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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oxytodon.com/@fuchsiii" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fuchsiii</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grumpygamer</span></a></span> oftentimes said cores ain't even <em>"dedicaded"</em> but <em>shared</em>...</p><ul><li>In the case of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CyberBunker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CyberBunker</span></a> they literally sold <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Nehalem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nehalem</span></a>(-EX) hardware to customers (cross referenced by datasheets/specsheets and the fact they never updated the listings in 15+ years!)</li></ul><p>"shared core VPS" are a <em>very big mistake</em>, espechally on Hosters like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Hetzner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hetzner</span></a>...</p><ul><li><em>Ask me how I know!</em></li></ul><p>So OFC said systems are overworked, espechally the convenience-based options where one just shoves on files and tells it to <em>"bake it"</em>...</p><ul><li>OFC it shouldn't be the responsibility of a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GameDev</span></a> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a> one's <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer/114158849810039330" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">own</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CI</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CD</span></a> infrastructure, and I think given the size and complexity of said games it would be overkill to do so.</li></ul><p>If feasible, just grab' yourself a decently performing PC/Server/Laptop you can chug in a closet, SSH/RDP onto and use it as <em>"build servant"</em> ("<em>Rechenknecht"</em>) to run your builds and then <a href="https://ntfy.sh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sent a notification</a> once done.</p><ul><li>Since speed is of no real concern, but <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EnergyConsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyConsumption</span></a> is (@€0,33/kWh), I got some <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/fanless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fanless</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ThinClient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThinClient</span></a> as a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MiniServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiniServer</span></a> with some external SSD plugged into USB 3.0</li></ul>
Mirko Stocker<p>Does the version of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) affect energy consumption? </p><p>I explore this question in my latest (and last for 2024) blog post. Building on my previous analysis of Spring Boot versions, I use a JMeter benchmark and JoularJX to measure energy consumption, this time focusing on different JVM versions.</p><p>TL;DR: Yes, it does, and the good news is that the JVM is getting more efficient.</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/growing-green-software/comparing-java-virtual-machine-energy-efficiency-e2e8658539b8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/growing-green-softw</span><span class="invisible">are/comparing-java-virtual-machine-energy-efficiency-e2e8658539b8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greenSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greenSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jvm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jvm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energyConsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energyConsumption</span></a></p>
➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻‍💻<p>2008 was an inflection point in <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>. </p><p>That's when <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> basically stopped growing as an <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> source.</p><p>That's when the rate of growth for <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/consumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consumption</span></a> slowed down.</p><p>The eight years before that, consumption nearly doubled for both sources. </p><p>It is not a coincidence that these are paired with shifting political winds.</p><p>Meanwhile,# renewables (<a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/wind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wind</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a> etc) grow at 16% per year like clockwork. <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/EnergyConsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyConsumption</span></a> grows by about 1% to 2% per year.</p><p>Currently these <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>renewables</span></a> make up about 6% per year. </p><p>This is effectively <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/NZE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZE</span></a> by 2070 or 2080 - which is 20 to 30 years too late.</p><p>NZE by 2050, needed to hit 1.5c <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/warming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warming</span></a>, and preventing the worst of <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, requires a 30% YOY growth of renewables.</p><p>A 30% YOY _is_ attainable with the correct <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> will. This growth _will_ displace other forms of energy generation without question.</p>
Larry Neufeld<p>This will only get worse with increased reliance on <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a>. We need to scale back &amp; not ramp up energy use: Data centres now account for 21% of all electricity consumption <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/energyconsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energyconsumption</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/07/23/electricity-consumption-by-data-centres-rises-to-21-eclipsing-urban-households/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishtimes.com/business/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">7/23/electricity-consumption-by-data-centres-rises-to-21-eclipsing-urban-households/</span></a></p>
PaperLouse<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aral</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@thejuicemedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thejuicemedia</span></a></span> </p><p>One very important aspect is missing in this video “It is a technology that is driving up <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnergyConsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyConsumption</span></a>”</p><p>„The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InternationalEnergyAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalEnergyAgency</span></a> estimates that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Datacentres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Datacentres</span></a>’ total <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Electricity</span></a> consumption could double from 2022 levels to 1,000 TWh (terawatt hours) in 2026, equivalent to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnergyDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyDemand</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a>.“</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ressources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ressources</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/29/ai-drive-brings-microsofts-green-moonshot-down-to-earth-in-west-london" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/business/artic</span><span class="invisible">le/2024/jun/29/ai-drive-brings-microsofts-green-moonshot-down-to-earth-in-west-london</span></a></p>
Brad Rosenheim<p>There is a lot of arguing <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/OnHere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnHere</span></a> and elsewhere about whether renewable energy is clean energy.</p><p>To understand every aspect of clean energy's footprint on our environment is not as important as realizing that all of our sources of energy have a tremendous footprint, at least initially.</p><p>So, what is "clean" about energy? The only truly clean aspect of energy right now is reducing our consumption of it. Period.</p><p>We have not been able to quench our thirst for energy through either fossil fuels or renewables. It is ever-growing. It is important to keep this image in mind when looking at plots that show relative percentages of energy use - those plots can lull you into thinking our energy consumption totals are statute. They are NOT!</p><p>Source: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ourworldindata.org/energy-prod</span><span class="invisible">uction-consumption</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/EnergyConsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyConsumption</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a></p>
CelloMom On Cars<p>"[<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bitcoin</span></a> miner] Riot said on Wednesday that the [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a>] power grid operator [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ERCOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ERCOT</span></a>] paid the company $31.7 million in energy credits in August — or roughly $22 million more than the value of the bitcoin it mined that month — to cut its <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnergyConsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyConsumption</span></a> during a record-breaking <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heatwave</span></a> in the state."</p><p>This encourages more rash energy consumption for something entirely useless. <br>Okay then.</p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-minin</span><span class="invisible">g-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/</span></a></p>
coucou<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ard.social/@tagesschau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tagesschau</span></a></span> </p><p>Wieder einmal: Green <a href="https://toot.community/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> won't work. Green <a href="https://toot.community/tags/overconsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>overconsumption</span></a> won't work.</p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/greencapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greencapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/energyconsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energyconsumption</span></a></p>