douglasg14b
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- Comment on Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever. 1 week ago:
You might not necessarily have to fork BitTorrent and instead if you have your own protocol for grouping and breaking the data into manageable chunks of a particular size and each one of those represents an actual full torrent. Then you won’t necessarily have to worry about completion levels on those torrents and you can rely on the protocol to do its thing.
Instead of trying to modify the protocol modify the process that you wish to use protocol with.
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 1 week ago:
Options:
- Very Wet paper towel on the plate, microwave the plate for 30s
- Heat it up over a flame, a ways away (ie. Butane torch under it, but like 12" away)
- If you have a small countertop over or air fryer/toaster. Heat it up in there briefly
- If you’re making toast, place it on top of the toaster (not too long, it can still break).
I heat my plates up alllll the time.
- Comment on How to Delete Your 23andMe Data. 1 week ago:
Let this be a lesson to write down any fake data you enter into accounts.
My keepass entries maintain all the fake form into for each account, makes it possible to move forward in instances just like this.
- Comment on Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever. 1 week ago:
Oh for sure, that’s quite reasonable, though at some point you just move towards re-creating BitTorrent, which will be the actual effect you want.
You could build an appliance on top of the protocol that enables the distributed storage, that might actually be pretty reasonable 🤔
Ofc you will need your own protocols to break the data up into manageable parts, chunked in a same way, and make it capable of being removed from the network or at least made inaccessible for dmca claims. Things that is completely preventing the internet archive from being too much of a target from government entities.
- Comment on Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever. 1 week ago:
The actual volume of data is kind of insane for distribution. You start running into many scale problems.
At ~70PB of storage, assumed redundant as well. And at ~$15/TB JUST for HDDs alone, you’re talking $2.1 million in just hard drives.
Installation, hardware, and facility costs will at least pentuple that number, if we’re being crazy conservative. Making the cost to stand up an archive $10.5 million?
During this process I found out that their finances are public and there is more reliable information out there:
- $2/GB for permanent storage, overall ( $2000/TB)
The cost to store the data and run the archive is a whopping $36mill/y at the moment.
Which if you consider what they do is incredibly cheap. And easily fundable by even a small municipality never mind a large Nation.
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 1 week ago:
If you are an individual and not a business then the IRS already knows what you have been paid as long as you have been paid by a business.
It’s already reported.
You can’t dodge your taxes unless you are wealthy or a large corporation, us peons are already under the thumb.
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 1 week ago:
Problem is it it will catch up to you if you owe taxes.
When this country recovers, be that in 10 years, then virus will happily go after the tax dodgers of yesterdecade.
That would be my worry.
- Comment on Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever. 1 week ago:
And funded by who?
It’s nice to say that it should be decentralized, but who is funding the development of that? Are you donating to IA?
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 1 week ago:
Always has been.
Right beside the fact that their monetary model relies on user activity tracking. Yet they advertise privacy.
A browser that had a seemingly unlimited budget for advertising before it even had users is suspicious as hell.
I’ve never trusted brave.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
It is, though the numbers are depressing.
A site like Reddit grows in its daily active users more than 15x (!!!) entire MAU base of Lemmy. “Reddit migrations” are barely a margin of error for them.
This is excluding, liberal, assumption of bot counts.
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 1 week ago:
Enjoy Ecuador!
Wish I was joking…
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
Even better, it’s now a nice database of who companies and governments can go after when they want or need to!
- Comment on Bluesky does federation-washing 2 weeks ago:
What most people in this thread don’t realize is that what you’re seeing right here is the problem with federated services in this day and age.
Federation protocols and systems just are not mature enough to scale.
Yes you will essentially always have to abandon ship anytime any federated service scales up it’s user base. It will always be entirely unaffordable and unobtainable for randoms to host their own servers because the compute storage and networking requirements will far exceed what most can’t afford.
As an aggregate federated services are always more expensive to host then centralized services. And that cost scales less efficiently than centralized services. Meaning that with linear user growth you get exponential cost growth, and the barrier for entry follows.
Which means that all federated services have to have centralization in order to scale. In their current form.
This is a really tough problem to solve and is going to take a lot of time and money to build good solutions for. Time and money that… You guessed it, is largely funded by profits not donations.
And now we have looped back around.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
Let’s not mention the abysmal performance for servers. Making it largely infeasible to scale.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 weeks ago:
I mean, the business model works? They make money, they pay staff, and they are growing.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, people have price sensitivity of course. You are projecting yours onto “everyone”, is it not a successful business?
There’s a niche they cater to, if you are not that niche then you are not that niche. Doesn’t mean the niche doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 weeks ago:
$10/m is unlimited searches though…
And yeah, searches are actually quite expensive. There’s a LOT of infrastructure that goes into making something unique with your own search engine that isn’t just a wrapper over Google.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 weeks ago:
This is the kind of conversation, healthy, back and forth, and conceding instead of doubling down as we learn more that I wish was more common on the internet these days.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 weeks ago:
They’re definitely stretching themselves too thin, but as long as I get better and more relevant, cleaner, no advertising search results for my knowledge work and research. With my privacy in tact.
Then I’m continuing to pay them for a product I find to be superior than the alternatives.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
What advertising?
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
Every single time with red comes up there’s always this FUD.
Why?
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
Oh dear Lord. The hood has a filter???
Yeah, that’s probably fucked up, none of the filters in anything in this house had been changed in years when we got the place. The filter for the furnace was black.
And it’s been over a year since then I’m sure if the hood fan has a filter it’s absolutely disgusting.
But I also meant that the hood could have a shape to it so that it collects air from the front burners which it doesn’t.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 4 weeks ago:
That’s only works so long as Firefox stays alive and in development.
LibreWolf relies on Firefox being funded, if Firefox dies then LibreWolf also dies.
And so does the last actual open source browser that is in competition with chrome.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
It probably has to do with the type of burner I’m going to guess.
We’ve had both induction and electric stoves for our whole lives. And the home we recently moved into has a fancy dancy natural gas stove with star shaped burners.
It is night and day compared to anything else we’ve used before, water boils so much faster, I can actually sear a pen full of vegetables now instead of just making them mushy.
Honestly I love it. I just wish the hood wasn’t so shitty and actually had a hood to capture all of the output from the stove.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 5 weeks ago:
Chrome* or Chromium based browsers*
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 1 month ago:
Oof, hell no. That’s some Facebook level cancer right there when they removed downvotes.
It’s just a form of white washing that makes the same people who made up being offended by “black lists” and “master branch”.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
Shitty time to be alive when it’s no longer cool to shoot Nazis.
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 1 month ago:
It’s an absolute PITA in my experience.
I tried this with TD Canada. Accessing the money was problematic.
- Comment on Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing 1 month ago:
After nearly a year of Kagi. It’s actually painful when I’m on a device with just Google.
Would recommend if you are a knowledge worker or researcher, or just in a technical field.
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 2 months ago:
God, lemmy.world needs to get rid of this guy…
Toxic all around
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 4 months ago:
Chrome has a massive market share and Google abuses that market share by breaking web standards, and pushing people towards Chrome because “the competition doesn’t work”.
They act in bad faith and abuse their position to more deeply entrench their position in anticompetitive monopolistic ways.
That’s the Crux of it.