I learned the horrors of dysentery much later in life. on a deeply personal level.

So much laundry…

I think theres a big hole in that plan.

I’m feeling old, because our computer “lab” was a bunch of apple 2s, which predates this scene, which they just sat us infront of when there was free time and fucked off and didnt teach us a goddamn thing… So all I remember is sitting infront of a green glowing screen randomly hitting buttons on a keyboard doing fuckall nothing.

I’d trust talking revolution with a soviet commissar more than I’d ever trust a modern day company listening in on my everyday everything.

Oh yeah, definitely. Spending 30 minutes to download a video over a torrent before you can watch it is tooooootally similar to youtube. Practically indistinguishable!

Thats not a youtube alternative then. Its a torrent hub 🙄

Yes, every time the topic comes up, this same idea comes up of making individuals bear the financial burden of hosting and bandwidth, without an ounce of understanding how that will never, ever, create a viable youtube alternative.

And once those problems come up, someone will have the great idea of gathering people into collectives to lower the prices and increase bargaining power.

Then after that someone will have the idea of reducing costs by moving their individual videos into the same rack, so the costs of hardware, storage, maintenance go down and stability and uptime goes up.

and before long you arrive back at a youtube like platform, and you’ve just become the equivalent of techbro reinventing the concept of a train for the 380th time.

You make it sound nefarious, but its most likely just an ability to be more generous with the revenue sharing compared to something thats 300x its size.

Need to just let Dalamud fall already and embrace the next umbral era.

I think I know who you are talking about, I recall seeing something about her making more money posting on pornhub than youtube because of greater advertising sharing or something.

We’re talking about youtube competition, self hosting isnt ever going to compete with youtube.

I think larger merchants can negotiate lower swipe rates, but even 3% means they are getting more from the charge than the transaction costs them.

That thar dude frum lemmy.ca, Imma laff ifn he done be Quebecois

Is there a windows 11 update that doesnt break everything?

Creating an infrastructure that could potentially ingest terrabytes of data per second, and then processing it into multiple resolutions, is a massive ask.

Especially for a new site that might not ever get picked up by users, much less creators.

I think the only people that have a hope in hell of having a success at starting a youtube competitor are the owners of the big porn sites, since they are in a similar, if much smaller than youtube business with regards to infrastructure demands and processing needs. . So they have the institutional knowledge and infrastructural inertia to get started easier than anyone else on the planet. assuming they want to do a SFW video site, which they may not want to do, and it’d probably be burdened forever with right wing outrage due to any tenuous, distant connection to the porn sites (even if its just porn money or porn owners)

Especially since those parts carry a significantly higher premium than consumer parts.

and you know nvidia isnt gonna sell the shit at a reasonable price.

charged refills of fountain drinks is just pure exploitative robbery.

I like that you have to justify biometrics by coupling them with a shitty password, When just having a decent password solves both issues.

and honestly I dont even want to discuss bad passwords. thats a topic thats 30+ years old at this point, a topic so old that entire generations of people have grown up from infancy with the warnings of using proper passwords…And they get reminded about it every time they make a password. If they still cant be bothered to use something other than 1234 or password1, then they deserve what they get, and shouldnt be counted amongst actual security problems.

Of course, because reading is hard and why read when you can have the gamified systems tell you good from bad, to save those pesky brain meats from all the thinky hurts.

yep, I asked them one time don’t you want to check my bags or anything? Cause I dont want to get my arm broken being tackled by surprise in the parking lot by a cop.

they stared at me for a moment, presumably over my comment about police abuse, then said “You’re good” and walked away.