Neo, The matrix has you

Ehh, we still have family and HOA’s that only use Facebook.

hell, my kid’s school still uses Twitter to communicate that the busses have left.

Are we the baddies?

No, no, we’re not the… wait what distro you running?

Back in the day, that would tell me to buy green.

Of course, that was also long enough ago that you could just swap money from green to red every new staggered product cycle.

We don’t mind individual points for a story we like the feedback that people like our story, But most places aren’t even counting overall points. It’s not some reddit race to the top for who can have 300,000 karma. We’re here to actually chit chat and socialize and that’s just not conducive to throwing out a bunch of personal stories for shock and awe. Nobody is selling Lemmy accounts with 10,000 karma for bank.

Exactly right. Two 15 second ads in between shows two midstream 15 to 30 second ads, I was perfectly fine with watching those ads.

When they started letting content creators pick the number of ads, and they started letting more than 30 seconds of ads per break, now I have incentive to block them.

Capitalism dictates that they need to make 20% more every year. They cannot continue to get 20% more ad revenue every year without increasing ads substantially.

When a handful of companies owns everything and they can no longer buy new companies up to make more money, They can’t make their numbers. All they can do is gut us for the last 20% and then go out of business.

We’ve launched a global effort to urge viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium for an ad free experience.

By drastically increasing the rates every 6 months. Raising it past the prices of actual production streaming services. And paying the people making the content less and less money, until they have to put their own ads and their own content.

I’ve ditched their algorithm, but I’m not going back to a text only internet. It’s so much more helpful to listen while I drive or follow along with someone’s screen.

I’d like to see the creators get out of youtube and make more money but I can’t say I like patreon much either.

Would be cool to tie fedeverse into non-profit monetization.

Yes, whatever you put up there is for public consumption. It’s closer to Twitter than Facebook.

There’s no privacy.

Yes, please give the man some money so we can hire somebody and get some sleep.

Yup, they will comply with legal requirements, but it usually has to go to a lawyer before they’ll intervene.

As much as cloud flare is the evil overlord, they’re actually highly resistant to blocking sites. You really need to force their hand before they’ll block it they don’t just flip the switch on any request.

I think we need to take apart IPFS and put it back together in a more usable form.

Hell just torrenting the APKs wouldn’t be that hard. We’ve been hosting s*** that people don’t want hosted since the internet was a couple of daemons on big iron

Nah, they’re not big on non-compliance. So consider an uprising. Spez wants to play with a big oligarchs, he won’t take a chance on pissing anyone off.

That helps. We are heading that way. But as a whole we’re just chasing the prettiest most expensive graphics. Nobody gives a damn how the game plays or how it performs. Or demanding huge worlds, Hi-Rez, high refresh rate, and then bitching about it.

I suspect it’s truly more of a dunning-Kruger situation. When you know nothing You’re down to use it for everything. When you start to understand the problems, limits and the morality of it, you start to back off some. And as you approach the ability to host it yourself and do actual work with it, you fully welcome the useful bits in your workflow.

If you do it right, you can do all that once.

Opensubtitles on plexus pretty smooth. You just have to wait a day or two for most things to be ready and clean.

God, I used to manage a data center that had a 128 tape Dell library, If I had that library today and a couple of LTO 9s in it…

I don’t know what I’d do with 2.3 petabytes, and the time from request to load would be abhorrent But damn it, I would do something cool

Super disc was the same size package and stored 12 0 MB in the US and 240 MB a few years later abroad. But this is all around 1996.

I wonder if we put serious effort into it how many GB we could fit on 3.5" media