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FabHK commented on The Day the Telnet Died   labs.greynoise.io/grimoir... · Posted by u/pjf
dec0dedab0de · 10 hours ago
unless it doesn’t matter if it’s evesdropped
FabHK · 10 hours ago
Traffic could be tampered as well.
FabHK commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams   kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
deviation · 5 days ago
Nice - Another post shaming Apple for a problem which the entire internet faces.

I'll load up Facebook right now and get the same things. Google? The same.

And to no surprise, ads like these break Apple's ad content guidelines[1].

OP should figuratively put down the video camera and go perform CPR. Report the Ad. Make the internet a better place.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/adguide/apd527d891a8/1...

FabHK · 5 days ago
Still a bit of a bummer that with Apple, you pay a premium to escape the ad-based ecosystem^W cesspool, both for the hardware and then here for Apple News itself, and then still not only get served ads, but tasteless scam ads.
FabHK commented on Data centers in space makes no sense   civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
pclmulqdq · 7 days ago
> So, not saying that it’s easy or feasible, but saying that cooling then seems “just” as difficult as power, not insurmountably more difficult

This is with an ideal radiator and perfect pointing so it receives no incident light, so in practice you need a bigger one than this.

However, if you think launching a solar panel that is the size of 10 NYC city blocks is "manageable," then why not throw in a radiator that is about 15 city blocks in size?

FabHK · 6 days ago
Maybe the more appropriate conclusion would be that both cooling and power supply would constitute very tough challenges.
FabHK commented on Data centers in space makes no sense   civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
pclmulqdq · 7 days ago
I think you may be overestimating how quickly this happens and underestimating how much surface area that rock has. Given no atmosphere, the fact that the rock with 1/4 the radius of Earth has a temperature differential of only 300C between the hot side and the cold side, there's not a lot of radiation happening.

In deep space (no incident power) you need roughly 2000 sq meters of surface area per megawatt if you want to keep it at 40C. That would mean your 100 MW deep space datacenter (a small datacenter by AI standards) needs 200000 sq meters of surface area to dissipate your heat. That is a flat panel that has a side length of 300 meters (you radiate on both sides).

Unfortunately, you also need to get that power from the sun, and that will take a square with a 500 meter side length. That solar panel is only about 30% efficient, so it needs a heatsink for the 70% of incident power that becomes heat. That heatsink is another radiator. It turns out, we need to radiate a total of ~350 MW of heat to compute with 100 MW, giving a total heatsink side length of a bit under 600 meters.

All in, separate from the computers and assuming no losses from there, you need a 500x500 meter solar panel and a 600x600 meter radiator just for power and heat management on a relatively small compute cluster.

This sounds small compared to things built on Earth, but it's huge compared to anything that has been sent to space before. The ISS is about 100 meters across and about 30 meters wide for comparison.

FabHK · 7 days ago
First, thanks for your knowledgeable input.

Second, are you saying that we basically need to have a radiator as big (approximately) as the solar panels?

That is a lot, but it does sound manageable, in the sense that it approximately doubles what we require anyway for power.

So, not saying that it’s easy or feasible, but saying that cooling then seems “just” as difficult as power, not insurmountably more difficult. (Note that the article lists cooling, radiation, latency, and launch costs as known hard problems, but not power.)

FabHK commented on Data centers in space makes no sense   civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
stogot · 7 days ago
> You can't exchange heat with vacuum. You can only radiate heat into it.

I don’t remember the difference from my science classes, isn’t This the same thing essentially?

FabHK · 7 days ago
The other two methods of heat transfer apart from radiation are conduction (through “touch”, adjacent molecules, eg from the outside of a chicken on the BBQ to the inside) and convection (through movement, eg cold air or water flowing past).
FabHK commented on Data centers in space makes no sense   civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
parl_match · 7 days ago
yes. it is how sats currently handle this. its actually exponentially effective too P = E S A T^4

requires a lot of weight (cooling fluid). requires a lot of materials science (dont want to burn out radiator). requires a lot of moving parts (sun shutters if your orbit ever faces the sun - radiator is going to be both ways).

so that sounds all well and good (wow! 4th power efficiency!) but it's still insanely expensive and if your radiator solution fucks up in any way (in famously easy to service environment space) then your entire investment is toast

now i havent run the math on cost or what elon thinks the cost is, but my extremely favorable back of hand math suggests he's full of it

FabHK · 7 days ago
Pet peeve:

T^4 is not exponential in T, it’s polynomial. For exponential, T must be in the exponent, e.g. 2^T or so.

Still, pretty effective.

Having said that, agree that Elon is full of it.

FabHK commented on What's up with all those equals signs anyway?   lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
OJFord · 8 days ago
I haven't seen them other than in the submission - but if the length matches up it may be that they were processed from raw email, the RFC defines a length to wrap at.

Edit: yes I think that's most likely what it is (and it's SHOULD 78ch; MUST 998ch) - I was forgetting that it also specifies the CRLF usage, it's not (necessarily) related to Windows at all here as described in TFA.

Here it is in my 'notmuch-more' email lib: https://github.com/OJFord/amail/blob/8904c91de6dfb5cba2b279f...

FabHK · 8 days ago
> it's not (necessarily) related to Windows at all here as described in TFA.

The article doesn't claim that it's Windows related. The article is very clear in explaining that the spec requires =CRLF (3 characters), then mentions (in passing) that CRLF is the typical line ending on Windows, then speculates that someone replaced the two characters CRLF with a one character new line, as on Unix or other OSs.

FabHK commented on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
cosmicgadget · 11 days ago
> “We look forward to moving forward with those claims and note WhatsApp’s denials have all been carefully worded in a way that stops short of denying the central allegation in the complaint – that Meta has the ability to read WhatsApp messages, regardless of its claims about end-to-end encryption.”

My money is on the chats being end to end encrypted and separately uploaded to Facebook.

FabHK · 11 days ago
It should be detectable if it sends twice the data.

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