Comment on Stop the datacenters
rabber@lemmy.ca 1 week agoI almost completely agree with you. But this is a capitalism problem and not a datacenter problem you do realize?
Datacenters existed and worked fine before the examples you mentioned existed.
The other problem is that users don’t know what they are doing, and that’s why datacenters are required…
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 week ago
The reason users dont know what they are doing is because corporations simplified the computer to such a degree that users do not need to learn anything about them to begin with.
The current implementation of data centers are inheritly capitalistic. They are not there for anything other than profit. There is no reason not to educate people on what they are actually doing when they connect to the internet, other than profit and power.
There is no reason for me to want a data center to exist in its current form. I will continue to be against them being built until we see them being used for good. (lmfao, good luck in this economy)
rabber@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
100%. This started with mass adoption of the smartphone in like 2013. Hot take but I think the world would have been better if we never let “normies” on the internet so easily. But you can’t really put the genie back in the bottle now
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 week ago
I dont necessarily agree that people shouldnt have been allowed. It would have been better to educate people on what they are using and how it can be used. I will give you credit on missing when data centers were used for something good. Not how I expected this interaction to end but I’ll take it.
rabber@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
We deployed a fuck ton of servers to process data from the square kilometer array recently: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
This doubled the heat output from the datacenter.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to tell whether I’m contributing to something bad or not. It does weigh on my conscience knowing that compute is being used for such nefarious reasons now. I probably wouldn’t have ever gotten into computers if I knew this is what would happen.
I still think that datacenter hate is just a trend fueled by a lot of misinformation. First world problem voiced by people who are bored and have no idea what they are talking about.
I saw a sticker on a post downtown recently that said “burn down your local datacenter” and shit like this makes me not even want to tell people irl what I do for work anymore.