There’s some dots on the map in places where I know for sure that there’s no data center. I think people have submitted addresses of some tech company headquarters for example.

Most new builds by the larger companies are pretty big though, even if they’re not dedicated to AI.

The site explicitly mentions “AI data centers”, but how do you differentiate AI data centers from… non-AI data centers I guess?

I understand the anti-AI sentiment and environmental issues, etc. but I also think a lot of non-technical people don’t realise that literally everything they do online uses a data center.

It’s not way more than they thought because it’s within the limits they set for the subscriptions. They wouldn’t have set the limits that high if they didn’t think people would use it.

Yeah I think I was thinking of DPAPI. Updating my comment!

There’s other approaches to automatically unlocking. For example, you can combine Clevis with Tang to use Network Bound Disk Encryption, which lets you automatically decrypt only when on a trusted network. (the password is stored on a different system on the same network)

You can have multiple different LUKS keys, and any of them can be used to decrypt the disk. This lets you automatically unlock via a network server when your system is at home, while still prompting for an unlock password when not at home.

At my workplace, our laptops have two LUKS keys - one for me and one for IT / tech support. It lets IT boot the system (eg if I send it in for repair) without having to know my LUKS password.

Bitlocker stores the key required to boot the system in the TPM.

You can do that on Linux too if you want to, using Clevis or systemd-cryptenroll.

As far as I know, Bitlocker uses two keys to boot: There’s a key in the TPM, that’s used to decrypt a key stored on the drive, that’s used to decrypt the data.

I think some data (maybe just user-specific data?) is encrypted with a user-specific key too, that isn’t unlocked until you log in. Edit: I think I was thinking of DPAPI.

I’m not 100% sure about the specifics of its design.

I saw this in person when I visited Czechia last year. So many people pat/rub the dog.

I don’t understand how apps like Polymarket are legal when they’re essentially unregulated gambling that’s rigged against regular users due to the amount of insider trading that happens on the platform. It doesn’t improve society in any way.

Being able to bet on wildfires doesn’t make any sense, since it gives people a financial incentive to start fires. 🤔

cost of AI going up

The highly subsidized Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions will go away, but open weight models are getting much better over time - GLM-5.2 and Kimi K3 are both very good.

The most expensive part by far is training the model. That’s why OpenAI and Anthropic are losing so much money (well, that and the subscriptions).

With an open weight model, someone has already trained it, and you just have to cover the cost of inference, making it a lot cheaper. Any company (or individual!) with powerful enough equipment can host the model, which means there’s competition in terms of price, compared to something like Claude Opus where the only four hosts (Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry) use Anthropic’s pricing.

I agree that AI slop is bad, but I don’t really agree with their method of determining if an app is abandoned (no updates in 2-3 months).

Sometimes apps don’t need updates. Some Linux apps don’t receive major updates for years. I used backupninja (https://0xacab.org/liberate/backupninja) for long time even though sometimes there’s 2-3 years between releases, because it did what I needed. (I switched to Borgmatic at some point though).

I didn’t update one of my apps for over a year because it already did everything I needed, and I wasn’t receiving any major feature requests. There’s still some bugs I need to fix but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Ahh, interesting, thanks for the info.

Makes sense.

People that invest into Nasdaq 100 are already accepting higher risks though. I’ve got some QQQM but it’s a pretty small part of my portfolio.

It would require either every app developer on F-Droid to comply as well

Has this been mentioned anywhere? I haven’t seen it.

That’s a separate thing. As far as I know, there’ll be no difference between third-party app stores installed via Google Play vs third-party app stores installed via APK in terms of the apps in the store itself.

IIRC they’re going to force verification for all apps but have an opt-out that you just need to do once, and wait 24 hours after enabling it.

It would increase visibility of F-Droid (people that might have never heard of it might start seeing it in the Play Store) so I think they’ll give in to Google’s requirements even if they oppose them…

These large property companies shouldn’t exist. Housing would be more affordable if these companies weren’t hoarding all the properties and engaging in price fixing.

Embarrassing? I’d want to keep that plate forever lol

It’s pretty common for stock to drop after IPO. This is just a bigger drop than usual.

I’m glad S&P didn’t give in to SpaceX’s demand to add them to the S&P 500.