“mainstream news outlets” that are supposed to be for the people

There’s your problem. If you start with a false premise, all your subsequent logic is invalid.

My domain’s mail is hosted at https://purelymail.com/ $10/year. They seem to run on AWS hardware, so it’s not free of US big tech. It’s dirt cheap, but I’ve never had any problems, either receiving or sending. They have very clear instructions for getting your domain’s mail set up.

The models will survive those bankruptcies. The models will get bought up for nothing by the next wave of AI companies - companies that won’t waste money creating new models or planet-scale data centers, but will still let people outsource human, creative work to digital slaves.

If OP takes the job, they should thin about tactics to poison the data set. Systematically add useless moves to the tool paths. Home after every segment. Random speeds. Extra coordinate changes. I’m sure they can think of other bad-but-works processes.

This is the best answer. At just 2% inflation, by the time you’re paying off that 30-year bond, it only costs 50%. Government can stay in perpetual debt, pumping money into the private economy, and inflation effectively pays off the debt.

62% of Americans “own stocks,” mostly through retirement-program index funds. Nvidia is about 7% of the S&P 500, so it follows that most Americans do, in fact, own shares of Nvidia, whether they know it or not. If you have a 401k, you probably have to go out of your way to avoid it.

Looks like the EIA is figuring the total bill for some ‘typical’ customer, so you get the actual per-kWh cost plus the fixed service cost divided by whatever they think ‘typical’ use is.

This is the actual residential tariff sheet: https://www.georgiapower.com/content/dam/georgia-power/pdfs/tariffs/r.pdf

$0.082/kWh most of the year, $0.087 summer, rising to ~$0.15 if you use over 650 kWh/month (which is a lot: my 3 br house tops out under 600 in Aug). Taxes & fees around 20%, so effectively $0.098 & 0.104. The kicker is the fixed service charge of $0.46/day = $16/month after taxes, effectively a 5.6 kWh/day minimum. That’s the part they’ve been raising. Commercial & industrial users pay proportionally less fixed fees, so their ‘typical’ kWh cost is lower.

So, I live in Georgia & I’m happy to see Dems on the PSC, but electricity here is 8 cents per kWh. There were some big cost overruns adding nuclear reactors to Vogtle, but them and Watts Bar are the only people to add nuclear since 1990. Relative to a lot of other states, it’s hard to argue Georgians are being gouged.

And I really would like to know what’s in the data center deals, especially what happens when the data center goes tits-up 3 years into the life of a 40-year power plant

The meme “small loan of $1M,” back in the early 70s, would be around $9M today, with inflation, on excellent “Daddy’s money” terms. Nevermind the subsequent supplemental “loans”. Easily enough to push your retirement forward to Thursday.

Student discounted software started when most of the corporate world was still using typewriters and paper. Students learned the new-fangled software and carried into their new jobs.

Today, those same businesses rely on Microsoft Office and Google search, and those monopolies are obviously going to leverage their monopolies to force AI, Teams, or whatever other Next Big Thing onto unwilling schools.

During a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling shovels.

I mean, their yaml editor still deletes comments. If I’ve barely learned how to make something something work, a little #comment in the yaml would really help future-me know where to look to learn it all over again, or even just wtf I was thinking with some {{template}}

I keep looking at phones with IR cameras. Thermal imaging is super handy for electro/mechanical diagnostics, and some of them are under $500.

The GPUs they’re talking about don’t have video outputs, and I think many of them aren’t even PCIe. Even at pennies on the dollar, they’ll still be hundreds of dollars, so way easier just to get a consumer card.

All the past infrastructure bubbles, the companies that inevitably failed at least left some usable infrastructure - rails, pipelines, dark fiber… These guys are going to crash, never pay back their loans, and the acres of datacenter, containers of GPUs, and racks of servers are just going to get recycled. It’s such shocking waste that it’s hard to comprehend.

It’s really not the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities you need to worry about. Most of those vulnerabilities have existed for years - the recent php thing is supposedly 12 years old. Maybe someone’s been out there exploiting it for 12 years.

The people who have sought and exploited vulnerabilities since computers went online don’t disclose what they find. They are the people who should be most worried about AI-assisted vulnerability research, because it directly attacks their business model.

I don’t know how the others set theirs up, but I use “views” in bind 9 https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00851

Essentially, the DNS I run on a router-like box much like you describe uses a different database depending on whether you query from an internal IP address or a public address. For me, the advantages are that I can let devices on my local network declare their own names to DHCP and enter them in DNS without worrying about the outside world. Mu internal network doesn’t crash if my ISP changes my address, Certbot happily requests certs for any site with a public address, and that cert works seamlessly on the corresponding internal address, no wildcards or DNS challenge required.

Great project. I like the 1-star reviews complaining about the lack of advertising and tracking.