John Griffith

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Retired optical engineer.
I did a mock flyer to hand out to South Carolina Guardsmen being sent to DC (I did the Ohio one before coffee this morning, so SURELY it can be improved on), borrowing from @pbump.com's latest. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Today's Doonesbury nails it.

#Comic #Doonesbury #Immigration #ICE

Yet another interesting #unix history talk and Q&A at VCF East by Brian Kernighan, once of Bell Labs.

The material is mostly familiar but some of the questions are quite novel.

Either way, this stuff never gets old.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WEb_YL1K1Qg

#retrocomputing #computerhistory #operatingsystems

History of UNIX - Brian Kernighan

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Arnold Schwarzenegger eviscerated Trump for his pathetic submission to Putin — and he’s right. “Mr. President Trump, you stood there like a little white noodle, like a fanboy.” While Ukraine is invaded, its people slaughtered, Trump grovels before a dictator. That isn’t leadership. It’s betrayal.
A tale of two vibes.
I lived long enough to see American troops roll out a red carpet for Putin on their knees. I’m definitely surviving out of spite as a veteran at this point.
Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to fossil fuel companies and their executives

The Guardian
#ChatGPT5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than #GPT4 — research institute estimates medium-sized #GPT5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
University of Rhode Island's AI lab estimates that GPT-5 averages just over 18 Wh per query, so putting all of #ChatGPT's reported 2.5B requests a day through the model could see energy usage as high as 45GWh equivalent of two to three nuclear power reactors, enough to power a small country.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-5-power-consumption-could-be-as-much-as-eight-times-higher-than-gpt-4-research-institute-estimates-medium-sized-gpt-5-response-can-consume-up-to-40-watt-hours-of-electricity
ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity

But the figures rely on hardware and usage assumptions that may be inaccurate.

Tom's Hardware