Oh damn, so just viewing a file in your file manager is enough to get infected in an insecure desktop environment, as thumbnails can be generated programmatically? If I clicked a bad link that would 100% infect my system.

I'm not worried too much about screen-capture. I'm worried first and foremost about triggering any arbitrary code execution and thumbnail generation on a file would definitely do it.

I'm considering switching to Floorp, I'll need to check of Pewdiepie has his reasons and what those are.

The Russian minority wasn't being genocided, and at most they could be ethnically cleansed considering Russia has it's own nuclear-armed ethnostate that's the largest in the world. Genocide is an international issue, what was not even an ethnic cleansing is a domestic issue.

Russia's been bombing Ukrainian schools and hospitals, if Russia does retaliate I don't think a drone attack on war planes is sufficient to call it "provoked".

I answered with a question because your question was absurd.

I support the fight for self-determiniation in Palestine, Hawaii, US territories, Punjab, Taiwan, Ukraine, Somaliland, Kurdistan, and Kosovo. I'd probably support a bunch more fights if I'd have heard of them.

I don't support, and in no universe will I ever support, Russia's war of aggression in order to exert control over Ukraine.

Sorry, I got my words mixed up.

Do you support the right to self determination only for the people that want to integrate into Russia, or universally?

Yes, it is a lot. But again not apocalyptic. And it's noteworthy how the article tries to frame it hyperbolically as "22% of US household consumption".

This article is dubious. When it comes to training it uses a lot of sensationalist and unsupported estimates. Notice the following quote:

OpenAI and President Donald Trump announced the Stargate initiative, which aims to spend $500 billion—more than the Apollo space program—to build as many as 10 data centers (each of which could require five gigawatts, more than the total power demand from the state of New Hampshire).

I am DEEPLY sceptical of those figures. Like, what data center uses FIVE BLOODY GIGAWATTS. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FIVE GIGAWATTS IS. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT'D COST.

The use of metaphor is also concerning, comparing it to San Francisco or New Hampshire or household electricity consumption.

America produced 4,000TWH of electricity a year. This report says "22% of household consumption in 2028", which if I commit the faux pass of mixing data it gets me 7% of US power consumption. A lot, but not apocalyptic and merely a projection for future power consumption. It's also less than the 50GW to 10 data centers alone in the line I quoted above.

It’s right in that the core problem is that we don’t know and so I can’t fault it for assuming the worst, but even then there are limits.

As for the usage, the document you linked puts generating an image using stable diffusion at 400W seconds, or as much as my computer consumes at idle for 8 seconds. I'm gonna stop reading this article because I'm tired and this isn't worth it.

I'm not pro-AI. I don't like how it makes it so easy to fill the internet with slop. I don't like how it discourages the people who use it from any and all critical thought. I've used AI twice, to reword by assignment questions in college because no amount of googling made the phrasing make sense. All I want is for the fearmongering about AI power consumption to stop, not just because it's inaccurate, but also because it encourages investment into gas-fired power generation to "prepare for the AI boom".

Social media, including Lemmy, doesn't warrant that.

Do you refuse the right to self determination only for the people that want to integrate into Russia, or universally?

And all it took was someone responding with actual information, instead of 20 people responding with a straw man attack.

They already mine rare earths in America and Australia, it's just production's slow because there's not much demand for gourmet rare earths.