I kinda just hold it all in my head and fix stuff when I notice it’s broken.

Thanks I’ll have to check them out - are these going to be gateway AIs that will end up with me talking myself into buying 2x3090s? I’m just asking now to know how much I’m going to test the bounds of WAF in the near future.

There’s 2 main reasons spacex gets shit. First one is Musk. Second one is the weird competitive thing SpaceX fanbois do where they criticise the shit out of all other rocket manufacturers and endlessly praise everything spaceX do.

Curious how they define professional use, like my work desktop is windows, but all the servers are rhel

Anything decent that doesn’t require a couple of 3090s?

One of the reasons I use pixel phones, Google already knows everything, no point in Samsung knowing it too

Aaah aaaaaaaaah aaaAaaaah aaaaaaaaah aaaAaaaah fuck this shit, fuck it all fuck it fuck it fuck it.

Cooperating, to make a barrel.

Like arxiv.org?

Ha, I recently upgraded to an nvme drive from SATA, cloned the drive and then realised I need to move the windows partition all the way to the end to let me expand the Linux partition. Which broke windows. After about 2-3 hours of troubleshooting it was working again. It was around then I realised I hadn’t booted into windows in 2 years!

Smooth as butter, well done!

Probably MS and Azure too, I suspect YouTube has some serious optimisations going on on the back end too, not that I don’t think MS/Amazon engineers could overcome them, but I suspect it would take quite a while for their offerings not to be a bit janky in comparison. YouTube had the advantage of scaling as the users did and overcoming the problems as they arose.

The scale of YouTube is just mind boggling to me, like I work with big data by any reasonable definition of the term, but YouTube is on another level altogether - they ingest petabytes of data every day and make that available globally basically forever. There’s no stutter or latency when I load a 10 year old video, which suggests they’re keeping this all reasonably live and with multiple 9s availability. It’s staggering.

The other issue I have with another big corp entering the market is the sheer waste of it all, creators probably won’t want to be exclusive to a platform - which means we’re going to triple an already huge data platform.

The other drawback for newcomers is the history YouTube has, nobody is going to reupload an ancient video on how to tear down my washing machine to a new platform, but I’m damned if that didn’t save me £100 on getting a repair man to replace a gasket, which is to say there’s an awful lot of knowledge tied up in YouTube and I think that needs protecting.

I’m not sure I buy into the not wanting to share idea, but I do agree I find it hard to see how anyone could make the risk/reward calcs stack up in favour of taking an appreciable share the market - and they’d need to take a decent chunk to make it viable.

I kinda think it should become some supranational entity like the UN or something - somehow the govts of the world pay Google for it and have it exist independent of a corporation and not be for profit. I’ve not really got the words for what I think it should be, but I know there’s too much worth in the media it has for it to go away.

Storage and maintenance. OSes are miniscule in comparison to the data YouTube stores, we’re in the multiple exabyte range here. Someone’s got to pay for it somewhere. Floatplane might be a decent comparison as to what a FOSS YouTube might look like - they have a dedicated dev team and charge per channel to view, following more than a couple of creators would become cost prohibitive for me personally.

You absolutely need storage in a P2P network, the data doesn’t just magic into existence, not only that but if there are insufficient peers in the network then you’re not watching the video, smaller creators and older content would likely suffer as a result.

The other issue with self hosting is while I’m comfortable running web services on a server in my house on my local network I know I lack the competence to harden my server sufficiently to open up a web streaming interface to the web.

We’d lose a super valuable resource and nobody can really compete with them for free.

My reading would be more like he doesn’t see it getting any better with time before the next election, if he leaves the parliament to run to term he’ll definitely lose, if he calls the vote now it minimises the bleeding and there’s a chance they’ll get another few years in power and maybe it will start coming back their direction.

I literally pointed what you said about someone else at you. How is it any more rude than you were?

No one asked to hear from you either, but here we are.

My goddaned xterm is lagging, like wtf. Literally logged into a virtual machine for work several hundred miles away running commands through some weird-ass windows SSH terminal software on a server several thousand miles away from the virtual machine and it lags less than the term on my local machine. I’ve moved from vim to vscode it’s so painful.