DarkenLM @ DarkenLM @kbin.social

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The GPU market being wrecked by motherfuckers that wanted to build crypto farms, the cryptocurrency scams, the NFTs, etc.

And the greatest problem of all with crypto is that it is a solution for a non-existing problem. The web worked fine without it and it proved to be way more stable than crypto ever could.

I believe it, but crypto's reputation is forever stained by the shitshow that happened, and it won't change in the near future.

Anything that get even near crypto might make a lot of content creators think twice before moving. I know I would.

And equally, Google is yet to use the big guns they have. Don't get me wrong, I hate Google with a passion, but they have way too much power over the internet for us to leave even a dent on their plans.

Unfortunately, Firefox is not safe from this. If Google decides to use all it's influence to try to force it's DRM into a web standard and succeeds, we are all utterly fucked.

It got killed once and like a Phoenix, it rose again amidst it's own ashes. Hell yeah, it will survive.

Cleric: Summons food from thin air with Create Food And Water.

Funnily enough, the only time I used that spell, it was to use the food for ammunition and to turn the water into napalm.

Realistically? Virtually impossible. Youtube handles petabytes of data daily, and just the storage capacity would burn the money of everyone but the big corporations. There simply isn't a way to compete with a corporation that can afford to throw millions at a machine that doesn't make profit enough to cover those massive costs.

Oh, look! A GIF!

Ask it to spell Nietzsche.

I don't think even a decentralized service could hold a mass equal to youtube. That would require that either the owners of all instances pay from their own pockets with mostly no income to support it, or that every user paid up, which is not going to happen, at least not in a service like youtube.

Did youtube at the time serve millions of users daily and stored a gargantuan amount of petabytes worth of videos?

Even if a competitor rises, they will need money somehow, and in this hell of a capitalist world, only big corporations have it.

Last time I head that things didn't end so well.

Forget your mother picking you up, we need to call an exorcist.

The problem with any youtube competitor is that there is no way in hell they can cover the costs of the infrastructure required to host the same amount of videos youtube has and streaming them to the millions of users youtube serves daily.

Aqua Regia enters the chat

You're around 4000 years too late.

Never underestimate the strength of a grandma.

Experience tells me otherwise, but given that the people I've met that use linux distros is nowhere near enough of a good sample size, I hope I'm wrong.

The human species sure is an interesting thing...

Ah, yes. The leftpad incident.

Guess this XKCD still holds strong, just like that package.