Better than the burning garbage inferno that is xitter.

I can’t believe I’m represented by Ted fled Cruz. I’m voting Collin for sure.

That’s not answering my question. Crap or not, it is an important consideration.

I agree that YouTube is Google monopoly, but I I’ve been wondering… They handle massive amounts of data. Would any other non-trillion dollar company be even capable of storing, processing, and presenting videos on the same scale, with the same quality, and with what is arguably very good latency world wide?

What could competitors do to beat Google without hemorrhaging their money just trying the manage the overhead?

My kind of class

Altruism as the antidote to cynicism.

😳😏

Fuck… Greg is so cool. We should all strive to be like him.

There was some quote by a Greek philosopher who said that intelligence and knowledge are not safeguards to immorality.

Well said, and well put. Sometimes it feels a little lonely on Lemmy and the fediverse, but I feel good contributing to a decentralized web.

I can hear his voice saying that with his trademark giggle at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T2Ctio-yV8 :)

Also there is a discord

https://discord.gg/aisponge

I want this as a sticker for my laptop.

I’m gonna shill for FreshRSS and Feed Me. Been a fantastic combination so far.

Self hosting FreshRSS allows me to curate shit I care about. Even better, it’s private aggregation. Sometimes though, I miss the conversation around these topics. For that, Lemmy exists.

So I was listening to a Bloomberg Tech Podcast about this. Someone from some random media group actually said “consumer demand for ad supported content over netflix’s usual high production value dramas is up”

For some reason, that statement was both incredibly threatening and incredibly ominous

Let them eat cake.

I would laugh if only this wasn’t a terrifying plausibility. Imagine you have pneumonia and need a chest x-ray to confirm that was denied because you were out of network. Imagine there is no recourse because all customer service has been outsourcedto a very friendly chat bot who will kindly tell you ‘DENIED’ after arguing with it for 30 minutes.

That last thought is Maslow’s hierarchy in action.

So this phenomenon has a name! The Yerkes-Dodson Law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes–Dodson_law

“The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. When levels of arousal become too high, performance decreases.”

I am new to daily driving Linux and the DE environment I chose was KDE. Has been absolutely fantastic so far.

Excited to see what’s new, especially since I just joined.