Honest question, why does the fediverse like firefox so much? This is not a common opinion to have on the internet, but everyone here and on mastodon seems to have it.
kersplomp
joined 1 year ago
Yes. The problem with cookies was that they could be used to track and identify you. If this can't do that, then what's the issue?
10+ YoE here.
Companies' hiring processes have become very slow. I applied and got interviews with 4 companies. I only got offers from 2 of them because the others were so slow. Meta was the slowest, 6 months to first interview.
That said, the offers were $800k/yr and $500k/yr total comp so I can't complain. The catch was mandatory in-office in downtown SF. I'd have to move. It was a hard decision if I'm being honest.
They are. Read their environmental report.
They invested over $3.1 billion in renewable energy projects with an expected combined generation capacity of approximately 4.5 GW. That's twice as much energy as all their datacenters combined.
New power plants take time.
The author neglected to link to the actual report. Page 34 and 35. The Scope 2 stats the article cited don't account for clean power generated.
Their link for the claim "Google cited AI as the cause" doesn't mention power at all.
The link for the Microsoft numbers takes me to a report saying the 30% number is for Scope 3 emissions, which have nothing to do data center power usage.
Some random Chinese company: does something jenky
Blogger: "The entire country of China is doing this jenky thing!"
They just added a fee so that AWS can't copy it without paying. What's the big deal.
Batteries.
They can use backup generators or consumer power for emergencies. Almost never happens in practice.
It's behind a paywall
It's from solar and wind power. It's not the same thing.
They buy power plants and run it themselves. It improves reliability. For example, Google owns its own solar and wind farms.
People are downvoting because they want to hate AI. And hating AI is valid. There are many reasons not to like AI. Environmental and power reasons are not one of them.
Vindicated. I will now be accepting apologies from everyone who downvoted my previous comments on this