Foolish mortal. I am unkillable.

That's sort of what Google does now. You try to search, it gives you some AI-generated overview of the topic before providing links. It's occasionally handy but most often infuriating.

A lot of the audio production in individual videos is really bad. This isn't anything to do with YouTube per se, not their compression algorithms or other features. A lot of YouTubers have absolutely no concept of microphone placement, of using audio compression, of reducing background noise. All of which are things which will drastically affect audio quality and the ability of a speech-to-text model to create subtitles.

It would be nice if YouTube would normalize all the uploaded videos to one set standard. Note I'm not suggesting that they compress the videos as that might change the intended presentation of professional audio productions. I just mean peak-finding normalization which could be implemented losslessly and without breaking existing video links.

Having said that, when I look at my own channel - and I am not claiming to have great audio; I have a host which would destroy a lavalier microphone in mere seconds. YouTube's subtitling is really good. It automatically switches between English and French and Hebrew, and even with a fair bit of background noise (welding, grinding, cooking, crowd noise, music) it generally gets the text correct. So I don't know what the original complaint is, except that it's not perfect. Well, guess what, neither is human hearing. How about that famous Jimi Hendrix line, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

It can't, that's just "synergy", the idea that one powerful brand can boost another. In reality it just causes confusion and incorrect assumptions.

Trump won by a landslide?

Are you some kind of RINO trying to hide your TDS so you don't lose all your friends? If you're gonna pretend, at least get your facts right. Trump didn't win by a landslide - that's just a significant margin. Trump's wins are _blowouts_.

2016, Electoral College: 304 vs 227 and Popular Vote 46.1% vs 48.2%
2024, Electoral College: 312 vs 226 and Popular Vote 49.8% vs 48.3%

No one has ever win by such margins before. Biden's pathetic effort was almost shameful:

2020, Electoral College: 306 vs 232 and Popular Vote 51.3% vs 46.8%

We won't ever see anyone win as winningly as Trump did ever again in our lifetimes and we should be thankful.

Even the republican juggernaut, Ronald Reagan, didn't come close:

1980, Electoral College: 489 vs 49 and Popular Vote 50.7% vs 41.0%
1984, Electoral College: 525 vs 13 and Popular Vote 58.8% vs 40.6%

I don't know why you even mention the democrats. They don't matter anymore. They have only 212 representatives out of the total 435? Sad. Only 45 out of 100 senators? Why do they even bother showing up? Their voting base is too illiterate to understand they're being promised nonsense. These guarantees could be realized patently impossible with even a little consideration. As the electorate is too lazy to verify claims and have been trained to disregard discordant news, emotional manipulation easily stokes a selfish outrage and fictional boogeymen fill their nightmares. Now terrified and desperate, they zealously cling to an establishment that only values them for their votes and only occasionally shares their interests by coincidence.

I'm disgusted how eagerly you shit on Trump despite enjoying all the gifts he's graced upon us. He's gone above and beyond delivering everything he promised. We've never been so safe, so wealthy, and so free. /s

If people treated airplanes the same way, they'd say: some planes have crashed before, so we must never fly again.

And if we all were not brothers of metal, would we fall?

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

> Even that still seems a bit high.

That's the statutory limit for willful infringement.

> I realize the damages are based on potential lost revenue,

Statutory damages are not based on anything except the statute.

I'd trust the durability of every other part more than the durability of the screen itself.

Rumored to be plagiarized off a low-budget '70s film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

That was just an excuse. They had years to cut the prices before the tariffs happened. And cutting prices quickly used to be the standard.

"Did you really think we want those laws observed? We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against. We're after power and we mean it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged