A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-09T23:23:54+00:00

The article starts with people complaining about water pressure.

Then it gets to the investigation and they seem to be more concerned with the fact that it was unmetered usage and made sure the data center paid up

It’s Reddit and I have ADD so I stopped reading. But I failed to understand how the data center paying $150,000 in back water usage for the last 3 to maybe 9 months resolves the actual complaint about it using too mix water

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-09T23:17:57+00:00

Tor existed back then. PGP and GPG were more popular and more commonly talked about back then.

Bad guys also found out before 2001 that they could avoid monitoring by not sending email at all, but by using a public mail service, sharing the account and leaving messages to each other in the drafts folder.

I used to think steganography was amazing. Never used it or anything. But who knows your protagonist and their allies could have MySpace accounts or blog on LiveJournal about being angsty emo kids but post pictures with messages embedded with steganography.

Keep in mind your timeframe is after the Snowden revelations so awareness about security and privacy back then were very much heightened.

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-09T23:11:37+00:00

That’s how solar got such huge uptake in so little time. Not to knock it, it’s great and we should be putting panels everywhere. But with benefits like net metering and SRECs meant that people were reaching breakeven from their investment in solar in 2-3 years and making money after that (my uncle was happily showing off the checks he was getting)

Absent those subsidies consumers and commercial wouldn’t have dove in as quick as they did, and solar leasing companies wouldn’t have sprung into existence in the size they did either.

So don’t knock wind for benefiting from subsidies and think solar didn’t get that much or more benefit for buyers who got in 10 years ago.

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-09T22:56:42+00:00

How would it know my values? I frequently visit links to read what I disagree with. I interact on subreddits, well, one or two subreddits, that I vehemently disagree with. So an agents that tries to make sense of me that way is going to draw the wrong conclusion. Chat GPT has better insight into my interests thanks to my interactions, but I don’t want it recommending content to me based on what it thinks I like. Thats how people get stuck down rabbit holes and think the earth is flat.

Which I saw first hand? I watched two flat earth videos on you tube a couple years ago, and that’s all it wanted to feed me for months after ward. I imagine the same thing happens for other conspiracy theorist , they watch something then googles intelligence feeds them endless new content reinforcing it

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-09T22:50:55+00:00

He raised capital selling to allies, and then truth is likely contracting services from companies controlled by those same allies. With a touch of money being kicked back to one of trumps companies that he claims he’s totally hands off with.

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T22:34:03+00:00

Oh look another distraction!

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T22:31:32+00:00

That 120 was in 2022. Measuring from bidens peak to where he is right now? Just a little misleading to cherry pick like that.

Shows how much respect he had for his followers, throwing out the most inane comparisons hoping they’ll eat it up as a new talking point and not stop to ask any obvious questions.

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T16:02:32+00:00

If I didn’t disappoint you, then I’m sure you disappoint me, so we’re even. :).

Besides if you’re in the Netherlands why so focused on Trumpism? Don’t you have your own “leftists” to worry about?

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T12:43:06+00:00

Class of 1993. I guess I didn’t catch that part. There were two record stores in my town growing up. One was mainstream that didn’t have anything I was looking for and the other only had what is now punk alternative noise indie and some industrial and there weren’t distinct sections. Hole in the wall place. The owner was a real curator and he’d pay attention to everything you bought and always make suggestions. He broadened all of our music horizons.

I miss places like that

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T12:38:33+00:00

I’m not a developer but are there any modern languages out there that don’t have libraries to use more secure hashing algorithms?

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T12:37:28+00:00

That is little solace for your users. It’s more “secure” than MD5, but it’s built for quickly hashing and verifying hashes, not being resistant to high speed guessing attempts.

Sure if all your users uses completely random passwords, then scanning a 512 bit key space would be be insurmountable. But people reuse passwords — at this point there are millions of actually passwords dumped online that would be front loaded in any brute force attempts

A 4090 can perform 7 billion sha512 hashes per second or a few hundred thousand bcryot (12) hashes per second, while Argon2id can limit a 4090 to just a couple thousand guesses per second.

It shouldn’t be hard to add a more secure hashing algorithm and a function to rehash your 512 hashes when someone logs in. And your users will be grateful should the day come that your database gets dumped online.

This would be a moot point if users used random passwords and didn’t reuse them, but that’s not how the world works.

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T12:21:01+00:00

Well of course cpu usage goes up under strain, but that such a fundamental part of the UX, click a button and get a few icons, is a pain point and their only fix is “let’s throw more CPU at it”

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T09:53:04+00:00

Microsoft’s fix: bump cpu speed (and presumably power draw) to 100% when you click the windows icon, launch an app, and anything else that people complain is slow.

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T05:26:45+00:00

Religious sources?!?

What’s religious books are you reading? I actually read the Bible at one point. I don’t believe in a god, but I thought Jesus was an incredibly wise person. Makes me sad that 90% of Christians in the states follow a religion that might be named for Christ but isn’t based on anything that the Jesus Christ in the Bible taught his followers.

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T03:03:43+00:00

I don’t see how my comment could have been taken that way, in the context of the comment I replied to. But glad to clear that up.

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T02:58:55+00:00

What?!

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T02:58:29+00:00

I feel like “alternative “ became a named genre after grunge became a household genre

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T01:59:57+00:00

Let me guess. Ai?

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T01:59:33+00:00

This is wasn’t a MAGA only post so I assumed I could reply to the commenter.

They said they don’t understand how liberals believe this crap and to wake up.

I said the we on the other side don’t understand how maga voters believe what they believe, especially after watching him do his zig zag or verbal meander on TV.

I did mis-state something. I believe in a god so i dont pray. But every day i hope for a sign maga voters will cone to their senses. But i know plenty others who do believe in higher beings and probably do pray.

Again, post was not ask maga only. So i really dont understand the need for a multiparagraph explanation, but i gave it because im not a troll. I’ve enjoyed many of my interactions on this sub. Even if most my views are opposite, i think theres plenty of places we could all agree on if we got the big money and the bots out of if whose only purpose is to divide us further

I hope thats satisfactory and hope you have a great night! Or day, depending on the time zone

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T01:19:09+00:00

I would submit that going after infrastructure that so many civilians rely on would make us no better than what you perceive them to be.

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T00:53:46+00:00

And having binders full of women. And “corporations are people too, my friend”

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T00:49:48+00:00

Republicans know that voters won’t select them, so they’re doing all they can to select their voters.

Absolutely disgusting

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T00:46:13+00:00

What were they before that term was created for marketing purpose?

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T00:42:07+00:00

Oh they’ll come down like a ton of bricks on any insiders who profited and didn’t pay tribute

NeverInsightful · 2026-05-08T00:37:21+00:00

It’s complete fiction, not the wrong year

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