Work, play, procrastinate, and panic.
In California, Meta is proposing data centers back in January. The fight today is currently inside with the states administrators. Senators want to change existing laws and propose loopholes. But local municipalities of desirable data center build sites are fighting back with “not in my backyard” laws.
“Garmin GPS announces next update to bring back missing potholes by playing bang.mp3 without any user input destination needed…”
SMS for uninteresting plain texts to a phone.
RCS for sending a picture over 1mb to a phone.
Email for common everything else.
Matrix\Element or other measaging clients for the uncommon everything else.
A second phone number or virtual SMS client like Google Voice for sensitive SMS 2FA.
Switch routing is network hardware that manages only one side\subnet\layer of clients – it’s like one layer of an onion will only ever see the next layer.
This reddit thread cites a real-world parent’s example of packet inspection solutions…
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/piarcj/selfhosted_parental_control/
Correct. A (non-admistrator) user of a Android cannot disable software. This too also applies to a Windows Limited user.
Pi-Hole + packet inspection + whitelisting + switch routing = universal lockdown against every known form of data obfuscation. This is now a server machine.
Windows has Limited User account, Family Safety in the control panel, and a advanced Firewall. 3rd party Net Nanny was\is a net filtering\alerting software that had visiting-server-side support in case the kid knew how to onion route or obfuscate a url or ip.
Androids can install firewall software like PersonalDNSFilter, AdGuardDNS, or RethinkDNS (the premium version creates for you a custom dns server – no software needed.
Androids have profiles built-in, that act like windows user accounts.
Pi-Hole is a hardware thing you attach to your network.
There should be plenty more.
Yup. This. I’m in California and this is not even a topic. This is not even in the local news. It’s as quiet as: the bullet train project, the gigantic water pipeline for the south project, the drought solution, the power grid solutions, etc. But, boy, the amounts of money that it blew thru.
The best analogy I’ve heard for this, to help understand why it’s a ‘null’ {i need a better word here} topic was said as… "Parents to be doing the parenting, versus, a government doing the parenting and unbeknownst applies it to everyone ". And it is speaking of widely available tools that are already available such as parental controls in routers, devices, etc.
The analogy discounts “little hackers” or minors that intentionally will break laws to get what they want; in which then no “age verification” service (made by anyone) will work in practice.
Zuck: Instead, let’s refire-up and overclock Rancho Seco.
Theory. Meta will pre fill-up their housings with overseas students\programmers. Try and get them to play and spend their money in downtown.
High chance it flops. Rich kids live and go where they please. At the first sign of boredom, they’ll fiip, sublet, or AirB&B it just to not be in downtown.
Imagine it… a SMUD+ subscription, pay extra to opt-out of more rolling blackouts; because the server farms will be evermore thirsty.
Sacramento (the state-side of it) is entertaining plans going in the opposite direction of New Jersey. A recent deal wants to let Meta in here on the promise: they’ll build some affordable housing, they’ll refurbish some old state buildings (for Meta use), and something for the local college. The reaction here is {bear looking sideways meme}.
Bets on where the surprise ai data center will be?
If a gif could represent an entire article…
Don’t give up. Keep it growing!
A pic from a Fb post…
I bet a guy suggested OFFaiCE and they prolly said “that’s confusing”.
When you ask the copilot to do a 365…
In 2024, in the eyes of Microsoft, they saw a demand for A.I. (from who or where, is another rabbit hole). And Microsoft bought a 20 year nuclear power contract. So 20-30 years from today that spent nuclear fuel is fuck that humans will have for infinity; instead of 100% of that nuclear power to have used for any other purpose (cities, battery charging, hospitals, food production, etc)… absolutely anything other than A.I.
Yup, so your answer is in the bottom of that rabbit hole, and it isn’t a logical one.
You can see your current live memory usage.
Settings -> Developer Options -> Running Services
“Accidental spider release plagues nearby town. ‘Nobody wants to fall asleep anymore’, says citizen.”