The intersection of "Luddite hooligan" and "stops to think about technological capabilities and future consequences before vandalizing stuff" is not large.
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particularly for companies entrusted with vast amounts of sensitive personal information.
I nodded along to most of your comment but this cast a discordant and jarring tone over it. Why particularly those companies? The CrowdStrike failure didn't actually result in sensitive information being deleted or revealed, it just caused computers to shut down entirely. Throwing that in there as an area of particular concern seems clickbaity.
One of the background details I liked in Ghost in the Shell was how the high-end data analysts and programmers employed by the government did their work using cybernetic hands whose fingers could separate into dozens of smaller fingers to let them operate keyboards extremely quickly. They didn't use direct cybernetic links because that was a security vulnerability for their brains.
Note that the second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, no longer uses proof-of-work to validate its chain. So any regulations or data on electricity usage will be basically irrelevant to it.
It sounds scary, and that's all that's needed to get clicks.
Just in case people think this is a literal excerpt from the article (that was my first impression) the actual survey results were:
33% are very likely to trust 32% are somewhat likely to trust 21% are neutral 14% express some level of distrust
Or, you're in a bubble and are surprised to discover that most people aren't in it with you.
Do you really leave Windows with default-everything whenever you deploy a Windows machine?
Which has waaaaaay more features than Notepad does.
If only you were allowed to install your own text editor.
So turn those features off. I just checked, there's a setting for both spellcheck and autocorrect.
Why does the rule need to be specific to data centers? Why not just try to encourage renewable energy in general?