Nee, niet de prijs van olie.. Het gevolg van #AI op de prijzen van harde schijven. Nog even en een harde schijf is meer waard in gewicht dan goud 🤨

Dit is de Pricewatch van een 1 TB schijf op @Tweakers, dus hedendaags qua omvang niks bijzonders. Ik had verwacht dat de AI-hype voorbij zou gaan aan kleinere schijven. Vermoedelijk sijpelt het door (de grote worden opgekocht door AI-bedrijven, de rest van de markt moet het daarna doen met de kleinere schijven).

Mic. Drop. 🎤 ⬇️

(edited to use a more neutral emoji)

https://youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0

We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in:

mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached.

Every single time.

And every single time it happens,
the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that built them act shocked—shocked!

—that collecting enormous databases of government IDs, facial scans, and biometric data from millions of people turns out to be a security nightmare

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

Read below 👇 why you should start using LibreSpeed from now on for internet speed tests

"Speedtest and Downdetector were just sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion. (...) Ookla, the parent company of both tools, has been acquired by the global IT consulting giant Accenture (...).

The open source alternative: LibreSpeed. No tracking scripts, no GPS harvesting, no profile building, no ads and no data sold to anyone."

https://librespeed.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rmalpy/news_librespeed_opensource_alternative_made_in/

#FOSS #opensource

A surge in new datacenters, each with the power demand of 100,000 households and a cooling water demand of 1,000,000 m³ per year to train AI models on material obtained without consent on hardware now unaffordable to consumers so fascism-adjacent tech billionaires can sell us the idea that any skill is now worthless and in doing so creating the largest economic bubble ever while simultaneously destroying society and environment.

I think that about sums it up.

#genai #llm

Two minutes of zen.

(An old video of a kinetic artwork that partner made during the pandemic lockdowns, found while installing the new phone.)

#art #mastoart #woodworking