“Micro chips” cost almost nothing in bulk. They are like a barcode sticker, but sub-surface. Even the scanners are affordable. Plugs right into USB and emulates a keyboard that sends key strokes for the chip ID. Full-size Parmigiano wheel can cost a pretty penny.

Global neolib/neofac coop is strong until they eat each other

Social Media is an entirely different game if you’re not doing it for manipulation purposes. At scale, government operated social media fails, due to lack of or excess moderation. Social media works because it triggers emotions. People go there to hate. Mastodon is methadone for these junkies.

I don’t even understand why anyone would trust any self-published metrics from this scam artist.

His stock manipulation game certainly has changed lately

How did they verify their bots are talking to humans? Have them solve captcha? You’re running a science experiment on fucking Reddit. GTFO

That’s because they don’t understand how goods work in IT. People lose their shit when Netflix increases prices $5

The web is done. You have to go outside now. “Family recipes” will come back

Social Media, just like all media, does not exist to “earn money with ads”, or even profile you. It is about being able to influence you through controlling the availability of content you don’t even realize. It doesn’t matter if you interact. All the other bullshit is intentionally published to distract, on media. Chat bots have a bias. They don’t exist to help you. They exist to control the responses.

Hmmm that refreshing smell of holocaust trivialization in the morning…

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The commercial offerings already do that by themselves. The customer pleasing bias ensures their pointlessness

To understand Musk/Trump investors, imagine the investment to be an NFT.

Even after 40, there’s no shortage of people calling you “young”. The actually young people don’t call you “old” the same way. Just be glad you’re alive.

They are as Christian as the Evangelical Right in the USA.

Huffman? The guy involved in lossless compression?

I believe writing the pure kernel is doable in time, but Linux has a ton of drivers, also implemented in C. I also believe it’s not unreasonable to assume that those are the source of most of the issues that Rust would solve. I’m nowhere close to actual kernel development myself though either.

Migrating such a huge, complex code base over however as much time to a different language seems completely unrealistic to me though. What you’re saying is right. It makes more sense to keep a pure C Linux kernel and work on a replacement in parallel. No matter how great a new language is, you can’t expect an entire community of seasoned contributors to adopt it. It’s unreasonable

That’s a good point, and I don’t really have enough insights to properly respond to that. I did think about Peertube, and I believe that a site like TikTok is different, because it relies on the ability to broadcast a large number of short videos, specifically with lots of skips.

Streaming one video for several minutes, and skipping between numerous videos every couple of seconds, is orders of magnitude more expensive. Video compression works on the idea that you store entire pictures rarely, and then just encode the difference between each frame. When you constantly need the start of videos, you constantly need the full picture of the first frame. This induces a much higher bandwidth requirement than with video that streams for several minutes continuously. Also consider the response time that is required to make the TikTok experience work. Then also consider that you need to attract enough content contributors to make this work. You can’t just upload some ancient archive of 45 minute videos. You need to drive the machine.

So, to produce a TikTok experience, you also need to design for an attractive ingress of free content.

This is just not replicable in a free environment.

Nobody pays for that much bandwidth without the ability to manipulate you through profiling and impressions. You are the product. The product is not sharing videos. There is no fediverse platform that makes you its whore. If you were to make a video sharing platform, it would never work, because that is not the product, it’s only a feature of what makes up the dopamine machine.

Lemmy will also never outgrow commercial platforms, because the commercial platforms also never were about content.

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So electric cars don’t have valves. Oh, you didn’t even think that far ahead with your boomer brain? Try to figure out why they put the warning in the manual. With all that leaded gasoline fogging up the brains, it’s fair to assume grandpa drank from a battery on a dare.