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They're threatening us with a good time again

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  • pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

    They're threatening us with a good time again

    uplategeek@bitbang.socialU This user is from outside of this forum
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    @pikesley they’ll be doing the world a favour, some of the horrific cabling work I’ve seen over the years.

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    • nicelymanifest@mastodon.socialN nicelymanifest@mastodon.social

      @sleepfreeparent @pikesley If you want to strike for maximum effect then a chip fabrication building would be perfect. -they cost in excess of a billion dollars and the planet depends on chips made by these buildings.

      Point here is that insane levels of reliance of ultra complex chips that only a few places and businesses can manufacture is super precarious.

      pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP This user is from outside of this forum
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      #23

      @NicelyManifest @sleepfreeparent that's the next stage, when China siezes Taiwan

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      • cmdrmoto@hachyderm.ioC cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io

        @srtcd424 @pikesley Of course the costs of up-armoring these enormous resource hungry datacenters will ultimately be passed along to their clients - on-premises compute is looking bullish, kids, you heard it here first

        cmdrmoto@hachyderm.ioC This user is from outside of this forum
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        #24

        @srtcd424 @pikesley It occurs to me that a resourceful nation state might even be able to ship a few of their beloved Shaheds all the way to us-east-1

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        • pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

          They're threatening us with a good time again

          cmthiede@social.vivaldi.netC This user is from outside of this forum
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          #25

          @pikesley Port Washington's Mayor, here in Wisconsin, isn't worried: “I don’t worry about the safety or security of the city of Port Washington, because Data Centers, they get hit internally (their computers) not externally.“

          https://cmthiede.vivaldi.net/2025/12/21/popular-programming/

          #Wisconsin #DataCenters

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            #26

            @glent @Hierarchy @pikesley Geothermal wells can sink ridiculous amounts of heat. Space is at a much greater premium. Carving a chunk out of the interior of a mountain is difficult.

            Power feeds and network links are probably easier targets.

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            • pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

              They're threatening us with a good time again

              zuthal@floofy.techZ This user is from outside of this forum
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              #27

              @pikesley finally, victimless war

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              • pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

                They're threatening us with a good time again

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                #28

                @pikesley I'm unsurprisingly comfortable with the loss of a few data centres in the name of war

                I'd accept 1,000 data centre losses over 1 school or hospital any day of the week

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                • hierarchy@mastodon.socialH hierarchy@mastodon.social

                  @pikesley I wonder if there are any datacenters underground?

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                  #29

                  @Hierarchy @pikesley I work for a university in the Midwest US and around 15 years ago it built a datacenter capable of withstanding an F5 tornado. I think it's partly underground. This was back when "cloud computing" was the buzzword of choice.

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                  • pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

                    They're threatening us with a good time again

                    netraven@hear-me.socialN This user is from outside of this forum
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                    #30

                    @pikesley all that poor copper.

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                    • clintruin@mastodon.socialC clintruin@mastodon.social

                      @Purple @pikesley
                      So...governments around the world are installing fascism to continue to do capitalism on a boiling planet, many are using AI tech in warfare (with devastating and horrifying consequences) and these wars are being started by the worst people on the planet...

                      But sure, let's blame the OP for posting a bit of dark humor.

                      🤦‍♂️ ffs

                      purple@woof.techP This user is from outside of this forum
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                      #31

                      @clintruin @pikesley

                      Hi! I know it might be difficult to understand what a datacenter actually hosts, but this is not just AI, they've been existing much longer!

                      Odds are, almost anything you do on the internet nowadays (yes really) requires something that's in a datacenter somewhere. No datacenters, no internet, that sucks!

                      War sucks in general, joking about loss of telecommunications or other war related casualties sucks

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                      • purple@woof.techP purple@woof.tech

                        @clintruin @pikesley

                        Hi! I know it might be difficult to understand what a datacenter actually hosts, but this is not just AI, they've been existing much longer!

                        Odds are, almost anything you do on the internet nowadays (yes really) requires something that's in a datacenter somewhere. No datacenters, no internet, that sucks!

                        War sucks in general, joking about loss of telecommunications or other war related casualties sucks

                        pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP This user is from outside of this forum
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                        #32

                        @Purple @clintruin thanks for explaining this, I've only been a professional sysadmin for 25 years

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                        • pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

                          They're threatening us with a good time again

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                          #33

                          @pikesley Let's be creative with the bombing, too. Let's find where ... honey or something would do a ton of "harm" in a biodegradable way.

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                          • pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

                            They're threatening us with a good time again

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                            #34

                            @pikesley They probably are soft targets. Just look for the heat signature. Yikes.
                            But even fiber lines are now a vulnerability. Not a good time to have a sworn enemy.
                            Is our government protecting us? Or the billionaires/corporations who own them?

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