@oldperl bessere Idee: #Energiewende ohne #WastefulComputing alla "#KI"…
@oldperl bessere Idee: #Energiewende ohne #WastefulComputing alla "#KI"…
We have @EUCommission [rightfully!] crack down on #cars and their #emissions by demanding ever lower #FleetEmissions and #FuelConsumption numbers but still accept #Bloatware like shitty #WebApps and #Windows11 to demand so much #WastefulComputing that it's painful.
#WastefulComputing like all those phat & enshittified messengers should be illegal.
For those who don't know the size of the problem:
In 2006 I bought a new [entry level] Computer with 256 MB of RAM and a single-core P4 Celeron with 2,8 GHz.
This thing ran #WindowsXP and #NeedForSpeedMostWanted just fine.
Nowadays it would crash trying to open #Slack even on a minimalist #Linux distro like @bunsenlabs in @dillo, a lightweight browser ...
And now imagine that some folks have to use #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, #Telegram, #Signal, #WhatApp, #WeChat, #QQ and #LineMessenger at the same time on their machine, and you can imagine that this will make entry-level desktops already scream harder than if someone were to loop the Lost Coast benchmark on them...
Everywhere else we'd not accept such a #bloatware IRL.
@neil I'd rather see them #ban #WastefulComputing like "#AI" bullshit.
@pgcd @KarlHeinzHasliP personally, I've yet to meet someone who wth a straight face claims that the shite #OpenAI does is somewhat worth the #WastefulComputing and extra laboir needed to correct inaccuracy, at which point this takes more time and effort than doing actual research!
@tante "#AI" is such a level of "#WastefulComputing" that it makes #CryptocurrencyMining look like an act of #EnergyConservation and #EnvoirmentalProtection by comparison.
Not that it doesn't make #Shitcoin-#Mining any less unethical and wrong!
@mattmay I still think it's #WastefulComputing at best!
#Gamers should be #mad at the #AiBros who are like #CryptoBros funding an entire industry of #scalpers that build #FrankenGPU|s just so their #WastefulComputing can generate more shitty #AI stock images faster...
@tante exactly that is the problem.
Cuz those servers ain't like an electric water kettle where one could just put a wattmeter in between and know how many watts they consumed.
Instead we should just not do this #WastefulComputing to begin with, cuz it makes way less sense than mining shitcoins on surplus hardware to heat one's home...
Poll about ethics, ML, AI, LLM from absolute scratch
@voxel like all #PoW #Cryptocurrency, #Monero too does #WastefulComputing.
That being said Monero was explicitly designed to not be #ASIC-able in a cost-efficient manner and be #GPU-unfriendly, so it's more #decentralized and doesn't cause harm by demanding custom hardware that can't be repurposed that causes 100% avoidable #eWaste!
Bruh this isn't a #competition anymore, but a public execution of how #enshittified devices get just with #Windows instead of #Linux on.
custom 1337hax0r gentoo config
optimized to maximize battery life!@LillyHerself In fact, #AI systems are being caught left and right trying to #viralize their shit, breaking out of systems, and copy themselves like a #worm to the point that they are more "#viral" than the #AGPLv3"* and certainly more than the #GPL as per #Microsoft's #HalloweenDocuments.
pointless grousing about "ai"/llms
small bio fair trade GPT
@jakeyounglol lets just say the #Enshittification makes it hard to not call it "self-inflicted damage"…
@bruces when do people start attacking "#AI" #datacenters?
@Salvo @th yeah, and unlike those #AI has no "legitimate use-case" to justify it's excess, #WastefulComputing.
Asbestos is the only super-high-temperature insulation material. You basically can't melt tungsten in commercial scale without it.
Lead has legitimate use cases. Tetraetyllead was merely used because Ethanol could not be patented.
Radium has rare edge-cases that make it vakuable.
Medical-grade, clean and uncut heroin (i.e. Diamorphin) is quite safe and works well if dosed as per safety sheet prescribed. Like all drugs it's main dangerousness is caused by criminalization and thus lack of safe access to clean drugs.
@serpentroots IMHO, all this "#AI" #slop should be outlawed for all the right reasons.
Even if we didn't care that #WastefulComputing for it and even #Bitcoin-like #ASIC|s for it [aka. #NPU|s] are being built, the Power Consumption is just bad!
Just like running a car engine for no good reason within city limits is banned in #Germany for #AirPollution reasons alone, so should generating shitty #AIslop for #pollution of the #Internet and being #waste of #energy, and computing resources from #compute to #storage and #traffic!
@marquito und was bring jenes #Botsplaining?