ParkingPsychology

joined 1 year ago

Heavy debt, he caused by overpaying for Twitter with loans with high interest rates. And now Twitter needs to somehow "make a profit".

Some people just want lossless media.

And saying it's a huge cost... 60TB in a raid 5 setup will cost you less than $2k. That's really not much for most US households. Especially when that setup lasts for years.

[–] ParkingPsychology@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Given that a movie can be between 1GB and 50GB depending on source and compression used, you can't know that. You can find game of thrones downloads that are 30GB per episode. At 1080. If you go for high quality with a nzb setup, it fills up really fast.

Also my setup is used by multiple people and that's probably fairly common. So maybe "I" can't watch that much, but "we" can.

[–] ParkingPsychology@kbin.social 54 points 1 year ago (10 children)

There's an unwritten deal, you know. Youtube lets us block and in return, we allow Youtube to know we block. Because if we take that away from Youtube, Youtube no longer has reliable viewer statistics and the price of their ads will go down.

Now it seems Youtube wants to break the deal (and they can, unless we start pirating Youtube content, they can at the very least make us sit through a minute of black screen before each video). They probably think the damage that will be done is less than the additional income that the subscriptions generate.

it's just the same old story. Grow, grow, grow, wait until you've got a monopoly, now squeeeeeeeeze the profit.

Twitter, Reddit, now Youtube. Welcome to the age of enshittification.

If you read it, it becomes clear that the issue is that Colorado wrote a stalking law that is in conflict with the first amendment. Something that can easily be corrected going forward, if it hasn't been corrected already.

So he was convicted in Colorado, but the proof for that conviction was not good enough for a federal court.

[–] ParkingPsychology@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see why not? Not the actual IPO, but as soon as there are shares on the market, you can short them.

IPO stocks can be sold short once they are trading on public markets

It says "some" that means "not all". I replied to a statement with "all".

So it wasn't.

[–] ParkingPsychology@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It wasn't. I never got anything.

Almost like he's doing it on purpose...

[–] ParkingPsychology@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how the many users are quick to call mods power hungry.

@Hovenko wrote that really carefully. If you interpret it literally, it basically says "some moderators are addicted to power."

Which is true. You are also right, most aren't. But some are.

[–] ParkingPsychology@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There would have been more and there were probably more such posts. These kind of safe spaces inevitably attract trolls looking for the wrong kind of attention.

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