*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@BrokenBiscuit CR LF

Fluffy likes it too.

@Warhorse Thank you, Warhorse. I like to read and learning never ends.

@salad_bar_breath @Warhorse I am also a great fan of Robert Oppenheimer.

Nothwitstanding his work and leadership in the atomic weapons research programme, which eneded up criminally wiping out two Japanese cities, he comprehended the result and quoted a very proper Hindu text on seeing the first test, Trinity.

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

In more detail:

"“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another,” said Oppenheimer when recalling the Trinity test of the Manhattan Project."

from : http://www.visiontimes.com/2019/01/04/the-mystery-of-oppenheimer-bhagavad-gita-and-the-nuclear-bomb.html

@Warhorse Very possibly - there was a succesful film a couple of years ago or so about Bletchley Park, was a nice one.

Bing found it. "The Imitation Game"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game

@susi123 @freemo ah, no problem. Maybe use Bing Translator?

It works well, and is NOT Google owned.

https://www.bing.com/translator

@Karthikdeva Thank you! 😃

/me loves docus

@Warhorse Librarian at my heart says, add "see also -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing "

@Karthikdeva Don't know what it is, gotta linky? 😺

@_lunawinters Can relate to that. It's about zero Celsius outside, a bit grey, but nice here at the sofa with my laptop, Firefox with a zillion tabs, coffee on tap.

Yes, please.

@Warhorse Thanks for posting it. Great, if very sad, story.

Similarly to what happened to Alan Turing, lead to suicide by harassment over his sexual orientation. A huge loss.

@freemo @raining_night
A relevant quote from an awesome The Guardian article:

"Aside from the energy required to manufacture and maintain those devices, the data they produce will live in the carbon-intensive cloud. Data centers currently consume 200 terawatt hours per year – roughly the same amount as South Africa. Anders Andrae, a widely cited researcher at Huawei, tells me that number is likely to grow 4-5 times by 2030. This would put the cloud on par with Japan, the fourth-biggest energy consumer on the planet."

Full article, long read warning (it's worth it!) here:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/tech-climate-change-luddites-data

@freemo @raining_night Fediverse doesn't have the massive datacenters the big nets have, spread out all over the world.

So we need to be patient, a little.

My idea of Heaven.

@Full_marx An awesome article on The Guardian (my favourite newspaper,) which is VERY relevant.

"To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution:"by Ben Tarnoff

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/tech-climate-change-luddites-data

@Full_marx I did read an awesome article on The Guardian (my favourite newspaper, the first one I open anyday) which is VERY relevant.

Will need to post it later as single post to try and get people's attention to read it - I think it's important!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/tech-climate-change-luddites-data