At my former company we paid 900€/month for 1Gbit/s, which we required. That's definitely a problem when the same performance is available for ~50€/month a few kilometers over the border (in the Netherlands).
In rural regions workshops output is limited by their internet speed as the can only download that many CAD files from customer per day.
The main reason I use postgres instead of SQLite is that I have multiple processes accessing the database, often 1 web service for API/Website and a worker running in the background doing heavy tasks (e.g. image processing). Both need access to the database and SQLite will run into locking issues.
IIRC there has been a case in Germany where it was ruled that opening devtools is hacking and therefore illegal intend. A person found a vulnerability by looking at the website source (using devtools) and informed the company. They then sued him using the "Hackerparagraph" (§ 202c StGB) for use of hacker tools.
It only stores (timestamped) floating point values with a series id and uses a B+Tree as the backing data structure. Querying is done with a lisp-like query language.
I've added ActivityPub to my blog system (https://h4kor.github.io/owl-blogs/) as just another way of subscribing to the blog, but found that it is a good model to support interactions.
> Are companies just sending the output of their liquid cooling into the drain?
basically yes. Closed loop systems require more energy and are more expensive investments. The main concern for data centers is Total Energy / Energy Compute.
Same in Germany. Farmers (most conservative population group) love renewable energy. Every farmer I know tries to get wind turbines build on their land and have their roofs packed with PV. Yet the conservative parties are the biggest blockers for the energy transition.
IMO it's only a matter of time before LLMs will include ads. Current pricing isn't covering the costs of running LLMs and brands will pay a high price for being favored in responses.
I watched the last starship launch on a scam YouTube stream. It was 30 minutes delayed, which a thought was because Musk wanted to promote Twitter. They said multiple times that Elon will announce something big after the launch.
Directly after lift off it cut to Elon holding a speech and I only noticed this been a scam channel when he talked about the QR code and crypto.
For the first years of its existence I only new tiktok because they were advertising everywhere.