Over generation is very big. I agree batteries are better, though.

We need to be able to support peak winter heating and peak summer cooling and we need to do that with excess margin.

Everything in between we have excess power, unless it’s something like hydro dams which are easy to control and aren’t a big extra cost and part of how they naturally operate.

We generally use gas peaker plants to help which we can turn off or on, but it’s more efficient to not do that, and those are expensive.

It would also make it easier to build big nuclear plants if we could manage the off peak load into batteries for the day.

For phones / portables, assuming it doesn’t draw more power, it would mean shorter download times, which means less battery usage.

Wireless 4k 120hz streaming from my PC to TV would be pretty sweet. I can run a cable if i really wanted… but this would be easier. It’s still more than that, but getting that would be sweet.

Time to put a goatse picture in front of the camera!

This is the whole being poor keeps you poor thing.

You can’t afford $200-300 outright, but you can afford the monthly plan that costs $20 more but ends up costing $490 instead of $250 .

You can’t afford the $300 winter boots, so you buy the $100 ones that fall apart in 2 seasons instead of lasting a decade.

Yes, they’d become a thin client.

The concept isn’t new and happens in the corporate world connecting to the corporate servers to run the software, but he wants that to become the norm.

A chromebook is somewhere between the middle of a regular computer, and what Bezos wants.

I know the grid in Texas is (was?) separated from the main national grid, and I guess, maybe something like this could eventually lead to a state wide grid that’s disconnected from the main grid, and maybe that’s very much the long term intention and a real problem.

It would take awhile to manifest as a big issue though as at least the blurb indicates it has to be for newly built power plants and new loads.

If a data center wants to build their own offgrid power system though I don’t see the harm in that? In the future they might very well be building SMR’s to power only their facility.

I think it should all still be overseen by whatever existing regulations there are and kept to the same standards though. And maybe some rules about connecting them to other purpose built ones under this same grouping?

Like, Apple builds one, and then Google builds one. Google and Apple can’t join together.

Maybe even limit it to some strict commercial type use, so Google can’t be doing this to power a google city where residents live.

Edits: Clarity and thoughts along those lines.

Edit: Oh and it should be mandated to be green energy.

The idea and motive and intention is great. The (edit: eventual) outcome is always evil.

I like to think if I was in a position to be working with data like that, that I could ‘accidentally’ forget to redact it one time and trigger a leak like this.

They publicly released that data at that point though through their own failures, fuck Flock for trying to suppress it.

I asked a question like 8 years ago, and people are still replying with new answers either due to new APIs or tooling, and for some reason just alternative ways that already existed for years.

Hopefully they’re just setting that up and in the meantime did this.

I would have bought it for that purpose if it was available.

I’m really loving this new Microslop name.

Also… looks like someone bought www.microslop.com and redirected to their own site: https://www.philipncohen.com/

I wonder how that would go in court, I wonder if it’s been tried before? I could see an argument that if that was the intention and how they made money via gained followers, even indirectly, maybe it wouldn’t be fair use.

Edit: Like if they gain followers reposting grok modified images, and then they also show sponsored ads to their followers, now they are benefiting commercially by gaining followers via modified grok images. That might not be fair use, assuming the modified item was fair use to begin with otherwise.

May I introduce you to Fair Use Doctrine.

https://www.dmca.com/FAQ/What-is-Fair-Use

I wasn’t going to log in to verify either lol.

Even if that’s the case, it will come down to fair use policy which will allow quite a lot.

If the specific instance of sharing isn’t fair use and Twitter allows it, then sue them, someone will. Reddit for example though is just littered with modified images and they’ve been fine. Same with Lemmy.

Edit: If someone starts trying to make money off modified images via Grok, then that becomes a much easier case to win.

new tool could be used to modify others’ works without their consent.

This specific part is kinda stupid.

Nothing was ever preventing anyone from modifying an artists work. Its incredibly common. No one needs consent to modify anything.

To distrubute something that isn’t yours that doesn’t fall under fair use, absolutely. But modifying without consent is a joke.

And here I was thinking id just upgrade to one of these on my AM4 board… guess not.

That’d be easy enough to test wouldn’t it? Ask it to write something else like ‘The hippo farts are smelly’

If it needs to understand whatever the fuck that language is to get that output, it either can or can’t?

Magnets clearly.

Why the fuck does this language exist lol