#WastefulComputing

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-07-02

@pgcd @KarlHeinzHasliP personally, I've yet to meet someone who wth a straight face claims that the shite #OpenAI does is somewhat worth the #WastefulComputing and extra laboir needed to correct inaccuracy, at which point this takes more time and effort than doing actual research!

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-29

@tante "#AI" is such a level of "#WastefulComputing" that it makes #CryptocurrencyMining look like an act of #EnergyConservation and #EnvoirmentalProtection by comparison.

Not that it doesn't make #Shitcoin-#Mining any less unethical and wrong!

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-27

@mattmay I still think it's #WastefulComputing at best!

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-22

#Gamers should be #mad at the #AiBros who are like #CryptoBros funding an entire industry of #scalpers that build #FrankenGPU|s just so their #WastefulComputing can generate more shitty #AI stock images faster...

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-12

@tante exactly that is the problem.

Cuz those servers ain't like an electric water kettle where one could just put a wattmeter in between and know how many watts they consumed.

  • Espechally since datacenters are engineered to run at peak efficiency = target load, so not using all 10-50+ kW(th) per 42U in cooling capacity may even be less energy efficient.

Instead we should just not do this #WastefulComputing to begin with, cuz it makes way less sense than mining shitcoins on surplus hardware to heat one's home...

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-09
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-06

@voxel like all #PoW #Cryptocurrency, #Monero too does #WastefulComputing.

  • Unlike many others it automatically adapts #Difficulty based off total #hashrate as it enshures a constant block reward of 0,6 XMR + Tx Fees per block at a constant block time of 2mins per block.

That being said Monero was explicitly designed to not be #ASIC-able in a cost-efficient manner and be #GPU-unfriendly, so it's more #decentralized and doesn't cause harm by demanding custom hardware that can't be repurposed that causes 100% avoidable #eWaste!

  • IOW: I's the 'least worst' option given it's PoW doesn't incentive or reward capital holders (beyond the ability to host and have power to mine)…
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-05

Bruh this isn't a #competition anymore, but a public execution of how #enshittified devices get just with #Windows instead of #Linux on.

youtube.com/watch?v=ajVvu9M2Y-

#enshittification #bloatware #govware #spyware #WastefulComputing

Battery Life showing up to 2x the battery runtime with SteamOS vs. Windows 11
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-01

@LillyHerself In fact, #AI systems are being caught left and right trying to #viralize their shit, breaking out of systems, and copy themselves like a #worm to the point that they are more "#viral" than the #AGPLv3"* and certainly more than the #GPL as per #Microsoft's #HalloweenDocuments.

  • At best all those "AI" tools are just #WastefulComputing that shits out #AIslop that is worse than the most demotivated & unpaid intern can come up or they literally want to break out of their "#containment" as if they were sentient (which they ain't - at least almost all are)!
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-01
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-29
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-29

@jakeyounglol lets just say the #Enshittification makes it hard to not call it "self-inflicted damage"

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-28

@Salvo @th yeah, and unlike those #AI has no "legitimate use-case" to justify it's excess, #WastefulComputing.

  • Asbestos is the only super-high-temperature insulation material. You basically can't melt tungsten in commercial scale without it.

  • Lead has legitimate use cases. Tetraetyllead was merely used because Ethanol could not be patented.

  • Radium has rare edge-cases that make it vakuable.

  • Medical-grade, clean and uncut heroin (i.e. Diamorphin) is quite safe and works well if dosed as per safety sheet prescribed. Like all drugs it's main dangerousness is caused by criminalization and thus lack of safe access to clean drugs.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-24

@serpentroots IMHO, all this "#AI" #slop should be outlawed for all the right reasons.

hachyderm.io/@serpentroots/114

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-17
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-16

@mattblaze and that's why anyone who even mentions #AI gets kicked off premises by me.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-13

@jbqueru @datum nodds in agreement

I think "#AI" is inherently bad per design simply because it is "#WastefulComputing" that makes #Monero look eco-friendly in comparison!

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-04
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-02

@fasnix IMHO gehört dies als "#WastefulComputing" geächtet...

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