Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

really like how this blog is written. a lot of writeups like this recently have been generated by an LLM, and it's quite distracting to read - this was a pleasant surprise. it strikes a good balance between technical and laid-back

(yes i know the cover image is AI-generated, that's incidental to the content)

I've been blocking by default bigger media files with uBlock Origin to avoid needless resource usage. Cover images are typically blocked, and they are usually useless anyway.

It's too bad people spend energy for generating them now.

>> It's too bad people spend energy for generating them now.

How do you mean?

Some quick back of the napkin math.

Creating a 'throwaway' banner image by hand, maybe 15 minutes on a 100W CPU in Photoshop:

  15 minutes human work time + 0.025 kWh (100W*0.25h)

Creating a 'throwaway' banner image by stable diffusion on a 600W GPU. In reality it's probably less than 20 seconds to generate, but let's round it up to one full minute of compute time:

  5 minutes human work time + 0.01 kWh (600W*(1/60)h)

The way I see it it seems to spend less energy, regardless of whether you're talking about human energy or electrical energy. What's the issue here exactly?