The difficult part is not the software or even the hosting. It’s more about the network effects and the ability to let users monetize uploads, which in turn creates vast potential for abuse and fraud, which in turn has to be addressed by burning stupendous resources. At a certain point people stop wanting exposure or “making a difference” for their own sake, and instead want to get paid in genuine coin of the realm.
The main value of youtube for many of us is the enormous video collection, which is impractical for anyone else to duplicate. Need to fix an old washing machine (I did, recently)? Type in the make and model and there’s an instructional vid. It’s unfortunate that Google has exclusive control over such a resource, but here we are.
50GB of flac = maybe 20GB of Vorbis amirite? Is that 450GB of flac in your screen shot? It would fit on a 256gb phone even without an SD card. A 512GB card is quite affordable these days. Just make sure to buy a phone with a slot, and think of it as next level degoogling ;).
Yeah I know there’s lots of music in the world but who wants to listen to all of it on a moment’s notice anyway?
Can’t understand why this is interesting, as phones now have a lot of storage space, even the ones that don’t have SD card slots. Just store the music that interests you directly on the phone.
Article is from 2018. Someone must have pasted the url from hacker news where the same story was dug up recently.
I guess 4chan is still down?
I haven’t looked in a few years but 20TB is probably plenty. I agree that Wikipedia lost its way once it got all that attention online and all that search traffic. Everyone should have their own copy of Wikipedia. I used to download the daily incremental data dumps but got tired of it. I still have a few TB of them around that I’ve been wanting to merge.
The text is in not-exactly-convenient database dumps (see other commenter’s link) and there are daily diffs (mostly bot noise), but then there are the images and other media, which are way up in the terabytes by now. There are some docs, maybe out of date, about how to run the software yourself. It’s written in PHP and it’s big and complicated.
I’ve been using Debian MATE. It’s mostly ok.
I use Thunderbird and hate it. Full of bugs and cramdowns (not sure what the right term is) where they make a bad setting that you can’t undo. Also too difficult to find too many things. And way too many non-mail features. I haven’t bothered seeking a good alternative but Thunderbird leaves a lot to be desired. Forking isn’t likely to help much. It needs total replacement.
They’ve done that on and off for ages, and the ones being offered with Ubuntu here are mostly pretty expensive or else not so interesting. I’ve been content to buy older Thinkpads and self-install Debian for my past several laptops. I was somewhat tempted by recent Ideapad Yogas but resisted, and since then, prices have gone up, whether due to tariffs or whatever else.
Judge: “That ends now”.
Also judge: “ok, have another week”.
Wait for the backpedaling when she finds out God is female.
Mozilla propaganda. It’s not just about individually identifiable data. Privacy means not giving the bad guys ANY data, whether or not it points at any individual.
“I have full confidence in so-and-so” is politics speak for so-and-so will be out in 2 days. It’s not just Trump.
How much do you expect to pay for the 24 NVMe disks?
It’s possible for a while but there is a whack-a-mole game if you’re doing anything they would care about. So you will have to keep moving it around. VPS forums will have some info.
I see a few on the road or parked now and then. I cringe every time.
I sometimes think that for a future vehicle I might like to do an EV conversion on an older gas burning, small SUV. Now suddenly I struck by the idea of an EV to EV conversion, to get rid fo the Tesla computers full of spyware. It would still be recognizeable though, not good.
I was just looking through old books and noticing my Yggdrasil manual the other day. That was one of the earliest plug and go cd-rom distributions. Before that was e.g. Slackware and the early Debian, both of which involved big piles of floppies. I also remember sending Linus an email and getting an answer. I’m sure he is too much of a busy celebrity for that now.
That’s called Git and it’s been around longer than GitHub. There is also Usenet which by now is mostly dead. People fell for centralized alternatives. Oops :)