I got a login on an IBM system. I logged in and moved to the change password mask. Changed my password to something filling out the 12 character new password field. Logged out, and got the login mask again. With an eight character password field.

Not that I would have bought it - not my type of game - but this game gets on my blacklist.

Thank you, Mr. Owens. From the bottom of my heart. InkScape is my favourite graphics tool.

You’re right, cost of content creation comes on top of the running costs, too.

With Taler I wait for it to work the kinks out. And, of course, for it to be available somewhere reasonable.

But even running an indexer on a YT-like scale would need serious money, even if you spread the hosting and streaming load around. And for most users, this would not be attractive, as you probably would have to torrent the data first and view it later.

Then there is the issue with responsibility. If someone throws e.g. CSAM into the system, who could be held responsible? Who would have to deal with DMCA notices? Who would deal with issues like “Dictator X demands all videos showing him in a bad light to be removed immediately!”

And: Opening a payment system is a serious can of worms, especially if you need it to work internationally.

Honestly, I’m not against a YT alternative, but I don’t want it to die after three weeks because the person behind is was too optimistic to consider to potential problems.

Tell this to the LPC1114 I’m working with. Did you ever run a multilingual GUI from 2kbytes RAM on a 256x32 pixel display?

Why bother, just sign an EO. /s

The core problem is that hosting and streaming videos costs money, and that money must come from somewhere. Unless there is someone with really deep pockets just paying for everything, such a platform must use subscriptions or ads to make some money. Netflix & others use subscriptions, YouTube uses ads, and both even offer combo models.

How would a free variant of YouTube work on the long run? Setting up a small model on a server in your home office, maybe with donations to cover initial hardware costs is not the issue at first, but once you need a computer center and employees you’ll need some serious, regular money coming in.

Until their crappy isolated power grid will break again. Making people wonder where all the government money to fix and fortify the Texas power grid actually went…

Of course it will have negative consequences. This government is on the prowl to kill off as many normal people as possible.

I knew I have read it before somewhere.

Well, like every craft, skills develop over time. What was a blacksmith hundreds of years ago is now a CNC operator. Likewise, writing styles have evolved over time.

Yes, he has been a great storyteller, and his stories and characters stood the test of time, but his writing style did not.

Simply abandon the US and move the forum to civilization.

This guy never coded in KEIL C on an 8051 architecture. They actually use bit addressable RAM for booleans. And if you set the compiler to pass function parameters in registers, it uses the carry flag for the first bit or bool type parameter.

While the bulldozer driver conveniently forgot to inform the inhabitants?

Play shitty games, collect shitty prices.

That’s why you always buy oversized and mill it down to size and squareness.

The bigger problem is that this data broker business is actually still legal.

By all means, such businesses need to be made illegal, shut down, and the data wiped.

It is so bad, it is probably not even AI, just incompetent human.

They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.