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Rob@rtconner
Building your own version of youtube is do-able but you would have to build your own CDN or something equal.
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Rafael Bradley
You'd need to manage to get everyone to migrate to your app more than anything. You won't get anywhere with the perfect app and zero users.
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Shane Smith
Exactly - this is the reason no one has really competed with YouTube. Hosting video is complex and expensive. Their SWOT analysis would show the market position as a strength.

Wed, Nov 4

Rob@rtconner
I just learned its against the Cloudflare ToS to use videos on their CDN (you have to use streams only). Hrmm

Tue, Nov 3

Rob@rtconner
I love that we have a non-evil x-dot-com right on /dev/null. So can we build a new non-evil youtube or reddit or something also? I can cover hosting, and add a little dev time also
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Mon, Nov 2

Rob@rtconner
Check if your servier is has mptcp
sysctl net.mptcp.enabled
Check if your server is using mptcp
sudo ss -Mlnp
If you are not using it, then just disable it ...…

Sun, Nov 1

Rob@rtconner
I try to be pessimistic about the LLM's and hate them and all. But the truth is that they have helped me so much in getting tasks done that I've put off for years. Like 5 years of TODO's in my code bases are just done now. Obviously I was never going to do those TODO's. They are…

Thu, Oct 29

Rob@rtconner
My least favorite thing that basically all managers and C-levels do is this.. developer, points out an issue that would crash everything manager: "ok cool, you go fix it" 20 other people on the team. No, thank you, no well done. No assigning it to other people. It demotivates…
Rob@rtconner
Not sure that I can post something 100 days in a row. But ok, here is to trying for 1 more day.

Tue, Oct 27

Mon, Oct 26

Rob@rtconner
I saw a book written by Gotham Chess in the middle of a Target comercial that aired during an NFL game. I mean, its not bad news. Certainly strange though. The world needs more strange.
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Evan Edwards
How so? Monday Night Football features Darth Vader, connected to the parallel Star Wars Funday Football stream. I'm not saying the two are connected, but NFL is the biggest rated tv show in the United States by an incredibly large margin, so it has such a wide audience there's…

Sun, Oct 25

Sat, Oct 24

Rob@rtconner
As a 20 years Gmail user, in case anyone was interested .. I did a long evaluation of Proton Mail vs FastMail vs Infomaniak Mail trying to see which one is best. FastMail won out, as it was the most compatible with my Gmail programed brain. It's features lined up most closely…
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Marc
I migrated one of my email addresses to Proton a year ago, and I'm absolutely happy. I'm not experiencing any slow page loads, honestly. It's super fast for me.

Tue, Oct 20

Sun, Oct 18

Rob@rtconner
Gmail is basically just ignoring the "spam" button now. I flag facebook or other large companies as spam 100 times and google never automatically sends it to the spam folder.