Notices by Ysegrim (ysegrim@furry.engineer)

@naught101 @stuartl @randahl Hi. German here. Trust me, an efficient fascist government would be much, much worse in the end.

@cstross "69% into computation" is physically impossible. I mean ... how could it? It's not like you go in with a hard drive, and when you take it out there is 10kWh of data on it. Energy just doesn't work that way. Except for the miniscule amounts of energy that leaves the data center as light (through windows or fiber), all electrical energy that goes in leaves the building as heat. Through coolant water, through coolant air, conductive/radiation through the walls and roof ... but as heat. In that sense, a data center has an energy efficiency of almost 0%.

(The exception being, the heat is used in some way. To heat buildings, to heat water for residential use, greenhouses, ... heat will then, again, leave these buildings again in the same way that it now leaves the data center building. But people can make use of the warmth in these buildings before that happens.)

@kaia Hmm. In den Städten scheint grundsätzlich weniger krank gefeiert zu werden als im jeweiligen Umland ...

Und jetzt würde mich mal die Korrelation interessieren "Corona-Gesamtinzidenz 2020-2022" und "Krankheitstage 2024" ...

@aliss #ALT4you

Chess hasn't been updated in almost 200 years and it's obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.

I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like "Castling" and "En Passant" instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I've been complaining for YEARS about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The "clipping-thru-pieces" bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.

Don't support this awful behaviour and boycott this company.

@lanodan This can be super useful in situations where you don't have any console …