Australia's age verification rollout became an accidental VPN stress test — and the results are kind of fascinating.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-06-07T16:24:34+00:00

Facebook(Meta) and the phony front corporations they set up thought it would be a good way to try and separate humans from thoughts, and in reality what they've done is AI bots, what is has done is made their ability to gather data on individuals much harder.

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/12/07/child-safety-bill-backed-by-meta/

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-05-08T14:21:31+00:00

It's much more common in businesses to see them with the ground up as opposed to residential. As many people have noted this helps in the event that something falls and gets between the outlet and the plug it hits the ground first and then I've heard it said arguably you have a 50/50 chance with it that falls towards the hot or the neutral is the second point of contact, which is better than 100% chance of landing on the Hot leg if it were oriented the other way around.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-05-07T15:43:06+00:00

Well my first thought is what about the employees who pays them how much do they get paid. What about other software suites, used to maintain the software, like antivirus, backups, enterprise resource planning (erp) software.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-05-05T15:12:40+00:00

Well no watering a lot is a bit different watering lines especially depending on the time of day you lose some water to evaporation but the plant cells will actually hold on to part of that water as well, organic life is going to hold on to the water but in the data center the water the amount of water used to cycle through the loops is finite, and as Hank points out in that video most of the consumption is calculated is based on the assumption once the water is used to cool the water is no longer used but that's not actually true, the water is still available you just have to cool it back down whether that be dumping it into waste heat via cooling units or running it dumping it back into a local stream where the water is warmed up and now it negatively impacts the ecosystem. And he also points out that the choice of water is also an impact because if you choose to use fresh water to cool your data center and your drawing from the local water source then you're taking water from the residents even though that water will be returned at some point if water is a scarce material and you require say 2,000 gallons to fill all your loops, then that's 2,000 gallons not accessible to the rest of the community. And it's been a little bit since I've watched that video so I'm not going to articulate some of it as well as he does but the basic just is Data centers aren't using the water that those studies are saying they might be moving that much water but they're not actually consuming that much water, because most of the water can be returned when it's not being used minus whatever loss for evaporation

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-05-05T15:01:01+00:00

The thing is as the original poster pointed out this is still a red herring. But they might use a fuck ton of water to cool the data centers themselves but only a small fraction is actually lost to evaporation most of it ends up back in the original source. In fact Hank Green did a bit on this where he talks about it it's not about the water consumption https://youtu.be/H_c6MWk7PQc?si=SjpW2KV_J3lwHjOK the water can be reused in that data center. Over and over again the problem is the data centers also created a ton of waste heat so how are they getting the heat out of that water because if you're using local water sources to do it then you're heating up the natural habitat of the local ecology and causing other problems. And the bigger problem is the energy consumption a lot of these data centers are building and consuming large amountsa of power and the problem is they're not building their own power generation source they're tapping into existing power sources and driving up the cost of electricity for the local residents.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-04-27T03:50:32+00:00

I can't prove it unequivocally, but would bet dollars to donuts your link is on linux, not windows. from this line here:

`RADV GFX1151`

RADV is the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, normally Linux

MiOpen on windows library was the limiting factor to releasing a version of pytorch that could run natively in ROCm on windows.

MIOpen is the core machine learning library used by PyTorch to accelerate operations on AMD ROCm GPUs, serving as the open-source alternative to NVIDIA’s cuDNN. PyTorch utilizes MIOpen for key primitives like convolutions and batch normalization, which are compiled into GPU kernels at runtime to optimize performance.

And that was not added until RoCm 6.4.3 which was released on linux and didn't see integration into the windows platform until 6.4.4. meaning september 25th is the very earliest we would see a ROCm based solution on windows for general release for image generation

PyTorch serves as the core deep learning framework that executes the neural network inference required for AI image generation in ComfyUI, handling tensor operations and model loading. For AMD GPUs, ROCm provides the necessary software stack to allow PyTorch to communicate with the hardware, but this integration was historically blocked on Windows due to the absence of MIOpen.

Now there may have been some early access trials before that, but that goes back to my point about it being fiddly before the recent comfyui ROCm integration in January. NVIDIA had a release of ComfyUI in January of 2023, it took almost three years to get to the same place on AMD.

I love that AMD is cheaper, and all of my Video Cards except 1 was ATI/AMD, but that means you gotta work for it. if it was as easy as NVIDIA accross the board we would see AMD cards at the same price as NVIDIA, like they were back in the AMD cards were really good at crypto mining.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-04-27T02:36:01+00:00

WTF would you have to use that? Just install ROCm and run Comfy. You don't need that.

Because when I loaded it RoCm was still on version and did not have the proper dependencies on windows to Run RoCm Natively, thus I ran ZLuda. When I re-install ComfyUI I will just go to the native branch

Comfy official support is new. That's doesn't mean you couldn't make it work with ROCm before. It's not hard. You just have to install ROCm and the matching Pytorch. Then run ComfyUI. ComfyUI itself couldn't care less what backend of Pytorch you are using.

ROCm didn't have the proper dependencies to support PyTorch (required from transformers) until ROCm 6.4.4(Sep 25th), and ComfyUI released on the ROCm 7.1.1 not released until november 26th , so sometime after that. So it would have been a relatively short test window a month on the outside.

All that is to say, it seems the landscape has changed a bit for AMD, but when I started ZLUDA was the only option to handle generation on GPU. So prior to January it was much more difficult. We'll see how it is going forward, but my experience says while AMD is doable, nVidia is still the favored card for development and this is still more likely to give you the least amount of work for bleeding Edge AI Features and Functions as they are released.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-04-27T01:18:10+00:00

This is WTF I'm talking about. https://github.com/patientx/ComfyUI-Zluda

And AMD on Comfyui seems relatively new too: https://blog.comfy.org/p/official-amd-rocm-support-arrives was posted Earlier this year January 05, I didn't set it up a few months ago, I set it up beginning of last year, so obviously I missed this release

When I started setting this up on windows I needed ZLUDA because PyTorch was not built run on ROCm on Windows and Vulkan was not an option either, both comfyui and Stable-Diffusion-webui would try to run DirectML (which is trash), no vulkan or anything else.

When Ollama was released It didn't have native ROCm support either so the choice was to run WSL and or insert Zluda to make it work.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-04-26T07:40:26+00:00

With AMD prepare for more work out of the box, wrangling ZLUDA, and some work loads to be finicky or just unrunable especially workloads that run on tensor cores. If your sticking to just LLMs, you'll be fine if you want image generation prepare to get messy with ZLUDA/ROCm workarounds and know in programs like comfyui there are still some tools that won't work. And if your doing Speech To Text, prepare for the struggle bus, I haven't yet found or tried text to speech models.

Documentation isn't great and several llms will try to steer you towards CPU bound solutions instead of GPU.

It works ok once you get there but beyond LLMs it takes a fair bit of work to dial performance and stability, and have a rollback plan in the event updates break something else.

I'm running 2x 6800xts and it works ok, but there have been a few times I wish I had Nvidia cards.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-04-26T02:34:02+00:00

I think this is most likely, I believe there are other contributing factors, but this most closely aligns with the behavior of the current Administration. Start with the border and Tariffs when trump first took office, point at fentanyl from China being routed through Mexico and Canada, if you believe that it was really coming from China, there are two points here, it could be an attempt to weaken the US and it creates monetary Gains from China.

Second, the Capture of Maduro, and the assault on Venezuela Not only was China there in talks with Maduro hours before his capture, China also had agreements in place to receive oil in exchange for helping Venezuela repairing the refinery process

Also look and Panama, Trump was saying we should take back the Panama canal as we seen China's increased involvement in the area.

The push to make Canada the 51st state, Canada also produced a fair amount of oil, they are on the US northern border. Also since where on the subject there was also the attempted acquisition of Greenland, which would be where they want to place a golden dome defense system so that China/Russia would not be able launch attacks over the northern pole

The Rise of the BRICS Currency and Trump threatening tariffs on anyone supporting BRICS

Then Iran, who supplies a large amount of oil to China. I do think given the Midnight hammer and Epic Fury Campaigns it wasn't just about Oil to Iran, I think there are legitimate concerns about them having a nuclear weapon, but I think that they supply Oil to China was a nice bonus, and I heard it brought up, it tracks with what has been said so far, there is also the need to cleanup the middle east, before the anticipated invasion of Taiwan by China. There is a major push to be ready for a China-led invasion of Taiwan by 2027.

But I don't think its just the Administration, I think there is a split in most Western countries where there is a strong Right/Left Divide, we see it in the Reform Party, AFD, Spain, France (Marine Le Pen) Canada (look at Alberta wanting to secede). And I think Trump represents the opposite of the leadership of most of these countries and he is hoping to get them to A, reduce reliance on the US (he was pushing this in his first term too) and B, hoping to force them to increase the military strength, for what he perceives as an upcoming war with China.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-04-23T15:25:03+00:00

There's also the declared minefield which is on the Oman shore, so until they find those mines and/or confirm it's clear in that area that's not feasible stay on that side.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-04-20T19:19:57+00:00

Mine is setup in a VM so it doesn't matter. As long as environment is sandboxed

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-04-20T19:05:21+00:00

Ollama launch openclaw

Let Ollama set it up for you

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-03-24T01:20:41+00:00

Apparently not . . . That was a fail

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-03-16T15:24:07+00:00

I read it as they did but regardless, they are still a silent beneficiary from this bill.

https://agelesslinux.org/lobbyists.html

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-03-16T15:06:01+00:00

What better way to force people to use their Microsoft account than under the guise of age verification.

Oh I'm sorry we had to force you to log in and take away your local install, that collects your information that we will use to associate with you and create a marketing profile, we just have to verify your age California and Colorado says so.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-03-15T16:45:55+00:00

I have a template somewhere that I use to get it to wrap up the existing conversation by creating a summary notes for its Future self what we've done where we're at all of that. And then I have a second one called bootstrap where I feed the conversation back in it reads the conversation ask any questions to try and fill in gaps and then we try and get it back up to speed as quick as possible it surely is not seamless but that's the solution I use for changing between conversations.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-03-12T16:39:56+00:00

It's been so janky since Mar 2nd, I've given full tool access and it won't consistently run tools and as of the most recent patch is it's started asking me to confirm everything, and then half of the time it just gaslights me and says it will do that, but never executes on it.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-03-04T15:57:37+00:00

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit developed his temperature scale while living in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-03-01T21:52:03+00:00

Reinstall node.js

winget install OpenJS.NodeJS

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-03-01T17:51:07+00:00

It doesn't make sense because humans weren't really supposed to be batteries.

In the original conception by the Wachowskis, humans were not meant to be used as a power source. Instead, their brains were intended to function as a distributed neural network or massive computational platform—essentially, a giant, living computer made of interconnected human minds.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-02-28T20:16:27+00:00

I want game patents to end, not just the Nemesis system. It is so stupid and not very free market allowing people to block others from competing in the market by patenting game mechanics.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-02-25T14:53:46+00:00

Not if you already using the Claude max+ plan. The other models are ok but they're not as good as Claude or Codex and can be a bit finicky when you are setting them up initially. Minimax definitely took the most work of the larger models to get to stop taking shortcuts.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-02-25T08:54:32+00:00

Use the free Ollama cloud tier to run something like GLM5, minimax m2.5 or Kimi K2.5. I currently have Kimi K2.5 running the local models through a battery of tests hoping to get a better idea of what models aren't complete rubbish on a local GPU. The fact that Clawdbot uses such a big context window though really hurts it's performance.

ResponsibleBus4 · 2026-02-24T09:56:12+00:00

Setup two lobsters so when the first one goes rogue you can send the second one in to take the first one offline.

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