milkjug @ milkjug @beehaw.org

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Excellent, much thanks!

You sir are a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you for the inputs! Just to confirm if you don’t mind a stupid question, I understand VAAPI works for you, does it also work for browsers with YouTube? I’m asking this specifically because I could get hwdec working with MPV with Nvidia but YouTube refuses to use hwdec regardless of browser for me. How about yours in Firefox at least with YouTube specifically?

Devs: "it works fine on my machine". At this point games should just come with their own OSes. Or hardware. Hell, ship 'em like arcade boxes.

I know all the best words, okay, people are saying that I know the most beautiful words, okay, no one knows more about words than I do, big beautiful words, the WORDIST even.

surprised pikachu face no waaaaaay

Indeed. There's just no positives to be taken from getting involved with Iran. They chose their own destiny after the whole Iran hostage situation, there's no coming back from that.

I am no expert in geopolitics, but didn't they get exactly what they wanted? Carter out of office, the Shah deposed, the US humiliated, and religious fundamentalism as a preferred way of life.

Happy to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable than I am.

I think in principle it sounds like a good idea. However, I'd caution against overlooking the administrative overheads that a formal governance structure would impose.

A cooperative would need oversight, accounting, legal and a ton of other instruments or functions to operate. Currently the hosting costs look like they're about $500 a month, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that a formal organization that governs the day-to-day operation of beehaw can have overheads that easily go up to 10x or more over the hosting costs.

Right now, in my mind, beehaw is essentially a bunch of cool dudettes/dudes that are hosting a BBQ party in their backyard. They only have one rule, you are welcome as long as you're nice to everyone. You can also choose to help chip-in for pizza and beer if you like, that will be very welcome. Otherwise, the cost of hosting this party comes out of their own pockets.

Now we have some generous folks who are happy to chip in a fiver or tenner here and there to keep the party going, that's great. However, some attendees are now starting to get a little uncomfortable since the party is growing and the F&B pot is healthy. What if the hosts were to spoil the party by selling the rights to it? What if they start monetizing the party through other nefarious means, or begin to compromise on their "be nice" principle and let everyone in?

Perhaps we will need to elect a bunch of hall monitors to make sure this doesn't happen. And let's get in an accountant or two to make sure the F&B money is actually used to buy pizza and beer. In fact, let's get a couple of lawyers to come in and make sure everything's above board. Oh wait, since legality is now a concern, we better look into insuring ourselves against litigation risks. In the process of doing all these, let's also have a group of elders to meet once a year and certify that the party is indeed running against what the hosts promised it would be.

But it all started only because a small bunch of cool people decided to have a free party in their backyard, and all they wanted was for people to be nice to one another.

The thing is, there's a thousand other backyard parties out there and anyone unhappy with the way this party is organized is very, very, very free to go to other parties. In fact, they are actively encouraged to. That's the whole point of these parties in the first place, go to one that you'd enjoy and have fun in.

Not sure if I'm rambling or making any sense. But to be honest, I wouldn't blame the admins if this gradual enshittification is not what they signed up for.

The issue when we bring in legality is the need for formal processes, oversight, validation, audit, blah blah blah and those come with (very) expensive administrative overheads. You quickly realize you need to have bookkeepers, legal counsel on retainer, a formal Board, charters, general meetings, all of which are likely to cost far (many times) more than just hosting costs.

I am not a lawyer, but I can quickly see overheads like these spiraling way out of control. Happy to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable than I am.

At some point some creditor should be desperate enough to do a margin call, since the loan collateral is next to worthless.

Brutal burn!