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  • Yet another Josh :donor:crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange
    Jul 8, 2026, 12:20 AM

    @bob @qurlyjoe

    Buuuuuuut we're going to attempt to ban an array of billions of floats (aka Lebniz' calculus dream) cause..... Reasons.

    Fuck, even Ned Ludd destroyed the machines of owners when he couldn't get them for the laborers. Even he realized the 'means of production' are important.

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  • Steven Sandovalbaltakatei@twit.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 9:37 PM

    @qurlyjoe I just had a vision in which data center equipment became so cheap and efficient to build and run that public libraries offered web hosting and VPS services to anyone with a library card.

    Like, if libraries were once private artifacts only built by the obscenely wealthy until people voted to provide them as a public good, why can't the same happen for data centers?

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  • Yet another Josh :donor:crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange
    Jul 7, 2026, 9:44 PM

    @baltakatei @qurlyjoe

    Thing is, I'm looking at something kind of like this.

    Wouldn't be cheap initially. But it would be a completely solar/battery/geothermal data center, with working with farmers to install base solar and providing shade and free energy for them to boot.

    Once it gets up to steam, it would be a massive data cloud. Would bolster power networks by lowering baseload (read: coal, oil), local DC ops.

    I could see working with communities in getting cheap/free instances as well.

    infosec.exchange/@crankylinuxu

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  • Aaronaaron@zadzmo.org
    Jul 8, 2026, 1:19 AM

    @baltakatei As someone who actively misses working in datacenters, I like that vision. But they aren't that anymore.

    My favorite was an old dinosaur pen ( used to hold a mainframe ) that had been repurposed. Lot of good memories in there; set the bar for everything else. It wasn't much bigger than a typical two bedroom apartment and pulled about that much power.

    They aren't that anymore. They're monstrous oversized warehouses of loud and cold now.

    To extend your analogy: they aren't the book room in an elite person's estate, they're an Amazon warehouse.

    Community owned small rooms with a dozen racks, each full of servers with names that were known to everyone who entered... that's a heavenly thought.

    @qurlyjoe

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  • JungYulKim Dotcom Free PressNathanMurdock@mastodon.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 11:30 PM

    @qurlyjoe

    Very few people use the depicted objects, and that is also problematic. Paper is easier on the eyes, isn't it?

    If only they would teach the children reading, writing, and arithmetic again. Wouldn't that be dandy?

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  • qurlyjoequrlyjoe
    Jul 8, 2026, 3:26 AM

    @NathanMurdock
    Studies have shown that reading on paper results in better retention and comprehension than reading on,one, especially compared to hypertext.

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  • OddOpinions5failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to
    Jul 8, 2026, 12:18 AM

    @qurlyjoe

    Pubmed is a free online database, from the US gov't , that has info on virtually every scientific paper ever published (at least in English) related to medicine or biomedical research
    if you search for
    Artificial Intelligence AND cancer

    there are about 22,000 articles from 2025 to 2025

    social media is so funny

    When it is covid/mRNA vaccines the universal cry is: TRUST THE EXPERTS

    when it is AI/Cancer, the universal cry is: THEY ARE ALL BOUGHT OFF BY BIG PHARMA

    PEOPLE DO YOU EVEN HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ?????

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  • Mensch, Marinaenergisch_@troet.cafe
    Jul 8, 2026, 2:40 AM

    @qurlyjoe plus, our libraries also have internet access and pcs - if you need one, as well as printers. All inclusive, the printer paper costs 10 to 30 ct./page.
    It's also a place to read many newspapers and magazines, we cannot afford all of them. Online or in the next public library in the city. What would we do without libraries!?!

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