This becomes even more confusing when you work from home.

They better not run John Ossoff for president in 28 or we’re gonna end up with President JD Vance

Hey now there are about 148 left in the United States and almost that many total in other countries

The real reason is because the data centers aren’t for AI. They’re for taking up all the components so you can’t compute independently anymore and you need to run “apps” from the ”cloud” so they can “monitor” your “behavior” for “tailored ads” and “terrorist threats” and cut you off completely if you ever retroactively violated their updated EULA that covers all the people they don’t like.

They are stealing computing from us and the business world is letting it happen in the name of cost savings.

I swear to god before I die I will see capitalism driven into the mud to drown

we were used as pawns

🧑‍🚀🔫 “always has been”

It only includes sites where the server-side language can be detected. That's often easy with PHP because of URLs ending in .php and well-known software like Wordpress which identifies itself in ways that are easy for a crawler to detect.

So there are possibly more PHP sites out there than we realize, because the ones which disguise their URLs are ambiguous

It counts sites, not traffic. There are a lot of Wordpress sites out there which get three visitors a month.

You shouldn’t be as concerned with popularity, and much more concerned with attack surface. Your argument certainly can’t be that there are thousands of idle servers out there that should no longer be maintained because no one reads the blog hosted on them?

Ok, make them all change then. Exercise your authority.

Oh? No one has any so it’s important to maintain existing infrastructure for the best outcomes?

I wanna see Patricia Mccloskey

They left YouTube like, yesterday

You mean when they stopped doing sketches and react content, which was the correct time to stop paying attention

Guy threw his whole life away after hanging around Destiny and Dan Saltman. They LOLcow’d his ass so hard

I don’t give a shit if this was made for a joke I want Unicode to support this now

I can’t tell if it’s like, completely awful or kind of awesome. I mean, no one brute-forces private key space one bit at a time, do they?

Hey America’s nuclear launch code was eight zeros (“00000000”) at some point in the 1960s; technically we’ve survived worse

Wow seems like some shit we’ve been saying for 30 fucking years at this point that we shouldn’t rely on some digital system that can be manipulated anywhere from the screen to the database to the network to the memory to the reporting output to the…

Ink on paper is much harder to manipulate because you need to physically insert fakes, physically create,transport, insert them, and physically hide all this activity from workers, volunteers, and monitors who can’t possibly all be bought off.

Digital systems have way too many ways to be fucked with invisibly, at the electron level, inside wires and computer chips and on spinning hard drives through code and commands and erased files, done remotely from other states or countries, and if you need someone on the inside you may only need one or two people. Even if the manufacturers are honest, even if they create the best possible product. It’s like “backdoors in encryption that only work for the good guys” - it’s a screen door on a bank vault with an “employees only” sign.

The same is true for the scantron machines but with those, there is a hardcopy paper source that has a physical, observable chain of trust as a fallback (assuming of course all procedures are thorough and followed).

Of all the systems in the world, breaking the one that gives the power is the ultimate target. It’s irrational to think this was a good idea.

I knew instantly as a fucking teenager that “touch screen voting machines” was a bad idea, and here I am pushing 50 and still saying it. All it’s done was prove to me beyond the shadow of a doubt that no one knows what the fuck they’re doing; not then and not now.

Honestly this is fine.

As long as we get the smart people into the real shit, most of us are allowed to specialize in other aspects of society. This is by design.

Just please, believe our smart people.

Oh and remove all profit motives. Until next time!

Like a puppy in a bag on the subway

Not enough people realize this. They think the component shortage is a side effect, but it’s to push you towards cloud services on underpowered devices that rely on it.

Imagine the censorship when every service is monitored and controlled by them. Imagine the market capture when they can see everyone’s financials and trade secrets. When they can cut off journalists and activists with one click.

So what we should just like, assume we’re cooked and not even try? Thus guaranteeing we’re cooked?

Nah, that ain’t it

The same way you know the rest of the data hasn’t been tampered with - you don’t. And when you find untrustworthy instances, you defederate from them.

AI companies ruin the RAM and video card market, so no one runs 200GB models for free.

No, AI companies ruin the RAM, Storage, and video market so no one can compute independently, and they all have to stream cloud services which can be monitored by AI, gatekept without the possibility of piracy (or first sale doctorine), unhackable/unmodable, and rented forever.

This is way bigger than gaming. What happens when they can predict markets? What happens when they can move markets? When journalists get silenced, when inconvenient truths are hidden?

Why wouldn’t they when we are so dependent on it?

The AI push is really about buying up all the compute components to make independent, individual ownership impractical.

Then we all have to buy walled garden dumb terminal tablets that rely on cloud services to function.

They can watch, censor, and block anything they want. And we pay them for the privilege.