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 No.12551[Reply]

Many claim that it's not possible to make economically viable video platforms, and that You-tube can only exist because google subsidizes it. If your platform is designed around the concept of renting servers that host and serve all the video-files that people download, that could be true.

However there might be another way

If you make the video platform a peer to peer protocol where the servers just have to host reference video-files, which then percolate through a peer to peer distribution model, video platforms should become economically viable. The bandwidth-cost of transmitting a video once will lead to many views not just one. Another cost factor is video-transcoding. That too could be offloaded to peers. If a uploaded video gets watched on average a few hundred times, peers only have to contribute a fraction of a percent of the necessary compute resources per video. Even for battery-powered devices this will be a negligible drain.

The "Muh-businesmodel"
Sell video-makers a modified NAS pre-setup to host the video reference files.
Sell users a low-power compute-device they plug into their internet connection which helps with peer-availability and grants them network-priority for the best viewing experience.

additional "Mc-revenue streams"
Many online videos shill products, add a online market-place where people can directly buy their crap and you can take a small cut. Same scheme with sponsored content.
Also add a crowd fund mechanism where people can crowdfund episodes for open creative commons entertainment franchises. And be strategical about it, you need to have one popular pioneer project that draws a crowd, to get this started.
If you're not too greedy and only take a 0.5 to 3% cut, your stuff will take off.

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 No.12632

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>>12631
>copulate with a female dog
bestiality ?
Ew
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 No.12635

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>>12632
bestiality is based
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 No.12694

>>12551
my parents in south america essentially use whatsapp as their main social media. boomers send each other videos on group chats all the time. i think it's unironically a p2p video platform, with whatsapp servers helping host for a little while and then the files are on their own.

for your scheme though, i would add virtual servers or SaaS where creators can upload their videos to the network without having to own the hardware. yeah, "you will own nothing and be happy," but most creatives are really happy to let the experts manage the technical part of their business

however, though we all would consider a lack of censorship as an advantage, you risk having the platform filled with bestiality and child porn and such illegal and disgusting content. moderation is the real test of fire with social media. all the apps people used today are built on the backs of traumatized moderators who have to go through mountains of gore everyday to make the internet usable
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 No.12695

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Film is vastly overkill for most things people make videos about these days. Something like how flash games operated (ship static vector assets with transformation instructions and audio) would be a better fit approach.

If videographers start making powerpoints with a Vtuber rig and mocap data overlayed on top made in godot exported as an html5 "game," youtube is gonna lose half it's traffic.
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 No.12696

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>>12694
>whatsapp
>it's unironically a p2p video platform
interesting, i did not know that.

>for your scheme though, i would add virtual servers or SaaS where creators can upload their videos to the network without having to own the hardware. yeah, "you will own nothing and be happy," but most creatives are really happy to let the experts manage the technical part of their business
That would replicate the bottle-neck that makes current video-platfroms so uneconomical. Storage absolutely has to migrate to the edges of the network to fix that. I don't think it's too much to ask for a content creator to set up what is basically a fancy NAS. Many already do that to backup their video source files. Besides there's another "revenue streamerino" : tech support. I specifically want dispersed ownership of hardware, not merely for ideological reasons of prioritizing personal property. All those data-centers look really fragile and precarious. Destroying a data-center with military weapons costs a 1000x times less than building one. I get it there are advantages to a consolidated cloud, but the current political leadership is insufficiently peace-minded for that.

>however, though we all would consider a lack of censorship as an advantage, you risk having the platform filled with bestiality and child porn and such illegal and disgusting content.
Oh bother, yeah i didn't really think about the toxic data sewage. I was primarily thinking about network efficiency, resiliency and muh-business-model that doesn't rely on adds.

>moderation is the real test of fire with social media. all the apps people used today are built on the backs of traumatized moderators who have to go through mountains of gore everyday to make the internet usable
There has to be a better way because the amount of content that can be created is increasing while the amount of humans moderating does not, so this scheme is living on borrowed time anyway.

We can probably also forget about using AI-moderation. There already are ways to tweak images to trick AIs to see something else than a human would. This AI-vision-interference stuff was invented because Artists wanted to prevent their images from bPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.12615[Reply]

Rossmann videoed about 2 interesting programs.

grayjay
The first is one that lets you subscribe to people regardless on what platform they publish
https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=5DePDzfyWkw
https://grayjay.app/index.html
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

Harbor
The second is similar in that it's some kind of platform independent online identity system
https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=nMSO1TiTW4E

This seems to be about people not loosing track of each other online when their accounts get deleted.
It seems really nice, tho i don't know what implication this will have. Will this really empower people ?
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 No.12617

>>12615
so you are telling me you waste your time listening to that guy? how many macbooks have you repaired? none? what the fuck is this shitware brother, why would you subscribe to anything in the first place?
don't reply, I don't actually care, you are one dumb motherfucker
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 No.12618

>>12617
>you waste your time listening to that guy?
i'm wasting my time incorrectly?
>how many macbooks have you repaired?
one, replaced a borked wifi adapter
>what the fuck is this
I don't really know, that's why i'm asking, i have a text file with bookmarks, where i add descriptive tags, i search through that with a fuzzy-finder.
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 No.12619

Uh, who?
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 No.12620

>>12619
>Uh, who?
Rossmann is the right to repair guy
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 No.12683

So apparently YouTube axed those videos

Here's an alternate source
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/the-best-way-to-watch-online-video-my:c
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/the-best-way-to-watch-online-video-part:1

I still don't understand why they would care about this ?
It's a program that collects all the places where somebody uploads stuff. It's like a sophisticated organizer for bookmarks.

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 No.7789[Reply]

Just installed arch

What do I do now?
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 No.7791

install gentoo
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 No.7792

>>7791
Based
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 No.7798

enjoy how ridiculously convenient pacman is
just install a bunch of shit you don't even need because why not
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 No.12673

Arch is a gateway drug to NixOS.

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 No.5907[Reply]

Apple is sec-
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 No.12672

Thought it was gonna play Bad Apple for a second there.

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 No.12670[Reply]

I just Graphene OS with all closed sourced Google Play Store Apps running in a sandbox.
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 No.12671

>>12670
>Graphene OS
Seems to be pretty good.

The Zionism slander and intimidation truck, is breaking too many laws, even the Zionist lobby will not be able to prevent these people from getting sued into oblivion. Remember they did that to Harvard students.

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 No.11178[Reply]

Ok, lads, I need to vent.

Why the FUCK is every fucking shithole on the www is trying to make my life as much miserable as possible?

Try to view aurora store homepage from tor - Forbidden. Try to do it from a vpn - stuck at the loading screen. Try to view some reddit thread - everything is falling apart at the seams. Oh, just FUCK OFF!

Every fucking shithole is making gorillion connections to some fucking cdn network, every fucking shithole is so heavy with js that I can almost hear it shitting its pants when trying to load a two paragraph page.

every fucking shithole is using cloudflare that forces me to solve retarded google captcha 10 times that doesn't even make sense I clicked on the fucking boat GODDAMIT! GIVE ME A BREAK!!
and it's getting even worse, now sometimes it doesn't even give me any captcha and just blocks my ass, nhentai I'm looking at you bitch

with every year internet becomes more and more unusable, I might as well install windows that connects to M$ servers over 5000 times a day and then resells this data to gorillion third parties and be fucking done with it
every fucking shithole wants your email, phone number, or whatever the fuck anyway
I'm DONE
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 No.12658

>>12588
>Many crypto trading sites use it.
I think "stop using central services for shit" covers that, but
>and some legacy banks too.
is a valid point, any way you cut it you gotta interact with a bank, online or in person, and online is preferrable for many reasons. In such cases you can't go full Cloudflare free, but at the very least prioritize non-cloudflare sites where possible, and work toward ceasation of search engine usage, since having to tell search engines you are looking for something (no matter how much you may trust it at present moment) leads to a similar situation.
The more non-cloudflare sites you take well annotated notes on, the easier it'll be to find most information you could want without ever connecting to cloudflare or a search engine. And linking to stuff will make that easier for everyone.
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 No.12664

>>12658
>work toward ceasation of search engine usage

How do you do that ?
Are you running your own web-crawler/indexer ?
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 No.12665

In a sense I *am* the web crawler, or "surfer" as the ancient ones called it. I keep text documents that have the urls sites that lead to other sites. Wikis, blogs, documentation, etc. with notes. If I know something is on a site, I go to that site specifically. If I do have to use a search engine, I add it to a publically accessable log on my wibsite so I never search anything I'm not okay with adding to that log for visitors to see, imagining that such a log is available to the search engine admin motivates me to not use them.
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 No.12667

>>12665
>I keep text documents that have the urls sites that lead to other sites. Wikis, blogs, documentation, etc. with notes. If I know something is on a site, I go to that site specifically.
This sounds like solid advice, basically like a more useful form of surf-history.

>If I do have to use a search engine, I add it to a publically accessable log on my wibsite so I never search anything I'm not okay with adding to that log for visitors to see, imagining that such a log is available to the search engine admin motivates me to not use them.
This however only amounts to practical advice.

You're dealing with surveillance via a kind of self-censorship. Maybe it's possible to salt your search queries by mixing your genuine queries with additional random ones, to dilute the profiling.
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 No.12669

>>12667
>You're dealing with surveillance via a kind of self-censorship.
Kinda, it fells like walking along a low traffic street to avoid someone looking for you on main street, it may be a shorter and more scenic route. I've been having more fun this way.
>Maybe it's possible to salt your search queries by mixing your genuine queries with additional random ones, to dilute the profiling.
Good idea, maybe I could pull a few random wikipedia pages, add the subjects to a list, shuf -n 1, then look up the subject that comes up. (that way It's not immediately after rolling it from wiktpedia)

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 No.12595[Reply]

Suppose a special commission is tasked with drawing a random sample of a particular size from the list of names. Suppose that the commission uses existing PRNG software to do this. How could the general public independently verify that the drawn sample is TRULY random? If commission publishes random seed used and the list of names, and if PRNG software could be run on personal computers, then the sample could be independently reproduced.

My question: assuming that the commission could run PRNG procedure on an infinite number of random seeds, what is the chance of it arriving on a premeditated outcome? Obviously such outcome would be not random at all.
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 No.12607

>>12606
well, the list of names could be compiled in the strict alphabetical order to prevent manipulation on this end

but the seed looks like the chicken and egg problem - ideally you would want a random seed, but to get a random seed itself you ideally would want another random seed..
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 No.12608

I guess we need to assume that the seed is a-priory DETERMINED.

So the source of randomness should come from the list of names.
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 No.12609

>>12607
>but the seed looks like the chicken and egg problem - ideally you would want a random seed, but to get a random seed itself you ideally would want another random seed..
ie the genuine source of entropy could be only in some physical process

but who controls access to this process - controls derived randomness
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 No.12613

>>12607
>the seed looks like the chicken and egg problem
not really, in (1) and (2) the seed is predictable
with (3) you start with a random seed (the list of names). remember, any piece of data can be a seed, and in a weird way, the list of names is a physical source of entropy

still, the smaller the list of names, the easier it is to manipulate the result. and the bigger the list is, the easier it becomes to add fake names without people noticing. take this python example

import random
def seed(names):
str = ", ".join(names)
random.seed(str)
def choice(names):
seed(names)
return random.choice(names)
def fake(names, fake_name):
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 No.12614

>>12613
a combination of (1) and (3) may work better:
instead of using the current list of names as the seed, you could use a previous list

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 No.12467[Reply]

i hang around the end page of boards here to do some archiving. My problem is that i have this insanity-adhd (idk what it is) thing that makes it so that it's impossible to archive thing since everytime i open my own file i always worry (and believe) that i deleted something from said file or edit said file or mess it. is there any software that could help ? a software or something that could prevent me from deleting or messing or editing the file ?

(crossposting from org)
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 No.12489

OP you need to start using linux my friend if you aren't already.
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 No.12499

>>12489
This, install gentoo MX Linux, or AntiX (if you love a shitty UI).

>>12469
>sudo chattr +i filename
Alternatively, regularly sudo move and chown your files to a different user account.
You can automate this with a suid root script to avoid fucking up with typos.

Also consider reducing the consumption of whatever drug you're overdoing and meet some people IRL before schizophrenia gets you into serious trouble.
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 No.12610

im learning to use linux
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 No.12611

when can i use Arc ?
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 No.12612

>>12611
>when can i use Arc ?
If you are talking intel arc graphics, that should work out of the box without a fuss on any linux with a kernel 6.2 or newer
To find out your kernel version, open a terminal and enter the command:
uname -r


For example on Ubuntu that would be the two latest releases
23.10 Mantic Minotaur 6.5
23.04 Lunar Lobster 6.2

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 No.10956[Reply]

Anyone else here dabble in cryptocurrency?
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 No.11157

>>11155
>Only nazis are interested in crypto. Stay poor comrades.
how's that "to the moon" going for you buddy lol?

the only use value of this fancy toy is to pay for vpn and vps
I can't even reliably circumvent capitalist banks with this shit because they ban your ass as soon as they see a "suspicious" activity

I have money essentially stuck in the computer, anything more than paying bills and your bank will ban your ass for suspicious transactions from randoms

the only way is to bend the knee and go to backdoored regulated exchanges
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 No.11159

>>11157
If technology is being suppressed by the establishment then it is a threat to the establishment.
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 No.11162

>>11155
>Only Nazis are interested in crypto.



What did he mean by this,.?
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 No.12513

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>>11157
>I have money essentially stuck in the computer, anything more than paying bills and your bank will ban your ass for suspicious transactions from randoms
Argument to the cudgel? You serious?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_baculum?&useskin=vector
Enjoy your nanolipids

Agorahooawayyfoe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism?&useskin=vector
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 No.12589

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>>11104
fuck u cunt

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 No.12527[Reply]

I'm going to work on building an archive of all your shitposts.
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 No.12531

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Attachments can have another special column: a bigint representing a 64-bit unsigned integer, that we compute using a perceptual image hash algorithm (there's libraries to do this). We can add a special index on this column, using the bktree postgresql extension, that will let us compare the distance between these numbers efficiently, bit by bit (called the hamming distance).

CREATE INDEX attachments_phash_bktree_index ON attachments USING spgist (phash bktree_ops);


This column will let us do reverse-image search on similar images.


Attached is the full sql file, where I have added some users and granted them permissions
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 No.12532

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Next I'm going to get postgREST serving locally on port 3000. Postgrest will automatically create a REST API for our database. (https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest)

Then I can build a script that will read in the board's json api files and populate the database. I prefer to just hit this REST api than write database queries out as strings in some way, I've tried different ways of doing it, using and ORM or a domain specific language and using postgrest was the most pain-free.

I will also throw this repo up online here: http://git.leftychan.net/0/chan-delorean
(or here http://git.wz6bnwwtwckltvkvji6vvgmjrfspr3lstz66rusvtczhsgvwdcixgbyd.onion/0/chan-delorean for onionfans)

I've also written a postgrest service for nixos if you want it: https://github.com/towards-a-new-leftypol/devops/blob/spamnoticer_deploy/nix-support-production/postgrest.nix
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 No.12585

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I wrote some more glue code to shove all of the posts from the board into the database, by simply reading the json api files, transforming the data structure slightly and passing json to PostgREST.

To not take too long I shove all of the posts on one board into the database at once: the sql code takes an array of all the posts, does a SELECT to get the ones that exist already, inserts the ones that don't yet exist, and returns all of the internal post ids. This is quite boring, you can go read the source if you care, but it takes about 2 minutes to save leftychan.

I have monthly snapshots dating back to around the bunkerchan split, so I ran those through the script as well. Perhaps not every post ever posted is there, but I have around half a million posts. Now we can get to the fun part of attempting to query the database for what the board looked like at an arbitrary point in time.
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 No.12586

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>>12585
that is impressive work
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 No.12587

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>>12586
👍 Thanks anon! There's more:

I want to see the board as it was a year ago. I need to get all of the threads that were on the board, at t = (now - 1 year).

Threads are ordered by bump time. We need to get the first, say, 400 threads if you order all the threads by bump time.

In lainchan each thread has a bump column (threads and posts share the same table called posts_a or whatever), which makes it simple to get the current top threads, but it doesn't help us calculate what the bump times were one year ago.

So first I recognize that a thread's bump time is just the time the most recent post was posted to that thread.

Maybe I can use SQL's aggregate function to get the MAX post creation time, if we group the posts by their thread_id. Then, since I have indices on the creation_time and thread_id columns, (and another index on both), if I limit the number of threads that I want then hopefully this won't be slow:

SELECT
threads.thread_id,
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