Mastodawn

woe2you Jul 14

@neil Good idea. I have many litres of emails, going back years.

Ret Jul 14

@neil brought to you by the same political class that suggested rolling out guard dogs to bark and deter drones over Heathrow…

Ra Jul 14

@ret @neil yeah, like that would ever work anyway. What kind of society allows canine trebuchets?

Ben Pye Jul 14

@neil @ret drone bees maybe

Extreme Electronics Jul 14

@neil They will be suggesting burning plastic to save on recycling next.

jamesb (MW1CGG)Jul 14

@Extelec
Do not ask what happens to contents of the soft plastics "recycling" cage at your local supermarket.
@neil

Paul_IPv6 Jul 14

the truly sad thing here is that i had no doubts about this being from the UK govt...

Andy Price Jul 14

@neil I hope this email finds you conserving water by deleting it

Sluether

Jul 14

@neil avoiding AI tools would have a significantly higher impact lol

Katze kratzt Jul 14

@neil reminds me of a quora question something along the lines of "is my computer heavier if i store more data on it" and the answer is technically yes, but in reality you are never going to notice it lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg

Andy Linton

✅Jul 14

@kate @neil I'm reminded of this. Probably my favourite episode.

Moss Introduces Jen To The Internet | The IT Crowd Series 3 Episode 4: The Internet

Moss introduces Jen to a new concept in business technology: The Internet. Subscribe for more The IT Crowd clips and episodes! http://www.bit.ly/SUBSCRIBE_TH...

YouTube

Katze kratzt Jul 14

@artnacrea @neil gosh i hate those absolutely not fake sitcom laughters

Henryk Plötz Jul 14

@kate @neil I'll just, er, leave this here, which came across my feed a couple of days ago: https://vt.social/@lina/114816623044909375

Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live (@lina@vt.social)

Attached: 1 image Yes, a file full of zero bits transfers faster over USB2.0 than a file full of one bits. I've known this forever but it still feels ridiculous when you actually test it and it's true! USB truly is cursed.

VT Social

Daniel Durrans Jul 14

@neil did they get this list mixed up with their “how to get rid of the evidence” list?

Ryan Walmsley Jul 14

@neil tis fine, just ask AI to do it.

Lots of savings of water then.

Alex Haydock Jul 14

It's hard work being this environmentally conscious but it's nice to get some recognition from the Government finally.

Dan Sugalski Jul 14

@neil Ah, they're proposing relying on individual action to solve systemic problems, something that never in the history of humanity has failed spectacularly to work.

Wezzah Jul 25

@wordshaper @neil so far it has worked for over 3 decades to keep the people responsible out of the line of fire and in the line of profits.

abadidea Jul 14

@neil the internet is a series of water pipes

Thomas Lobig🐔🐔Jul 14

@0xabad1dea ... a water treatment plant with all of the sewage and none of the treatment ... @neil

@Tom_ofB that's what avoiding therapy gets ye @0xabad1dea @neil

Thomas Lobig🐔🐔Jul 14

@MxVerda ouch, that hit closer to home than you might have intended @0xabad1dea @neil

@Tom_ofB

sorry!
Deciding between Level 4 Counselling courses atm, and my go-to response for 90% of problems in any narrative is "If this character could access therapy -- !" @0xabad1dea @neil

Thomas Lobig🐔🐔Jul 14

@MxVerda I've yet to meet a person this side of, say, 25 years of age who couldn't use at least a bit of therapy.
Anyway I just like to play with words, especially in languages that I'm not a native speaker of - like English. Which is not to say that I'm NOT a disgruntled 40+ yo. ;D
@0xabad1dea @neil

David Monniaux Jul 14

@neil We get the same kind of stuff in France, and even are told to teach it to students.

Persephone Jul 14

@neil the British government is wrong about a great deal of things, trans people, people risking their lives to get to this country, etc. So this shouldn't surprise me, and yet

econads Jul 14

@mindpersephone @neil you can just make a list of things the government is wrong about and daily mail obsessions and you will find the lists to be extremely similar.

食 Shoku the MN Wolf Jul 14

@neil they should recommend using smaller fonts to save on disk space as well 🙄

Otte Homan - remember Geordie Jul 14

@TheMNWolf yes. And, cut down on the punctuation. No more Oxford Commas. Imagine, the space saved! @neil

Cysio

Jul 14

@neil is it just me or is the British government's communication with their citizens quite infantile?

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Jul 14

@me @neil they view us all as spoiled children, which is a grand case of Projection

NexaLilly 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 14

@me @neil Their communication is often quite infantile.

And often ignores actual solutions, like fixing the water network's myriad leak issues.

1A Jul 14

@neil recommended action: sell reshark sunny to buy water

Dan Jul 14

@neil bonus points: use AI to go through those emails and decide which ones to keep 🙄

Ian Douglas Scott Jul 14

@neil Are we sure this recommendation wasn't just made up by a government official looking for an excuse to delete emails with evidence of corruption?

"I deleted them for mother nature! Totally selflessly. I'm not hiding anything."

Andrew Smith Jul 14

I guess AI is supposed to consume a load of water, so if we just delete the internet problem solved.

@smiggs @neil but I don't waaaaanna print out all the porn

Andrew Smith Jul 14

@MxVerda @neil don't worry we'll put some in a hedgerow for you.

@smiggs I feel like a discerning pervy outdoor cat now @neil

Queenofcorn78 Jul 14

https://uk.allianzgi.com/-/media/allianzgi/globalagi/editorial/sustainably-quench-the-thirst-of-data-centres/1271-23-1039-allianzgi-thirstydatacentres-global-eng-2023.pdf

Water-scarce communities and regions
are putting pressure on data centre
operators to reduce their water usage
significantly and to implement solutions
that ensure a more efficient use of
water for cooling purposes.

groff Jul 14

@neil I use ad blockers and reader mode to save the planet, honest.

micha Jul 14

@neil @bert_hubert maybe they think those mails are in contact with water because the providers need to scan them for hidden messages ... 🫣

CyberFrog Jul 14

@neil they're actually fucking incompetent if they think the shitty 2mb of emails that the average person stores causes any kind of measurable water usage from datacenters

this is some clown shit, I'd actually bet money that the act of deleting these mailboxes uses more energy than doing absolutely nothing... doing nothing won't use more CPU cycles lol

Mike Sheldon Jul 14

@neil Interestingly, (and in no way related...) the EA also has an AI powered chat bot that allows you to talk to flood defense: https://www.hlp.city/en-gb/case-studies/flood-resilience-and-awareness

Hello Lamp Post — Flood Resilience and Awareness

“Hello EA” is an exciting digital tool that marks the Environment Agency’s first use of AI for public engagement.

Alexis Bushnell (she/her)Jul 14

@mike @neil oh my fucking god, the irony is so painful

drukac Jul 14

@neil
But also don't decrease demand for data centre storage because Kapitalism.

Adam Jul 14

@neil Maybe they should have a word with Ofcom to ask them to stop using slop images all over their Web site?

lfzz Jul 14

@neil next they will try to prompt their way to a solution. Thankfully this AI thing doesn't require cooling right?

Alexis Bushnell (she/her)Jul 14

@neil I notice "stop using LLMs" isn't on that list when that would make an enormous difference.

@neil but but… AI….

@neil all my long abandoned gmail accounts must be absolutely THIRSTY right now.

elala@nrw.social Jul 14

@neil
I don't even know where to start ... 🤪 😬

Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽Jul 14

We are going to 'tech' our way to oblivion.

David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈Jul 14

@neil Is it an advance on 'share a bath' ? Asking for a friend.

Reddog Jul 14

@neil Water companies are spilling millions of litres through leaky pipes, selling off reservoirs, putting shit in our seas and rivers...... And I have to let my garden die to save water... fuck them.

Nux Jul 14

@neil Thames water currently loses over half billion litres of drinking water every single day because they prioritised shareholder value over infrastructure (and UK gov let it happen). They can go fsck themselves.

Poloniousmonk Jul 15

@Nux @neil

It sounds like you run your water the way America runs its health care.

No necessity of life should be for profit. No parasite should be allowed to kill, or threaten to kill, people in order to extort money out of them

I've never understood why this isn't universally accepted.

Bruno Nicoletti Jul 15

@Nux @neil Today I discovered that the water industry is even more full of sharks than I expected. Thames Water generally doesn’t deal with commercial customers directly, but rather they make you go to a middle man and buy water from them. Adding another layer of cost and opportunity to seek rents, as well as someone else to deny responsibility when it all goes wrong.