Daily Tech News 11 July 2024

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Construction of a Bitcoin "mine" in a Texas town has caused a massive outbreak of hypochondria and innumeracy. (Time)
On an evening in December 2023, 43-year-old small business owner Sarah Rosenkranz collapsed in her home in Granbury, Texas and was rushed to the emergency room. Her heart pounded 200 beats per minute; her blood pressure spiked into hypertensive crisis; her skull throbbed. "It felt like my head was in a pressure vise being crushed," she says. "That pain was worse than childbirth."
Sounds nasty, but what does that have to do with Bitcoin?
Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks.
Over several months, dozens of people had a variety of symptoms ranging from the purely physical to the neurological to the psychological. In a town of 11,000, and since they say "the Granbury area", let's note that the county is home to 60,000 people.
"I'm sure it increases their cortisol and sugar levels, so you're getting headaches, vertigo, and it snowballs from there," Bhaloo says. "This thing is definitely causing a tremendous amount of stress. Everyone is just miserable about it."
You're sure. Great.
Not all data centers make noise.
Yeah, this is not a serious article.
Jenna Hornbuckle, 38, lost hearing in her right ear and was diagnosed with heart failure; ear exams document her hearing loss along with that of her 8-year-old daughter Victoria, who contracted ear infections that forced doctors to place a tube in her ear.
Bitcoin is bad in many ways. It does not cause heart failure or ear infections.
As rock music blares from the speakers and other patrons chatter away, Rosenkranz pulls out her phone and clocks 72 decibels on a sound meter app-the same level that she records in Indigo's bedroom in the dead of night. In early 2023, her daughter began waking up, yelling and holding her ears. Indigo's room directly faces the mine, which sits about a mile and a half away.
Okay, there's a tiny problem there.
Shirley sticks his recorder out the window and the numbers on it flicker up and down as the roar washes over it. Eventually, the recorder caps out at 91 decibels, which the CDC estimates as roughly in between the output of a lawnmower and a chainsaw.
91 decibels is pretty loud. Even on a still night, at a distance of a mile and a half, it would be barely louder than leaves rustling in the trees.

To register 72 decibels at that distance, the Bitcoin "mine" would have to be as loud as a Shuttle launch, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Tech News

Microsoft is pushing its AI bullshit, named Copilot, into Windows 10 as a mandatory update. (Tom's Hardware)

This is the existing bullshit; the next-level bullshit is named "Copilot+" is still isolated to Windows 11.
Nintendo is targeting Switch emulators Suyu, Nuzu, Uzuy, Torzu, Sudachi, and Bob. (TorrentFreak)

Some of these emulators contain copyrighted Nintendo code, making them easy targets for a DMCA takedown. Others don't, but Nintendo is going after them anyway.
Twitter does not owe its thousands of fired paperweights any additional severance. (Tech Crunch)

All the laid-off employees received at least three months of severance pay, more than satisfying the legal requirements.

They sued anyway, apparently on the basis that they were useless and couldn't find employment anywhere else.

Disclaimer: That seems like a you problem.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:20 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 04:20 AM (64Zez)

2 "I�m sure it increases their cortisol and sugar levels, so you�re

BLACK DIAMONDS

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 04:20 AM (64Zez)

3 app�the same level that she records in Indigo�s bedroom in the dead of night. In early 2023, her daughter began waking up, yelling and holding her ears. Indigo�s

MOAR BLACK DIAMONDS

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 04:21 AM (64Zez)

4 BLACK DIAMONDS HAVE BEEN EXTERMINATED.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 11, 2024 04:21 AM (BLOW1)

5 ; )

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 04:23 AM (64Zez)

6 Bitcoin took my sweets and made me shit my pants.

Posted by: G. Ran Bury at July 11, 2024 04:26 AM (zuGjS)

7 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 11, 2024 04:29 AM (dg+HA)

8 >>>Shirley sticks his recorder out the window

It was a dark and stormy night.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 04:29 AM (64Zez)

9 I know nothing a bitcoin and I have nothing against anyone who thinks it’s a great investment. But for thousands of years, the alternative investment was gold. Sure, bitcoin has spiked harder than gold as any fly by night investment will spike higher. It can go up just like it go down. No one has to have bitcoin. It is not a thing that all humanity has to have. The history of our species says humanity does have to have gold. I just don’t see why it is better than investing in gold unless you are speculating on a particular spike and prices.

I want invested in priceline.com and I made a fair bit but sold out way too soon. At the time of the investment, there was no way to tell whether Priceline would do better than the other eight book selling companies. Amazon took over the world, but if you invested in Priceline at the right time, you would’ve done better than Amazon. Anyone could say well if I done this then that.

The problem with bitcoin, in my opinion is no one involved with bitcoin has made a major play to explain the value of it to the general populace.

From 1910 to 1990 there’s no stock you would’ve done better in than Philip Morris. But certainly in the modern

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 04:32 AM (Fy2d7)

10 G'Day everyone
JQ says HI also

I filled my birdbaths yesterday afternoon and think they self filled last night as well

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2024 04:33 AM (fwDg9)

11 Error, you would never find a single person to tell you to invest in Philip Morris. Sure, the stock and its offshoots have done poorly over the last 10 years, But the previous 90 years showed, they were the best performing stock on the S&P 500.

The problem was bitcoin is 90% of potential buyers have no idea what it is, When to buy or when to sell. To me, it is just a thing, A shiny object. The better shiny object is gold if you don’t want to end up with an empty bag.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 04:34 AM (Fy2d7)

12 Morning all!

I understand little about bitcoin, but after looking at a "How does mining bitcoin work? article, I REALLY don't understand it.

Posted by: Bruce at July 11, 2024 04:35 AM (szrmA)

13 And gold never held anyone at gunpoint and made them sing bawdy drinking songs in the nude, like a bitcoin once did to my cousin Jeremiah.

Posted by: G. Ran Bury at July 11, 2024 04:35 AM (zuGjS)

14 13, sounds like old stories about tombstone, Arizona and Curly Bill.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 04:36 AM (Fy2d7)

15 Excuse my ignorance but what the hell is a bitcoin mine?

Oh and good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tuna at July 11, 2024 04:37 AM (oaGWv)

16 My error again Priceline was involved in hotel reservations, and plane fares. There were at least eight other companies in that same area on the Internet and it is beyond shocking, how much you could’ve made investing in in Priceline at the right time. Amazon faced about six or seven booksellers, so it was kind of the same thing.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 04:41 AM (Fy2d7)

17 Data center/server farm?

Posted by: 13times at July 11, 2024 04:41 AM (enMZU)

18 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 11, 2024 04:42 AM (hoCmQ)

19
Excuse my ignorance but what the hell is a bitcoin mine?

Oh and good morning everyone.
Posted by: Tuna

This is the article I had started to read.

https://tinyurl.com/59jas9zp

Posted by: Bruce at July 11, 2024 04:42 AM (szrmA)

20 It's got something to do with a song about a Forty Niner. And a miner. And a Capper Nick.

Posted by: Buttcoin exspert at July 11, 2024 04:42 AM (dg+HA)

21 A Bitcoin "mine" - nobody actually calls it that - is a dedicated datacenter that runs the cryptographic verifications to approve transactions on Bitcoin.

Every transaction has a fee attached to it, and that fee goes to the people who verify the transaction, so you can make good money doing this.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 11, 2024 04:43 AM (BLOW1)

22 Data sinners? Data sinners are evil! The bible says so.

Posted by: Emily Litella at July 11, 2024 04:45 AM (dg+HA)

23 So that is basically like the idea that the people that could consistently make a good living off of the gold rush where the people that sold pixels and axes. It is a good lesson for us all. Is the same reason why you can make a good living in the casino business as long as you’re not a player.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 04:46 AM (Fy2d7)

24 where the people that sold pixels and axes.

HA!! Yep, they're selling pixels

Posted by: Bruce at July 11, 2024 04:47 AM (szrmA)

25 Good one. I wish I did that on purpose

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 04:48 AM (Fy2d7)

26 God love ya, Pixy.
That’s what I always loved about conversing with conservative Aussies over my long years on forums in the interwebz.

1. You’re abilities to quickly and decisively filter through the mountains of bullshit to get to crux of the matter, then hit that core with a sledgehammer.

2. Doing it with style, purpose, and most importantly, humor.

If I had the money and the will I’d be heading your way ASAP.

Then I realize we’re all in the same boat anyhow, might as well enjoy the comforts of home while it lasts.

Great takedown on that first article.
You nailed it, mate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 04:48 AM (6ydKt)

27 A server farm is where waiters and waitresses come from. It's right next to the boneless chicken ranch.

Posted by: Emily Litella at July 11, 2024 04:49 AM (dg+HA)

28 This is the article I had started to read.

https://tinyurl.com/59jas9zp
Posted by: Bruce

I, too, started to read it but it lost me at "blockchain". I bookmarked it for further perusal when I'm more fully awake.

Posted by: Tuna at July 11, 2024 04:50 AM (oaGWv)

29 I, too, started to read it but it lost me at "blockchain". I bookmarked it for further perusal when I'm more fully awake.
Posted by: Tuna

ANd then you get 3 people to sell it, and they get three people to sell it and....

Posted by: Bruce at July 11, 2024 04:52 AM (szrmA)

30 Evening and morning to all the wild bitcoin tamers out there!

Slept a little later, by design. I dreamed at one point that I was being shadowed by two Feds. In the dream I was not sure why they followed me everywhere, including into the restaurant I went to with Miss Linda for dinner. For some reason I had to walk up the street alone to find a men's room, and one of the Feds, the one in a pink polo shirt, followed me and had to stand outside the doorless stall while I did what I'd come for.

Back at the restaurant, I spoke to the owner. He said, "Those two guys come in and never order anything. If they do, I'll salt their food. Don't worry about it."

The bill came to $89.01 -- for two people. They let the penny go since I was an old customer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2024 04:53 AM (omVj0)

31 From: Microsoft is pushing its AI bullshit, named Copilot, into Windows 10 as a mandatory update.

You’re also out of luck if you’re not a fan of AI and Microsoft Copilot because you cannot skip this update unless you never connect your PC to the internet. When your computer checks for updates, it will automatically install this update, pinning the Copilot app on your taskbar. We’re also unsure if you can unpin and hide the app after the update, like how you can turn off Windows web search.

I was able to remove it from the taskbar... for now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2024 04:53 AM (IUd0M)

32 Oh. Amway. But on the interwebs.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2024 04:54 AM (dg+HA)

33 Hi JT, wherever you are. Hope you're doing better.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 11, 2024 04:54 AM (hoCmQ)

34 Don’t know how you remember your dreams so well, Wolfus.
I forget the vast majority in a minute

Do you keep a Dream Journal and write everything down as soon as you wake up?

Because I’ve heard that helps to remember them longer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 04:58 AM (6ydKt)

35 I had a dream last night where Trump was an enforcer for the Red Wings.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 11, 2024 04:58 AM (MK13O)

36 Oh. Amway. But on the interwebs.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Not exactly, but that's what I'm reminded of.

Posted by: Bruce at July 11, 2024 04:59 AM (szrmA)

37 BOING!

You all remember "that MF back there is not real" Tiffany Gomas? Turns out she has a little sister:

https://t.ly/A-AOA

If you're going to San Francisco...

New generation - same as the old:

https://t.ly/u9XyB

That's it. Work piled up today.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 11, 2024 04:59 AM (kMhtU)

38 Kinda like Amway.
But a lot more blockchain.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 04:59 AM (6ydKt)

39 Mornin'

So, you're saying this 'Bitcoin' mine story from Time Magazine is absolute BS?? Like, they already had their headline and conclusion and simply made the rest up to fit? Huh.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 11, 2024 05:01 AM (FmapG)

40 You all remember "that MF back there is not real" Tiffany Gomas? Turns out she has a little sister:

https://t.ly/A-AOA

She seems nice.

Posted by: Bruce at July 11, 2024 05:01 AM (szrmA)

41 Don’t know how you remember your dreams so well, Wolfus.
I forget the vast majority in a minute

Do you keep a Dream Journal and write everything down as soon as you wake up?

Because I’ve heard that helps to remember them longer.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024

***
I should keep a journal, I guess. Maybe they can provide springboards for stories. These that I relate here are ones I usually am experiencing just before I wake up, so the sensory impressions are very recent. I know I dream in color, and (lately, anyway) I am sometimes aware of background impressions that my dreaming self knows about but are not spoken of by anybody in the dream. For instance, the name of the restaurant in the latest dream was that of a real-life local grocery chain, not an eatery, and the cafe owner in the dream had the name of the grocery's CEO. Who I've never met.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2024 05:03 AM (omVj0)

42 Well. I've had my cup and a half of coffee. Time to shave and shower, then feed the beasts and me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2024 05:04 AM (omVj0)

43 I forgot one.

The UN investigates itself with a pronoun:

https://t.ly/Q0pj-

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 11, 2024 05:06 AM (kMhtU)

44 The Fabians, Frankfurt School.
No doubt a start.
But they needed a delivery system.
Add mass media and public education by brainwashed ideological teachers.

You got yourself a socialism party man.

All it took was Television and a Will to Propaganda to make it work as intended.

The girl on the airplane is having a psychotic break.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:07 AM (6ydKt)

45 I don’t know what bitcoin mines look like, but I have seen solar farms put up in my area. I have seen local newspaper articles about how great the solar farm was put up. I accidentally came upon a solar farm because I was doing a delivery in that area and it legitimately looked like hell on earth. If you could describe absolute hell in a rural area with woods and mountains and hills, but completely destroyed, that is what a solar farm looks like.

Yeah, we are saving the environment, f that.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:08 AM (Fy2d7)

46 A server farm is where waiters and waitresses come from. It's right next to the boneless chicken ranch.
Posted by: Emily Litella

I like waiters. They bring a lot to the table.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 11, 2024 05:09 AM (Cp1vk)

47 Lucid dreaming, Wolfus, that’s what you’re experiencing.

Not rare, but not common either.
I get it occasionally myself.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:10 AM (6ydKt)

48 Microsoft is pushing its AI bullshit, named Copilot, into Windows 10 as a mandatory update.

So that's what the update on my laptop was yesterday. I'll have to check when I get home and see if I can disable it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 11, 2024 05:11 AM (FmapG)

49 I use Copilot every day, got to say it's probably one of the best things MS has introduced since MS Project and Visio.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2024 05:12 AM (XV/Pl)

50 We used to call them waitresses and we liked it. The French do the same thing we got server from them. I’m sure we got waitress and waiter from them as well.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:13 AM (Fy2d7)

51 I like waiters. They bring a lot to the table.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 11, 2024 05:09 AM (Cp1vk)
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Where's my main course? Up till now, everything my waiter's brought me has been only on tray.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 11, 2024 05:14 AM (mVt4K)

52 The Funny, Thing, About, In Tracking, Thing, the Web and Try to My Life so obvious. It doesn’t matter what they say. I always know when it is AI isn’t that exactly what they are trying not to do? To me, this is way too much like Blade Runner.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:15 AM (Fy2d7)

53 What do you use it for Thomas?
I’m curious because it seems like fun toy to play with for a few hours but then you move on.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:18 AM (6ydKt)

54 45: they put a solar farm on my favorite golf course in PA. I'm still salty about that. So were other golfers. The owner wanted to unload it so not much the local golfers could do about it. I didn't go past it when I was up there in June. It would make me sad.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 11, 2024 05:21 AM (FmapG)

55 Weird thing about the combination of English and French. We call the main course the entrée when the word itself means The appetizer.

The French have the amuse bouche, does that Would likely come before the appetizer, It is not something you order. Languages a lot of fun and certainly comparing French to English is the most fun. People would be shocked how English is covered in French not just 30 or 40% but covered in French, but when English uses the French, it is for extreme examples of the natural verb or noun from German and English. English never gives up on the French, but they just use the French for extreme examples of various words, It is not rare. It is the standard or di rigueur.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:21 AM (Fy2d7)

56 54, they are Hellscapes.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:23 AM (Fy2d7)

57 @53

>>What do you use it for Thomas?

I use it to summarize Teams calls, distill actions, decisions and key dates that are discussed on a call, then send them to everyone on the call.

Before Copilot, I had to do that manually in OneNote.

Its extraordinarily hard to lead a call and take notes at the same time, so copilot acts as a stenographer for me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2024 05:24 AM (XV/Pl)

58 To me, it is a simple go or no go. Was our society better or worse before Internet apps? I feel so strongly about this. I don’t even have to say what I think.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:27 AM (Fy2d7)

59 The French like “appertifs” before meals, helps to prepare the stomach and grease the skids before the heavier portions of the meal.

The Roman elite began these traditions.
Which happens when a meal is served over several hours where you pick at food while reclining on the Chaise Lounge.

*Wet Leg song goes off in his head*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:30 AM (6ydKt)

60 Good morning morons

Is Joe Biden still dead?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2024 05:30 AM (RIvkX)

61 And gold never held anyone at gunpoint and made them sing bawdy drinking songs in the nude, like a bitcoin once did to my cousin Jeremiah.
Posted by: G. Ran Bury at July 11, 2024 04:35

Was he a bullfrog?

Posted by: Farmer, with my own historical take at July 11, 2024 05:31 AM (55Qr6)

62 Cooler out than other mornings
Watch a Sky News Australia clip, Joe at a news conference is supposed to say he was talking to the other guy's wife but it sounded like he was fking the other guy's wife. Guess he did say that as Kerby said it was supposed to be a joke.

Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2024 05:32 AM (fwDg9)

63 The problem was bitcoin is 90% of potential buyers have no idea what it is, When to buy or when to sell. To me, it is just a thing, A shiny object. The better shiny object is gold if you don’t want to end up with an empty bag.
Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 04:34 AM (Fy2d7)
===

At least tulips were pretty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2024 05:33 AM (RIvkX)

64 I use it to summarize Teams calls, distill actions, decisions and key dates that are discussed on a call, then send them to everyone on the call.

Before Copilot, I had to do that manually in OneNote.

——-

Excellent, a real world use case that doesn’t involve asking Paint to make a picture.

I can see how that would be a great little timesaver.

These chatbots can do useful stuff.

If it can organize and rearrange large amounts of files in folders easily, without a lot of hand-holding, I might even put it use.

Then I think….

Microsoft.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

65 22 Data sinners? Data sinners are evil! The bible says so.
Posted by: Emily Litella at July 11, 2024 04:45 AM (dg+HA)

LOL
Misguessed that was Bruce.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 05:36 AM (64Zez)

66 26 God love ya, Pixy.
That’s what I always loved about conversing with conservative Aussies over my long years on forums in the interwebz.
...
If I had the money and the will I’d be heading your way ASAP.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 04:48 AM (6ydKt)

They won't let us in anymore. Not for longterm.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 05:38 AM (64Zez)

67 mornin yall

One of my clients has a Bitcoin mine. I've been over there to help them with it. The fans are really loud and I wouldn't want to live within a mile of it. It's in an industrial area though, so no one complains. It also burns a ton of electricity.

It's full of racks of special purpose computers called "Antminers". The owners say they got their investment back, but it sure seems to me to be a silly and energy intensive way to create money.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 05:38 AM (vFG9F)

68 Examples:

The word stop is arrête in French. The English is arrest, a very particular stop. Another is hungry in English is faim in French, as in Famished. An extreme version of hungry. Hate in French is déteste, in French, we rarely use detest in English unless we are making a serious point. In French it is a common word for disliking something.

I could go one and on, there are thousands of examples. There are more interesting examples of French in the English language than just that. Some are pretty funny really when you look at them.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:39 AM (Fy2d7)

69 Calling it now: In 1-2 years, there are going to be late night lawyer ads for Bitcoin Mine injuries.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2024 05:40 AM (lXoJ5)

70 63, good point

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:40 AM (Fy2d7)

71 Tulip bulbs aren’t collectible still?

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

The original Tulipmania expert.

Words to live by.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:41 AM (6ydKt)

72 "A Bitcoin "mine" - nobody actually calls it that"

They do here. It's common in the states. A city about 60 miles from here is making a big push to bring them in to an industrial area they have set aside. Guess what the main industry in that city has been for almost 100 years? Kaolin mining.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 05:42 AM (vFG9F)

73 "The lawsuit, filed by Twitter’s former head of people experience"

Welcome to another episode of "The jokes write themselves."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2024 05:43 AM (lXoJ5)

74 They won't let us in anymore. Not for longterm.
Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 05:38 AM (64Zez)

Too many white people up in here, yo!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:44 AM (6ydKt)

75 @64

>>I can see how that would be a great little timesaver.

Time savings is immense.

The key is having an agenda for the call and going through it meticulously, when you do that Copilot can pretty much spit out what I want before the call has ended during the couple of garbage minutes at the end of the call.

I would say I use copilot as much as I use autocad and Project now.

The other thing I have started to use it for is to summarize and analyze, long email chains.

This needs a little more training for the AI, but it's proven useful.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2024 05:44 AM (XV/Pl)

76 40 37 You all remember "that MF back there is not real" Tiffany Gomas? Turns out she has a little sister:

https://t.ly/A-AOA
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 11, 2024 04:59 AM (kMhtU)

She seems nice.
Posted by: Bruce at July 11, 2024 05:01 AM (szrmA)

I'm surprised they didn't slap some electrical tape on her mouth.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 05:44 AM (64Zez)

77 One of the complaints about the Sandersville Bitcoin mines is the noise. The residents are not happy. I have to agree, they are putting them too close to residences there.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 05:45 AM (vFG9F)

78 I'm surprised they didn't slap some electrical tape on her mouth.
Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 05:44 AM (64Zez)
-

They used up all the tape to keep the exit door in place.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 11, 2024 05:46 AM (mVt4K)

79 There is a reason real truffles from Italy and France are so rare, You can’t make a mine or a factory to produce them. You can’t even plant them on excellent land and make them occur. Things have real value are rare and desired. To be a real value, they have to be desired of of course, and they also have to be rare. I know nothing about bitcoin and to be honest I don’t think I ever will. Someone desires it from a generation younger than me, and I guess the rarity is designed similar to diamonds, but even more just made up.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:49 AM (Fy2d7)

80 "they are putting them too close to residences there."

And that is a legitimate complaint. Soundproofing should have been thought of when this was being built.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2024 05:50 AM (lXoJ5)

81 We really do need to bring back psych hospitals and in-patient facilities for mental illness.

It’s out there of course, but the main course of treatment seems to be calm em down, stabilize, give em some pills, and send them on their merry way.

That’ll be $20,000 please, thanks for your visit!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:52 AM (6ydKt)

82 I like it Thomas, great little setup there.

I’ll try this thing if MS decides to put it on anything without a dedicated NPU.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:53 AM (6ydKt)

83 Lucid dreaming, Wolfus, that’s what you’re experiencing.

Not rare, but not common either.
I get it occasionally myself.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024

***
I've experienced it for years. Even before I started taking melatonin to help me sleep.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2024 05:54 AM (omVj0)

84 Kaolin mining and processing is also energy intensive, but the US is losing market share to China so towns like Sandersville (Which is known as "The Kaolin Capital of the World" and has a Kaolin festival and Kaolin Queen every year) are looking for ways to compensate. Since they already have the electrical infrastructure to support the kaolin mines and plants, they are looking to diversify into other industries. Hence the industrial area and resources they have set aside to accommodate data centers, "Bitcoin mines".

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 05:56 AM (vFG9F)

85 Society is doing it. We have never had more homeless on the street than we do today in cities under blue control. Our society has never been more dystopian, and it is run by the blue team and has been run by them for decades.

All of this runs downhill and as as I have said and many have said, but I have often said over many years here that we lost the school we lost Holly weird we lost the news. I am not Saying it would’ve been easy to prevent this, but no one should be surprised. In many ways, it is shocking that conservatives and Trump do so well considering we laid the battlefield out for the left to win in perpetuity.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 05:56 AM (Fy2d7)

86 "And that is a legitimate complaint. Soundproofing should have been thought of when this was being built."

Banks and banks of huge fans make a constant roar that is really annoying. I can understand the complaints.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 05:58 AM (vFG9F)

87 My client's mine is not in Sandersville. It's in a downtown industrial are right next to the county vehicle maintenance facility. I bet they hate it.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 06:01 AM (vFG9F)

88
There are a couple of other variables when it comes to noise:

1. Wind direction. Noise travels with the wind better then against it.
2. Elevation. Sound travels downhill easier then uphill.

I'd be pissed off if I walked outside to incessant 90 decibels. If that was a workplace the employees would probably be required to wear hearing protection.

That being said, I think a lot of the health issues are BS.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 11, 2024 06:02 AM (RKVpM)

89 I loved a few lucid dreams I had.

Really nothing more fun than being in a falling dream, realize you’re dreaming, and take control to fly yourself away instead of feeling like you’re gonna have a heart attack before you hit the ground and wake up.

Done that a few times and was so exhilarated I actually remembered the dream.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 06:02 AM (6ydKt)

90 I repeat I saw a solar farm in my area recently, and it was legitimately hell on earth. The left say they care about the Earth, but I promise you they do not. I won’t mention this again, but unless you’ve seen one up close, particularly in a area of the country that is rural and beautiful, You Don’t know what they’re doing to this country.

You see so many other examples like the windmills in Spain that ruined so many areas. These people have to be stopped. You can’t negotiate with them. They simply have to be stopped. They are legitimately nuts.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 06:03 AM (Fy2d7)

91 Sandersville Bitcoin mine energy usage:

"The massive facility expansion has its own power substation just to help manage the 250-megawatt power output. That's 10 times what it takes to power the whole city. The city itself only uses 25 megawatts of power"

But you need to save every little electron you can to save the planet. Peon.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 06:04 AM (vFG9F)

92 I’ve lived in apartments where there was dust mold, etc. People suffer, but to be honest, nobody actually cares. The law protects proprietors in an extreme way, They legitimately have to do next to nothing according to the law.

If someone created an unsafe environment next to my home and caused me to be unsafe, That would be a real issue.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 06:06 AM (Fy2d7)

93 You see so many other examples like the windmills in Spain that ruined so many areas. These people have to be stopped. You can’t negotiate with them. They simply have to be stopped. They are legitimately nuts.
Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 06:03 AM (Fy2d7)
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*fires up the Hueys*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2024 06:06 AM (RIvkX)

94 93 These people have to be stopped. You can’t negotiate with them. They simply have to be stopped. They are legitimately nuts.
Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 06:03 AM (Fy2d7)
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*fires up the Hueys*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2024 06:06 AM (RIvkX)

"I love the sound of napalm in the morning."

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 06:08 AM (64Zez)

95 Solar farms really piss me off. They cut down thousands of acres of shady trees and put up massive fields of glass. How is that going to affect global warming? It already makes the immediate area hotter. It's so fucking stupid when there are so much better ways to generate electricity on a large scale.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 06:08 AM (vFG9F)

96 Ride of the Valkries

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 06:09 AM (Fy2d7)

97 I don’t see any Pinochets coming to the rescue.
All we got now is Trump, flawed, though entertaining, vessel he is.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 06:09 AM (6ydKt)

98 37 If you're going to San Francisco...
New generation - same as the old:

https://t.ly/u9XyB

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 11, 2024 04:59 AM (kMhtU)

I've had that earworm ever since I read that comment!

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 06:10 AM (64Zez)

99 81 We really do need to bring back psych hospitals and in-patient facilities for mental illness.

The main problem is the expenses involved in maintaining the facility. And I have the feeling that working there is not considered a desirable job to enough people.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2024 06:11 AM (lXoJ5)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 06:11 AM (64Zez)

101 Lucid dreams how-to:

https://youtu.be/CiuMRq32JBk

Posted by: From Thoughty2 at July 11, 2024 06:12 AM (qXjJ2)

102 95 Solar farms really piss me off. They cut down thousands of acres of shady trees and put up massive fields of glass.
Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 06:08 AM (vFG9F)

They paved paradise.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 06:12 AM (64Zez)

103 @95

>>It's so fucking stupid when there are so much better ways to generate electricity on a large scale.

The only real use case for solar is remote, off-grid scenarios, like a shed or out building at the far reaches of your 10 acre property, other than that, it's a scam.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2024 06:12 AM (XV/Pl)

104 81 We really do need to bring back psych hospitals
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:52 AM (6ydKt)

That's where they'll put us all.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 06:13 AM (64Zez)

105 The main problem is the expenses involved in maintaining the facility. And I have the feeling that working there is not considered a desirable job to enough people.

No doubt, but for a lot these cases we need them off the streets.

They blame Reagan, but it was unaffordable for a lot of areas that need something.

And then you get the Left Coast need to just set em free, and let entire cities become literal insane asylums.

Something’s gotta give.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 06:15 AM (6ydKt)

106 >> A Bitcoin "mine" - nobody actually calls it that - is a dedicated datacenter that runs the cryptographic verifications to approve transactions on Bitcoin.

Every transaction has a fee attached to it, and that fee goes to the people who verify the transaction, so you can make good money doing this.

Huh. OK. Thanks, Pixy.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2024 06:15 AM (+oRno)

107 "The only real use case for solar is remote, off-grid scenarios, like a shed or out building at the far reaches of your 10 acre property, other than that, it's a scam.
Posted by: Thomas Bender"

If I were to build on a remote piece of land, like I am planning to in the next few years, the first thing I would put up would be a solar array / pole barn.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2024 06:17 AM (vFG9F)

108 >>The main problem is the expenses involved in maintaining the facility.

Considering what a sinkhole homeless programs have become (see CA's billions in recent years), I'd bet we're already doing the equivalent of expenses. With the mental facilities, at least they'd no longer be able to randomly attack regular people, and it would consolidate expenses (i.e. instead of spreading out funds to many agencies and homeless-related NGOs).

Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2024 06:19 AM (+oRno)

109 m, sympatico.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 06:20 AM (6ydKt)

110 @107

>>If I were to build on a remote piece of land, like I am planning to in the next few years, the first thing I would put up would be a solar array / pole barn.

That's exactly what I have done.

You can get kits that will have the panels, the batteries, the inverter and and management system in one neat little package.

But mass generating for a grid using so-called renewable energy is probably the second greatest scam after the climate change scam.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2024 06:20 AM (XV/Pl)

111 I had a small island. Literally the last thing I would think about is solar energy. Maybe I have it all wrong but from what I can tell, it can only do a minor amount. It is like back in the 1970s when people decided to use heat pumps, but we’re surprised when they didn’t provide much heat.

Solar has been around for what 50 years may be a lot more. How many houses use only solar energy? In my understanding, a lot of people put it up because some tricky salesman abused some older people and or some wealthy people did it as an affectation.

Posted by: Quint at July 11, 2024 06:23 AM (Fy2d7)

112 We really do need to bring back psych hospitals
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 05:52 AM (6ydKt)

That's where they'll put us all.
Posted by: m at July 11, 2024 06:13 AM (64Zez)
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Imagine nursing homes run by the people from the DMV.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2024 06:23 AM (RIvkX)

113
The main problem is the expenses involved in maintaining the facility. And I have the feeling that working there is not considered a desirable job to enough people.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2024 06:11 AM

You need 24/7/365 staff. Food services. Housekeeping. Janitorial. Administrators. Security.

I'd estimate annual cost per patient at $60,000 minimum.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 11, 2024 06:24 AM (RKVpM)

114 it would consolidate expenses (i.e. instead of spreading out funds to many agencies and homeless-related NGOs).
Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2024 06:19 AM (+oRno)

You are right, but this would cut into the left’s grift, and this simply will not do.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 06:24 AM (6ydKt)

115 >> Solar farms really piss me off. They cut down thousands of acres of shady trees and put up massive fields of glass.

Destroy animal habitats, and they fry birds flying overhead.

It's amazing how the left will demands we must do everything to save the whales, the spotted owls -- and then when it comes to windmills, they are silent on all the whales killed in building offshore windfarms* and all the birds slaughtered by the windmill blades.

Their "green" initiatives are infinitely, and more immediately threatening to the whales and birds than regular people driving their cars.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2024 06:24 AM (+oRno)

116 .

NOOD - J.J. Sefton's morning report is live

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 11, 2024 06:25 AM (O7YUW)

117 113 I'd estimate annual cost per patient at $60,000 minimum.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 11, 2024 06:24 AM (RKVpM)

Another big problem that occurred to me. Take someone who is actually mentally ill. As in "danger to self or others" kind of mentally ill.

You would have to force them on a medication regimen and that is something that runs afoul of the legal types. Not only that but you'd have to keep them there even if they swear that they are doing better.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2024 06:27 AM (lXoJ5)

118 Seems that if you're running a bitcoin mine, you would need a place to dump all the tailings.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 11, 2024 06:27 AM (a1415)

119 *Think the NJ windfarm development was finally halted after 30+ dead whales washed up on shore over several months?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2024 06:28 AM (+oRno)

120 You would have to force them on a medication regimen and that is something that runs afoul of the legal types. Not only that but you'd have to keep them there even if they swear that they are doing better.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2024 06:27 AM (lXoJ5)

Now they end up in prisons. After violence

Now thei job is simply to force everybody to not only be a hospital orderly, but punish you socially if you don’t agree to address the nutbag who thinks he’s Jesus Christ as “My Lord & Savior”.

Or… pronouns.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 06:34 AM (6ydKt)

121 Posted by: From Thoughty2 at July 11, 2024 06:12 AM (qXjJ2)

I’ll watch that, thanks.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2024 06:39 AM (6ydKt)

122 I understand little about bitcoin, but after looking at a "How does mining bitcoin work? article, I REALLY don't understand it.
Posted by: Bruce at July 11, 2024 04:35 AM (szrmA)

It's basically the old marxist labor theory of value. You, or a computer in this case, do a whole bunch of busy work, and create value. Marx would have you dig holes and fill them in again. Bitcoin has a computer solve cryptic mathematical problems.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2024 09:01 AM (odUHk)

123 On my windows 10 notebook Microsoft has been slapping a full screen page that you can't get rid of short of closing the microsoft app with task manager.
I refuse to click on the 'learn more'.

God I hate MS

Posted by: John the River at July 11, 2024 10:44 AM (/3goP)

124 31 From: Microsoft is pushing its AI bullshit, named Copilot, into Windows 10 as a mandatory update.

You’re also out of luck if you’re not a fan of AI and Microsoft Copilot because you cannot skip this update unless you never connect your PC to the internet. When your computer checks for updates, it will automatically install this update, pinning the Copilot app on your taskbar. We’re also unsure if you can unpin and hide the app after the update, like how you can turn off Windows web search.

I was able to remove it from the taskbar... for now.

I was able to uninstall it, no issues. Just like any other app/program.

Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at July 11, 2024 12:28 PM (E7j+U)

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