It’s really difficult to cool things in space, and it’s really difficult to power stationary things in space. It’s also really expensive to put things in space so size/weight is a problem.

So if it’s not cheaper/better for cooling, and it’s not cheaper/better for power, and it’s not cheaper/better for rack space… why is there a focus on shipping compute to space?

The point I keep coming back to is that it’s really hard for the public to protest/damage/destroy data centres in space.

OpenAI absolutely did something. This wasn’t a member of the public using ChatGPT, this was OpenAI employees training an OpenAI model(s).

If you or I did this without permission in the name of research (with or without using an LLM), we’d be facing jail time.

OpenAI accessed non-public aggregate health statistics and internal files from an old Australian government website that carried Medicare statistics.

The prime minister said OpenAI was conducting research into public medical spending when it found a way to break through privacy protections.

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was “conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity” during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

“During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation,” they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

Im trying to get onboard with CoMaps but its Android Auto implementation needs work. It’s too zoomed in to be useful at speed or in traffic, and the directions are wonky with street mergers, highway changes, etc.

I think I can contribute to the directions but not easily while driving. I’m not a coder so I can’t write up a zoom setting function for submission.

Any tips for CoMaps in the car?

Totally agree. We’re watching from Australia to see if you guys are still a democracy or not. Signs aren’t looking good…

But why did Bamboot get 4 of Gort’s votes while Aggy-Waggy got only 1, even though the latter got over half the number of the former?

Because Bamboot isn’t getting Gort’s votes. Now that Gort is eliminated, all of the voters that voted Gort #1 now have their #2 vote counted as if it’s their #1 vote.

• 4 people that voted Gort #1 voted Bamboot #2.
• 1 person that voted Gort #1 voted Floundra #2.
• 1 person that voted Gort #1 voted Aggy-Waggy #2.

This keeps happening down the choices until someone has a majority. People that voted Floundra #1 don’t end up having their #2 vote counted because their candidate wasn’t eliminated in the end. This is why it’s not possible to throw your vote away have your vote taken away - if your favourite candidate is eliminated, your vote goes to your second favourite, then your third favourite, etc until someone has the majority.

Not sure what it looks like in the US, but Australian ballot slips have all the candidates and you number them 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.

Yeah, maybe.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/06/13/a-huge-anomaly-antarctica-records-winter-temperatures-20c-warmer-than-normal

Here’s a brief explanation of how preferential voting works in Australia: https://www.chickennation.com/voting/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8

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That’s an unfortunate thumbnail

Deleted my previous comment - you’re right, it’s not able to identify the screen resolution etc without JavaScript.

Unfortunately I’m still fingerprinted though - no JavaScript is itself an identifiable marker.

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Try this while on a VPN and in incognito mode: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

I bet you’ll be surprised at the methods companies use to fingerprint you - browser agent, Do Not Track enabled/disabled, timezone, screen size… not accepting cookies is also a data point to filter you by.

Maybe look into getting a GL.inet travel router with WiFi and a Chromecast/Android stick. I use that when I travel. Setup a WiFi network on the travel router and setup the Chromecast on it for when you’re at the hotel.

At the hotel, either jack the travel router into a network port then use your phone to sign in to the hotel’s network, or configure Repeater/WISP to get the travel router to connect to and re-broadcast the hotel WiFi (again using your phone or PC to sign in). Going Repeater/WISP brings a sizeable performance hit due to the lack of radios but it’s definitely do-able.

If you’re hosting Jellyfin externally, job done. If not, you can configure OpenVPN/Wireguard on the travel router and your home router and connect privately that way.

Source: Tech worker who had a requirement to be overseas 80% of the year in different hotels :)

https://www.gl-inet.com/collections/travel-routers

https://wifirepeater.org/openwrt-wisp-repeater-mode-configuration/

Grabbed, thanks for bringing it up! Looks really interesting :)

Absolutely. As more manufacturers leave the consumer market for the lucrative DC market, cloud gaming will become the norm as most of us won’t be able to afford hardware at home… and that makes me really sad. We’ll start to see the end of homelabs and self-hosted software, as well as our gaming rigs. Nvidia and Microsoft both offer cloud gaming platforms and are both neck-deep in AI & AI hardware.

We may also see DIY chips and new innovation to bypass the hardware availability problem, but as we become more reliant on AI/LLMs I worry that we’ll lose that innovation. The bubble pop cannot come soon enough.

The peak temperature broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C.

The previous record wasn’t 2C; it was 13.4C and that was beaten by 2C.

“It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly,” he added.

Researchers stationed on King George Island, 160km from Esperanza, reported large areas of the landscape where bare ground was visible after the mercury rose to 4.6C on 6 June.

Even at the top of the 500-metre summit of the nearby Collins glacier, Muñoz witnesses rain melting the ice.

“There was a direct impact on the glacier, which should be receiving snow now. It should not be suffering ablation at this time of the year. This is obviously not good for the glacier,” he said.

March to October is winter in Antarctica… “this time of year” is the middle of winter. We’re cooked.

I’m running into the ID verification problem too! I uninstalled the app and when I reinstalled, I couldn’t find my 2FA code in Microsoft Authenticator. Now I need to submit my government ID and do the face scan stuff.

I’m very much against all the ID verification stuff as of late, for the same reason you state… I asked a friend to give me a PDF export of my profile and I’ll maybe come back when the ID verification requirement changes.

The Wiki link covers a few exploits for the IME.

https://downloadmoreram.com/