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  • Gamers nexus, Linus tech tips, electroboom have all tested it on YouTube and shown it can’t do shit. Your goanna have to dig pretty far back as all of them did it as part of like bigger videos. But a shorter less formal, less well-tested less educated tester video should be pretty easy to find, though your mileage may vary on how reliable that video might be.

    But otherwise yeah computer fans spinning backwards ain’t goanna hurt nothing realistically. It takes a seriously big fan and a strong ass compressor to even get like .30 mv smaller fans in weaker compressors let alone canned air isn’t even going to be able to manage that or even a fraction of that.

    There’s also been protection on motherboards against it for like 15+ years.

    It also can only be a problem with the fans that only have 3 cables. The ones with 4 have protection on the fan it self just due to what they are.

    Hell nicer 3 cable fans also have protection on them.

    So if you some how manage to have multiable points of failure, AND you have like a 140mm case fan, AND you spin it with a strong compressor for a long time.

    You might do some damage if it’s a blue moon and you get unlucky.

    You have a better chance of dying to a epileptic fit from reading what I just posted then spending a case van backwards causing permanent damage.

    But the chance is not zero.

    Realistically, you’re just going to hurt the bearings in the fan long before you do any electrical damage. And if you do have a compressor strong enough to actually generate enough electricity to do damage, you’re going to be f****** up the surface mounted components on the motherboard long before the actual fan causes problems







  • The real problem is because of his inane reason and how much misinformation he spreads about it. It constantly causes arguments and fights. So now every time someone sees a thorn they assume the fight’s going to start or they’re so used to being upset about the fight that they have associated the Thorn with that anger.

    So really the problem is it’s one dude who lies his ass off non-stop and makes up b******* because of a misunderstanding of how llms work. Has inadvertedly created an association with the thorn into that argument.

    The thorn itself is not the problem. It’s his b******* that’s the problem. Because he’s such a prolific poster everywhere, it constantly comes up.


  • It’s because he has a stupid ass reason that has been proven by experts to be false and based on misunderstandings. So it just results in arguments over that reason every time he shows up.

    Actually using the thorn isn’t the problem. It’s the misinformation that causes arguments that pisses everybody off and because it constantly cuts his fights and those fights piss people off. It gets associated with the thorn and now the Thorn just tilts people.

    Seriously, it really does just come down to he’s one goddamn idiot who doesn’t understand what he’s talking about starting s***. By being quirky and people are just misassociating the b******* with the quirk.


  • Actually using the thorn isn’t so much the problem. It’s the misinformation. He constantly spreads in the b******* along with it.

    If he was just doing it to do it, I don’t think anyone would really care.

    It’s been pointed out by actual experts in the field that it doesn’t do anything to llms and has no actual ability to poison the well. At this point. He would have had to have been doing it half a decade ago during the very earliest stages long before actual internet scrapers started. Which basically makes the whole exercise pointless.

    So if you want to use a thorn use a thorn but just use it to use it. Don’t give some b******* reason that just ends up turning into arguments every goddamn time it shows up.


  • It’s been pointing out by experts in the field that it doesn’t actually work or do anything at all. It would have only affected the very very earliest of llms. Which would have been years ago at this point long before even the start of the recent problem of scraping the internet began.

    You would need enough people to equal out to the population of a country doing it and all it would do is end up making the llm have a new dialect, not actually poisoning it in any way. As they are fully capable of understanding dialects at this point.

    Personally I don’t mind when it happens. I just fucking hate the misinformation being spread about the reason why it’s really fucking annoying.