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  • Most of them didn’t allow registration. Then for the ones I did find, streaming videos was very slow and laggy. In some cases, I couldn’t even view videos. And then, it seemed that I could only search for videos that existed on that particular instance.

    As a user, I feel this pain. The defenders of how “easy” it is to join federated services, it really isn’t. There’s choice paralysis as well as waiting for registration and verification. It’s not smooth at all. Take a stop watch and set up a YouTube account, upload a video of a cat’s butt, and it’s like 2 minutes.

    As a person who rolled out my own servers, I understand the barriers. I don’t have registration because my $5/month server can’t handle it, performance-wise or spammers. Even uploading things on my server is slow.

    Hard problem to solve tbh and I don’t have a solution






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    2 days ago

    Fun story coming up.

    My coworker and I were building a silly web animation because the CEO gives us money and I do whatever I’m told. It involved mystical creatures flying from under a giant’s leg, all while you’re scrolling. It’s a ridiculous premise.

    While staring at this wacky project, I said out loud, “I have a bachelor’s in Computer Science.” And my coworker said, “I’m a college dropout. And here we are at the same place.”










  • I seriously think airlines are a sham after riding a bunch of trains.

    On a train:

    Seats are massive. First class wasn’t like 5x the ticket price. No charge for luggage. No wack-ass TSA giving you conflicting rules about if you should keep your shoes/belts on or not. You want to rent a room so you can sleep, do it. You wanna jog from one end to another? Sure.

    Unfortunately in America, trains don’t fully connect to most places. And because of the price, attracts some real skeevos who leave the place a mess. In most other countries, my god. It’s beautiful.