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Azure, you ok hun?

@Infoseepage I’m pretty sure my Steam account is 20 years old at this point.

Piracy is going to go through the fucking roof.

I also won’t be using Steam anymore.

I find it pretty hilarious that Valve’s method of using a payment card to verify your age, and the fact it meets the legal criteria, is hilarious.

Shows the utter insanity of the Online Safety Act.

They are correct, though, it does serve as the least invasive method for users… and kids, with their parent/siblings/relatives’ cards.

“Sorry, I had my phone on DnD”

I’ve had my phone on ‘Do Not Disturb’ for three weeks now, it has been amazing.

I just want to point you to this short and well written piece about the Online Safety Act.

I predicted this years ago, and the outcomes, as many others did.

It desperately needs to be repealed, and the EU needs to take note on the harms it would bring to implement similar.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/

We need to bring back “source: trust me bro” and instead it’s “source: ChatGPT”. And we need to ridicule people for it.

I couldn’t sleep, so I was remembering that time I was given ‘facts’ about how efficient AI usage was compared to Google search.

Then my brain wandered into the entirety of Googles water usage for data centre cooling, using their figures.

Where I ended up was, as there’s no way to conceivably store this much water: a 15m diameter pipe, to each of Google’s data centre’s internationally with 3,500km of pipe for *salt water* on the cold side, and the same on the hot side, heating 1% of the world’s total water to around 60 degrees C, every day.

Then I started wondering where all that sweet, sweet silicon is hiding, because that amounts to something like 35 quadrillion 2U server units… or 1.5 quadrillion 48U racks. An area twice the size of France if no room is left between them.

I’m not even getting into power infrastructure.

And that’s just Google. Microsoft and AWS are far bigger.

Maybe it’s time to start the anti-AI propaganda by telling people their utility bills will rise due to AI usage.

Because they will.

Taxes and utility bills seem to be the only language some people understand.

I didn’t need to buy two LEGO train sets because they were on offer at Smyths…

But…

Got a task you need to get done?! I got you, fam.

Today my #ADHD hyperfocus album is the prequel to the one from the other day.

Really great crescendo at the end, really playful polyrhythms. Borderline euphoric.

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/hex-i/1770186916

Blade Runner opens with “do you, or have you ever identified yourself as ‘Mecha Hitler’?”

Roll credits.

“We have Weyland Yutani at home”

I just know some cunt is going to tell me to use Linux.

Me in my teens expecting having to choose between being a rebel street-rider or corpo slicker.

Choosing the underworld before turning corpo to try to change from the inside, using technology to overthrow corrupt officials and cruel oligarchs.

Looking at the cyberdeck I was promised, and it has a 2hr battery life, adverts in the UI, applications frequently stopping responding, can’t be repaired, or augmented with black market parts, and can be compromised by a cool summer breeze.

I think when my best friend and I first used the word ‘enshittification’ to talk about the trends of technology in 2005-2006, I think we assumed that the people enshittifying it would be better at their jobs.

Not ruthless, calculated change. Just clueless project managers in CEO roles poorly managing everything while ‘maximising’ profit. However even the maximising profit part isn’t working.

Rinsing investors is what’s happening, while gaslighting everyone else.

This isn’t the technological dystopia I was promised.

Got a spin class in 20 minutes and I’m still in bed.

Would rather creature here and play Donkey Kong Bananza.

Just thinking about cloud apps like Microsoft 365, Dropbox etc. and how we now have a generation that doesn’t know what performance looks like.

That’s pretty sad.

I have a 10 gig pipe to my *desk*, running an ultra low latency enterprise network stack, with high-end current generation hardware and the majority of my work is done in… electron and web apps.

By god it’s depressing.