That said, it’s very close to other, higher-ticket items. For example:

• cloud service support for older cars
• digital purchases on platforms that go bankrupt (e.g. Redbox)

A mechanism for transitioning a service to user/community support when a company is no longer commercially interested is a common issue across sectors.

That’s… incredibly dumb.

They kind of tried with UWP apps in the Microsoft Store, but they didn’t catch on.

I hope it ends up similar to OpenSUSE’s OBS, or even better, that they can reuse a lot of the work OBS has done. I use it and think it’s fantastic.

That’s fair, not sure why they’d go through that much effort when DOM attributes exist.

But it really doesn’t, unless you’re sending megabytes of text or something. Industry standard password algorithms run the hash a lot of times, and your entry will only impact the first iteration.

I usually set mine to 256 characters to prevent DOS attacks, and also so I don’t need to update it ever. Most of my passwords are actually around 20-30 characters in length (I pick a random length in the slider on my password manager), because I don’t want to be there all day if I ever need to manually enter it (looking at you stupid smart TV…).

Or just delete the “readonly” bit. I did that on Treasury Direct for years until they finally removed that nonsense.

Huh, I’ll have to check it out then. This will be especially useful for Louis Rossmann videos because he rambles and repeats himself a lot.

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Really? That’s so odd, I thought as long as you’re not running an exit node, you should be fine. TIL, I’ll have to check my ISP’s policies before setting one up then.

Yeah, 100M is a no-go for me since my ISP provides much more than 100M, and streaming full-res videos would bottleneck that pretty quick.

1G is probably fine for us, but we’ll probably go 2.5G minimum the next time I need to swap out switches, maybe 10G.

Do be aware that Backblaze drive access patterns will probably be quite different from yours. So if there’s a really good deal on something with a bit higher failure rate, but your usage pattern is pretty tame, it may be worth taking the gamble.

But at least you mean well.

I don’t think you even need to try very hard…

One that I wasn’t sure about asked about a NAS. It seemed the question was about dedicated NAS devices, and I built my own NAS (desktop PC + drives + btrfs + samba, etc).

I answered “no,” but I think it would be interesting to capture that distinction in the next one. I.e. Do you use a NAS product?

• Yes (commercial)
• Yes (DIY)
• No

And then a follow-up about what that NAS offers (i.e. just NAS stuff, or can it host apps?).

Yeah, you technically don’t own your voice/likeness, but it’s quite difficult to use someone’s voice/likeness without violating some other law. If you call out that you’re using it and that your use is not endorsed by the person it came from, you should be fine.

Sure, but you can use someone’s likeness to fraudulently tie them to some product you’re pushing. The burden here is if the average person familiar with the voice would mistake it for support, and if the creator likely intended for that to happen, and I think that standard has been met here given the response by the CEO and the allegations by Jeff Geerling’s audience.

If you just happen to look or sound like a celebrity/politician, that’s a different story because fraud requires intent. Now, if you used your likeness to imply support by that celebrity/politician for some cause or product, and you don’t disclose that you’re not them, then we’re back in fraud territory.

In this case, there seems to be clear evidence that there was intent to mislead viewers to improve views. That’s fraud.

Cool, can manufacturers put a badge on these TVs so I know which ones to avoid?

A Man Who Never Eats Pork Buns, Is Never A Whole Man!

Also, Saints Row II would like a word. :)

As far as I can see, that platform uses crypto for payments, which could also act as a deterrent to some people.

I’m confused, what I’m hearing is:

• YouTube - don’t want because of ads and ownership by Google
• Nebula - don’t want because of required subscription
• Odysee - don’t want because of optional crypto payments
• Rumble - undesirables use/invest in the platform?
• PeerTube (not mentioned) - not enough content

That seems unreasonable to me. All three of those alternatives have no ads and have content that you would probably enjoy. You don’t need to use crypto to use Odysee. You don’t need to watch Andrew Tate or support JD Vance to use Rumble. You do need to pay for Nebula, but you can pay for a single month if you just want to try it out.

But at the end of the day, these alternatives need to get paid to survive. None of them are perfect, which is a big part of why I use Grayjay, which lets me sub to creators from all of them without having to see those services’ front pages. I pay for Nebula and I donate to creators I like at Odysee outside the built-in crypto system. I don’t like JD Vance, but I also don’t particularly care if we invests in Rumble, that really doesn’t affect me in any way. My goal is to reduce my YT use, and I’m not going to get there by continually moving the goalposts, so I decided to just pull the trigger and try them all out, and they’re fine.