of social media coupled with the angst and issues with being a kid not being healthy and I've kept my use to a min even going so far as deleting my fb years ago. That said, these type of laws do nothing but the opposite of their intentions.

What we need is all kids sitting through a class about the good and bad about social media and teaching them how to be safe and smart when interacting online.

I'd suggest you think through what can and will happen when random support people have access to peoples IDs. Hint, they won't be sending them cookies.

Seriously. This kind of thing doesn't work online unless you go the China route and if you want that, you can kindly move to a country already doing it and let's keep some semblance of common sense here.

rdyoung , 5 months ago to Technology in Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16

I'm not sure you follow. I'm postulating whether or not say facebook would have to lock someones account and force them to upload ID because they happened to have browsed it while inside the state. This would not be looked upon kindly by other states.

rdyoung , 5 months ago to Technology in Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16

Oh I wholly agree. The point of that was to illustrate what you have to do to enforce it properly. It's the same as trying to force porn sites to ID their users.

As for Amazon, I have not heard anything about this and I recently did a couple of returns with no request for my license. Also, you may not be aware but stores like home depot already require ID to return items and they (with the help of a 3rd party) keep a credit file of sorts on you and uses that determine who has been abusing the return process.