This is the latest #youtube "innovation". #Google with a market cap of $1.7 trillion and $120 billion cash on hand, "needs" to charge for ads on YouTube.
This is, of course, not true. They have more than enough revenue to run YouTube without ads in perpetuity, but they want to please shareholders. The #Peertube community is showing how you can distribute the costs of hosting content as well. If you don't support Google's continued monetization of monopolized video...vote with your feet.
@tilvids Bad take, imo. YouTube already ran at a net loss for about a decade before ever having a profitable quarter. Video hosting is an incredibly expensive endeavor, especially for an enormous platform like YouTube which allows users to upload nearly unlimited video data at no upfront cost. Just because Google has a lot of money doesn't mean that they can sustain a massive platform like YouTube at a loss forever, nor should they have any obligation to do so.
If anything, the poor playback quality, long buffer times, and lack of moderation and copyright enforcement on PeerTube are excellent examples of why cheap video hosting doesn't work, even at the much smaller scale that PeerTube operates within. I think what you want is a smaller-scaled platform, which PeerTube is good for. But that's not the type of product YouTube is, nor should they aim to be.
Yeah, most of this likely comes from corporations, billionaires, and other obscenely wealthy entities; the kinds of people who use the term "off-shore account" on a regular basis make up the bulk of this debt.
Major U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid said Sunday that it has filed for bankruptcy and obtained $3.45 billion in fresh financing as it carries out a restructuring plan while coping with falling sales and opioid-related lawsuits....
My first-gen Pixel still works just fine. The battery is shit and doesn't stay on for more than an hour or so, but replacing the battery is a trivial matter. But while the battery has juice, it runs just as smoothly as it always has. Same experience with my Pixel 3, and likely to be the same experience with my Pixel 6. The Pixel line seem to withstand aging quite well, in my experience.
Discovered recently that Electric Wizard were kinda dicks back in the day. “At the time, we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage…”...
I grew up on a lot of metal bands, including Iced Earth. Absolutely loved them, even saw them open for Megadeth as a kid.
Then Jon Schaffer went and proudly participated in the Jan 6 attack, so now it's kinda hard to listen to their music anymore.
Also hard to listen to Megadeth these days, too. Partly because they stopped being good after Risk, but also partly because Dave Mustaine turned into a born-again Christian nutjob.
Yeah, it definitely puts a bad spin on the Something Wicked story they'd been telling. Which is a shame, because it was cool thinking it was just about aliens and magic curses and shit, but now knowing that he probably believes there's more truth to that story than he lets on, it just doesn't feel the same.
Americans owe Uncle Sam $688 billion in unpaid taxes on their 2021 returns, according to the IRS. It’s the largest shortfall ever recorded. (creditnews.com)
Major US pharmacy chain Rite Aid files for bankruptcy (apnews.com)
Major U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid said Sunday that it has filed for bankruptcy and obtained $3.45 billion in fresh financing as it carries out a restructuring plan while coping with falling sales and opioid-related lawsuits....
New phone... What are the chances of this surviving until 2030? (lemmy.world)
What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?
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What shitty things have your favourite bands/artists done?
Discovered recently that Electric Wizard were kinda dicks back in the day. “At the time, we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage…”...