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Has everyone forgotten that you can easily just host your own website and throw up whatever video content you want there? I can’t imagine creating a ton of educational content and then having it all depend on the whims of a single platform. This is not the end of infosec or hacking videos.
Very hard to imagine anyone dedicated enough to host their own stuff that long.
Every news about authoritarian overreach prompts some discussion about the need for decentralization. Yet, decentralization of services is moot if the underlying physical connectivity layer can still be controlled/filtered from a single point. Then there's the matter of discovering decentralized/distributed services. We have literally billions of devices capable of sending and receiving signals, including millions of…
Yes, because while the connected future is here, it's not evenly distributed.
So like, no more defcon talks? That’d be enough to make me switch
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>an expressive and genuine platform (Even worse-so than it is now) Yeah it already is hard enough to dig through the sea of YouTube personalities who mimic each other and start up with the YouTube-isms. Nothing is worse when someone you follow stars doing reaction videos, rants... YouTube drama :( I already rarely leave the handful of channels I follow. Too much garbage to dig through.
My fav part is repeatedly getting recommendations for many years old videos when something like a week’s worth of new comments is uploaded every minute ... why youtube why?
Has everyone forgotten that you can easily just host your own website and throw up whatever video content you want there? I can’t imagine creating a ton of educational content and then having it all depend on the whims of a single platform. This is not the end of infosec or hacking videos.
For how many years ? There are awesome YouTube videos that have been there for 10+ years. Very hard to imagine anyone dedicated enough to host their own stuff that long.
Has everyone forgotten that you can easily just host your own website and throw up whatever video content you want there? I can’t imagine creating a ton of educational content and then having it all depend on the whims of a single platform. This is not the end of infosec or hacking videos.
You certainly can host your own videos, but not for the cost, ease, and exposure YouTube offers.
What's next, cracking and reverse-engineering? Debugging? (Anti-authoritarian) programming ? As usual, Stallman tends to be quite prescient: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (perhaps more like "right to watch" in this context.)
I always think he’s mostly right, but a little too uncompromising, but then everything he says comes true. I don’t know how he predicted so far ahead at the time, it’s humbling. As a software author working at startups, am I part of the problem? I don’t understand how to make a good living without locking down the code to some extent, with few exceptions (it’s hard to found red hat)
It's inevitable. In Fahrenheit 451, books start getting banned because every person who ever gets offended starts asking for the thing that offended them to go away and people comply. This is what happens to big targets. It's why it's important to preserve the independent host.
What's next, cracking and reverse-engineering? Debugging? (Anti-authoritarian) programming ? As usual, Stallman tends to be quite prescient: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (perhaps more like "right to watch" in this context.)
I came to that conclusion trying to “fight” a (non-existant) virus that could infect any non-volatile memory onboard.
Since I didn’t actually control (really I mostly didn’t understand) my hardware it’s always seemed natural to me that, for example, the firmware of a hard drive of a networked computer could be compromised.
Since I didn’t control anything, I was at the mercy of those who did. Therefore I was always very hygienic on the internet, for example.
Stallman’s an arrogant self-righteous bastard. But he’s our bastard, damit! And I love him for it.