Occam's razor takes you to a bribery conspiracy?
Have you consumed any media in the last decades.
Readit Newshengheng commented on Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report bsky.social/about/blog/01... · Posted by u/emschwartz
Ed Zitron Voice: Is that good?
Are people doing more than serving SMB shares with their NAS’s? I feel like I’m missing out on something.
Depending on how you build it, you could run homeassistant next to your smb, which lends itself to all sorts of add-ons such as calibre-web for displaying eBooks and synchronizing progress.
Of course, gitea and surroundings, or similar ci/cd can be a fun thing to dabble with if you aren't totally over that from work.
Another fun idea is to run the rapidly developing immich as a photo storage solution. But in general, the best inspiration is the awesome-selfhosted list.
hengheng commented on General principles for the use of AI at CERN home.web.cern.ch/news/off... · Posted by u/singiamtel
How did that turn into "not great, not terrible"? That's still 300,000 homes that could otherwise be powered. It's an enormous amount of electricity!
In your opinion, what would instead justify the total cost of devoting 10'000 people's lives to basic research?
hengheng commented on General principles for the use of AI at CERN home.web.cern.ch/news/off... · Posted by u/singiamtel
‘Sustainability: The use of AI must be assessed with the goal of mitigating environmental and social risks and enhancing CERN's positive impact in relation to society and the environment.’ [1]
‘CERN uses 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity annually. That’s enough power to fuel 300,000 homes for a year in the United Kingdom.’ [2]
I think AI is the least of their problems, seeing as they burn a lot of trees for the sake of largely impractical pure knowledge.
[1] https://home.web.cern.ch/news/official-news/knowledge-sharin... [2] https://home.cern/science/engineering/powering-cern
That is equivalent to a continuous draw of 150 MW. Not great, not terrible.
Far less power than those projected gigawatt data centers that are surely the one thing keeping AI companies from breaking even.
hengheng commented on Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards mobomaps.com... · Posted by u/tagyro
Can anyone recommend a specific, well-made, high-performance motherboard with loads of PCIe lanes and expansion slots, and sensible lane topology?
All the motherboards these days make me feel claustrophobic. My current workstation is pretty old, but feels like it had more expansion capability (relative to its time) than what's on the market today.
Look into CXL, Oculink, and riser cables.
hengheng commented on AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/speckx
How's AMD's engineering support these days? I've heard through the grapevine that many laptops were mostly engineered by intel engineers, creating a natural moat because the laptop brands are used to not having to do much PCB layout or thermals.
AMD, I heard, seemed less capable, or less interested, or couldn't justify at their quantities, to do the same, which meant their engineering support packages were good for atx mainboards only, and maybe the occasional console.
This must have changed a while ago, does anyone have the tea?
hengheng commented on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower supercarblondie.com/elect... · Posted by u/chris_overseas
saving 30 kg of weight on a 2000 - 2500 kg car won't lead to "significant efficiency gains"
I agree insofar as the motor is not a Big Ticket Item, opposed to ICE cars where the engine block is going to be 10% or more.
Tesla (I know) claimed a 30kg (?) weight loss on their Cybertruck (I know) just from moving their 12V systems to 48V, allowing for lighter cables at lower currents. Not all such potential is untapped, and my hunch is that there is more to be had with structural battery integration, battery cooling, and high voltage wiring.
To me the real question is what kind of trust has eroded that Americans stopped electing smart people into office.