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Reverse image search. Some guy posted this on Reddit a year ago

Found this, looks pretty close

It’s biodegradable in an industrial composter, and degrades in sunlight. Sure it’s not perfect, but compared to everything else its impact is minimal.

No, it’s expensive to comply (at a massive scale), but easy to avoid. Just change the user agent. There’s even a dedicated extension for bypassing Anubis.

Even then AI servers have plenty of compute, it realistically doesn’t cost much. Maybe like a thousandth of a cent per solve? They’re spending billions on GPU power, they don’t care.

I’ve been saying this since day 1 of Anubis but nobody wants to hear it.

I think if I smacked someone with the pan it would cause a significant amount of harm

up to 1000x energy consumption efficiency in these workloads

Seems like a win to me

Given the difference in server CPU/memory/storage/network/scale, I don’t think it’s possible to get any number with confidence. Maybe you could self host, but that wouldn’t be representative of real email servers. Plus different email providers handle emails differently.

And cloud providers probably automatically scale with load, Gmail probably uses more power during work hours than after.

Also SSR is relatively new and email services are ancient, I’d be surprised if any used it. I’m not even sure if it’s a good idea for email.

Plus it would probably vary with how many emails you have in your inbox…

I just don’t think it’s possible to get an actual number.

Networking is remarkably efficient, and so is decoding images, because processors do it so quickly. For more intensive tasks like video, hardware decoders make them efficient. All email is to the client computer is making a request for data, processing that into a list that can be displayed, and displaying it. I’m pretty sure just having the screen on is orders of magnitude more power hungry.

The FDA would probably also like to have a word.

Well, would you rather them NOT tell you it is AI? I don’t think it’s bragging, it’s disclosure

A good example were those Apple AI ads. So cringe. Google’s ads aren’t much better but at least Gemini works.