Government asks the people to delete old photos and email to free up resources, as the government itself ramps up it's data retention requirements to conduct mass surveillance of the people.
pjmlp · 2h ago
I bet that was the kind of stuff where everyone on the office was supposed to contribute an idea.
torium · 1h ago
No one would contribute such an idiotic thing. This was obviously AI generated.
chrisjj · 1h ago
...and then one gets picked at random.
Stevvo · 1h ago
Flagging the previous submission and then submitting the same article and title is a bit shit behavior.
chrisjj · 2h ago
True title.
UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'
Piskvorrr · 1h ago
Data at rest, also? Meanwhile, same govt. invests in LLMs slurping power by the megawatt, but surely that is an unproblem.
CrzyLngPwd · 2h ago
Delete emails to save water.
It’s clapping for carers every Thursday at 8 pm, all over again, haha.
ktallett · 54m ago
Have we considered that the major issue is lack of investment in reservoirs and general infrastructure including power, for many years to keep up with demand.
goyagoji · 49m ago
We have considered that 99% of the problem is from our institutions and the best way for them to deflect that criticism is to give the people something they should have done for the 1% of the problem that they can influence.
mobiuscog · 1h ago
"ChatGPT, come up with a list of ways that people can save water"
UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'
It’s clapping for carers every Thursday at 8 pm, all over again, haha.