Are we still pushing the myth that anti-malware on Mac isn't necessary?
As of today you don't need to install one on Windows also. Both OS have inbuilt s/w for this purpose.
Readit Newsblackoil commented on More Mac malware from Google search eclecticlight.co/2026/01/... · Posted by u/kristianp
blackoil commented on More Mac malware from Google search eclecticlight.co/2026/01/... · Posted by u/kristianp
This sucks because the web should be the perfect, safe platform for this kind of application, but it isn't. Technically all the features exist in the browser such that you could write a homedir cleaner, space analyzer, etc purely in a browser tab, but because of the misguided (in my opinion) way that browsers refuse to do open a homedir, it's impossible.
Is this satire?
> Some one has to moderate these videos
Do they? Maybe you can never get to zero, but I'd be surprised if there weren't any ways to materially reduce the frequency of such videos being uploaded.
Of course, many of these ways will probably affect growth metrics, and since these directly translate into revenue, I can imagine how the economic tradeoff that was made here looks like...
There are other trade offs, requiring a real world id to connect to the Internet and fragmenting it to connect only aligned countries will mostly take away problem of illegal porn, fraud and spam. But at some cost.
blackoil commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
Compare the cost of a RAD750 (the processor on the JWST) to its non rad hardened variant. Additionally, consider the processing power of that system to modern AI demands.
I just calculated the potential weight of solar cells in space. Can't say about cost. Idea is mot of the weight of panel is because of glass/plastic protection on top and frame, these are there to protect from rain, hail, wind and dust. In space the elements it will need protection from will be different. I could be completely off but have no claims on cost and feasibility of this.
blackoil commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
source?
:| Did rough calculations with help of ChatGPT. In space it need not be hardened for rain, hail, wind and dust but for radiation and micro meteors.
blackoil commented on The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75 thedrive.com/news/youll-h... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Sadly, nobody has time or budget for beauty any more
It's amazing how ornately decorated early equipment was --- especially 19th century and earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cooke_and_Wheatstone_elec...
Or the utilitarian cost has gone down much faster than cost of decorative. If your bulb cost $10, spending $5 to make beautiful lamp post makes sense. But if bulb cost has fallen to 10 cents now to justify $2 is difficult.
blackoil commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
>That would make your solar panel (40kg) around $60K to put into space.
with the GPU costing the same, it would only double the capex.
>Even being generous and assuming you could get it to $100 per kg that's still $4000
noise compare to the main cost - GPUs.
>There's a lot of land in the middle of nowhere that is going to be cheaper than sending shit to space.
Cheapness of location of your major investment - GPUs - may as well happen to be secondary to other considerations - power/cooling capacity stable availability, jurisdiction, etc.
Any idea, what is the estimated cost of a Google TPU. It may not make sense for Nvidia retail price but at cost price of Google.
blackoil commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
>1. The capital costs are higher, you have to expend tons of energy to put it into orbit
putting 1KW of solar on land - $2K, putting it into orbit on Starship (current ground-based heavy solar panels, 40kg for 4m2 of 1KW in space) - anywhere between $400 and $4K. Add to that that the costs on Earth will only be growing, while costs in space will be falling.
Ultimately Starship's costs will come down to the bare cost of fuel + oxidizer, 20kg per 1kg in LEO, i.e. less than $10. And if they manage streamlined operations and high reuse. Yet even with $100/kg, it is still better in space than on the ground.
And for cooling that people so complain about without running it in calculator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878961
>2. The maintenance costs are higher because the lifetime of satellites is pretty low
it will live those 3-5 years of the GPU lifecycle.
To add space solar cell will weigh only 4-12kg as protection requirements are different.
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