What is your name for censorship then?

And here we go - you just made a case for censorship of social media for everyone. Adults can get addicted, so we must limit what they can see and do.

Yet here you are on Slashdot.

Youtube also occasionally pops up asking if you want to try something different. And pops of different videos all the time.

That said, I know what I want. I watch woodworking videos, motorcycle and car videos, some physics channels like Sabine Hossenfelder's, Decline of Empires, radio and electronics channels, some programming channels, and some channels on my research into the Cold War between men and women. So I like their algorithms, even if it isn't aways "right".

Slashdot is a form of social media, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, and some others. To claim Youtube is social media, anything with a comment section is social media.

That is Your definition of social media. A person posting a video about how he fixed his car - how is that social media? People comment, usually thanking him, sometimes offering criticism, a better way, or even tell him he did it wrong. But the guy doesn't flag their comments, he either ignores them to thanks them.

It's perspective. If you are incapable of taking any criticism, or so sensitive that you need to complain of bullying by anyone who doesn't agree with you - well whose fault is that? The problem with that5 is there is nothing that can't be posted that won't offend someone - So the only possible solution is to kill Youtube, and everything else on the Intertoobz so no one feels insulted, bullied, or invalidated.

That's what we call tyranny of the weakest. The ultimate winner is the weakest person the most sensitive, and the most intolerant, believing that anything they want has to be cancelled. Perhaps we need trigger alerts for trigger alerts.

Yup, you are correct.

The regressive don't lie about their intentions though, so they are easier to counteract. And if is that important that children are never exposed to a different opinion, or any adversity in their life, and need safe spaces to protect them, well, then we are in stage 3 of the below. Hard times create strong men

Strong Men create good times

Good times create weak men

Weak men create hard times

Rinse and repeat.

My favorite example of the differences between strong and weak comes from a cooking contest show (Chopped)of all places. An eastern European woman had been through two separate wars in her country. She was obviously affected, but also obviously strengthened by her unfortunate experiences.

Next contestant spoke of her parent's divorce, sobbing and bawling about it. A seriously weak person.

Stage 3 just might be here - we don't want to think about stage 4.

This. About a million times this. Now despite claims to the contrary, humanity has gotten better at humanity over the ages.

That being said, we still have the characteristics that allowed us to survive, and they are still in play.

We still have a deep seated need to brand other groups as "The other", and then isolate or kill them. Be it color of skin, politics or other differences - many minor, it's all still there. So like it or not, ya gotta deal with it, lest you end up like sheep going to the slaughter. We can be as peaceful and loving as we like, the other guy isn't.

I don't make the rules, I just know what they are.

Your claim was that your self-hosted system is more reliable than a cloud-hosted system, because you have a generator. Maybe not.

Well...except for the Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox password managers, they haven't been breached.

As Garrison Keillor once said, "Why did God create alcohol? So ugly people could have sex."

Don't you know that 99.999 percent of humanity is never going to work again? How are your oligarchs going to get their billions when no one has money because they have no possible employment?

That's sort of sarcastic, but I would like to understand the business model. of incredible wealth without money coming in to buy the stuff mad that makes the oligarch class.

That isn't particularly difficult. I've made a couple AI voiced videos now, and you feed it the script, listen carefully, then tweak it.

Given that this is voice actors complaining about AI Dubbing - do they have to be proficient in every language the video is translated into? That AI dubbing to other languages is a real godsend. Then you need to bounce it off a speaker of that language for translation, and if it is good, you run with it.

Or do they make videos and games in one language only so no one takes money away from the original voice actor - see, it isn't cut and dry as some might think

I don't disagree about vibe coding, but it is hella different than an AI voice "reading" a script.

I've done a couple vids with AI voice. It's remarkably lifelike. And if the voice generation has a hiccup, there are tweaks that go a long way to take care of them.

There is an equation that must be followed. If AI puts everyone out of work, and no work is forthcoming, then how are they going to purchase what allows for companies to make a profit. If no one is working, of only a very few, the equation breaks.

So yes, new things will come up for people to do to make a living. Just like they always have in the past. If not, most of the human population will be surplus, and the so called fat cats will be impoverished as well - becoming surplus. I've adapted what I do when technology changes. The people who always have problems - and there will be some - have personal inertia issues, believing that they onlywork one job, doing the same thing, their entire life.

And yet, Houston is planning to reroute I-45 around downtown in a massive underground tunnel.

If the cabinet of switches in your neighborhood is down, or your internet is down, your private server in your house is going to also be down, even if you have a backup generator. Everyone in the world who is trying to access your private server, will not.

If you host it in the cloud, by contrast, and the switches or your internet is down, YOU won't be able to access your server, but the rest of the world will still have access.

Hosting isn't a useful solution if you are the only user of your server. In that case, yeah, stick it in a closet in your house. But if anybody else needs or wants to use it, the cloud is way more reliable.

Internet service to your house, is a very different thing than keeping a data center up and running.