[-] hope@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

It has no meaning in Spanish, and comes from combining "Bingo" and "Bambi". Source

I actually used to live where they're headquartered, a fact I learned only after moving away and reading the back of a bread package.

[-] hope@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

The article seems to use the term distributed computing for volunteer computing. Distributed computing very clearly is neither dying nor fading away.

Volunteer computing is more interesting. There's a constant trickle of new projects, like distributed sharing of GPU power for running smaller LLM models, random science experiments that have you install an app on a phone to collect data, various Blockchain shenanigans, etc. I'm not sure if they're getting less coverage than, say, Folding@Home or the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Seach. So perhaps it is fading into the background, but it certainly doesn't seem to be dying.

[-] hope@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was shocking to me just how prevalent lack of broadband is. I moved in with my in-laws in norcal midway through the pandemic and the only internet service choices were a 600Kbps DSL line or Verizon mobile hotspots at 3-5Mbps (which is a massive blessing in comparison). I worked remotely and would frequently have to drive to Target or a coffee shop in town to download anything. They aren't even in that rural an area - there were houses about half a mile away with gigabit cable. The cable company wanted nearly $70,000 to build out a line.

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