Post AvSdc4Bv5og5tcZqEa by PaniczGodek@functional.cafe
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(DIR) Post #AvRV5D1SFCKUwDXkwq by cwebber@social.coop
2025-06-24T02:05:53Z
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computers are a blessingcomputer corporations are a mistakecomputer datacenters are unforgiveable
(DIR) Post #AvRV5ESmt3mtPHL6Bs by cwebber@social.coop
2025-06-24T02:06:18Z
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this is a shitpost of sorts but in all earnestness, datacenters *were* a mistake
(DIR) Post #AvRV5MEtyZQxWWu7eq by cwebber@social.coop
2025-06-24T02:07:12Z
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Imagine what computing would be like if it were still highly networked but datacenters weren't involved
(DIR) Post #AvRV7o3pVWtQOCtQVE by cwebber@social.coop
2025-06-24T02:13:14Z
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@jalefkowit It wasn't Moore's Wall that killed it! It was a number of things, including ISPs banning home hosting.Big unpack tho
(DIR) Post #AvRV8Dmhroe2Ad57QG by duncan_bayne@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-06-24T02:12:01Z
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@cwebber
(DIR) Post #AvRV8cU821demFa8R6 by SubductionRheology@cyberplace.social
2025-06-24T02:39:17Z
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@cwebber I don't think you could do modern computing without datacenters even if communication was free. A database the size needed by a State Farm or a Progressive Insurance needs to be hosted in a datacenter to meet QoS requirements. And to do datascience queries in a reasonable timeframe lots of compute resources are needed locally. In a datacenter these resources can be returned to the pool after the query.
(DIR) Post #AvRVB0yNxNmRIwsO92 by jannem@fosstodon.org
2025-06-24T02:22:43Z
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@cwebber I know it's a shitpost, and I get what you mean.But sometimes, in HPC, you can't do things on just a single computer (or a loosely networked set of machines). Also, for the same work, running it on separate desktops would take more energy than running it on a cluster in a datacenter.
(DIR) Post #AvSdL2Kaku9rCiVr8q by cwebber@social.coop
2025-06-24T16:16:35Z
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btw for anyone wishing to explain datacenters to me, I will let you know in advance that, alas, my first tech job was as a datacenter technician at Google from 2005-2007
(DIR) Post #AvSdL3NSri3ARurfG4 by bremner@mathstodon.xyz
2025-06-24T16:20:48Z
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@cwebber That was a different Google though. These days a shareholder value focused datacenter has to have a side hustle as a private prison, live fire killer robot training range, or something similarly patriotic.
(DIR) Post #AvSdL3umrohm7GSHCK by cwebber@social.coop
2025-06-24T16:21:49Z
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@bremner Indeed, 2005 me had said "I wouldn't work for any corporation, except for Google, because they seem to be trying hard to be ethical"And when I got there, I really felt that was true, and over the course of two years, I watched the beginning of that erode
(DIR) Post #AvSdWjmfXUOp9kE13o by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-06-24T16:27:13.873770Z
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@cwebber I think Internet Exchange ones makes sense but other datacenters… ought to be a random dedicated room in a building they already own.
(DIR) Post #AvSdXogGoo5idIkLtA by socketwench@masto.hackers.town
2025-06-24T02:09:29Z
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@cwebber If a cat cannot jump on top of it in a single bound and sleep on top of it, it's too big.
(DIR) Post #AvSdc4Bv5og5tcZqEa by PaniczGodek@functional.cafe
2025-06-24T09:32:11Z
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@cwebber everyone could easily have their home server the same way everybody has their modem
(DIR) Post #AvSddEqqwaCZFQHY24 by socketwench@masto.hackers.town
2025-06-24T16:18:23Z
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@cwebber Did it have cats?
(DIR) Post #AvTlmU9WPxEG6JtVqq by lerxst@az.social
2025-06-24T19:33:15Z
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@cwebber My three favorite things in this world are music, computers, and movies. They are all amazing and awesome.Stick the word "industry" on the end of each of them, and they all become hellscapes.
(DIR) Post #AvXQLp7z0HKmvkSZ2O by n_dimension@infosec.exchange
2025-06-26T23:51:57Z
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@cwebber 1990: "HACK THE PLANET!!!"2025: "NOT LIKE THAT!!!"