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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

I'm surprised the 49ers haven't already built a data center right next to their stadium.

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 7 points 15 hours ago

There is insane amount of impact on health that I was not aware possible until this past 2 years. I can see countries using it as a weapon if they tune it.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago
[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yeah, but do you know what's super useful? Molotov cocktails.

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Hot wire a wrecking ball.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure how effective that would be unless you were able to get inside the building and could strategically deliver them.

What you really need is a drone that can drop thermite, then lower a small EMP device into the hole.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just tax the fucking things already. Fuck tax breaks and kick out any administrators who take the bribes and go against the wishes of their constituents.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 19 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Woah woah woah, let's not get hasty. I say we dismember the administrators for taking bribes. Why just kick them out?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

If one can dream and not make dreams your master.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 13 hours ago

Because violence tends to either escalate or peter out. Either you run out of people that support you or you eventually force the government to throw all its might at suppressing you. Unless you are very well-prepared, organised and have sufficient and resilient support, it might fail and not achieve much other than provide further pretext for crackdown.

Historically, non-violent resistance has a good track record, if (and only if) it is targeted well and applied with resilience and persistence. It has a potential to galvanise the participants, stir people into action (which helps with recruiting more) and cast the injustice of a violent system into relief.

Mind, non-violently doesn't mean writing stern letters or standing on the wayside looking pissed. It absolutely includes disrupting, getting in the way, being a nuisance, being impossible to ignore. The Nashville sit-ins, for example, obstructed the business of lunch counters that refused to serve black people by taking up spots reserved for the people that the establishment would actually like to do business with. In our example, people might occupy the offices of the corrupt administrators, asking to talk to them and making them listen to their constituents in the most literal way, refusing to leave until they get results.

It most certainly will be considered some form of unlawful conduct and will possibly be met with force. The police will be called and start making arrests. But a well-organised and patient campaign to coerce the corrupt officials into rescinding their decisions or resigning (at which point their successors will be subjected to the same demand) doesn't need to hurt people.

It just needs to erode their will until complying with the demands looks like the most bearable option.

[–] moustachio@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why wouldn’t you do that to the board of directors of the companies bribing the officials? When removing weeds you need to pull out the roots.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 16 hours ago

Everyone involved should be flayed.

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[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 127 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Benn Jordan leveraged his expertise in audio engineering to investigate this phenomenon. Do watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

My initial reaction was, "why is Jon Hamm in this video and what happened to his voice?"

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Benn Jordan is a gem, do yourself a favor and just go watch all his stuff.

His latest on robot dogs is amazingly well-executed and researched with terrifying conclusions.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Listen to his music, too! It’s amazing! I’ve seen him a few times and one time the equipment at the festival didn’t work so he just improvised his whole set. He was insanely good at it. So much vocoder, it was delightful!

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have a number of big fans run at almost the same frequency, and you get an onslaught of waves at the differences of those frequencies.

As they are all nearly the same speed/frequency, the differences will be infrasound, which causes a lot of odd effects on people, like anxiety.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (9 children)

So basically the data centers could alleviate their sound problems by having all their fans run at opposite frequencies to cancel our the sound through deconstructive interference

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No because the problem only exists because of differences in the frequencies the fans actually run at. If they all run it exactly the same frequency it would just be a loud hum which would be annoying but fine.

So if they got control of their fan frequencies to the level necessary to do what your suggesting they could just have them all run at the same frequency anyway and alleviate the problem that way. But they won't because that kind of fan control isn't really possible.

The real solution would be some kind of soundproofing and maybe not building massive data centres in populated areas.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Why isn't that kind of fan control possible? It's probably just not possible now because of the way fans are configured currently.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Because fans are not highly tuneable devices?

They vary greatly, even within the same device, even at the same rpm.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 1 day ago

Or better, shutting down entirely.

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[–] Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The same argument is used by opponents of wind energy - Infrasound is having bad effects on their health. People do say that while living next to roads that are producing infrasound multiple times louder than wind turbines ever could.

It's a nice argument if you need it.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

How on earth do wind turbines produce infrared sound? The huge things there's no way they can achieve the necessary vibrations to produce audio let alone in for sound it's just stupid.

The infra sound has been produced from the high pressure wakes generated in the heat exhaust

[–] Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago

I am not sure if I get your point. Sound so deep, that humans can't here it, is below 20 Hz. So beeing huge helps to produce such low frequencies - bigger wind turbines produce more intense infrasound than smaller ones. Infrasound is also produced by wind blowing over the landscape and by waves on the beach.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 5 points 1 day ago

There's documented proof of this being measured by multiple people.

A windmill is literally only a visual blight.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

This would be hell for me.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The US has a serious problem with who is able to sue for what damages when it comes to pollution. Depending on if it's noise, water, or air, the legal codes are not effective at protecting property or people.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Almost, they're not effective at protecting the property or people negatively affected by the pollution because they were specifically designed to protect the people doing the polluting and their "property" (read: capital).

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