All I want is a 3gb model for the raspberry pi. 7b is too big and 1.5b is too stupid.

I don’t know. When I first heard about the horizon scandal I understood what had happened immediately and have since been of the opinion that making financial software that isn’t Byzantine fault tolerant should be a criminal offence.

I’m all for scamming scammers, but I’m quite happy to give a tip to YouTubers I watch by way of e-commerce commissions.

To deal with moderation conflicts you could basically just unlink the thread.

Also we could also just add flags to activitypub messages on creating posts to tell the boosting server whether or not merging is permitted.

If you’ve worked hard on something and want everyone to see it, set it to True and people can boost it to different communities.

If it’s something personal or an in-joke that you only want to be advertised to the community it’s posted in set it to False and the option won’t be available when cross posting in the UI.

A very silly but useful hack I did to get the MS flight sim install down to about 40GB (normally ~270GB) before I gave up on windows was this.

Set up a nextcloud server on a raspberry pi.

Install the client on your windows machine.

Add your games install folder as a connection on the nextcloud client and enable VFS (virtual filesystem)

Once synced, right click the folder and select “free up space…”

This will basically delete the file data from your local machine and redownload it whenever windows tries to access a file.

Now launch your game and it’ll take a while to start as it has to redownload the files it actually needs to run, but it won’t bother getting what it doesn’t have to.

The fundamental problem with cryptocurrencies is that the people with the enthusiasm to make them (libertarians), are too stupid (libertarian) to understand why a deflationary asset cannot work as a currency.

It’s inherently a speculative investment. Nobody is going to spend something that might be worth dramatically more tomorrow and nobody is going work for something that might be worth dramatically less tomorrow.

There are sections of both the right and the left that have anti-authoritarian tendancies.

The libertarian right tends to view things purely in terms of government over reach, whilst the left tends to view things in terms of the power of capital.

Leftists saw Facebook pushing propaganda for the highest bidder, Reddit trying to be safe to sell to investors and twitter basically becoming a project to reflect Elon Musk’s personal opinions.

Out of that came a bunch of attempts at creating new social networks. The right wing attempts were not cognisant that the aforementioned were the natural result of trying to get rich off it, while the left attempted to make it impossible to get into that position.

Solar panels on cars are thought of the wrong way. The responses in this thread really demonstrate that.

It’s true that they’re kind of pointless on EVs, because they’re never going to supply enough power to not need a proper charge, which makes the panels redundant.

Where they could be useful is hybrids, sold as something that makes the engine 10-20% more efficient.

I know a joke about UDP.

I know a joke about TCP too.

Did you get it?

Right wing free software users love from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs until you point out what it is.

Then you get whatever this lemmy-wide tantrum is.

I disagree with Dessalines about some stuff but the guy is a don.

The point would be that it’s a failover. It takes about two seconds for the video here to start streaming from the webseed and that’s probably just the wait for enough video to load in order to render. The standard peers don’t really become load bearing until the server is struggling.

This is a good answer.

I’m not sure if I’d agree that instance to client is infeasible though. Peertube does it OK.

I wish IPFS was a solution but it’s just broken. I’ve got goto social running on a raspberry pi on a residential connection. If I try to run IPFS, my router crashes as it seems to try and connect to every peer on the network.

I’m thinking in terms of what happens when someone on a $5 VPS hosting plan uploads a large image or small video and a thousand other instances want to grab it. The latency of a torrent isn’t as much of a problem as the server falling over. This is for propogation between servers rather than when a user requests a file.

You could just have a standard peertube instance hidden away on the backend and use the peertube embed code to insert videos into your microblog and pretend the Peertube instance doesn’t exist.

I’ve played with peertube a lot, and as long as your cross site permissions are set up correctly, you can access the player API from your host site.

A torrent file and a webseed is enough. The client uses the torrent file to validate the download from a standard http source.

The webseed can be the same source as the file your browser would normally download.

So yeah the site needs to seed the file, but not necessarily using a torrent client.

I don’t know what that post is about. It’s not possible to change the contents of a torrent. The torrent file itself is a list of checksums which validate byte ranges within the files being downloaded. If a client downloads a poisoned piece, it discards it and deprioritises the seed it got it from. Perhaps they’re transcoding a file, whilst still seeding the original.

Torrents can work as a CDN for static files, because the downloader has to validate that the file is the same one as on the server using the checksums in the torrent file.

I’ve just been reading up on that. Apparently a magnet link won’t work without at least one proper seed, as it still needs to download the torrent file from somewhere. https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/1393#issuecomment-389805621

I think something like peertube would be a good solution for media, but there’s obstacles to getting it deployed in terms of adoption.

The player is quite mature and does everything you could want. For servers it saves resources by being peer to peer using webRTC. For clients it handles graceful degradation and redundancy.

A way it could be implemented for other drivers servers could go like this…

I upload a video to Lemmy. My Lemmy instance forwards that video to peertube. Peertube processes the video and releases it as unlisted. Peertube sends the URL back to my Lemmy instance. Lemmy publishes my post with the peertube player iframe as a video.

The issues with this are getting app developers and instance owners to adopt the changes and getting users to understand the implications of the P2P aspect.