2025-11-30 15:42:03
from my link log —
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
saved 2025-11-30
from my link log —
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
saved 2025-11-30
Yo creo que es imposible tener un mínimo conocimiento de lo que supone la investigación y exploración espacial y posicionarse a favor de la mamarrachada de los centros de datos en el espacio. https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea<…
Mathematical Proof Debunks the Idea That the Universe Is a Computer Simulation - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/30/2232258/mathematical-proof-debunks-the-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
I have an idea. If we used people to do work, rather than paying for AI agents, then we wouldn’t need to pay for them to not work. Also, we wouldn’t have goodness knows how much electricity used on it.
#ai #ukpolitics
Sources: SpaceX is considering a potential merger with Tesla, an idea some investors are pushing, while separately exploring a tie-up between SpaceX and xAI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/elon-…
@… any idea what "sm4qm2 2318-s2" is? (CN import ASIC)
Idea: Animated movie about two children who meet a magical reference management software for bibliographic data and befriend it: "My Neighbor Zotero".
Democratic Representative Sara Jacobs said she was told in a Pentagon briefing
“that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes”
and that was part of the reason why the administration has not sought to detain or prosecute the survivors of the strikes,
“because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.”
“There’s nothing that we heard in there that changes my assessment that this is completely illegal,
that it is unlaw…
I know it’s common to say that we are on “stolen land” but doesn’t that imply that land can be owned and isn’t there this idea that one cannot own the land?
As someone who's had back issues, could some explain to me why people wear weighted vests and add all that sustained compression to their spine and think it's a good idea? Rucking feels like a macho flex because regular walking is for pussies.
i told you it was a bad idea to gives her a weapon!!!
#Soze
Just started reading “Killing the Dead — Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to The New World”, by John Blair. Looks fascinating. 300 pages so it’ll take a while. The idea of the undead has been around for probably as long as we’ve had any awareness of our mortality. Mythologies, oral and written, are chock full of the undead. I’ll try to post snippets of this story as I go along. #bookstodon
I mean what?
What?
I don't have any idea how you'd embed 7 tablet screens into a semi-circular pine table, let alone also have some kind of telescopic central column?
Even if I knew how I don't have the money for seven individual in-console embedded tabled place-settings.
This is madness. I should be asleep.
Meet.Coop seems to be down for me, for more than a day.
anyone at @… have any idea what's going on?
Yo creo que a cierta edad hay que superar esa idea que te hace creer que solo la música que tú escuchas es la buena y que eso te da una especie de superioridad intelectual frente al resto.
Re: https://x.com/FlopiBuenaOnda2/status/2005397778562949324
I subscribed to Jacobin when they had some deal, but I don't actually read it. Classic champagne socialist behavior. Leftists will be like, "Win an election? That pales in comparison to my idea, subscribing to Jacobin" and then not read Jacobin
#CSRF Protection without Tokens or Hidden Form Fields
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields
Lots of national population numbers are total fiction. We don't know how many people live in Papua New Guinea, or Nigeria, or even India.
https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake
So, if someone needs to contact me on #Signal, I'm jezusmichal.666.
Thanks to @… for the idea!
https://signal.me/#eu/U6tvFYe4vE2ISZz5a-CB1y6GJiZOA0s_ng7DQg1DMQm2PkHAHTRIeYOfpI_NWT7O
EDIT: I'm also reachable via IRC and Matrix. All the contact methods are on my homepage: https://mgorny.pl/
@… I have no idea, sorry.
@…
Former Saints Star Drops Wild Maxx Crosby Trade Idea https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-terron-armstead-trade-saints/
Once, at the National Student Drama Festival, where I was volunteering as a techie, there was a show that involved a butcher's knife, and they had decided to use a real one and "blunt" it by covering the edge in sellotape.
Turns out this was not a very effective way of rendering the knife safe.
The Deceptive Phrase Behind Trump’s Medicaid Purge – Mother Jones #ablebodied
Anyone else who's trying to minimize household waste . . . I really like the idea of toothpaste tablets because there's no toothpaste tube to dispose of or recycle. But toothpaste tablets aren't widely carried even in the coops/natural food stores around here.
Do ppl just really like paste over tablets? Or is there something problematic about tablets I'm missing?
The power of culture: Why the Patriots quoted a 1979 film on the road to the Super Bowl https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7006862/2026/01/30/mike-vrabel-mack-hollins-the-warriors-super-bowl-patriots/
A look at South Park Commons, the VC firm behind a startup community focusing on idea exploration over immediate business plans, as it aims to raise $500M (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
An iconic story and idea that sticks with me over the years is Isaac Asimov's classic tale that introduces the 3 Laws of Robotics, "Runaround"
I'm about to spoil the dilemma (not the solution), but it doesn't ruin the value of the story
Robots must obey orders, and secondary to that, robots must protect themselves. This particular robot is ordered to retrieve selenium to fix a human life support system for a facility on Mercury. Unknown to the humans, the s…
Israeli tech founder Maor Shlomo,
whose vibe coding startup Base44 sold for over $80 million when it was acquired by Wix,
said on the podcast “20VC” that “it’s relatively easy to create a vibe coding tool.”
“Every feature that we put out, we know that’s going to take either a few weeks or a few months for competitor to copy,” he complained.
It's trivially easy for competitors to copy your brilliant innovation.
What if we defined
- XSLT functions for the canonicalizations of JSON-LD
- Defined ways to trigger browsers to know to apply XSLT to JSON (headers) and JSON-LD (in band or as headers?) documents.
@… @… "Every great idea starts out as blasphemy. If there is resistance, it means that the direction is right" - Adam "Nergal" Darski 🤘
I Have A Great Idea For Retraining ICE Agents (Alex Pareene/Defector)
https://defector.com/i-have-a-great-idea-for-retraining-ice-agents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p80#a260126p80
It’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.
Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?
Well, the government for one.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/why-cloud-first-has-…
When a terrible idea comes from on high, there’s always pushback from the folks on the ground who actually understand how things work: the engineers at the computers, the teachers in the classrooms, the facilities crews, the kitchen staff, whatever. The folks who live their lives zoomed in on a specific thing may be missing the big picture, but they’re the ones who first see when a managerial notion will have execution problems.
3/
Friends, if anybody could inform me about my home network setup problem, I'd greatly appreciate it!
Namely, I have a situation of a router (ISP's; I'm not given access to its configuration) that has a 2.5Gbit ethernet port, and two PCs that have 1Gbit ethernet cards (stock, on the motherboard).
To avoid running two ethernet cables across the room to the PCs, my idea was to get a switch and run one cable to the switch, and then two small cables from the switch to the P…
One of my friends gifted me “Timberborn” for Christmas on Steam so I ended up doing THAT until 5am, which was a supremely bad idea.
😂
Hands-on with Google's Auto Browse for Chrome: its ability to perform multistep tasks is noticeably better than similar tools but struggles with complex tasks (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-auto-browse-hands-on/
Good overview on where to get started to improve #cryptography code by Jade Philipoom at #39c3: https://
Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts!
So there is a delivery company in Norway called Helthjem, which means something like all the way home or completely home. The idea being that so many delivery companies here actually fail to deliver to you home and make you pick up from a drop off point.
They just send me this text:
Hi! The package from GPN cannot be delivered to your home. It is being sent to Linderud Flower shop. You will be notified when it can be picked up. Tracking number: [redacted] Regards, Helthjem
@… Great idea! One suggestion if I may: I assume the address is in Germany? If someone were to send you an item by mail, it may be helpful to add the country to the address you listed on the page, just to avoid any confusion.
I keep on thinking about this so often, now mostly about how the word has been co-opted & abused by contemporary "AI"... Just refound the link (from 2012):
Generative vs generated
https://www.anomalogue.com/2012/05/01/generative-vs-generated/
Did another sanity check on the 2nd PC and installed The Alters which is an Unreal 5 game. My internet bill gonna be higher this month cause I apparently passed the cap limit (thanks for failing to send me the warning email Comcast) but whatever. Booted it, checked the settings (Epic, Native AA so the 1080p the display runs at) and loaded in.. to a buttery smooth 60fps.
So it's definitely something going on with The Last Caretaker. I have no idea what, tho. For some reason in game …
Every single time I open Photomath I discover they found a new way to make the app worse. Why? How? After all the enshitification they made on the last years did they really think removing the history feature was a good idea?
I am not understanding how ngl.link works. They don’t seem to host answers like ask.fm did or Tellonym does. They want you to post answers on other platforms, which is commendable, but I have no idea if and how anyone gets notified if their particular question answered.
Every non-hype defense of #LLMs starts with "you must already understand your work really well." But the people vibe coding prototypes *don't*.
As a result they scale up thoughtlessness. "Bulking out" a slapdash idea with hallucinated details only displaces the real thinking that could have led to actual innovation. The very teams the tool was supposed to help instead…
Been playing with #gokrazy this weekend, testing it out as a base for a container os idea I'm playing with. As part of that I've made it run with podman 5, and also implemented a pure go shim for the nft command that's sufficient for netavark to create pod forwards and such https://code.bas.es/marcus/nft-shim - Not sure if strictly necessary as I was able to build static binaries for nft using nixpkgs pkgsStatic target, but was a fun weekend project to hack on anyways. I quite like the idea behind gokrazy.
The idea that an unpredictable #tariff environment incentivises #investment is wild.
DeltaChat is a cool idea but should be cranked to the max. Fuck protocols, instant messaging has never been been about the protocol but the network effect.
Not everyone knows how to login to their email outside of the web browser, a chat client should facilitate speech between you and your friend’s favourite app.
These are all open protocols that allow for direct communication but garden off others: activitypub, email, irc, matrix, xmpp, bluesky, nostr, simplex, theema, tox, jam…
Using “AI” to manage your #Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
https://www.osnews.com/story/144006/using-ai-to-manage-your-fedora-system-…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Kareen Lomax:
🎵 idea of you
#KareenLomax
https://open.spotify.com/track/2OL5weimgJp3Lhq20IDv25
Steps to greatly advance the state of the art in any relatively obscure field:
1) Find a bunch of autistic nerds whose special interests broadly overlap with said field
2) Put them in contact and let them share ideas or, better yet, lab space
3) Buy them whatever they ask for
4) Wait and see what they come up with. Excitement guaranteed, you just have no idea exactly what kind.
Could you get Republican to sign on to a bill that only puts gun restrictions on Democrats? Seems like a weird idea but would what kind of real world effects it would have.
so many reasons this is a bad dumb idea.. but also...
When you slept shorter than usual, because just before sleep you got an idea how to implement multiplication in https://nandgame.com.
Of course, when you actually went to bed, you figured out an ever better method, and with 32-bit output. But I suppose the old one is nice too, quite pedagogical.
Former Raiders HC Jon Gruden Gets Blunt About Jets Rumor https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jon-gruden-blunt-jets-coach-rumor/
Tonight I introduced my father to the 1998 movie Pleasantville. I had no idea that he had never seen it.
I recorded a gpx track with #OpenTracks. Not sure if I'm missing something but I'm not seeing a way to use that track in #Vespucci. Any idea how that could work?
#OpenStreetMap
It’s a given that Trump and his administration, and republicans in general, and MAGA diehards are not so much concerned with what’s happened, and still happening, in #Minneapolis, with #ICE and all the rest, as they are concerned about HOW IT LOOKS. So I wonder whose idea was it to not give ICE full unifo…
I’m helping put together a campaign for municipal #socialHousing here in San Francisco. If you’re already familiar with social housing, how would you define it? If you’re newer to the idea, what’s a question you have about social housing, or something you hope it can achieve?
@… any idea what "Error The data couldn't be read because it is missing" means?
Riley Walz scraped the city inspectors documenting graffiti violations across San Francisco. It's really a cool idea to archive and document graffiti from the perspective of the legal eye.
Now the scary part is the comments on Hacker News.
#graffitiart #streetart
RE: https://journa.host/@w7voa/115619357417203008
I'd put $100 on them having no idea who actually did it, and they just plucked some nearby immigrant rando as the suspect.
I’m just appalled that anyone exposes MongoDB to the Internet.
We’ve always known it was a bad idea, haven’t we? @… https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog
Ya wanna know what is a bad idea? “AI-directed experimentation and manufacturing” is.
potus should have just called it a hand out for Oracle.
It is a solution searching for a problem. It literally gives 90 days for them to identify 20 problems it might solve.
It uses public funds for private research.
If you’re a mediocre manager / executive / admin / leader, what this feels like is •you• have a brilliant idea that will fix things or save a bazillion dollars or boost the metrics or whatever, but all these annoying underling keep telling you that you can’t do that for reasons that you don’t understand and that make no sense to you and you suspect they’re kind of making up.
And you keep saying “Can’t you just…” and they keep giving these confusing gobbledygook answers and the result is that your brilliant leadership cannot come to fruition.
4/
Hunter Biden says he's up to $15M in debt, claims 'I have no idea' how to pay that off (Samuel Chamberlain/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/us-news/hunter-biden-says-hes-up-to-15m-in-debt-claims-i-have-no-idea-how-to-pay-that-off/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251223/p115#a251223p115
Zi Teng Wang, a magician and molecular biologist in Missouri had the idea:
implant a computer chip in his hand and do magic tricks with it.
— Too bad he forgot the password.
It sounds like a joke but it really happened
https://futurism.com/future-society/los…
Any social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.
1 Trade Idea the Raiders Absolutely Must Not Consider https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-trade-idea-absolutely-must-not-consider
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@poofbirb/115616947338716839
New product idea!!
Nacua apologizes, 'had no idea' gesture offensive https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47348037/rams-puka-nacua-apologizes-had-no-idea-gesture-offensive
@… SQLite called. They want their idea back 😅
Does anybody know of a part similar to or slightly larger than the LTC3374A that can take 12V input?
The LTC3374A is 8x 1A bucks phased in 90 degree steps (2 per phase), and can parallel up to 4 for increased output (4A max out). On many of my smaller boards I can fit the entire power supply in the one chip.
But I'd like to be able to go just a little bit bigger for some of my designs, both to enable 12V input and to get slightly more output current. The general idea of "…
Like all the rest of the nerds, I did a bit of tech support on family computers.
They're all popping up windows from scam virus scanners lying that subscriptions need to be renewed or machines are unprotected. People don't know how to remove these things. Luckily they also don't really know how to pay the subscription.
Their phones are updating on them. Changing where buttons used to be. Removing options. Forcing people to register to use they things they have been doing for years.
They don't know how to register.
Things pop up asking for passwords and they have no idea who is asking or which password to use.
I tell them that I don't really understand why they keep using Windows now it is so shitty and awful. They say they don't know how to use anything else. The fact they don't really know how to use windows either doesn't seem to register.
The tech corporations have given up completely on being user friendly. They are all deliberately user hostile and exploitative now.
Corporate tech is terrible. The industry is failing it's users, abusing them. People don't even know there is any other way. They are just giving up on achieving their tasks until someone can fix the pop-ups and subscription boxes and passwords and 2fa for them.
Tech sucks now. Sucks hard.
#tech #christmasTechSupport
RE: https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/115939302721314540
When people from other parts of the US ask what they can do to help Minneapolis, this is the first thing I always tell them: Get organized NOW. Form your community networks NOW. You have no idea how important it’s going to be. You have no idea how much a head start will help.
The guy who “invented” the little arrow on the dashboard that tells you which side of the car the fuel tank hole is on, former Ford employee James Moylan, died on December 11 at age 80
#automobilehistory
Trump's Tariff Check Idea Gets Cold Reception From GOP Lawmakers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/trump-s-tariff-check-idea-gets-cold-reception-from-gop-lawmakers
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p91#a251119p91
Analyst floats wild George Pickens trade idea for Dallas Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/analyst-floats-wild-george-pickens-trade-idea-for-dallas-cowboys
Josh Allen will help pick the Bills' next head coach. Is that a good idea? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6995173/2026/01/24/josh-allen-bills-coach-interviews/
Lamar Jackson sends Ravens, Raiders fans into a frenzy over retweet of trade idea https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/lamar-jackson-sends-ravens-raiders-fans-frenzy-retweet-…
According to sociologist
Tressie McMillan Cottom,
the AI future is for the rich.
Cottom’s contention is a bleak one — the idea that the most powerful billionaires in the world are using AI to seize total control of humanity
But she isn’t short on hope.
“I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansion vision of the future...
That’s my daring idea."
Steelers owner on rebuild: 'I don't like that word' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47611046/steelers-owner-art-rooney-ii-dismisses-idea-rebuild-new-hc
Sources: Google has begun pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on the idea of using TPUs in their own data centers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-encroaches-nvidias-turf-new-ai-chip-push
Jets Receive Major Take on Former Raiders HC Jon Gruden https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jets-major-take-jon-gruden/