This time of year I take the computer running my home NAS and move it to my bedroom and set up BOINC. Literally keeps the room 7-10 degrees (F) warmer.
It’s also about the same electric-to-thermal efficiency as a regular space heater, so if that’s how you heat, there’s no reason not to.
I started doing this with SETI@Home. And have continued to run these sorts of programs on my computers ever since. SETI@Home used BOINC, which is still used by other projects. I also use World Community Grid. Highly recommend!!
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I was going to mention ArchiveTeam’s warrior because I thought it wouldn’t be listed, since computing isn’t really the important thing you’re donating, more your virgin IP address and internet connection… but it’s third on the list!
How much does it spam, if I run it am I likely to get ip banned anywhere?
…Or in trouble for ‘visiting’ unsavoury sites?
There are always several projects to choose from.
The URLs project plays it fast and loose and archives an assortment of random URLs. This one has an IP block warning.
Some have NSFW warnings.
Other projects aim to archive a single site as accurately as possible (possibly with a deadline when the site is shutting down), so they can’t afford to have their warriors blocked or rate limited. If you are, that would be because of an issue. You can choose to archive sites you don’t want to visit to avoid issues.
Ah, I thought it was just a monolithic app you set going and have no control over. Ty
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I prefer bitcoin. You’re doing a lot of great work helping society get rid of those awful financial institutions by verifying transactions.
It uses much less energy too
Bitcoin uses less energy? Now that’s something I haven’t heard of before.
Yep. Theres a lot of misinformation due to bank lobbys propaganda. Bitcoin was designed to be more efficient.
It doesn’t need humans to deal with transaction reversals (this was a key part of the design per the white paper), so you cut out all the energy that goes into creating buildings for offices and maintaining them. Also it scales up without using additional energy, so if you actually look at the numbers it uses magnitudes less energy.
This is just silly. If you had said Etherium, then maybe. But Bitcoin?? C’mon…
