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What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap
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this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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Explain how this amount of electricity use could ever be "ethically sourced". That's not even much of a thing for meat, which at least provides nutrients. AI slop is everywhere and most of it is not helping anyone with anything.
I'm running my own local LLMs on solar power from my roof.
Unless you get 100% of your power from the solar panels which is doubtful, then you're using solar power that could've gone to something actually necessary