Fair use for corporations, copyright lawsuits in east-Texas for the public.

I mean, the coal and oil industries have regained political power since far right wing political movements around the world have convinced so many people that climate change is a hoax, so no surprise there's no money for new technology.

So tired of companiea pretending these are intelligent and not only replacing humans with them, but not even having humans review in detail the output. They are trained to approximate general conversion, not be lawyers. It's like asking a young child to talk about a subject and they just use their imagination to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Only their imagination is all of the content of all fictional works ever created by humans and put on the internet.

If the meter is plugged into the UPS, then the UPS has nothing to do with the power flowing into the meter. Power is "pulled" not "pushed" to devices in that a device supplying power can limit the amount of power provided, but can't increase it beyond what the devices request.

Just like with plumbing. The water company can't force your faucets to open and use more water. Now they could increase pressure and break pipes, similarly the UPS could provide the wrong voltage and short or burn out wires or devices causing them to draw more, but that is unlikely to be the issue here. As long as voltage is constant, amperage (the other component in wattage) is pulled, not pushed.

What you're seeing in the input load, if it matches what is flowing out of the meter, is some device requesting more power and thus more power flowing into the UPS to be passed to those devices, not the UPS forcing something to use power which isn't possible as explained above, or the UPS itself using power because the meter has no connection to what power is being used by the UPS, only things plugged into the meter.

So, there must be something else using the power. Likely the devices, even if they aren't really doing anything you consider significant, are doing something. Probably maintenance, checking for updates, the monitoring proceses requesting information from the devices since the TrueNAS server is on that end, etc. You'd need to put a meter on each device to determine what is drawing the power specifically.

Also, does the power meter only display power used by devices plugged into it, or does it also display it's own power usage? Could be that the plug itself is using WiFi or something to communicate with external services to log that data. But that would be quick bursts.

Also, without putting a meter on each device, this is probably cumulative. For example, if the NAS is requesing info for monitoring the network, that would spin up the processors on the RPi an cause the switch to draw more power as it transmits that information across the network. Again, this should only be small bursts, but it's also possible the devices are not sleeping properly after whatever process wakes them so they continue to run their processors at higher amperage for some time. Tweaking power profiles can help with something like tuned on Linux or similar to make things sleep more agressively. With the drawback that they take some amount of time to spin back up when needed.

"Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to ~~live with~~ conquer us survive"

Fixed it

I mean it's just one tour company, but good to see that the winds are blowing in that direction finally.

I'd guess those are too far away for the filters to be ineffective, unless they don't have the proper filters on them, which is definitely possible considering how bad most of the tech they use is. Of course, same with Teslas. I bet they don't have proper filtering on their cameras either. Lol

So will it burn out all the cameras in Teslas' "self driving" systems, too?

I mean if I was in college I'd totally use "AI" to write first drafts. But I'd never, ever trust it to write a final paper. Just like now the only thing I use it for is embedded in my IDE (software development software basically) in an "autocomplete" fashion in which I let it finish writing a block of code I start typing and then I go and make it what I actually wanted. Great timesaver for the boilerplate code required in a lot of languages. In reality that's what this iteration of "AI" should be used for in most case, helping, not doing. But corporations want to replace people, not just make them more efficient, so here we are.

Oh these benefit people, just not the general public.

They create an enemy that fascism needs to exert control and make people feel good about the loss of their rights in the name of combating that made up enemy. And the enemy needs to be so weak and unlikely to be able to fight back so they can stay an enemy for longer without causing any real issues, because they never had the power or desire to cause the issues they're accused of causing. In fact it's usually the fascist state that's actually causing what issues there are and the rest are just nonsensical hyperbole.

Reduce spam bot accounts and other malware, as well as to allow for user discovery so you can find your contacts more easily. It's not designed to be an anonymous service, just a private one.

Which is exactly what the "anti-woke" campaigns are fighting against. I was really sad to hear that propaganda when I started up a Chris Rock standup special on Netflix yesterday. Even people who would benefit from "woke" policies like combating racism in police departments or poor people who need medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, etc., are being turned against their own interests in the name of creating an enemy for facism to "fight" against so people ignore the loss of their own rights and ability to survive.