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I’m happy to give YouTube my money to provide a real alternative to ad-supported models. Plus the vast majority of videos I watch id never want to see again.
You're not really providing YouTube an alternative to ad-supported model - you're only proving that lots of obnoxious ads can convert people into paying customers.
Libraries (like Internet Archive for one) seem like the logical 'permalink' curators of information collections. I'm thinking, for example, of a large regional history site created by a a 501(c)(3) corporation. [ https://www.historylink.org/ ] Such efforts deserve a guaranteed permanent home with permanent funding. Another example: hundreds of 'Old-time-radio' programs and early TV shows have only emerged and survive…
Lots of books, magazines, newspapers do not survive because nobody wants to read them. We don't keep a super-archive of every piece of paper ever published, because we acknowledge that it's OK for things to die. Important things we keep, useless things we throw away. It's irrational to hoard garbage.
So really, all we need is to proactively decide what we do want to save, and save it as soon as it's published. Maybe also provide a "digital shelf" for people to keep their own copies, and a standard way to search for and distribute that information, like NNTP + Gnutella for e-books (along with some features to avoid being sued a la DMCA). The rest should be allowed to rot like fallen logs in the woods.
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I set up a server specifically for downloading Youtube videos from all my playlists on a daily basis just for this reason. At some point I got fed up at seeing all the missing videos on my playlists (and not even knowing what was removed)
What do you use for automation? My first instinct is cron jobs running youtube-dl scripts against a set of playlist URLs, but I'd be interested to hear more.
Cron job which runs a batch script at midnight which feeds youtube-dl some playlists URLS's which it downloads to a HDD. I also have nextcloud running which has access to the directory the videos are saved to, so I can easily share them if I want to.
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You're not really providing YouTube an alternative to ad-supported model - you're only proving that lots of obnoxious ads can convert people into paying customers.
Yes, and how dare a business desire paying customers.
Hashes are the answer. How they get implemented in solving this problem is the question
What specifically do you hash? How do you hash content which is programmatically determined and changes on every page load? How do you account for the same work in multiple versions, translations, or updates, strictly using hashes? (Note that a chained hash, e.g., a git history, is not a strict use of hashes, though it most definitely does use hashes.)
Ethereum's Solidity is a great real world example. The instructions are compiled into a binary, and that binary can be addressed via its cryptographic digest.
Changes in state are easily represented as instructions.
>multiple versions, translations, or updates, strictly using hashes?
The same way a git repo does it now: Good software design.
>is not a strict use of hashes
Huh? I'm not sure what your trying to convey. Are you referring to the fact that git uses diffs between commits? At any commit, a repo may be re-hashed and the current state completely represented by a digest.
Of all things to worry about being represented as a digest, software seems to be one of the smallest concerns.
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What specifically do you hash? How do you hash content which is programmatically determined and changes on every page load? How do you account for the same work in multiple versions, translations, or updates, strictly using hashes? (Note that a chained hash, e.g., a git history, is not a strict use of hashes, though it most definitely does use hashes.)
>programmatically determined and changes Ethereum's Solidity is a great real world example. The instructions are compiled into a binary, and that binary can be addressed via its cryptographic digest. Changes in state are easily represented as instructions. >multiple versions, translations, or updates, strictly using hashes? The same way a git repo does it now: Good software design. >is not a strict use of hashes Huh?…
Merkle trees are useful.
They include hashes. They are not simply hashes.
Content-addressable storage robust against variations is another approach.
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>programmatically determined and changes Ethereum's Solidity is a great real world example. The instructions are compiled into a binary, and that binary can be addressed via its cryptographic digest. Changes in state are easily represented as instructions. >multiple versions, translations, or updates, strictly using hashes? The same way a git repo does it now: Good software design. >is not a strict use of hashes Huh?…
Git chain hashes. Merkle trees are useful. They include hashes. They are not simply hashes. Content-addressable storage robust against variations is another approach.
Didn't the original post say, "How they [hashes] get implemented in solving this problem is the question"?
Merkle trees implement cryptographic hashes.
>Git chain hashes.
Git chains hashes? Yes, of course, along with diffs.
How the permanent web will implement digests in various applications is the question. Whatever the answer is for link rot, the guaranteed solution will implement and depend upon cryptographic hashing algorithms. There are already many examples of this class of problem being solved by utilizing hashes.
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I, too, was fascinated by a "web without browsers" (or with other kinds of browsers, really) until i stepped into the community and realized that community was a proto-nazi cesspit full of misogynistic attitudes. Maybe now that times have passed, people have died who posthumously admitted their preferences for white supremacy (and heavily bitcoin-supported that), and whole projects have been renamed, there can be a m…
> I, too, was fascinated by a "web without browsers" (or with other kinds of browsers, really) until i stepped into the community and realized that community was a proto-nazi cesspit full of misogynistic attitudes. Could you expand on that? It seems a bit out of (anti-)left field, so to speak.
> It seems a bit out of (anti-)left field, so to speak.
Sorry but english is not my native language. What does that mean?