It is amazing how internet commenters can see some data that appears insane and build an entire post around it. Instead of like, consider, that they have completely misunderstood the data. Confirmation bias much.

Eg that graph is not Finnish electricity usage. It's ALL energy, including cars and planes that still use oil...

Yeah I was wrong and completely misunderstood the data. I'd edit the post if I could but the timeout for that happened while I was editing. Not sure what confirmation bias I might have: I figured the Fins did their math correctly and was confused about why they were using electric heat.

Anyway, to explain my mistake, the data did not look "insane" to me, it's about right for most countries, and even if it had been correct for Finland the method they described might be favorable (some electric sources need leveling and using extra energy for heat is better than dumping it). Honest mistake, I'm not here with some agenda, and I learned of it by posting.

Anwyay, thanks for the correction! It's amazing (in a good way) that internet communicators can see something that looks plausible, but is wrong, and correct it! You've restored (some of) my faith in the internet.

Cheers! For the record 25% of electricity from oil is "insane" for any place that isn't a small island or failing 3rd world country.

Yeah thanks for pointing this out: I'd been confusing energy consumption with electricity generation for a while. Turns out that even countries that I thought were using oil for electricity (e.g. the US) were just using it for transportation / petrochemical.

I guess oil is too valuable to just burn.

Of course you can't do blast furnace with a sand battery. But there is still a sizable market for industrial heat in between 100c <> 400c.

If you are paying for electricity in dollars, this battery won't translate to cheaper energy for you. The battery is in Scotland.

Essex

Which, to be clear is: Not in Scotland, and, is in fact very far from Scotland.

In terms of countries, it's closer to France, or Belgium, or the Netherlands than to Scotland.

It is in the UK though, so, if your model of where "Scotland" is just means vaguely "the United Kingdom somewhere" and thus also includes London then yeah, close enough.

I'm just translating for USD for an American audience.

I think it's cute people believe companies that trained their models with every single book and online page ever written without consents from authors (and often against the explicit request of the author without any opt-out) won't do a rugg-pull and do it also to all the chats they have aquired...

Yeah people are gullible these days. We need another full 2008 crash that hurts bad before people wake up for a bit before becomming like this again.

Or we can root for happiness and prosperity instead

I "root for people not burglarizing my house", but i put locks on my doors also. The way the market for these tools is behaving, a crash is extremely likely; batten down the hatches.

> We need another full 2008 crash that hurts bad

Hurts whom that bad?

AI companies will get bailed out like the auto industry was - they won't be hurt at all.

You're absolutely right, but also isn't the volume of new data they are getting from chats tiny compared to what they've already trained on? I'm wondering how much difference it will really make.

Never attribute malice where bad incentives suffice.

Someone's KPI was to sprinkle AI. And someone got it by shoehorning "AI enhancement" in place of the previous sharpen + Denoise filter at YouTube.

People still airbrush some trucks

https://youtu.be/elkYTDkFQzo?si=PE3ZzoASZUqCrda7

Genuis. The ultimate way to bypass all AI bot crawling blocks. Just make every chrome browser upload whatever they view to perplexity for training data^W^WAI summarizing.

Also for monetizing AI Search.

Google has already seen most users [0] directly use AI search instead of clicking into a website.

It is fairly straightforward for an organization to start pushing recommended sites from an AI-driven search, and with even less pushback as most users simply assume the AI search is always true [0].

This also would mean Perplexity could differentiate from OpenAI or Anthropic as a business by being able to build a strong B2C play whereas the former have concentrated on Enterprise B2B.

[0] - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-us...

exactly why Google will not accept.

They will do it for Gemini

yup. that was my point.

Maybe if f-droid is important to you, donate, so they can buy newer build server?

I'm not quite sure if I'm over reading into this, but this comes across as a snarky response as if I've said "boo, fdroid sucks and owes me a free app store!".

Appologies if I came across like that, here's what I'm trying to convey:

- Fdroid is important

- This sounds like a problem, not necessarily one that's any fault of fdroid

- Does anyone know of a plan to fix the issue?

For what it's worth, I do donate on a monthly basis to fdroid through liberapay, but I don't think that's really relevant here?

You are right, my message comes through as too snarky. What I wanted to give is an actionable item for the readers here.

This has now become a major issue for F-Droid, as well as for FOSS app developers. People are starting to complain about devs because they haven't been able to release the new version for their apps (at least it doesn't show up on F-Droid) as promised

Is Westmere the minimum architecture needed for the required SSE?

Server hardware at the minimum v2 functionality can be found for a few hundred dollars.

A competent administrator with physical access could solve this quickly.

Take a ReaR image, then restore it on the new platform.

Where are the physical servers?

Zen 2 Epyc would barely double the price of older platforms if you buy an entire server, and would run circles around them.

A slow computer that does what you want is infinitely more valuable than a fast computer that does not.

why would a fast computer refuse to do what you want?

Did and doing regularly.

The word renewable has a specific meaning (the source renews). Just because something is renewable, doesn't mean it's climate-friendly and/or sustainable.

Burning pellets as Bioenergy is renewable - it's just not sustainable[1] or climate-friendly.

[1] not sustainable in large scale use.

Green threads, now THAT's a buzzword I haven't heard for a long time...