Eventually, the bubble will burst.

Venture Cap paid for the first round of hardware; it has to make real money for the second round.

Once the token price rises to the actual cost of buying the ephemeral hardware it’s running on, no one will want to use it for the hard stuff.

When everyone stops chasing cryptocoin and AI the prices will come down.

As long as people will pay 2k for a video card, they’ll charge 2k for a video card :(

The market doesn’t discern between gamers, cryptobros, and corporations.

I thought we were about to have a break when everything went ASIC, but that just didn’t last.

Did a little digging around. It looks like they manage to get discovery judgments all the time over partial downloads, but I don’t see them actually taking anyone to court for anything less than a full file.

Once you have the entire file available, it’s hard to shimmy around the distribution claims. Wouldn’t it be super effing interesting if everyone’s torrent client specifically picked a random block and refused to give it to anyone?

I’m not sure it would hold up in court, but it would be interesting.

I hope to hell we’re not infectious, but I worry for everyone, everywhere, eventually. I’m afraid we’re just ahead of the curve.

You’ll still have to be careful they’re targeting people with sensory issues and neurodivergence next.

We really need a Rick and Morty episode about this.

You know, it would be a really neat browser plug-in. Mouse over a URL and get the encoded bit decoded?

Yeah, no dice, the better sensors these days don’t have any problem with that. Check out Project Farms recent doorbell camera review. He actually walks up to the doorbell camera with a full on flashlight in the pitch black of night and they still have no problem.

Yeah, a high-res image giving the position of ears, eyes, and nose is damning.

ears and eyes alone give you a shocking amount of identifyability. We’re getting real fucking close to the CSI levels of facial identification.

It’s only a matter of time before this is everywhere. It’s spreading like the plague it is. When it finally gets down to just the last few providers, they’ll be watching them like a hawk.

We need some kind of peer-to-peer network with plausible deniability built-in. like you decrypt all the chunks forward and you get segments of Linux ISOs. And if you decrypt them backwards, you get the actual payload. Old school Vera Crypt style.

You’re not wrong, we’re getting increasingly toxic. Stuff that should just not have upvotes is getting pretty heavily downvoted, but it is what it is and we are who we are and this is how it’s going to be.

I kind of fear we’re going to follow the Reddit life cycle, but we don’t have quite the numbers or management to fuck ourselves nearly as bad.

There are a couple of peertube servers that aren’t horrible. TILVids is particularly decent.

But until somebody works out monetization for these people, it’s probably going to be Slim Pickings.

At a minimum, peertube is going to need to support private videos for Patreon to have proper effect.

The very platform you’re clinging to is on Death’s Door and they’re actively breaking YouTube’s terms of service while still using the service.

None of the other platforms are even close to replacing YouTube. They can’t handle the scale or the features. And none of them are heading towards being able to accomplish this.

YouTube is a capitalist utopia funded with more money than God. They provide unlimited free storage and transmission of all videos sent to their platform. They fleece videos for copyright and legal impingements. They gather corporations willing to spend on advertisements and link them directly to end users uploading data, and when they reach a threshold, they pay them.These funds pay for the unlimited amounts of storage at levels that no other platform could handle.

The other platforms that are open to us don’t make enough money to do any of those things. We’re relying on the funding, development, and administration of a couple of generous strangers.

Clarification:

CERT Fd up and called two whitehat disclosure accounts malicious

Proton did not check these accounts before they torched them.

Specifically for the type of privacy and security that Proton offers, I would expect a slightly higher level of customer service. Perhaps a message to the end user saying we are considering terminating your account. And giving you a chance to appeal before you knock it out.

This is by far not the worst thing they’ve done and in some sense it’s not completely unreasonable. But I think they could do better.

I’ve had enough of you. I encourage everyone here to just block you.

My best guess would be your friend is being thoroughly tracked and they know who he semt the data to and they have a basic mapping of you.

It supports more complicated subtitles and menuing, more codec support (like a LOT more) lossless support, mode audio formats.

It’s like they took MP4 and added in all the stuff that you needed to replicate a BluRay, then added in lossless audio.

If you just want a movie with basic subtitles and audio, MP4 is fine. If you want to replicate newer stuff, MKV supports it.

The real hot part of this is if you have a collection of high-quality video/audio and you’re streaming it to firefox, you’ll natively be able to do so without transcoding.

God I’d hope so. Imagine how bad you’d have to fuck up time to make it not :)

Yeah, he didn’t think he’d be held accountable in his wildest dreams. I guess he thought if Alex Jones didn’t get shot, he wouldn’t either.