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mindlight,

For the uninitiated that value knowing possible interests and angle on information:

Al Mayadeen (Arabic: الميادين, transl. “The Plazas”) is a Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese pan-Arabist satellite news television channel based in the city of Beirut.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Mayadeen

mindlight,

What about “Location Accuracy”? Using WiFi and Bluetooth to higher accuracy on positioning?

mindlight,

Fortnite: the worker agreement (“kollektivavtal”) just defined the minimums. If an employer want to give the employees 30 weeks of vacation and 1000000SEK there’s nothing stopping the employer.

So when Elon refuses to sign an agreement about fair pay and treatment it’s all about have to option to not pay a fair wage…

mindlight,

Aaaaah … Doing it the American way… Fantastic! I need to pop some more popcorn.

I’m confident that Tesla will get their license plates eventually. Eventually.

mindlight,

Care to elaborate?

mindlight,

Furthermore it’s an investment. It’s lend-lease which has to be paid back by Ukraine. This essentially means that Ukraine will be USA’s little bitch for a loooong time.

mindlight, (edited )

I didn’t say all Americans wants to fuck up the world. I just stated the obvious: The US supporting Ukraine with weapons has nothing to do with charity. It’s a lend-lease. Eventually it has to be paid back. Before the debt is paid off Ukraine will do as USA wishes.

mindlight,

Lost value for your taxes? Essentially Ukraine borrowed Americans tax money to buy weapons made in American factories where American workers get a monthly salary which they spend in American stores often buying American made products.

Sounds like American tax payers are benefiting and will continue benefit quite much from the lend-lease to Ukraine

mindlight,

Care to elaborate?

The full title of the act is “An act to provide enhanced authority for the President to enter into agreements with the Government of Ukraine to lend or lease defense articles to that Government to protect civilian populations in Ukraine from Russian military invasion, and for other purposes.”

…wikipedia.org/…/Ukraine_Democracy_Defense_Lend-L…

mindlight,

TheGrayZone.com according to Wikipedia:

The website, initially founded as The Grayzone Project, was affiliated with AlterNet before becoming independent in early 2018. It is known for its critical coverage of the US and its foreign policy, misleading reporting, and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes The Grayzone has downplayed or denied the Chinese government’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs, published conspiracy theories about Venezuela, Xinjiang, Syria, and other regions, and published pro-Russian propaganda during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone

mindlight,

I really miss the times when mods actually were encouraged by the gamedevs. Yes there are games that still encourage modding but it’s still not as widespread as it was so a couple of years after Half-life was released.

Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading (www.wired.co.uk) German

Swedish workers are uniting against Tesla. From tomorrow, cleaners will stop cleaning Tesla showrooms, electricians won’t fix the company’s charging points, and dockworkers will refuse to unload Tesla cargo at all Swedish ports. What started as a strike by Tesla mechanics is spreading, in something Swedish unions describe as...

mindlight,

Just adding in: The Swedish modell is the reason there is no minimum wage in Sweden. It’s expected that the employer and employee organisations negotiate the terms.

An employer who tries to avoid such negotiations is in fact getting unfair competitive advantage.

This is not just about people getting a fair wage. It’s about not letting Tesla cheat.

mindlight,

StreamOS was a bitch to install on an ordinary PC then. I tried multiple times and just got a black screen or it didn’t boot at all.

It sucked.

mindlight,

Chemistry.

Vinegar is an acid. Acid dissolve things like limescale. Bicarbonate/baking powder is a base. Bases dissolve fats.

This is why bathroom cleaning products most often include really strong acids and kitchen cleaning products include strong bases.

Drains often suffer from buildups of a combination of soap and limescale. The most common method relies on a heavy base: lye (Sodium Hydroxide).

mindlight,

If you want a Couch Gaming Station I recommend you to look at ChimeraOS. Linux first that boots directly to Stream Big Picture (since it’s based on SteamOS) and it supports emulators and Epic Game Store.

On my old i5-8700T with qUHD630 it pretty much was a install, reboot, login to Steam and start playing. My Wireless Xbox Controller USB dongle was plug’n’play.

mindlight, (edited )

They won’t. They do however want to stay relevant and will float things like this just to create talk about Microsoft and Windows.

You know what’s really interesting to talk about? How fast it was for me to setup Chimeraos on a PC with an Intel GPU and hook it up to my tv and Xbox wireless controller USB dongle… First boot and I login to Steam and BAM! Grab that controller. Time for couch gaming

Windows is nowhere near that good or easy as a game station for coach gaming.

mindlight,

Swede here. As a certified specialist in Swedish fish storage I recommend the following:

Divide the 3.5 pounds into smaller portions and store in separate containers (fx Ziploc bags).

That way they won’t go stale as fast since the unopened bags will retain the moisture.

mindlight,

Swede here. Last time this happened was last year when the dock workers blocked the unloading off Russian ships. This proved to be illegal according Swedish labour law (reading strikes and blockades).

This is a slightly different situation since they are in fact having a “sympathy strike” which essentially is them supporting another union’s fight. The right is for the employer to sign an collective agreement. Since the are no minimum wage and other minimums in Swedish labour law such an agreement is a cornerstone for employers and employees in Sweden.

mindlight,

Does any of those support YouTube shorts?

mindlight,

It’s the UI that makes it my heroin.

mindlight,

People doesn’t really seem to understand how costly and difficult it is to offer a service with 99.99% availability.

mindlight, (edited )

There is no guarantee that your video that took you days to make even gets 10 viewers. Even though, you don’t pay anything for YouTube to make it available in different resolutions and to start playing within a second after the viewer pressed play. Also all of that at an service availability of 99.99%.

While there are creators that does quality content there way more junk creators publishing their work on YouTube.

If your argument was valid there would be competitors to YouTube that quality material creators would move to when they got demonitized by bullshit reasons.

mindlight,

Everything counts in large amounts as Depth Mode once sang. Especially in the corporate world, everything is measured in “financial risk” and PR management costs. If Google can make $10 million in doing some shady shit they will sure as hell do it if the fines will be less than $100 thousand.

So, I have an idea… Whena large corporation is caught with their pants down… Let’s say a global fashion brand that got caught using child labor and the CEO cashed $20 million in bonuses…

Then the question for the CEO should not be “Are you sorry?” but “How sorry are you? Are you $500 thousand sorry? $1 million sorry? $10 million sorry? $50 million sorry?”

That’s how you create an interest in the leadership of corporations of actually taking responsibility of their actions.

HBO apologizing means nothing. They can and will probably similar shit in the future because no one actually loses anything they hold dear.

mindlight,

Just shoot me 😂

mindlight,

“Of course. What is the server’s root password?”

mindlight,

Domestic abuse. That’s why.

mindlight,

Congratulations to you and the other 0.000000001% of Android users then.

mindlight,

Does Bcachefs come with any guarantees regarding my wife’s wellbeing?

If not, I’m definitively sticking with my OpenZFS.

mindlight,

Also… No other POTUS has fucked up so many diplomatic relations as Trump did.

When George W Bush did it you at least knew it was part of a planned strategy…

Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ (www.theverge.com)

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”...

mindlight,

At this point I’m surprised that “X” has employees.

mindlight,

I agree but I’m also happy that Putin doesn’t get a win by presenting this as “Russia is great and all because of me”.

mindlight,

This! I don’t even have to pick up my phone… I just check the code on my smartwatch. Awesome!

mindlight,

While there are a billion things Google does that annoys me I’m not able to figure out how to create and maintain a video streaming platform without ads or paywall that finances both creation and the providing material.

I mean, who are the competitors and how do they finance it if not in a similar way?

mindlight,

If one video stream to one user uses 128 kilobyte per second out of your 100 megabit internet connection 781 users can watch that stream at the same time. However, the ISP will charge you per transferred gigabyte each month. So let’s say that you serve 781 users that video 24/7 in a full month of 31 days … It will be 100 megabit divided by 8 to get 12.5 megabyte. So it’s 12.5 megabyte per second. That’s 750 megabyte per minute. That’s 45 gigabyte per hour. That’s 1 terabyte or day. So around 31 terabyte traffic per month. (If you use this much bandwidth you will get a discount but it’s still not going to be

Now, that’s just for 781 simultaneously users.

What is we need to serve 781000 simultaneous users?

Now, this far we’ve only been talking about one video on repeat 14/7. What about 100000 videos and enough programmers and computers to design as system that lets each and every user choose any video whenever they need to? Now you suddenly have thousands of servers and harddisks running in a couple of hundred places on earth 24/7.

Now this is for you to provide your users 100000 different videos even before you start to pay content creators for their hard work.

Also, you need to be available 24/7 so now you have to make backups, redundant servers on different location that can take over in case of an accident, dedicated internet connection (being alone on the internet cable is not the same as sharing it with 100 other sites) and a whole lot of other things you need to take care of.

What about offering the 500 million videos YouTube offers their users?

… and all of this cost is paid out of your pocket?

mindlight,

You might criticize the content all you want but it’s another discussion for another time. The question is still it still how to finance a site like YouTube, with the content and amount of viewers it has, without ads or fees.

Your solution with content owners/creators paying for the housing of their creation is Vimeo.

Not even close to YouTube

mindlight,

By your reasoning, every single platform should be in the same shitty state of yt

What comparable platforms are you talking about that is not running ads or have some sort of pay-to-watch?

If we talk about Twitch and their revenue I can promise you that they would not be very profitable without female streamers dressed sexy that doesn’t always play video games.

We now live in a world where users got used to never have to pay for content or experience. Even though Google makes insane money in different areas the cost for running and developing YouTube is huge. I’m not a fan of ads (I don’t see ads when at home because of how I have set up my network) and the subscription plans always seems too pricey for the value I get when using different streaming services

But all of this doesn’t change the fact that even though I don’t like ads or paying for content I still haven’t come up with a better solution myself.

mindlight,

It’s ok that you have that opinion.

mindlight,

…if not in a similar way

Twitch - not different from YouTube since they display ads and they have a premium service. On top of that I can add that without female streamers dressing sexy and not always playing video games Twitch would not have as high revenue.

Tiktok. - still shows ads so they are not financing things in a different way.

Vimeo - yes, they finance their services in a different way. But it still doesn’t answer how their content creators make money since Vimeo charge the content creators and doesn’t allow ads. But seriously, Vimeo isn’t a competitor to YouTube. I have a hard time imagining how they would grow to even a third of the size of YouTube.

mindlight,

But do we really want to pay the price for others getting it better?

youtu.be/XLGzFQg_1xc

I’m not saying that’s how I want it to be but unfortunately his point in the end it’s depressingly accurate…

mindlight,

You she?

mindlight,

I’m pretty sure a lot of people said something like “Hmm,maybe the automobile won’t replace horses.” after reading about the first car accidents.

mindlight,

No.

mindlight,

They are not allowed to represent their birthplace because the birthplace actively financing and supporting systematic doping. That is not the same as they are being banned.

I have no understanding for why you want to represent that.

mindlight,

Countries and contestants have all agreed that doping is not allowed. If you promise something and have no intention to keep the promise you are in fact a liar.

There has been, and probably still is, a government funded doping program in Russia. So not only have their contestants been proved to be cheaters, Russia has been caught sponsoring it all too.

So while you like to derail this discussion towards on whether doping should be allowed or not it still doesn’t change the fact that Russia actively promoted cheating.

mindlight,

The reason I started to use DaVince iResolve is because it’s free (I’m not a professional) and Adobe Premiere is f****ing expensive.

It’s sad that there isn’t anything OSS that comes close.

mindlight,

If they live in Spain and pay Spanish taxes, how is that tax fraud?

mindlight,

Are you sure they don’t?

mindlight,

As far as I know people move to Spain when they retire because the cost of living is much lower there. So they get their pension from the country they are from and the pay Spanish taxes since the line in Spain.

So they avoid the tax in their home country which often is higher.

It’s ok if you want to think that there is an enormous tax fraud going on, it doesn’t matter.

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