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  • Let’s not forget the unmentioned income thanks to gathering all that user data.

    The real value of Youtube (and social medias in general) is not the raw revenue they generate.

    It’s being able to be able to predict what will trend in advance to sell ads to anyone, anywhere. Which is proven by their 200+ billions in revenue from ads from all services.

    It’s extremely likely that in an alternate universe where Google doesn’t own YouTube, their profit today is lower than what they currently have.

    But like you said, poor YouTube is not making money explicitly on its own so they’ll use it to justify any cost increase attempt when they already know what the real money maker is.







  • How is that a rip off? You pay 20€ once and get the ability to sideload any UWP app and develop for the console.

    Compare it to both Nintendo and Sony where:

    • You have to pay multiple times the price of the console for the dev kit
    • You don’t own said dev kit
    • Their SDKs are not publicly accessible
    • You have to sign multiple NDAs on top of all those issues
    • Assuming you have no problem with all this, you can be rejected as a developer for any reason

    Considering how locked consoles were and still are (Except for the PS3 “other OS”) period. Being able to get a decent current gen console, that doubles as an emulator, with development capabilities for an additional 20 euros is a gift, not a rip-off.



  • It’s more that UBI is just not financially possible for any country.

    I live in a country with the highest tax rate on the continent and with just 20% of our population as pensioners, the situation is just getting worse and worse even though 49% of the population has a tax rate between 25 and 50% (+13% from welfare taxes). Just with this small percentage, we are spending 20% of our budget in pensions. More than any other area by at least 5% of our national budget.

    If the state now had to pay an UBI to 69% of our population on top of this, the very minimum to pay off the UBI without going bankrupt would be to sell off the free healthcare and public transport in their entirety. And I’m assuming a small UBI of 500€/month (Not even enough to rent a 1 room appartement with utilities in some areas).

    UBI would destroy any country’s budget for what? Landlord increasing rent to match the UBI, corporations increasing prices to match the inflation and people wasting that money when it could have been put to use to increase renewable energy production, improve education, …

    UBI is only a good idea in paper and you only need to look at the public expenses of most European countries + have a basic understanding of capitalist greed to see it.


  • Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.livetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow will lemmy scale?
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    The database isn’t really the problem in the current state of things. The server is because:

    • Until 0.18 there was no caching (for the UI) and the poorly implemented websockets
    • The developers have admited that they aren’t proficient in SQL, in which case, why not using an ORM instead? Sure, they aren’t perfect but they will do better than the average developer at scale.
    • There is no queue system for activityPub requests
    • Because there is no queue, user requests and federation have the same priority when it shouldn’t and one can bottleneck the other
    • Live inserts are used meaning that regardless of the DB used, performance is going to be killed since inserting data 1 at a time several times a second is a major waste of resource

    Tl;dr: It’s trying to do everything and not that well. So users suffer because they have to share resources with non-UI related tasks.

    The database suffer because it has to do an insert of 1 object X 50 times in a second when it could do it once for all 50 items.

    Federation suffers because you can’t offload it to a seperate machine farm whose job will be to receive and send ActivityPub requests and send/read data from the correct queues to do so.




  • Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.livetoLinux@lemmy.mlJeff Geerling stops development for Redhat
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    Oracle Linux is 100% the cause of this change.

    Imagine supporting 2 other distros to make your own enterprise linux that is your only source of money through optional subscriptions to it.

    Then some other big unethical corporation (much like your own parent company) comes in, use the GPL license to clone it and slap an “Oracle db certified” sticker on it. Finally, they decide to use the same subscription model as you except they get insane margins since you did 99% of the work for them.

    But looking at what Rocky Linux is saying publicly. It’s not impossible that Red Hat won’t levy their right to remove access to the sources to non-commercial forks of RHEL.