@darius https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-best-day-ever

@samloonie @mattblaze @dan613 I love this thread of hot takes sparked by Prof. Blaze

Electricity demand is beginning to rise faster than it has in recent years. What's going to happen to it in the next few years? Here's a mind-blower: the amount of uncertainty *just in US data center demand projections* is the size of ... Australia's entire national demand.

@cstross Those are three fuckin’ great paragraphs

@briankrebs This is the way.

@kdawson Feels like someone should have read the room

As a vegan I am also very angry Sen. Booker is setting unrealistic physical stamina expectations for our people

@nazgul Yes, when it is not progressive protest against right-wing American politics. That has not been effective for a quarter-century.

The one example in that list is OWS — which had nebulous demands none of which were met as well as concrete demands like overturning Citizens, banning […]

@waldoj AAAA toot

@ben There are valid critiques, including in this piece, but “customers aren’t demanding it” is an odd one.

Apple is famous for building things customers don’t know they want until they use it. Nobody was demanding an Apple Watch or an iPhone or an iPod. Or a GUI that people called “WIMPy” […]

@mergesort Timezone setting?

Here’s an actual number instead of an anecdote, from a reliable source that actually works on this problem at scale.

Cloudflare says “AI Crawlers” are “just under 1%” of web traffic.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

Another site that hosts data for over 10,000 projects was sad they had to give “the VM” more RAM. Someone else had to keep their site alive by increasing their pod count from 3 to 6.

I stubbed my toe this morning but I didn’t blog about it. It sucks but it’s part of that bipedal lifestyle I […]