John Poole

I've decided to start a project to help neighbors of existing data centers and proposed data centers to monitor noise using <$300 field units. I haven't built it yet, but I have done two other monitor projects with success, so I do not anticipate this will be any different... just a different set of variables and sensors. Here's a page introducing the HDC Sound Monitor Project. (Just this page for now.) https://salemdata.net/HDC/HDC_Sound_Monitor.html #DataCenters #DIY #Noise #Environment #ESP32

@infobeautiful@vis.social Would that the illustration be in an equal-earth projection, then the visual would be even more dramatic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection https://www.equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html [Edit: done: https://mastodon.online/@VogueLaGalere/116961712572423274 ]

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social You keep coming up with very clever postings that make me laugh out loud. Thank you for brightening my day.

@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe Makes me thing of this SNL skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cdBcfLhJVY

@shonin@c.im Salem Oregon - Non-disclosure document signed by City Manager, in secret, kept use of City Resources to go back-and-forth with applicant for 15 months. Several City Councilmembers refuse to say when they learned of the project. $5.1 billion project -- the 3rd largest project in the history Oregon https://salemdata.net/CityOfSalem/Top5Projects.html #Datacenters #Google #Datacenter #SalemOregon

@angusm@mastodon.social Let the UK government teach them #meshtastic for middle school, then #Reticulum for upper school and they would have to build their own units. They might learn something along the journey.

Migrated from Windows to Linux leaving a Brother P-Touch label printer behind? Your printer may still be useful and work in Linux despite no mfg Linux support. My decade-old Brother PT-2700 working on Gentoo Linux with both the command-line ptouch-print utility and the graphical ptouch-rs [Rust] application. I also built ptouch-rs successfully on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS "Trixie.". https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=1094 #Linux #Brother #PTouch #LabelPrinter #Gentoo #RaspberryPi #OpenSource

"summertime and the livin' is easy" #DogsOfMastodon #Dog #BerneseMountainDogs #Hydrangea #Gershwin

@Nonilex@masto.ai #SalemOR - 16 months City worked with Google entity for a $5+ billion data center on 64 acres all under an NDA executed by the City Manager. At least one or more city council members were unaware of the on-goings. Government has now become an instrument of Big Money who induce secrecy to prevent traditional public participation. https://nosalemdatacenter.org

@EINS_Institute@infosec.exchange This kind of destruction is a post-war contractor's dream. When all is done and the war ends, someone will be called upon to replace the infrastructure. It's not like there are a lot of firms that have the expertise or qualifications (i.e. World Bank qualified) to do that. I wonder what engineering firms made beaucoup de bucks after the U.S. invaded Iraq? I wonder what firms will be going to Iran to repair what the Trump administration has wrought.

@quincy@chaos.social This could create a great buying opportunity for Larry to increase his ownership. A sort of "Please don't throw me into the briar patch" move.

@lydialurch@mastodon.social It appears viewing the post on Blueksy requires that you agree to be tracked.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @lydialurch@mastodon.social Based on a Lincoln project posting long ago, I can suppose a good thing to say about Mr. Graham is that he enjoyed hot dogs.

@lydialurch@mastodon.social a saying I find works: If you cannot say anything nice about a deceased, then don't say anything at all.

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social I'm 69 years old and was an attorney for 40 years, many of which were spent in litigation. One thing I've learned: You fool me once, you dumbbell. You fool me twice, me dumbbell. That, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog #Sovol #Voron

@jxwojtowicz@mastodon.social Jack Smith is my hero. I was an attorney for 40 years, admitted to practice before the 9th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. I resigned from all bars as I no longer have confidence in our judicial system. Clarence Thomas, Eileen Cannon and recently appointed Justin Smith. What a tragedy and demonstrates how vulnerable our government is. Leonard Leo's insidious plan is reaping its horrific rewards and most people don't know or care. Mastodonians do.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social The coffins should be metallic gold with lots of cherubs and filigree.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt reminds me of the American artist John La Farge who competed with Tiffany.

@c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza @markarayner@mas.to My mother played piano and she had a canary. When she played the #Liszt concert etude *Un Suspiro* (Italian for "A sigh"), the canary would sing so hard that it flopped to the bottom of the cage singing its heart out and flapping its wings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Concert_%C3%89tudes#%C3%89tude_No._3,_Un_sospiro

@xinit@mastodon.coffee @iFixit@mastodon.social Yes, I do not like to support Bezos, if possible. So thank you for the leads!

@alexanderroth A more modern (or European?) version of the Klu Klux Klan hood with mask.

@c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza @markarayner@mas.to 👍 You have raised your cockatiel well; it is very fortunate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dbOIkYtafw

@odd@mstdn.social @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems "invention to learn" => "invitation to learn"?

@nixCraft what is this lawyer's name and what jurisdiction is the lawyer licensed to practice law? The lack of these two essential facts on the website is troubling.

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social I look at safety as medical insurance. Buying an 8' ladder: < $140. Trip to the emergency room and follow-up: $8,000 minimum... plus toll on family and it could happen again. $140 seems like a good investment, doesn't it?

@cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com @nixCraft@mastodon.social Does what you write mean that he is a licensed lawyer? In Malta and/or Sweden?

@hetzner@mastodon.hetzner.social the negative effect is that AI bots start flooding your server like locusts.

@brianbilston@mastodon.online <== definitely a poet laureate... but in which country? "Inquiring minds want to know."

@movim@piaille.fr Suppose one runs their own Movim server as https://github.com/movim/movim/wiki tells us. Can you tell us about federation? Can project A's Movim server federate *only* with project B's? I think so. I recall working in the XMPP arena at Oracle when Google Wave was a hot ticket over a decade ago (boy, was that a big wasted effort) and now I see Discord being blithely used by everyone often as their sole contact portal. People need a free alternative to Discord. You may be the ticket.

@toldtheworld@mastodon.social For posterity, my source for joules/token, 2nd paragraph under this section:: https://grokipedia.com/page/Energy_per_Token#hardware-platform-comparisons ... approximately 236 J/token for less optimal configurations. I think your calculation for units of petrol excellent, especially if you are trying to make the consumption real to those who might not know what AI is.

@iFixit@mastodon.social Worldwide partner is Amazon which sells them for US$ 229.99, delivery to Salem, Oregon: tomorrow. https://www.amazon.com/Fairphone-Headphones-Cancelling-Weatherproof-Replaceable/dp/B0G3BBB581/ref=dp_prsubs_d_sccl_1/134-9797055-8779513?pd_rd_w=cTO7t&content-id=amzn1.sym.a1c22caf-2d4a-4c58-b920-210b8f6b9234&pf_rd_p=a1c22caf-2d4a-4c58-b920-210b8f6b9234&pf_rd_r=WVCNEG9G9FV1131HY1CZ&pd_rd_wg=6BaBd&pd_rd_r=9c06aec0-1fe0-45e3-8c4c-24780f4fc218&pd_rd_i=B0G3BBB581&th=1 Doesn't look like Amazon carries the phones which may not be built/designed for the US market?

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social Finally (yes, this is my 4th reply) the beauty of #Mastodon exemplifies itself in this post and replies because 1) I am not censored by YouTube, 2) I can include links, & 3) others can engage in reply-to-replies &etc.without censoorship so your engagement with *and among* viewers is maximized. Now all you need is more time to even read all this.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems 10% seems to be the safe harbor in the western United States.

@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe Yes, that's very clever. But destruction, no matter how uninformed the targeted victim, just doesn't sit well with me. I don't think stupidity should be punished; pity is a safer route. Doing harm is a slippery slope.

@bluewinds @nixCraft and that takes me to this equation which gives me a rough-n-ready electrical cost for a 500 token response on a high performing system: $0.007

@nixCraft The source you provided is an anonymous person's estimate. That's rumor, not evidence. But, the fact that AI companies are *not* transparent about costs is extremely troubling and suggests a subsidy. To what extent, remains unknown.

@movim@piaille.fr I think P2P means peer-to-peer, but I do not know what the other acronym stands for.

@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe I love practical jokes and have extensive experience, but I have learned I have often underestimated the lack of sophistication of my targets and hence I have a policy now of including at the end "this is a joke", with yours, I would have added "warning" that complete destruction could occur. I'm almost 70 and I am continually surprised at how unsophisticated some people may be.

@cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com @nixCraft@mastodon.social Then you have the same problem I do: I cannot tell from the About page what jurisdiction he is licensed as a lawyer. Thank you.

@BlueWaver22 The Dept. of Transportation page politicizes by using "Trump" and then giving a reminder about "Democrats".

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Let's see if the assailant is charged with a hate crime, that will be Chapter II of this evolving story.

@markarayner@mas.to Okay, ours (died December 2025) enjoyed earlier music: Beethoven and Liszt/Bellini: Winnie singing to Beethoven: https://salemdata.us/videos/goldenretriever13.mp4 (4′ 19″) Blog: https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=383

@nicoco@pouet.pas.la @movim@piaille.fr Thank you for the clarification. I thought Movim was a client and server combination project especially given the aspect of aggregating binary streams. I did not spend a lot of time studying it, though I am tempted to try it out and stress test/ kick the tires.

@bluewinds @nixCraft I suppose what I am looking for are joules per token. With that, one can look at the cost of power and determine for that location what the cost per token is. https://grokipedia.com/page/Energy_per_Token

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Warning commercial message: You're in God's Hands with United Health Care.

@MyWildlifeAllotment@mastodon.online Is that pampas-grass? Are there cultivars that are sterile and not a threat? https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/pampas-grass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortaderia

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Abosolutely, but they should be painted gold and the wood pre-treated with hydrogen peroxide -- to prevent green mold.