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We used to give our cycles for free to help probing the universe and understanding the building blocks of life
Nowadays it's about selling them to assholes ruining the world.
Well, kinda glad it ends up not profitable enough for them.
I did folding@home at the time I could have minded bitcoin for pizza. TBH no regrets, fuck crypto I feel better
Still crunching for Einstein@home on few hosts :)
I used to give mine for the search for extra terrestrials
Yeah!! I was hooked up to SETI for years!
Man, sometimes watching the visualisations was better than using the computer.
Also, watching the disk defrag.
….how did it take me 35 years to question if I had autism?
Is SETI gone?
Not really, they work on analysing data which people produced over the years. But they stopped SETI@home project.
What do you mean "used to"? BOINC still runs on my machine.
Alphafold was definitely a better era for intentional AI use, assuming that's the kind of thing you mean.