RIotingPacifist
@RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees? 8 hours ago:
YouTube costs $8/month to not show ads.
- Comment on Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees? 8 hours ago:
It’s hard to tell, because companies that make their money from ad revenue also spend a lot making their apps more addictive in order to sell you more ads.
You can tell that they are making less than whatever their premium costs though, so for example YouTube makes less than $8/month selling ads.
If people aren’t trying to sell you shit, and don’t have to make their website more addictive it’s relatively cheap to run, for example Wikipedia that has a pretty dynamic read/write load, get 11 billion unique devices a year on just the English site pageviews.wmcloud.org/siteviews/?platform=all-sit… which is about half of the page views: pewresearch.org/…/wikipedia-at-25-what-the-data-t… but spends ~$180m/year across all languages, so it costs about 1c a year/unique device if I’m doing my math right.
Obviously some service like YouTube will cost more because it uses more bandwidth and Gmail will cost more because each user is served individual emails and spam filtering has always been CPU intensive, but the hardware costs are fairly minimal anyway (most of the cost is on staff), so if it wasn’t for the ads Google would have less staff and hosting their services would be much cheaper, maybe not 1c/year but almost certainly less than $1
Obviously Lemmy instances are currently much smaller than reddit, but I’d bet by unique user count Lemmy instances are likely running far more effectively than reddit and likely in the sub dollar category.
On the flip side if you want to make something a subscription only service you need to spend a bunch of money processing payments and subscriptions, probably more than the actual hosting costs.
- Comment on can i still consider myself to be a valid asexual? 2 days ago:
There’s no queer police coming to dictate who isn’t valid.
Fuck/don’t fuck whoever you want, you’ll always be valid.
#NoQueerCopsAtPride
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 4 days ago:
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated form of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world. Chickens are primarily kept for their meat and eggs, though they are also kept as pets.[1]
The red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), also known as the Indian red junglefowl (and formerly the bankiva or bankiva-fowl), is a species of tropical, galliform bird in the phasianid family, found across much of Southeast and parts of South Asia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_junglefowl
A species (pl. species) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. It can be defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 4 days ago:
Not really there is a well defined line that defines what is/isn’t a chicken, that’s really the only thing needed for this question.
The issue is the term proto-chicken isn’t well defined.
But for it to be considered a different species it would have to not be able to reproduce with a modern chicken (which doesn’t mean it can’t reproduce with early chickens).
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 4 days ago:
Nope.
There will be an exact egg that contains the first chicken (defined as an animal that can fuck other chickens and produce offspring IIRC), that came before the first chicken because the chicken was in the egg.
- Comment on Why does this sub require a URL? 5 days ago:
This is in fact a stupid question, click discussion!
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 2 weeks ago:
Its weird Everytime i go back to reddit it pushes more and more hateful subs on me I think they just keep adding underscores or something.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Redditor going full reddit over a law that they haven’t read and a pull request they barely understand.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 weeks ago:
the users and maintainers of Linux itself, the systems that make up Linux, and even the maintainers and contributors to many Linux distros, who are real human people and not faceless corporations, think following unjustified laws is unjustified
They do? Sorry but this law is a nothing burger I don’t think I’ve seen any serious contributors to serious distros say anything about it that matches the tone of Reddit/Lemmy posts or single maintainer distros.
Hell the systemd fork being slop by someone who didn’t understand the existing systemd ratelimiting really excemplified how reddit the whole circus is.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 weeks ago:
The AI was the slopfork written by one of the hyperventilating redditors.
You pretty right except the California law that the systemd change was in response to doesn’t do verification it just returns whatever age bracket is stored.
- Comment on How are criminals apprehended by vigilantes able to go to prison? 2 weeks ago:
Citizens arrest is a common concept: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen's_arrest
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 weeks ago:
I’m fine without criminal charges but someone should have to convince a jury of my peers that there is corruption and not just political differences at play
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 weeks ago:
True, if we repeal Citizens United, then the worst recalls go away.
But the bar should still be much higher than it is in CA, Oakland just had its mayor & DA recalled over fear of crime, while violent crime was declining rapidly and before any of their policies could have an impact anyway (recall efforts were started on Day 1), I don’t think I’ll ever be convinced recalls are a good idea unless a grand jury can be convinced of meaningful corruption.
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 weeks ago:
People don’t like politicians, billionaires can pay people to stand around in street corners and get schoolboard representatives recalled, even if it fails that that’s a ton of money the union now has to spend defending a person that was democratically elected just months ago.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 3 weeks ago:
My point is that in November he will try shenanigans and people will need to take to the streets to enforce the results of the election.
If he failed to steel the elections in November his days will be numbered.
The outcome of the elections is less important than the willingness of people to defend them, when he sends in the FBI to steel uncounted ballotboxes in purple districts.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 3 weeks ago:
In November he’s going to try and steel the election, if we effective block that, his days are numbered, so get organized locally.
Sorry lone wolves, you had your shot and and all your incoherent takes achieved was a poll boost for him. L
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
How it is now but a little better.
Some stuff boosters claim it can do will actually be doable (it might actually be able to write decentish code for example, which TBH is just taking what it does now and wrapping it in some basic checks to make sure the code works and they aren’t hallucinating shit).
It’ll be widely adopted in its accountability dodging function
oh oops we bombed a school full of girls, it’s not our fault AI told us to)
oh we burned the company to the ground by firing the people who actually for work done, AI’s fault
Etc
But I don’t know how widely it’ll be used if users start paying the actual costs instead of all the AI companies being subsidized by investors losing money.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 3 weeks ago:
How do you define hiding information?
If you constantly hide the fact you hate your boss from him, does that count because that’d be a problem in most jobs.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 4 weeks ago:
Define lie.
- Comment on My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time? 4 weeks ago:
The good news shows are the morning shows at the weekend but they also end up basically being ads for small businesses that have an in with the producers.
There are a couple of decent YouTube good news shows I think though
- Comment on How to find a fan that blows 90° from intake? 4 weeks ago:
Are they worth it vs just redirecting the input/output?
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 4 weeks ago:
we could also see in the future more cars that can swap their battery in charging stations.
I know they have been demoing this tech in China, but if you have at home charging a major advantage of electric vehicles is that you don’t need worry about refuling during normal usage. So I think battery-swap technology is going to be limited to long distance trips (which are kind of only a major thing in the US & China due to the way both isolate their workers from their homes to prevent them from organizing).
I was going to say if people are comfortable renting the battery in their car, they might as well be comfortable renting a space in a larger vehicle such as a train, but I think Americans do regularly rent their cars (or at least only pay interest on the loans they take out to purchase the cars), so maybe it’s not so crazy, but I personally wouldn’t let anyone swap the battery in the phone or laptop for one that is likely less well taken care of.
electrified highways would be amazing.
We already have those: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification
Tyres are a major source of microplastics that doesn’t stop when they go electric: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664766/
Electric scooters with swappable batteries work super well in urban areas.
This sounds cool though
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 5 weeks ago:
Luigi that ain’t a hwithe name!
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 5 weeks ago:
Cops seem to be OJing it, getting plenty of publicly available evidence tossed because they fucked up processing it
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 1 month ago:
Paints absorb light really Red paint should be -#00FFFF so under white light the light becomes FFFFFF-00FFFF -> FF0000
Of course under blue light (0000FF) it becomes 000000
If you mix paints you end up with -FFFFFF which turns any light into 000000.
Basically consider paint a transformation when it comes to light rather than a source
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is sort of how putting hits on people actually works or has in certain scenes.
You don’t sign a contract or put out a bounty (unless you’re the state, that’s illegal), you just let everyone know that you’d hypothetically pay whomever killed the person you want offing.
As a bonus you can then say you were just joking (ofc that risks you being offed too)
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 2 months ago:
Civil wars require 2 sides capable of taking power.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 2 months ago:
People forget that labor unions were a major factor in Tiananmen Square, US labor unions are not a credible threat to take over so don’t need to be put down as brutally.
- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 2 months ago:
I’m not going to directly confront them, but I would be sharing his movements & address as widely as I’m legally allowed to.