@nixCraft to add some context for people on what 120kW means…

An average US home uses 10,500kWh per year, or an average of 29kWh per day. This averages out at 1.2kW.

In other words, if that server rack runs its PSU at 100%, it’s using as much power as 100 homes. In about 6sqft of floor space. Not including power used to cool it.

This one rack is 120kW of Nvidia AI compute. Google, Meta, Apple, OpenAI AND others are buying these like candy. In fact, there is a waiting list to get your hands on it. Each compute is super expensive too. All liquid cooled. Crazy tech. Crazy energy requirements too 🔥🤬all such massive energy requirements so that AI companies can sell LLM from stolen content from many humans and put everyone else out of the job while heating our planet.

"Il 25% delle polveri sottili PM2.5 che inquinano la Lombardia proviene dagli allevamenti intensivi di bovini e suini."

Eh ma vuoi mettere a fettina di carne ogni sera?

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Venerdì 22 marzo la biblioteca Carlo Nobili di #Bologna ospita la premiazione di #WikiScienceCompetition Italia, seguita da una maratona di scrittura in #Wikipedia dedicata alle #donne che si sono distinte nelle materie scientifiche. Partecipa anche tu!

@timnitGebru "During the years before the middle of the 1970s, the expectations of what expert systems can accomplish in many fields tended to be extremely optimistic. At the beginning of these early studies, researchers were hoping to develop entirely automatic (i.e., completely computerized) expert systems. The expectations of people of what computers can do were frequently too idealistic."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_s

Sounds like a dispatch from the future

Was reading this old SCIAM and man, getting LISP on a chip because of AI hype was prime good old days. I somehow suspect that vector processors will not feature in any good old days feelings.

sciam-cms.s3.amazonaws.com/sci

And something a bit more controversial:

Its time for tech people to stop setting themselves apart and start talking, including and collaborating wish the people that use their applications. There are no sides to this. It takes a community to built software. And that includes everybody not just developers.

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Per chi sta a Bologna ci vediamo alle 21 per con il gruppo di studio su Synware: free software syndicates di TWC Bologna e FSFE.

mobilizon.it/events/e3fbc8f0-3

Ricordo che chi non viene è amic di Sam Altman, vi aspettiamo :_gayheart2:

: free software syndicates

public.zoethical.org/pub/synwa

is a must read for everyone in the community in my opinion, and in general every person that spends their time working on free software.

It confirms a lot of our bias lol and forces us to face some of the unspoken themes that touch every centralized software community, from funding, to the recreation of colonial power structures through the distribution of developers and target audience.

On Wednesday, with Tech Workers Coalition Bologna and , a study group about Synware will be held in Bologna, if u are interested in discussing a sane future for free software, definitely join us!

mobilizon.it/events/e3fbc8f0-3

Imagine a cave, where various persons are imprisoned since birth. They are chained so as to create a fixed gaze upon a wall, on which can be seen the shadows of various entities walking past outside the cave— people, horses, carts. This audience would be, by nature, highly engaged with these shadows, which we may call "content". So what if— among these shadows— we were to include advertisements?

Synware: free software syndicates - Gruppo di studio - TWC Bologna x FSFE

🕒 14 febbraio, 21:00 - 14 febbraio, 22:30

🔗 mobilizon.it/events/e3fbc8f0-3

Are you ready to read the most cringy idea a startup ever produced and implemented? It's going to be a wild ride. Let's start a thread!




Sempre incoraggiante leggere il rapporto Oxfam. Per quanto riguarda l'Italia, fra il 2021 e il 2023:

- si è registrato un quasi dimezzamento della quota di ricchezza detenuta dal 20% più povero (passata dallo 0,51% allo 0,27%)

- a fine 2021 la ricchezza del top-10% era 6,3 volte superiore a quella detenuta dalla metà più povera della popolazione, il rapporto supera il valore 6,7 nel 2022

- le consistenze patrimoniali nette dell’1% più ricco (titolare, a fine 2022, del 23,1% della ricchezza nazionale) erano oltre 84 volte superiori alla ricchezza detenuta complessivamente dal 20% più povero della popolazione

-Nel 2022 il fenomeno della povertà assoluta mostrava in Italia una maggiore diffusione rispetto al 2021. [...] 5,6 milioni di individui versavano nel 2022 in condizioni di indigenza assoluta

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The amazing @pukkamustard posted an updated patch set for the publication and retrieval of #Guix substitutes in a distributed fashion via ERIS:
issues.guix.gnu.org/52555#64

I still need to digest it but it looks promising!

I didn't realize oci services in #guix made it to master! (See: guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/e ).

Excited to get rid of the only semi-manual part of my VM setup/s.

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