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  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•From YouTube to PeerTube
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    4 days ago

    Just a few thoughts as to why it hasn’t taken off:

    Video is multiple orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive to serve than text or even audio.

    • Your server needs a great upload speed which is not achievable for on-site home servers for most people in the world

    • Your server has to have at least one dedicated encoding GPU (no raspberry pis or Intel nucs if you want any meaningful traffic)

    • Your server has to have a ton of storage, especially if you allow 4k content to be uploaded, which while much cheaper than before, is still expensive. Here in the EU, reliable storage is around 300€/12TB for drives, which fills up very fast with 4k videos or if you try to store different resolutions to reduce transcoded loads.

    • Letting random people upload video onto your instance is significantly harder to moderate than text or photos. Like think of the CSAM spam that was on Lemmy when it started in taking many new users…

    • The power usage (and bill) of the server will also be much higher than without peertube because of constant transcoding

    The cost, both financial and server taxation-wise is simply too great for me, and many others to setup a peertube instance.

    Regardless of how easy it is for people to create on peertube, someone has to bear the cost of hosting it. That is cheap-ish for Lemmy or mastodon, but there is a reason YouTube was a loss leader for a long time for google, and many streaming services restrict 4k video.

    That isn’t even getting into compensation for the content makers.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoGaming@lemmy.ml•When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?
    2·
    5 days ago

    While the lack of laughter can be from depression or stress (the podcasts I used to die laughing from only get an actual laugh out loud moment every once in a while now), I feel like most story-based video games that do humor try too hard nowadays and it doesn’t land (like outer worlds)

    Most of my laughter in video games, personally has been from interacting with other people. Valheim, Helldivers 2, REPO, overcooked, stardew valley, etc…

    Probably the last single player game I laughed with was A Hat in Time or something.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His HouseEnglish
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    6 days ago

    But on this threat model? Why would it not be good?

    It has to physically accessed on the PCB itself from what I gather.

    There are 2 “threats” from what I see:

    • someone at the distribution facility pops it open and has the know how to install malware on it (very very unlikely)

    • someone breaks into your home unnoticed and has the time to carefully take apart your vacuum and upload pre-prepared malware instead of just sticking an IP camera somewhere. If this actually happens, the owner has much much bigger problems and the vacuum is the least of their worries.

    The homeowner is the other person that can access it and it is a big feature in that case.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoNews@lemmy.world•Hamas releases all 20 remaining living hostages as part of Gaza ceasefire
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    20 days ago

    Netanyahu has literally given interviews about how he and Israel have financially supported Hama’s as controlled opposition.

    Israel is also the size of New jersey (for Americans) or Slovenia. It is tiny. It is a 6 hour drive or an hour by helicopter. The Israel extreme militarized state, with tons of vehicles and helicopters, didn’t react at all to an attack where sponsered money bought weapons 10 hours later, when there were 2000 people against 169500 active members and 465000 in reserve.

    Then when specifically asked if there was an order to the IDF to stand down and not repel the attackers, Israeli leaders have refused to deny it.

    Israel with 80000% larger military not reacting at all for 10 hours is ridiculous.

    By the way, Israel has had over 1900 Palestinian hostages for a decade not charged or tried at all for supposed crimes including up to 1000 children that they rape with dogs and IDF soldiers, abuse, and torture daily.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)English
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    1 month ago

    I would be interested to see a figure of people with home servers that have had that happen to them. DoS & pwned yes, especially 15+ years ago before there were good resources, TLS, reverse proxies, or authentication front ends.

    I would be very interested to see any stat whatsoever of selfhosters that have gottened murdered specifically because of their server.

    It is extremely important to note that in those days, people just opened their, often out-of-date, servers completely to the internet via a DMZ or port forwarding, let ssh be open to the internet, didn’t harden ssh at all, and most people didn’t use a VPN for downloading.

    That is literally like saying that people who light wall torches in their wooden home burned their house down, so let’s not use lightbulbs or electricity.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Immich mobile app sync V2English
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    1 month ago

    Me too, and the new one I didn’t even realize this change happened. I saw there were no breaking changes, updated, and saw “oh, it isn’t synced anymore” so I reselected the folders, it ran a sync check on everything, which took a while, and everything works fine again.

    I didn’t even realize there was a difference until now, but I guess there is a start/stop sync switch.