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fonix232

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  • The Evolution of Streaming

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  • You know wrong.

    Even in the early days (97-01), they've used venture funding (approx $80mil) for the DVD mailing business.

    And the reason they didn't really go the VC funding way later is because they had an IPO in 2002, which meant instead of relying on VC funds, they took on massive amounts of debt to allow the takeoff of streaming.

  • The Evolution of Streaming

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  • Nah, it worked pretty well. Streaming was just more convenient, and came too soon after VOD became widely available.

  • The Evolution of Streaming

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  • VOD was a thing before streaming tho

  • The Evolution of Streaming

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  • No, that's the evolution of venture capitalism.

    Step 1: groundbreaking service comes in that fills a market hole

    Step 2: people flock to service

    Step 3: service gets VC funding to continue operations, subsidising the users

    Step 4: service gets "copied", competitors crop up, use VC funding to eke out their own marketshare while making things worse for everyone but themselves

    Step 5: expansion plateaus as interest in service generalises (basically, everyone who could be interested, is already using it)

    Step 6: VC funding depletes, company has to start making a profit - leading to price hikes, which is followed by other players in the market as that's how capitalism works

    Step 7: price hikes not being enough, service tries to capitalise on their userbase (think restricting features to a higher paid tier, introducing new tiers that strip away features, introducing ads, etc.)

    Step 8: market is saturated with plateaud services, user movement is minimal, and everybody hates it because it's expensive, and reintroduced the same problem the initial innovative service meant to fix.

  • Have you ever used a water treatment system in your home?

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  • A good reverse osmosis filter system is cheap (maybe $400-500 with installation and extra filters for a fancy system), and can improve even the best municipal water sources.

  • Bill to lower voting age to 16 introduced in Parliament

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  • I'd feel the exact same way I feel right now given that's the current British legal situation. Age of consent is 16, alcohol purchase is 18+.

  • It's so frustrating.

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  • Yep, that position is either kept open for a specific candidate (probably already working at the company), or it's only there for legal requirements...

  • EATX NAS/server case suggestions

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  • If you want a NAS specific case, check on AliExpress - a bunch of $200-300 options with SATA backplanes, EATX support, and your typical 8-16 front-loaded disk bay with disk caddies.

  • Bro is just a walking OF meme

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  • Thrussy? Put in.

  • New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash

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  • $10 says it's a "repurposed" sex hot and it would've taken a whopping week for a more techy student to hack it and say profanities or something similar...

  • NSFW

    If I had to see it, so do you

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  • Bro she got that dawg in her

  • Future Problems [Ryan Rds.]

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  • Tomatoes are fruit tho. Peppers too, and thus so is paprika, technically.

  • Citizenship revoked? Trump administration ramps up controversial plan.

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  • Worry not, even though possession of CSAM should be a permanent bar; I'm sure Trump's lawyers are already writing up something to get the Tate bros citizenship!

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    Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance

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  • I'd say half.

    The other half is truly so clueless that they think "both sides are the same and we need to find the middle ground". Which in itself is a major bastardisation of the doctrine of compromise (which says that in a sane system, often the best solution is a compromise between differing parties).

    However that doctrine cannot apply to debates about human rights, as one cannot compromise on those.

  • Locked

    Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance

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  • Centrists ARE usually clueless enough to blend things together as such...

  • Auth apps

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  • "The best" depends on what you really need.

    Authentik and Authelia are two of the top most quoted solutions, but they aim to be an "everything in one" package, with tons of features a simple homelab will rarely need. They're aimed more at enterprise-like setups.

    On the other end of the spectrum you have e.g. Pocket-ID, which only does OIDC by itself (you can hook up an LDAP server as user database though); but that tradeoff means it uses little to no CPU time, and, in my experience, around 130MB RAM. Given RAM is getting more expensive than gold, one needs to consider memory footprint, especially for older homelab setups. We can't all be running 256GB nodes after all.

    So instead of hunting the mythical "best" solution, decide what features you really need, grab a list of providers that cover those features, and compare them to see what fits your needs best.

  • Politicians Are Trying to Change What Chatbots Say About Them

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  • Funny thing is that we have multiple examples of these AI fine-tunes backfiring spectacularly.

    For example all the Grok fails on Xitter, and Elon promising to fix those results constantly, without any of those sticking.

    I think the bigger problem is that there's a segment of the population that's gotten so dependent on "AI" (LLM chatbots), they literally can't learn without it. Even the most mundane things they could've easily looked up via a search engine, end up as a question to ChatGPT. And no matter how many times you show them that the chatbot gave insanely wrong results, they're still going to use it.

  • Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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  • It's incredibly vague still, that's the problem.

    Like, I see, if I wanted to roll my own shitcoin, I can't publish the source code of it on Codeberg.

    But, say, a Blockchain lookup app - technically it's a cryptocurrency related project, but at the end of the day it's just an app that connects to a public API and lists data from it. Is it also banned?

    Or, I make an open source smart clock, from an LED matrix and an ESP32. This smart clock can link to YouTube/Twitch/etc. for viewer count, to GitHub for project stars/forks, to currency exchanges, and one includes a crypto exchange rate tracker for displaying current mainstream coin valuations (say, the top 5 most used coins). Is this project, since it's crypto related, banned?

    Or let's say I come up with something blockchain adjacent, that could be utilised for cryptocurrency use... and what if I just publish a new cryptographic approach that then gets used by a new cryptocoin that suddenly becomes famous?

    Or if my project uses a cryptographic system that comes from a dependency that was broken out of a cryptocurrency project?

    Where do we draw the line of "related"? What level of relationship is allowed with the world of cryptocurrency? What degree of separation is deemed appropriate?

  • Sales Growth

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