Some weird, German communist, hello. He/him pronouns and all that. Obsessed with philosophy and history, secondarily obsessed with video games as a cultural medium. Also somewhat able to program.

https://abnormalbeings.space/

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  • Genuinely, though, it is hard to gauge at times which actions are:

    • Genuinely malicious plans to increase his and his cronies’ wealth
    • Confused, because Elon or Trump were in a specific mood that particular day
    • Some actor behind the scenes manipulating them by taking advantage of their impulsivity
    • The genuine incompetence of the newly appointed loyalists (or the algorithms/AI they use) within the new deep state
    • Genuinely ideologically motivated stupidity, from Libertarians that drank their own cool-aid within the administration.

    It is genuine chaos. But overall, the effects are pretty disastrous, no matter what exactly causes which actions.









  • You know, personally, I don’t think the rumours of Trump being an active foreign agent instead of “just” a narcissist grifter are useful, because they can be used to argue that things weren’t already pretty borked before in the status quo… (and I think they are wrong, personally)

    But I do have to admit - if I was a foreign agent wanting to destroy the US and its influence in the world, I would basically do exactly what he is doing.






  • He’s giving a full demonstration of just how untouchable he feels.

    This is such a huge part of the psychology behind authoritarianism. It’s about harsh rules and repression, and the perverse enjoyment of the privileged few, that can be above the rules. It’s like a schoolyard bully, really, beating you up but also snitching on you to the teachers, and then enjoying the teachers not believing you. The hypocrisy is not a fault within authoritarianism, it’s an essential component, of how it functions ideologically.

    Taking away their feeling of being untouchable, is a massive part of how to combat it. That requires, at this point, revolutionary change, because damn, the foundations of property are all in their favour.









  • See my comment to kayzeekayzee, I don’t think local options exist - but I am also relatively new myself - so maybe someone else knows something.

    But if you have those 10TB somewhere you can put behind a domain name and server installation - This is the official documentation.

    Of note: The part in the config file (usually /var/www/peertube/config/production.yaml) looks like this (my current config as an example)

    redundancy:
      videos:
        check_interval: '15 minutes' # How often you want to check new videos to cache
        strategies: # Just uncomment strategies you want
          -
            size: '50GB'
            # Minimum time the video must remain in the cache. Only accept values > 10 hours (to not overload remote instances)
            min_lifetime: '48 hours'
            strategy: 'most-views' # Cache videos that have the most views
          -
            size: '150GB'
            # Minimum time the video must remain in the cache. Only accept values > 10 hours (to not overload remote instances)
            min_lifetime: '48 hours'
            strategy: 'trending' # Cache trending videos
          -
            size: '100GB'
            # Minimum time the video must remain in the cache. Only accept values > 10 hours (to not overload remote instances)
            min_lifetime: '48 hours'
            strategy: 'recently-added' # Cache recently added videos
            min_views: 10 # Having at least x views