Willy (-o'-the-wisp)

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He/Him 🔎 "Datacenter sweat" :

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Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Jun 2

“People say the plant has pleasing proportions and good vibes, but don’t expect a nuclear plant - reviewers say it’s a coal facility.” “What is the NIPSCO Michigan City Generating Station Cooling Tower?” “A geometric generating gem. You still have control of the board.”

An information panel in Google Maps where Google used AI to generate two bullet points. I have combined the two bullet points with a "but" conjunction to form the first line of my post. My post is a riff on the famous Bluesky post "Slut Gnomes of False Berlin"

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· May 7

I saw the same issue with installing the Intel GPU driver from Intel's website, but Windows then replacing it with an older driver. I'm not seeing the issue anymore, and I think I solved it by updating the driver a second time using the "Update Driver" option in Device Manager.

Windows Device Manager with its "Update Driver" window opened to a page that allows picking a driver version.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Apr 27

Zooming out, there is imagery taken at a different time where there was more water in the area. Screenshot from Apple Maps.

Imagery from a zoomed out level compared to the previous post; showing the north part of the Great Salt Lake, Curlew Valley, centered on/around the Locomotive Springs area. Screenshot from Apple Maps. See post body.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Apr 27

Screenshot from Apple Maps showing Locomotive Springs, "East Lake" and "West Lake" (adjacent/north of the Great Salt Lake), and some springs to the east that are similar.

Screenshot from Apple Maps of Locomotive Springs and the surrounding area; see post body.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Apr 26

2nd paragraph of the "United States" section: "As first noted by John Wesley Powell in the 1870s, there is a big difference in rainfall by the different sides of the meridian. In the central Great Plains, it roughly marks the western boundary of the normal reach of moist air from the Gulf of Mexico,

Screenshot of the "United States" section of the article. A portion of the 2nd paragraph follows: "As first noted by John Wesley Powell in the 1870s, there is a big difference in rainfall by the different sides of the meridian. In the central Great Plains, it roughly marks the western boundary of the normal reach of moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, and the approximate boundary (although some areas do push the boundary slightly farther east) between the semi-arid climate to the west and the humid continental (north of about 37°N) and humid subtropical (south of about 37°N) climates to the east. West of the meridian, raising livestock is much more economically important than east of it, and what agriculture does exist relies heavily on irrigation. Historically, the meridian has often been taken as a rough boundary between the eastern and western United States."

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Apr 26

2nd paragraph of the intro section: "In the United States, this meridian roughly marks the boundary between the semi-arid climate in the west and the humid continental and humid subtropical climates in the east, and as such roughly connotes the regions of the Eastern and the Western United States."

Screenshot of the intro section of the Wikipedia article. The 2nd paragraph is quoted in the post body.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Mar 28

The word you’re looking for is OLEATE

Google AI Overview generating so many words to answer “whats the conjugate base of oleic acid” (it’s oleate)

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Jan 31

The available water might not be where the AI datacenters are. Let's look at the Mississippi River. pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3020/

Figure 1. Mississippi River basin with major tributaries and state boundaries. The width of a river indicates its mean water discharge (modified from Circular 1133, Figure 5).

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Dec 8

Quote from the article: “We know what happens when we don’t fight for the water,” Wadsworth said, pointing to the white mass. “This lake used to be full.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/04/nevada-ai-data-centers
Excerpt from the article:

Wadsworth, the tribal chairman, recognizes the need for datacenters, but worries if the ones upriver aren’t kept in check, they could intensify threats to the lake – which is the lifeblood for the tribe. The Truckee River supplies the industrial center with water and also serves as the primary source of water for Pyramid Lake.

“It’s not like we’re out here to be a pain,” Wadsworth said. “We know the destruction.”

In the tribe’s governmental office, Wadsworth, sporting waist-length hair and a white button-up shirt tucked into slacks, walked over to a giant satellite map showing the region’s watershed – from California’s mountains to Nevada’s Great Basin. Next to the deep green of Pyramid Lake was a large, flat, white mass, the remnants of a second lake.

“We know what happens when we don’t fight for the water,” Wadsworth said, pointing to the white mass. “This lake used to be full.”

Lake Winnemucca was once fed by Pyramid Lake, but when the Truckee River was dammed in the early 1900s, Wadsworth said it took less than 30 years for Pyramid Lake to drop 80ft and Lake Winnemucca to dry.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Nov 17

lizard

Green colored iguana on a retaining wall

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Nov 14

This is how I found out there’s new album art for Emotion.

Lock screen showing new album art for Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit 2015 album Emotion.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Sep 2

By the end of the decade, physicists would formulate the theory of quarks, which baryons and mesons are made of.

Closing paragraph of the article:
The discovery of the omega and other particle systems or "excited states," it is believed, may contribute greatly to a long-awaited theory of the elementary particles. What is needed is a theory that would explain why there are a number of elementary particles. It would explain their properties and their interactions, and would thus contribute fundamental understanding of the physical universe.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Aug 30

We used to be a proper country.

A telegram from JFK on August 31, 1961:

WUN024 DE WA334 GOVT PD
THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON DC 31 656P PEDT
DR LUIS ALVAREZ
LAWRENCE RAD LAB UNIV OF CALIF
I PERSONALLY WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES
DRS. MAGLIC RESENFELD AND STEVENSON FOR THE EXPERIMENTAL
VERIFICATION OF THE OMEGA MESON. THIS DISCOVERY I AM TOLD
WILL PROVIDE CONSIDERABLE GREATER INSIGHT INTO THE MAKE-UP
OF THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS. IT IS STEPS SUCH AS YOU HAVE TAKEN IN
SCIENCE WHICH ARE SO NECESSARY IF THIS COUNTRY IS TO MAINTAIN
OUR PREEMINENCE IN SCIENCE. I AM PARTICULARLY PLEASED THAT
ONE OF THE CO DISCOVERERS OF THIS MESON WAS A VISITING SCIENTIST
FROM YUGOSLAVIA GIVING FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM
AVAILABLE IN THIS COUNTRY.
JOHN F KENNEDY.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· May 21

Attribution is second nature to us defenders, so it's easy to forget that the average local user probably only knows the tactics, techniques, and procedures for Turla and one or two Russian bears.

And Sandworm, of course.

Of course.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· May 7

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

A paragraph from the article. "After months of painful investigation and analysis, engineers determined the rocket was lost due to the propellant-loading process. In their goal of rapidly fueling the Falcon 9 rocket, the SpaceX teams had filled the pressurized helium tanks too quickly, heating the aluminum liner and causing it to buckle. In their haste to load super-chilled propellant onto the Falcon 9, SpaceX had found its speed limit." (This alt text has the first 2 sentences of this paragraph omitted.)

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Jan 3

Screenshots from the Waveform Bufferbloat test. Test 1: 7 ms latency, +23 ms when downloading, +15 ms when uploading Test 2: 8 ms latency, +22 ms when downloading, +13 ms when uploading

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Jan 3

These two routers replace two of three WNDR4300 (v1) routers. For the remaining WNDR4300, it's connected (as a WDS client) at 450 Mbps (802.11n MCS 23). The new routers are connected at ~1000 Mbps (802.11ac VHT-MCS 5-6).

A screenshot of the OpenWrt GUI showing two routers (associated stations) wirelessly connected. The signal strength is roughly -58/-88 dBm.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Jan 2

Bonus: Figured out what "PR" in the firmware update notes refers to.

From the ONEKEY blog: "the device checks the region and only starts the funjsq script if it’s in China. Yes, NETGEAR does not follow ISO standard here. “PR” is not “Puerto Rico”, but probably “People’s Republic”."

From the Netgear Support website:
R7450 Firmware Version 1.2.0.92
Enhancements:
Removed Funjsq for PR SKU
Security Fixes:
Fixes security bugs.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Jan 1

This is a normal amount of Wi-Fi routers.

Five (5) Netgear home routers plus a Netgear Wi-Fi extender. One of the routers sits on top of an empty Netgear box (retail packaging). Two of the routers support up to 802.11n Wi-Fi and the other devices support up to 802.11ac.

Willy (-o'-the-wisp)@kypetzl· Nov 10

Interesting! (SCO Group v. IBM)