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>Discord is doing so well Are they? They try to sell me Nitro at least once every month, which only gives me the impression that they're desperate to increase their revenue stream to make ends meet.
Selling things is usually how you make money, no?
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> The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month??? It's per-file. > I only share the occasional screenshot or small file, so uploads have never been an issue. When I was running a 1440p monitor, screenshots usually ran into the upload file size limit. I would have to manually resize them. This was a hassle, so I started paying for Discord Nitro…
50MB screenshot sounds excessive
But the default 8 MB wasn't enough. 2560x1440 is 11 MB uncompressed. I run a 4K monitor now, and a 3840x2160 screenshot is nearly 25 MB.
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And banning/punishing in waves is better than doing it immediately. You gather a bunch of offenders for weeks or months and then one day they just go poof and everyone knows why. This way you can weed out the ones who were just experimenting (few attempts) from those who use it regularly.
> one day they just go poof and everyone knows why. I thought the point of ban waves was precisely because there's no direct cause-and-effect. E.g., if you perform an exploit and get banned immediately, you know that the system can detect your exploit. If you get banned a month later, it might have been your exploit or something else you did between then and now. This reduces the selection pressure on black-hats to p…
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It doesn't really matter if they check it or not, I had Nitro for a year during pandemic because I thought I could stream in higher quality. In reality the quality was just as bad, and sometimes video looked very pixelated. I have gigabit connection at home and a good GPU that does the encoding but I guess Discord doesn't have any servers near me (~1900km to Rotterdam) and it might be prioritizing low latency. The ex…
Funny enough, Discord uses i3d which is a Rotterdam based compagny, I'm pretty sure they have servers close to you.
I get that some themes would be enabled this way, but for them to decide streaming quality with a client side check instead of a server side one is quite baffling.
Especially given the fact that they could simply inspect bitrate in/out, they don't even need to access the actual video, it can be fully encrypted (even if not ATM) and by examining how much data is transferred they can know which quality they are streaming at.
Now keep in mind they’re continually developing; perhaps testing different scaling preferences, or different codecs like AV1; suddenly you need a host of different bandwidth:estimated quality rates, that change over time and need to be kept in sync with client side changes… it’s not worth it
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50MB screenshot sounds excessive
Perhaps. But the default 8 MB wasn't enough. 2560x1440 is 11 MB uncompressed. I run a 4K monitor now, and a 3840x2160 screenshot is nearly 25 MB.
dunno whats going on there but an iphone photo with 12MP (3024x4032) is clocking in at 2-3MB.
iirc windows started compressing screenshots by default with 98SE
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For those to lazy to run base64 --decode, here's the result: // Here's a cake if you thought about inspecting the code before executing it: let css = 'font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; color: red'; console.log("%cNEVER paste code you don't understand into the development console.", css); console.log("%cThis is the best way to compromise your account.", css);
> NEVER paste code you don't understand into the development console Tech companies have long achieved security by simply locking people out of choices that they shouldn't make. I'm suspecting that Google will soon lock people out of Chrome's developer tools unless they can prove they are a developer (with a certificate that's tied to the website they are debugging)
And they will tell us this is for our own security!
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Personally, I don't care how much usage data they collect as long as they're not selling that data to third parties, or attempt to show me ads. Of course there's the threat of data leakage, buuuut it's risk I accept, when it comes to my mundane usage of discord. My main gripe with data collection platforms is how they turn every platform into an ad board. Chief among my disappointments is windows. It's so thoroughly…
Who says they aren't selling the data? They are probably selling it to every company trying to do a language model at the moment.
How people communicate on Discord isn't something you want to teach any AI you intend to use publicly =)
A reminder: everything sent via Discord, including DMs, is being logged in plaintext by Discord and will be available to them and whoever buys them (it was looking to be Microsoft for a while, though now it looks like they will IPO). Simply having an account there normalizes having personal conversations that can be easily data mined for AI, or otherwise used by Discord or their database/systems administrators. Secti…
> Simply having an account there normalizes It's long been normalized, Discord has already won. I'm not saying that it's great, but for certain communities you don't have a choice, besides not participating. It's actually even worse than back then, when it was "everyone has WhatsApp" because you could easily contact the people otherwise, you already had their number. But imho personal conversations are not the draw f…
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>all they have to do is join a "boosted" server. I didn't think of this thank you! I wanted to stream in my friend's server for my friends to watch but his server isn't boosted, but now I'm gonna join a random server and stream for strangers instead!
Have you ever noticed the member limit on voice channels? Presumably you join one that lets only you and your friends join the vc.