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A crypto miner uses electricity to test cryptographic solutions in order to find a specific one that “solves” a block of transactions on an blockchain. In order to do this, it runs hashing functions on your computer (usually your GPU).

It’s stealing your processing power and electricity; so no it’s not the same as a cryptocurrency miner, which is theft and fraud of a different type.

You’re right , let’s just forget it

I think you missed the whole point of this post.

“Who cares? Just let Google take over the whole internet! I have no idea why we don’t just sell the whole thing to Google and make it called ‘the Google’ instead, whatever” <— this is what you sound like

Ok going back to your actual words, What an absolutely insane thing to say. Google aren’t the good guys when they mark every piece of email as spam that doesn’t come from them.

And it’s not like OP was emailing random people, they had a program they run and emails them when something goes wrong; _pretty useless if they never get it because Google decided it was spam even though they jumped through the ludicrous amount of hoops it takes to run an email server in 2026, thanks exactly to mindsets like yours “who cares just let people do whatever”

Yeah shits ruined now, but hey at least you think you’re smarter about your time than everyone else. Enjoy!

Solar Freakin’ Runways!

We should be pouring money into fusion instead of datacenters

If we had nuclear fusion, we could produce so much power with so little fuel that it would be economical to literally scrub the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and chemically refine it back into gasoline. You could keep your vroom vrooms and we wouldn’t be facing a dying planet.

But no, everyone thinks it’ll be like The Jetsons when is going to be like every Black Mirror episode combined.

Thanks for the future, assholes

It’s almost like the demonization of the economic theory that kept men from gaining power arbitrarily though riches had nothing to do with the universal evil that is authoritarianism and that it was all a ruse to allow the most sinister men to rise to power through whatever subterfuge they could muster 🤔

There’s a lot of shitting on twitch here, and rightfully so - but if you think YouTube, Kick, Rumble, Facebook, TikTok etc aren’t doing this, then they probably haven’t bulldozed a large portion of your town to build a data center yet

They’re literally buying up all the computing resources so that we can’t get any.

We will all have to communicate though walled gardens on dumb tablets.

They can quickly summarize vast amounts of text looking for any “undesirable” patterns using LLMs.

We will all have to rent computing time from them.

This is the point, this has been the point for a long time, it’s just that LLMs were the perfect storm of “impressive to rubes” and “resource hungry”. Micron has already eliminated its consumer brand, Crucial. Hell, Peter Thiel (the Palantir guy) goes around giving talks about how “being against AI is the antichrist” just to make sure that all the remaining brainwashed sheep fall for the ruse.

This shit is not hard to see. They want to own our future entirely and they want us to pay them for the privilege.

Capitalism was a fucking mistake.

I got banned from Twitter (good riddance anyway) for saying that data centers are an excuse to take comtrol of computer from the masses

So…yes?

Can’t you make patterns in infrared reflective paint?

Jim Carresaurus

So that you can’t.

You can’t organize against billionaires online if walled garden censored posting to the cloud is the only thing available to anyone. You can’t pirate media if you can’t store media locally. You can’t run a ad blocker if they’re not allowed on their app store. You can’t install linux if your tablet can’t be jailbroken.

You have too much freedom. They must have control back. We allowed them to have enough money to take it, they just had to fool the rubes with the promise of utopian robotic labor via addiction.