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unglaublich··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
It's just an emotional witch hunt at this point. I get it, societal implications of AI are scary, but protest _that_ instead of cosplaying like an environmentalist.
unglaublich··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Slow https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6.1-sol#providers

vs https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-5.5#providers

unglaublich··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Because electric engines are more performant than gas ones so you can in theory have better driving perfomrance? I.e., high, flat and predictable torque curve, re-use braking energy (so it adds up to ICE), extremely high energy density of the engine unit.
unglaublich··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
> Lando Norris calling the electronic glitches "horrible" and further proof that F1 should move away from hybrids.

But the human fireballs, deaths and suffering of gasoline-related accidents are no proof that F1 should move away from gas-power?

unglaublich··on We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
My Dutch bank offers such a thing on SEPA direct debits. If a company sends a debit request, it must stay within X euros per month or otherwise it's not automatically accepted and I'll have to explicitly allow/reject it.

Rejection will block the payment and the company will likely go after you to settle the dispute.

unglaublich··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
It's all just an effort to control the 90%.
unglaublich··on RIP, vector database
One can focus on generating 10 other accounts before it's flagged. Now you have 10 others to deal with.
unglaublich··on Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
I would sweat my ass off! I'm a guy who wears shorts and a t-shirt in autumn and spring. I can't imagine life in summer in a suit.
unglaublich··on Energy Timelines Photovoltaic
And then to think that the essential energy source of coal power is just robbed from future generations. If we would fairly _pay_ for coal, and fossil fuel in general, they would have been outpriced decades ago!
unglaublich··on Solving Factorio Quality
Generate a huge load of vulcanus iron plates with speed modules, then feed that into assembler/recycler chain of iron chests (all quality).

Or, if energy/space isn't of huge concern to you: a lot of foundries with quality, and just dump anything that's not legendary into the lava.

unglaublich··on Solving Factorio Quality
Some folks say: "if you don't like it, don't use it?" same holds for LDS where you can also argue that throwing a piece of legendary plastic in lava shouldn't produce legendary steel and copper.

Well, I guess we'll have a small mod that reenables it for those interested; and the standard game can be the guide on gameplay balance.

unglaublich··on Solving Factorio Quality
“Space casino” is gone from Factorio 2.1 as asteroid reprocessors don't take quality items anymore. Motivated by devs that it was 'just too easy' to get legendary items this way.
unglaublich··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
On the one hand, yes, on the other hand it would also not be too hard to do routing based on such a parameter and Antrophic has shown (through Fable and Mythos) that they have such a transparent routing system in place.

In fact, since they have some rule based system (if bioenegineering or security, route to degraded model) it would be almost trivial to add 'user has filed feedback' to it.

Not saying this is what happens, but just that it's not as insane as it sounds.

unglaublich··on Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
They refuse it because if they would say "1 million liters a year!" the knee-jerk reaction will be completely predictable even though that's just tiny compared to a small swimming pool or industrial or agricultural site.

The debate is completely based on emotion and anger right now, so sharing information will only give the emotional/angry folks more mud to throw with. The majority of people has no clue about how to put things like energy use and water use in perspective, and they're also not interested in doing that. Because they have decided to green-wash their AI-fears as environmental fears... which is a big fat joke because datacenters aren't significant polluters or consumers compared to almost all other industries.

Look, I get it, many people are afraid of the societal impacts of AI, or distrust it in another way. But let's be honest and focus on _that_ instead of naively acting as if our anti-datacenter sentiment comes from environmental concerns (the last few decades have shown we don't GAF about the environment).

unglaublich··on Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland
Also, whenever something is mildly successful, some foreign investor fund will swing a nice back of money in front of the founders and *poof* European company gone.
unglaublich··on OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
The only thing the name does is tell that it's not a very good test?
unglaublich··on OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
Typically only if it would go in against the interest of the government. In this case, OpenAI and its peers are carrying the complete US stock market, and the govt has a huge interest in not making it collapse anytime near election dates.
unglaublich··on OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
Why is using a computer to solve a captcha stealing. The websites posed you a challenge, you solved it. Maybe the website _expected_ you to waste human time on it, but that's not what you did.
unglaublich··on OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
Unless Russia it would put Russia in a strong position to regulate bots in the wealthiest parts of the world.
unglaublich··on Jevmem – automatic project memory for Claude Code, built on Jev
This is quite easily promptable. Tricks like these do well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065956
unglaublich··on OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
This just screams pretext to regulatory capture to me.
unglaublich··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
The majority of working hours are not needed. The only purpose is to play along in the game of capitalism and be good little consumers. It's mostly social benefits with occupational therapy.
unglaublich··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Are we anything else? Our complete behavior is shaped by our upbringing, media exposure, education. "Do we even have free will?"
unglaublich··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
I vibed a wikipodcast app that has a wikipedia dump, gemma llm for search and summarization and a tts model for audio gen so I could just ask about topics while on the go, and the app would just go off and tell me stuff out of the Wikipedia database.

It was especially nice during a bike trip along the Rhine, I listened to a lot of the history of the industrial area and its cities.

unglaublich··on Claude Opus 5.5
Opus is useless; Mythos access will be granted to companies that are friendly to the government, so the government gets more control over business.
unglaublich··on Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
Well, if Google Search was an experience where it would show you the most relevant page to your query, they would probably still be in the market. However, so many adversarial efforts, SEO, scam, ads, etc have been put in place that plain Google search is practically worthless for everyday use; they shouldn't be surprised that people jumped at the next best opportunity to replace it.
unglaublich··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
I guess net-neutrality doesn't exist in Spain?
unglaublich··on BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video]
It’s so annoying that the EU is artificially hampering EV adoption to protect their outdated fossil fuel car manufacturers.
unglaublich··on Do people prefer stories written by AI?
Here are the stories, sadly, they immediately reveal the source so you can't play the quiz really. On the other hand, I think most people would spot the classics like em-dash and metaphores straight away. https://osf.io/d8f6m/files/osfstorage
unglaublich··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Because an average request would have to travel half the globe, so setting up a simple HTTPS connection would already take a second. That's completely unacceptable for static content.

Not only would transfer be slow, they would also be much more pressing on the network as the request would occupy huge stretches and many interconnects and switches.

Furthermore, it hardens the website against DDoS and adds robustness for regional failures.

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