Huh, didn’t know I understood German

Edit: oh I just made OP’s joke again

Lol, wait until that lot finds out that republicans lie through their teeth about their merits

Conservatism always hurts the economy

All grass users should touch Lemmy just to see what happens

TBF those streaming sites are usually the lowest common denominator, run by people who are just trying to make as much ad money as they can before they get caught or shut down.

When one shuts down, another inevitably pops up—it’s been this way for a couple of decades. No site ever lasts longer than a couple of years tops, it’s just a way too obvious way of doing things to not get caught eventually

Generally it’s best to go with a download based approach anyway (or one of the streaming approaches that doesn’t involve a web browser), given the quantity of shitty ads and tracking those sites have on them.

Lol given there are a good number of countries who engage in constant increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, this might be the stupidest one yet

I hope you guys aren’t too attached to having money stay in your bank accounts and your utilities working reliability

Paradox of tolerance

Americans talking about socialism is like teenagers talking about sex

Zero clue

Wait Casio make TVs?

Well the real world application is breaking nearly all existing encryption.

Criminals and spies are going to have a field day once it becomes practical.

Essentially for something to be decentralised and not ephemeral, everyone needs a copy of the data.

To go into a bit more detail—one of the biggest benefits of decentralised systems is generally redundancy has to be built in otherwise you have a Single Point Of Failure™️, and then you get data loss when it’s gone. Given any sensible decentralised system is designed to avoid this scenario, that data has to be somewhere, and generally the simplest and less expensive (in terms of processing) way to improve on data in one place, is to have it in every place. Any time the data isn’t in one place or every place, you then have an exercise in figuring out where it actually is. This “finding it” processing is going to take time and effort, and if you imagine a standard semi-popular lemmy post, that’s potentially data coming from all sorts of different places, which may or may not be there—this would inevitably make request times ridiculous and basically no one would use it.

At the end of the day, any kind of processing is energy, cost & time expensive, whereas storage makes that part of the process effectively instant and is much cheaper than increasing processing power in both cost and energy.

So basically in this use case and many like it: it makes sense if you’re trying to pick what to optimise, you optimise for lower processing and higher storage requirements rather than vice versa.

The history aspect is more straightforward to understand given the above, if you expect people to care what happened a year ago and want to support that, that data needs to live somewhere

My friend, it’s not nonsense, it’s basically how decentralised communication has to work if you want any reasonable level of recency & history in the data.

Usenet was basically the original and I believe a modern news provider requires something like 50 petabytes of storage to run a 10 year data retention service

“Tim onion” got an irl lol out of me

No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

I mean you can still find a CRT today and turn it on if you like, they’re less common for sure, but they’re still around if you’re looking for one

I love everything about this

And now I want a Berlin kebab

Especially when the 500ml measure already legally exists—y’know that bottle size you never see because what’s the point of it

Holy shit the pint of wine measure is hilarious

They’re definitely doing that to present as a success story and save face with the red faced express reader demographic.

Wahey, some bottles might contain an extra double shot of wine!

Not that I imagine anything was stopping wine makers from selling bottles that size, just not calling it a pint.

Edit: okay they couldn’t before, but I still don’t see many jumping at the opportunity to retool their bottling for a weird size they can only sell here

I never thought it would happen, but it’s finally happened

Oh yeah, this is a bubble, but fwiw, there should be minimal compatibility issues possible from my understanding as this is essentially the change disk mechanism we see in several games, but without the check that the correct disk has been inserted. Of course there’ll be edge cases (and I’m gonna imagine there might be some late stage additional copy protection in some games that doesn’t rely on the boot up checks), but on hardware as simple as the playstation it’s going to be pretty much: if you’re running the executable, you’re running the game as if it’s passed the checks

Oh shit, you’re right, okay game on

Will it be decided by a tournament bracket?