Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

Post by scoodah » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 10:20 PM UTC

arp242 wrote: post #202

MarkSweep wrote: post #182

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That comment is replying to someone saying "Windows is a rootkit". To me it looks like someone replying to an absurd, untrue statement about Windows with an obviously untrue, absurd statement about Linux. Unless this is part of a larger pattern of inaccurately describing Linux, I don't believe he literally believes what he is saying in this comment.

I don't know, doesn't read like a joke exaggeration to me. I think the most likely thing is that he's confused about firmware blobs and is mixing things up. He probably never looked much at Linux and just heard a few things here and there. He was at Microsoft during the Balmer "Linux is cancer" and "get the facts" era, so that probably coloured his view a bit. That said, I agree you shouldn't attach too much meaning…

I actually have been checking out his channel after watching the Dave Cutler interview and he generally has level headed takes about Linux from what I’ve watched. That comment is… a doozy though.

But generally it seems like he uses all three of Linux, Windows, and Mac and talks positively about each of the three.

Post by distract8901 » Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 7:42 PM UTC

walterbell wrote: post #80

distract8901 wrote: post #72

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I've been using PeerTube recently. After spending a ridiculous amount of effort, I have a server that pulls down indexes from other servers and mirrors content both for me locally and to share bandwidth with other users. As absolutely awful as this experience has been, it's still less painful than dealing with google ads. The amount and variety of videos on there is much lower, but I've managed to federate with enoug…

Do you whitelist videos or channels for mirroring? What's a good starting point for others to replicate this setup?

Basically, you can have your server follow another instance as if it were a user account. Assuming the remote instance allows follows, their local feed gets duplicated to your federated feed. If they allow mirroring, you can configure the server to mirror in different ways. You can mirror the N most viewed videos, new videos, and 'trending'. Then you can set a disk capacity limit, and have videos fall off after so many days. Presently I'm sitting on 320GB of mirrored videos. 300 is automatic mirroring.

Then of course you as a user can manually request a video be mirrored. I typically mirror everything I watch. I wish it had an option to automatically mirror your subscriptions, but it should be fairly trivial to write a script that does it.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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