A post from the hackernews thread had a lot of that info:
Link to project website: https://senseable.mit.edu/flatburn/
Link to assembly guide: https://github.com/MIT-Senseable-City-Lab/OSCS/blob/main/Bui…
Link to bill of materials: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-fR-0hTxHKbjaRf8DbH6…
Naively searching for every lines of the bill of materials gives me around $300, with a handful of items being around $50 and everything else under $5. I’m sure a hobbyist could find the parts for cheaper, especially things like individuals connectors that I found for around $5. I’ve seen them go as low as $0.25 when bulk purchased.
Disclaimer: it’s possible that some SKUs led me to the wrong products. I am not into electronics. I encourage you do to the same exercise before drawing conclusions.
Without direct support in Borg you’ll need to use something like FUSE, for example with a quick search I found: https://github.com/matteoserva/MegaFuse
Basically use fuse to mount the mega drive to a local folder and point Borg at it. This will likely be slow but it’ll he the job done. Or you can o it in two steps. Backup to local drive, upload the wholefoldedr you backed up to Mega.
Your better off looking on the sites you are on and going through your history and redownloading the torrent file and have your client save it in the same place where the file is on your HD. It’ll verify the file and reseed. You cannot recreate the original torrent file from the files that were in the torrent the best you candko is create a new torrent file to distribute the file. Which isn’t what you want to do…
Yeah I don’t think I understood your question correctly initially. You are asking about whether or not MS could use your hardware to power azure as sort of a way for them to steal resources exploiting their market dominance?
The answer is yes. Would they? Even if it is legal (maybe it already is, IANAL) for them to do it I doubt they’d do it . My two cents is that the reality is the resulting product would be too unreliable to sell to customers, especiaply Enterprise customers. I guess they could sell preemptive VMs but even then there are so many things they can’t control: network, hardware, availability, basically the only use a system without more guarantees is for raw computation like Bitcoin mining or folding@home like applications. Sure they could do that and sell it but they’ve chosen not to for some reason. The technology has existed she nice the late 90s. Likely doesn’t make monetary sense.
Which market? If you are saying cloud (which I assumed) that is not accurate.
AWS 32%
AZURE 20%
GCP 9%
First hit on an obvious search apnews.com