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Not particularly surprising. It was copied from the YouTube iOS app...

Reasons not to buy premium:

• Google having a history of all the videos you watch via your account.
• Even if Google provided an option to opt out of tracking there would be no reason to trust then since they have lied about not tracking people in the past.
• YouTube seems to redirect any Premium profits intended to creators to the entity which made a copyright claim on a video. This would be sensible if YouTube’s copyright claim system wasn’t so vulnerable to abuse. Normal (yellow) demonetisation will pay out from Premium though. https://youtu.be/PRQVzPEyldc?si=5-wFn2SqPZLdOlqa
• Features are removed from YouTube to incentivise Premium such as playing videos while your phone screen is locked.
• Similar to above, Google have been increasing the amount of ads particularly on phones where ad blockers are harder to use. I.E. pushing users to Premium not by making the service better, but by making non-Premium worse.

Isn’t that true for any representative democracy especially when gerrymandering is allowed? In Aus you can easily have a party win more than 50% of the vote but not get in because the votes were concentrated in vast-majority seats.

The article seems to indicate they are using to reduce the amount of work that have to do in writing prompts, but still have translators review what the AI spits out. I think that’s different to SuperDuo which I believe is mean’t to use AI to be more conversational.

• Personal and business are extremely different. In personal, you backup to defend against your own screwups, ransomware and hardware failure. You are much more likely to predict what is changing most and what is most important so it’s easier to know exactly what needs hourly backups and what needs monthly backups. In business you protect against everything in personal + other people’s screwups and malicious users.
• If you had to setup backups for business without any further details: 7 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly (or as many as you can). You really should discuss this with the affected people though.
• If you had to setup backups for personal (and not more than a few users): 7 daily, 1 monthly, 1 yearly.
• Keep as much as you can handle if you already paid for backups (on-site hardware and fixed cost remote backups). No point having several terabytes of free backup space but this will be more wear on the hardware.
• How much time are you willing to lose? If you lost 1 hour of game saves or the office’s work and therefore 1 hour of labour for you or the whole office would it be OK? The “whole office” part is quite unlikely especially if you set up permissions to reduce the amount of damage people can do. It’s most likely to be 1 file or folder.
• You generally don’t need to keep hourly snapshots for more than a couple days since if it’s important enough to need the last hours copy, it will probably be noticed within 2 days. Hourly snapshots can also be very expensive.
• You almost always want daily snapshots for a week. If you can hold them for longer, then do it since they are useful to restoring screwups that went unnoticed for a while and are very useful for auditing. However, keeping a lot of daily snapshots in a high-churn environment gets expensive quickly especially when backing up Windows VMs.
• Weekly and monthly snapshots largely cover auditing and malicious users where something was deleted or changed and nobody noticed for a long time. Prioritise keeping daily snapshots over weekly snapshots, and weekly snapshots over monthly snapshots.
• Yearly snapshots are more for archival and restoring that folder which nobody touched forever and was deleted to save space.
• The numbers above assume a backup system which keeps anything older than 1 month in full and maybe even a week in full (a total duplicate). This is generally done in case of corruption. Keeping daily snapshots for 1 year as increments is very cheap but you risk losing everything due to bitrot. If you are depending on incrementals for long periods of time, you need regular scrubs and redundancy.
• When referring to snapshots I am referring to snapshots stored on the backup storage, not production. Snapshots on the same storage as your production are only useful for non-hardware issues and some ransomware issues. You snapshots must exist on a seperate server and storage. Your snapshots must also be replicated off-site minus hourly snapshots unless you absolutely cannot afford to lose the last hour (billing/transaction details).

Will be sad to see him go. I always loved the content as it was engaging, but ultimately of no consequence. When I watch anything to do with news or politics theres the risk of believing what the channel says only for it to be wrong and having your whole world view questioned. Game Theory was just… fun.

Likewise! Figured the post was wrong and they were referring to when he sold Game Theorists, but nope! https://youtu.be/8R1_TqU68yo?feature=shared

It’s running KDE, what do you expect? 😛

“You’re now going to get machete’d to death!”

https://youtu.be/yfbi5vmouXE?feature=shared

steals funny glowing metal thing

Funny glowing metal thing:

I believe copyright was originally a means of censorship to allow the state (monarchs and the church) to control what could be published. It was originally introduced because of the printing press which resulted in much easier distribution of dissenting opinions. It was later reformed into something much more reasonable with the intention of promoting the creation of literature, but is now just a tool to prevent people from having any semblance of ownership. It needs major reform.

Particularly, the abilities for the copyright holder to restrict what can be done with the IP and restrictions strictly non-commercial use. For example, I don’t believe it should be legal for the copyright holder to restrict people from viewing a copyrighted work together by streaming it similar to if they were in the same room in a non-commercial setting.

I wish XMPP had stuck around. I used to run a Prosody server and it worked well enough but I think the E2E keys would occasionally need to be fixed. I used Conversations on Android as a client at the time. The things that makes me hesitate to dedicate too much effort to Matrix are:

1. the supposed funding issues they're having (which is part of why I paid for hosting)
2. the FOSS' communities seeming tendency to keep jumping messaging platforms and so there's never a chance for one to gain critical mass
3. how buggy the web client and Element iOS client have been.

When I stopped running an XMPP server I switched the only other user over to Signal and we've stuck there since. With how buggy the Element iOS client, Fluffy Chat and web client have been for me (app crashes when joining rooms, rooms don't exist when they in fact do), I don't want to risk an upset by trying to push people there since Signal is good enough. And these are all issues that exist when the company who makes Matrix (plus contributors of course) are the ones running the server.

At this point I'm just inclined to grab the export they provide and switch to matrix.org for the 1 or 2 rooms I care to have a presence in.

Would love to see more of that TBH. Means instances/communities other than those on lemmy.ml get content too so it's not too centralised. Not sure if you meant it as a negative or positive but there are my two cents.

Unless I am mistaken, the total number the other comment is raising is how much power the entire network spent calculating the transaction, not how much the winner (the one who got paid out) spent. You calculate the energy consumption of the entire network because that power was still spent on the transaction even if the rest of the network wasn’t rewarded. I have no idea if the numbers presented are correct but the reasoning seems sensible. Maybe I’m wrong though. :)

Yep my bad! I mis-remembered .local/share/steam as . cache/share/steam. :)

Ah I was getting it confused. At one point Steam stored everything in ~/.local/share/steam and symlinked ~/.steam to it. Doesn't appear to be the case on Ubuntu 22.04, though I used to use Debian and grab the .deb from Valve's website. My bad! :)

Doesn’t Steam store the game library there?

If this isn’t an SCP, it needs to be.

The downtime issue for identities is already solved with a government certificate and distributed certificate revocation list. As long as multiple independent parties are mirroring the government’s list, taking down the government servers would not affect identity verification. Certificate Transparency solves the CA compromise problem since you have a log of all issued certs.

Fair. But I would say they have a disincentive to lie about E2E because it’s a selling point of WhatsApp and if they didn’t care they could just roll WhatsApp into Facebook Messenger where there is no promise of E2E.