The bad news is you have Towerful Inclusion Syndrome, where you try to add to an excellent joke but end up making it not funny by beating a dead horse and over explaining things and failing to feel included in the social occasion
That's kinda how aws got companies into cloud storage.A truck that would duplicate a companies disks, then drive to a data center and make the data available on s3 or whatever.Retired now, tho.
Gotcha. I don't feel I was refuting you, just adding context as to why the UK government is sending the wrong message.I might have been confuddled and wandered from my intentions.
I think we agree.Data centers aren't the problem.LLM being rammed into everything and requiring insane resources is the problem.And the UK is blurring/confusing the point, and telling people to delete emails
Yes, there are loops of water.But evaporative cooling is used by less sustainable data centers to release the heat from the cooling loops.Which is what UK government is concerned about: Unsustainable use of water by data centers.
UK government classifies data centers as Critical National Infrastructure. Which means they have some responsibility for their uptime and security, but also their sustainability and environmental impact.The rapid growth of AI data centers with their massive power consumption and cooling requirements are not included in UKs water planning and projections.So, that's what this report is about.
And the UK government is recommending the public should delete old emails and pictures to reduce load on data centers.Which is the kind of out-of-touch misinterpretation (or misrepresentation) of the information in the report thats inline with conclusion of "buy a new kettle" from a report that probably said "old fridges can be inefficient".
The problem is data centers use potable water in their heat exchangers and in the process turn it into non-potable water.
However, this is as stupid as when Johnson recommended buying a new kettle to save on energy bills.A new fridge, washing machine, dishwasher... I can understand that.But a kettle is nearly 100% efficient at using electricity to turn cold water into boiling water.And spending the money to get (I guess) an insulated kettle (is that a thing?!) to get closer to 100% efficient is not going to save you any money.
Yeh, straight up ask her about it.You appreciate her boosting your ego, but it is coming across as flirting.Is she flirting?
If she says yes, ask her where she thinks it's going, what you should do next.Like, "oh, cool. I'm into that. So ... What now?". Then have fun, and see where it goes
If she says no, then say it will take some time to re-adjust to her being just a friend, and ask her to set boundaries if things feel like they go too far.Like "oh ok, I wasn't sure. It's kinda lead me down that path, but I like playing games with you. So, if I'm ever inappropriate, call me out. But I'll try to keep everything platonic".Then... Just be normal. Don't be confused. If you overstep then she will say.Have fun, and enjoy a new friend.
The only other solutions to "VPNs circumvent OSA" are:
Licence/regulate VPN usage (which is essentially a ban WRT the OSA).Extremely difficult to do. It's fairly trivial to just tunnel your connection over SSH to a VPS in another country.Also fairly trivial to get a VPN that tunnels over a websocket, making the traffic identical to website traffic.The government is going to play cat&mouse with decades of legitimate infosec.
Do something progressive, and drop the OSA (which isn't going to happen).They've literally just implemented these laws. It's not getting repealed.
They are going to make consumer use of anything that changes the public source address of a packet illegal.How they enforce that, I dunno.Like the whole OSA, it seems really poorly thought out. I dunno how they completely overlooked VPN usage
"My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.
"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems."
The likely conclusion of that report is that "VPNs circumvent the age verification requirement, so circumvent the OSA, so VPNs must be banned"
The bad news is you have Towerful Inclusion Syndrome, where you try to add to an excellent joke but end up making it not funny by beating a dead horse and over explaining things and failing to feel included in the social occasion