It's way less than that. 2.39x10^20 is around 4% of 5.8x10^21. Not even close to "almost as much". Looks like the authors don't know their powers of 10. So if we dedicate 5% of the total energy for one year it could theoretically be done.
The thing with tik tok isn't only with the data China can gather from US residents. It's also how they can use that information to influence the populace and send them propaganda, for example influencing the election results.
The section Methods on the Cambridge Analytica wiki page explains it pretty well. While it's not proven to be able to directly influence voting, it's effective at swaying people's opinions and emotions about subjects.
Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA....
I was planning to, but ultimately didn't. I have handed out personal blocks to obvious trolls and a brunch of hexbear users that spammed gifs in every single thread though.
Nope. I have filtered both grad and hexbear out of my feed though, I don't need their shit there. And don't forget that many instances already are defederated with them, so there's also fewer of them through that!
.ml is full of Marxist/Leninists, and while they are not as full on crazy tankies as most users from hexbear, they generally tend to skew that way. Not everyone, but there's a theme.
"We've almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!" The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
Wait what ( lemmy.world )
How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air? ( www.wired.com )
Migrating settings to new phone?
As the title asks, is it possible to migrate the settings for an account to a new phone? Would hate to have to set it up again..
17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web ( www.tomshardware.com )
These are 17 of the worst, most cringeworthy Google AI overview answers:...
Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) ( mullvad.net )
Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA....
Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko dies in war with Russia ( www.usatoday.com )
What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue?
"We've almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!" The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link ( libreddit.bus-hit.me )
YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers ( www.androidpolice.com )
What's the most fucked up movie you ever watched?