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jwzHow to radicalize investment bankers against AI: Plunge their ski resorts into darkness for data centers:
The Sierra Nevada tourist hub -- home to ski resorts, lakeside casinos, and roughly 25 to 28 million annual visitors -- is facing an energy crisis with a familiar culprit: the data centers powering the AI boom...
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jwzIs there something I should put in some markdown file in the XScreenSaver source that will make things hilariously explode if someone slopfondles it?
jwzA slopfondler walks into a bar.
Once or twice a month some tech industry guy recognizes me at DNA Lounge. It always used to be blah blah Mozilla blah blah Code Rush, whatever... but lately all they want to do is proselytize "AI" at me. This has been 100% of fanboy interactions this year. And then they're shocked when I don't want to hear about their awesome project and in fact I tell them that what they are doing is unethical and harmful...
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jwzFile systems.
Dear Lazyweb,
For an external USB 5GB+ spinning disk (not SSD), is HFS a better choice than APFS? Assume no weird edge cases like spanning volumes or RAID are involved. It's just a disk.
It is very easy to find either answer, but hard to find one that sounds like it's from someone who knows what they are talking about, and isn't just cargo-culting it or reading from a press release. So show your work.
https://jwz.org/b/yk64
jwzHappy time_t 1777777777 to all who celebrate.
# date +'%F %r %Z = %s'
2026-05-02 08:09:37 PM PDT = 1777777777
https://jwz.org/b/yk62
jwzSix-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case: She seems to have argued at trial that she had no intent to harm anyone, and had only released the bees so they could "enjoy the lovely, flowering landscape" in the area. The landscape was also infested with deputies, though, and the jury does not seem to have believed that was a coincidence...
https://jwz.org/b/yk60
jwzI have been informed that "dad rock" refers to music released prior to to 2010.
jwzA friend was doing a crossword and asked me what URL stands for so I said Unicorn Rotisserie Label and I think we're just gonna have to go with that from now on.
Also they're both 22 letters and I didn't even do that on purpose.
jwzSome asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever.
If anyone is an "AI vegan" it's me -- I don't use these tools at all, ever, because they are unethical. Telling me that they are delicious is not going to make them ethical.
Also, I will endlessly berate you about your use.
That's veganism, you're welcome.
https://jwz.org/b/yk6V
jwzStill seeking Basecamp alternative.
Against my better judgment, I let my staff start using Basecamp about 8 years ago, and now I want to ditch it for something open source and self-hosted.
Several people suggested Nextcloud. After much pain, I got that installed, and finally got my general manager to take a look. Here's his review:
[...]
Things that should not need to be said but do:
• Do not suggest software that you do not use.
• Do not just Google it for me.
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