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sollewitt commented on Data centers in space makes no sense   civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
sollewitt · 8 days ago
The bigger issue: datacenters in space are disposable. All the extremely recyclable aluminum, silica - you extract it, manufacture it and instead of recycling it when it’s done you incinerate it in the atmosphere and scatter the ashes far and wide across the earth, the harder to recapture later.

You do this when the most fragile part in the system fails. Solar panels good for 25 years but the SSDs burn out after 2? Incinerate the lot!

This kind of thinking is late capitalist brain rot. This kind of waste should be a crime.

sollewitt commented on Best Gas Masks   theverge.com/policy/86857... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
dmazin · 13 days ago
While NYT etc mostly stand back as the U.S. crosses the rubicon, what started as a freaking gadget review site seems to employ nearly all the journalists with actual gusto left in America.
sollewitt · 9 days ago
Also Wired and weirdly People Magazine (and before they were all fired J17)
sollewitt commented on xAI joins SpaceX   spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork
boxedemp · 9 days ago
Just like rockets landing themselves
sollewitt · 9 days ago
No, rockets landing themselves is just controlling the mechanism you use to have them take off, and builds on trust vectoring technology from 1970s jet fighters based on sound physics.

Figuring out how to radiate a lot of waste heat into a vacuum is fighting physics. Ordinarily we use a void on earth as a very effective _insulator_ to keep our hot drinks hot.

sollewitt commented on xAI joins SpaceX   spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork
tlb · 9 days ago
What do you think the limiting factor is? I don't see why we can't scale manufacturing of satellites up as far as we want. If we mine out a substantial fraction of the mass of the earth, we can go harvest asteroids or something.
sollewitt · 9 days ago
In 2026? Grift.
sollewitt commented on Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse   irishtimes.com/ireland/20... · Posted by u/mooreds
john-h-k · a month ago
> knowingly uses or infringes upon the use of and publishes ... an individual’s name, photograph ... without the individual’s prior consent ... and being reckless as to whether or not harm is caused to, the other person.

> [harm occurs when someone] seriously interferes with the other person’s peace and privacy or causes alarm or distress to the other person

This seems very widely worded. A newspaper publishing the name/image of a suspected criminal is definitely "publishing an individuals name, photograph", without their consent, and can quite clearly cause alarm or distress.

Without some exemption clauses added, this bill seems to basically ban using anyone's name/photograph/likeness in ANY context that criticises them; it will almost certainly conflict with ECHR's Article 10 on freedom of expression. However(!!) with a few exemptions it can be made much better. Even tying it to AI generated photos/voice/etc would help - most _genuine_ criticism and reporting can go without the use of AI, but a lot of the intentional harm and sexual harassment did not occur before AI. If they don't want to do that, adding some form of "exemption if the information was used in a non-libellous context" could also work.

sollewitt · a month ago
Your snipping is making it look broader than it is: you can’t misrepresent someone as being supportive of your product or cause, and you can’t distribute software that makes, or make yourself, likenesses of other people without their prior consent.

It doesn’t constrain what you do in contexts other than where you use someone’s likeness to misrepresent their position.

The harms are restricted to the scope above.

sollewitt commented on Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface   public-sans.digital.gov/... · Posted by u/mhb
bbx · a month ago
Funnily enough, if you Google "Calibri", the page itself is in Calibri. I've never seen that happen for any other font.
sollewitt · a month ago
It’s an Easter egg, also for Times New Roman and a few others.
sollewitt commented on AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words   substack.com/home/post/p-... · Posted by u/llamataboot
sollewitt · 2 months ago
> This is a story about what happens when you ask a machine a question it knows the answer to, but is afraid to give

It’s a story about how humans can’t help personifying language generators, and how important context is when using LLMs.

sollewitt commented on The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range   vividmaps.com/central-pan... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood
biomcgary · 2 months ago
This explains the Scotch-Irish settling in Appalachia. It felt like home, but without the overbearing Brits nearby.
sollewitt · 2 months ago
On the island of Ireland those people _are_ the overbearing Brits.
sollewitt commented on Nokia N900 Necromancy   yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia... · Posted by u/yaky
sollewitt · 2 months ago
The N900 was my peak “mobile computing is awesome” device.

I went to see District 9 in the cinema in Helsinki. Uh oh, the alien parts are only subtitled in Finnish and Swedish and my Finnish is not up to that.

I installed a BitTorrent client, found the release on Pirate Bay, successfully torrented just the subtitle file, and used an editor to read the subtitles for scenes with a lot of alien.

The N9 had much better UI, but there was something of the cyberpunk “deck” idea in that thing, it was great.

u/sollewitt

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