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Comment Consider a static site generator (Score 1) 19

I'd like to see Wordpress broken in half so the admin and clever bits are in one place and the actual hosted stuff is somewhere else. The server part of it needs to be as dumb as possible, and definitely not allow any sort of logins.

If you want "as dumb as possible", the search keyword for that is "static site generator". Then you can redirect /wp-admin/ to Automattic's front page.

Comment Master System, Genesis, Game Boy (Score 1) 41

People still develop new games for the Master System (which uses a Z80), the Genesis (which uses a Z80 as a sound coprocessor), and especially the Game Boy (whose Sharp SM83 CPU isn't exactly a Z80 but is similar). And they're selling these games both as ROM filess on itch.io and as cartridges.

Comment Re: Context? (Score 1) 131

The advertising clause wasn't "non-free" as much as a practical problem that was incompatible with the GPL's ban on additional restrictions. It was largely removed when much popular software switched from the 4-clause original BSD license to the 3-clause or 2-clause version.

The appropriate copyright notice clause remained in 3-clause and 2-clause BSD licenses. This clause is also present in GPLv2 and GPLv3.

Comment Re:Apple is moving some manufacturing out of China (Score 1) 68

Nope. The straw man is that US jobs are the only concern.

Thats a aloe and you know it.

Also you falsely act as if step 1, fabs, is somehow inherently the end of the process. That too is wrong.

You are the one that said: “There are bigger points.” Why do you lie so much?

Comment Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 81

Now that most people have a fast internet connection

In the case of BitTorrent, even the fastest Internet connection won't get you a lot of successful peer connections if your ISP blocks all inbound TCP connections.

If youtube goes away, streaming video won't disappear, some new ecosystem will grow in its place.

Such a new ecosystem already has grown, as I understand it. It's called getting Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount+, Disney+/Hulu, Peacock, Prime Video, or Apple TV to accept your pitch and fund it. These take the place of cable television channels in the pre-broadband economy. And there are still a lot more pilot screenplays than budget to produce all of them.

Comment Re:Apple is moving some manufacturing out of China (Score 1) 68

The are to bigger points.

None of these points have anything to do with what he said. You are introducing strawman arguments.

Actually a huge difference, we are not funding Chinese military expansion and bullying of the region. We funding those who need assistance defending against China.

How does jobs in China or Vietnam create jobs in the US again? You seem to missed the whole part that where I said: " Not much difference when it comes to US jobs assembling those phones."

Comment Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 81

1. The same way 99% of content producers do it today. Less than one percent of youtube content is monetized in any meaningful way.

Would it benefit the public to completely do away with the other 1%? How could something like The Amazing Digital Circus have been produced purely on a hobby budget?

2. Word of mouth. Curated lists.

How does the producer of a video go about seeding "word of mouth" and getting onto "curated lists"?

3. The protocol already handles this.

Yes, by excluding a lot of viewers who lack an IP address that can accept inbound TCP connections, unless I'm missing something. It also excludes viewers who have an iPhone or iPad and don't have a Mac with which to build and ad-hoc sign an app because Apple has reportedly banned BitTorrent clients from the App Store.

Comment Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 81

The same way it all worked before youtube.

And how might that have been? I might be misremembering, but this was my recollection:

1. Movie studios and TV channels funded production of videos to be viewed by the public. Very few pitches got funded.
2. Movie studios promoted upcoming and newly released movies through television advertising, and TV channels promoted shows to the channel's own viewers.
3. Movies were paywalled, and TV was ad-supported (in the case of broadcast) or behind the combination of ads and a paywall (in the case of cable).

Also, before YouTube, most end-user devices on the Internet had an IP address, even if dynamic, which could accept incoming connections. Nowadays, a lot of Internet subscribers' devices are behind network address translation (NAT), and if you share your IP address with the whole neighborhood, the ISP is unlikely to forward a port to your device.

Comment Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 81

Under your proposal:
1. How would the producer of a video cover the cost of producing the video before it even reaches BitTorrent?
2. How would a viewer learn of a video that they are likely to enjoy?
3. How would the system work around users who "leech", or view the video without contributing to its decentralized hosting?

Comment Re:I'm considering switching more (Score 1) 86

As someone who has a Windows laptop with touch, I don’t have much use for touch. Even though Windows started to incorporate more touch beginning with Windows 8, many things are still mouse and keyboard driven. For example, many sites I use still rely on mouse over features or have very small control elements that are not touch friendly. With more applications becoming cloud based, it is more likely I will not use touch

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