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I wanted it to not be dog slow, because every one I tried spent all its time buffering. I’m not really sure how the architecture of it works but it seemed to suggest some kind of p2p thing so thought that leaving the window open might seed it? But either it didn’t or just nobody was interested.

I wish PeerTube worked. For a while I tried just leaving in running on the theory that it might help out, but it didn't seem to do anything. Not sure if I'm doing it wrong?

Sure but it's the opportunism and greed that grates. They pay literally zero for the overwhelming majority of their content, and very little for the rest.

If you Writer-Produce-Star in a TV show that gets 2 million viewers on NBC or ABC, you're well into the five figures per episode in individual take-home pay, maybe even six. YouTube on the other hand you might just about hit $10,000 for 2M views depending on niche, but they cover zero of your expenses. If you've got more than one person working on making that show, or you had any expenses attached to it, you're pretty much screwed.

Google could VERY easily keep turning a profit on the old price, but shareholders demand infinite unending growth.

I went there just now, and the only slop I saw was being posted by people who I don't follow but who LinkedIn thought I should hear from anyway

dude it reads like you're just arguing for the sake of arguing and completely lost sight of (or deliberately misunderstood) what my original point was. And then you're capping it off with an unnecessary personal attack. Maybe you're the one that needs to reassess your values?

Thanks for that textbook example of the exception proving the rule: a QA tester is as far from "internet rando" as you can get; the fact that you had to cite someone whose actual job is to make sure accessibility law is followed, proves how few actually good examples there are.

I'm not unsympathetic to accessibility issues, but at the same time it's REALLY suspicious how much internet randos (especially on Bluesky) suddenly started being really militant about alt-tagging at EXACTLY the same time as the tech billionaires started needing tagged images to train their clankers.

see now you're just being argumentative and indulging in petty pedantic point-scoring mental gymnastics for its own sake.

It looks exactly the same as Amazon in every other country. That's a not a good counterpoint.

It gives more details, but it doesn't particularly make the US not look like a bunch of dickholes whose definition of "free market" changes to shape whatever suits them from one moment to the next.

Japanese customers genuinely do like it like that. Rakuten do A/B testing up the wazoo just like every other big ecommerce company.

Especially if you're Google. Matching "anonymous" travel activity to their Google Maps, login, Chrome, and Gmail history should be pretty trivial with a high success rate.