Anyone care to do a tl;dw? Thanks

You’re describing diffusion lighting and that’s separate from raytracing

I honestly don’t see the appeal for paying $800 for marginally faster ray tracing because it simply makes puddles more shiny

Simplest solution is to kill Google CEOs, anything else proposed as a solution will take longer than your entire lifetime.

Being black.

PopcornTime was so amazing and important. Sad to see it dead.

PeerTube uses WebTorrent protocol and it still doesn’t do well with the same quantity of bandwidth demands.

Post your own self-hosted PeerTube instance for us all to use then, let’s see who’s correct. Otherwise provide a solution or shut the fuck up.

Delete this, YouTube will catch on and block this workaround.

Edit: disregard. Here is a custom GreaseMonkey/ViolentMonkey userscript to automatically do this for you:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         YouTube to Embed Redirect (Desktop & Mobile)
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1.1
// @description  Redirects YouTube video URLs (desktop and mobile) to their embed version.
// @author       BaroqueInMind
// @match        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v*
// @match        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // Extract the video ID from the URL
    const videoId = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get('v');

    if (videoId) {
        // Redirect to the embed URL
        window.location.href = `https://www.youtube.com/embed/$%7BvideoId%7D`;
    }
})();

Fuck reddit, this solution did not work for me. All YouTube videos stop buffering after 59 seconds. Only fixes i have found is with either making a custom userscript or disabling ublock from working on YouTube by whitelisting the entire domain.

This protocol already exists and so does the system, PeerTube.

Why no significant quantity of people use it is apparent after you try it for a while; the entire server system cannot handle the commensurate volume of content and interactions that YouTube is popular for.

If you read the links, this includes their server clusters and employees across the entire world all doing complex load balancing and maintenance.

https://gbtimes.com/how-much-does-youtube/

https://fastercapital.com/content/YouTube-cost-structure--YouTube-Analytics--Unveiling-the-Hidden-Costs-in-the-Cost-Structure.html

Estimated annual server cost: approximately $1 billion

Estimated annual data center cost: approximately $5 billion

Estimated annual bandwidth cost: $3 billion

Good luck running that shit from your closet server.

No one understands the astronomical bandwidth, CPU/GPU intensive calcs, and data storage necessities required to do anything close to what YouTube currently does.

There is no way under this warm sun that a fediverse version of YouTube will ever be feasible, unless someone like literally yourself is willing to pay extraordinary high amounts of money for all the required infrastructure and daily maintenance to run it.

I think the body horror of a Warhammer 40k servitor where you are trapped in an unending waking nightmare forced to perform a menial task completely unable to move or talk by removing your humanity and agency to be an independent person by replacing body parts with crude machinery, and kept alive unable to sleep with drugs in constant unending pain and anguish, and unable to interact with people consistently for years due to being placed within a random distant cold industrial alcove, is the proper punishment for rapists.

Edit: unable to scream and forced to speak through an AI voice encoder, like these people. They all look the same, but its implied they are different people because the brutal process to create servitors strips an individual of their unique identity.

20 years seems like a wrist-slap, but given that the main perp is likely in his 70s, this is a death sentence. I think the younger rapists should get life in prison, what the fuck is this 10 years sentencing bull shit.

Sweden or Finland?

I love this.

Noice

What’s up with Qwen that makes it better than anything else?

Never heard of it.