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agile is far left too. I will die on this hill in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

To be honest I'd say it's more similar to anarchism than socialism. Anarchism is voluntarist whilst socialism demands state power first. Both are ideally paths to communism* though so I'm going to say "communism" 'cause it annoys the most people.

communism as in post capitalist, post state utopia, not Stalinism*

agile is far left too. I will die on this hill in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Lmfao

TCP vs UDP in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I know a joke about UDP.

I know a joke about TCP too.

Did you get it?

agile is far left too. I will die on this hill in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

There's some weird witch hunt going on against Dessalines on there. I don't agree with him on everything, but them trying to hound him out for being a communist, whilst using software he made because he's a communist is kinda funny.

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agile is far left too. I will die on this hill (feddit.uk)
 
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Is there any reason the fediverse doesn't use torrents to not ddos itself? (feddit.uk)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is a question that comes to mind every time I spend a few days focusing on the fediverse. Normally I'm on the microblogging side, but now I have a Lemmy account it might start a proper discussion.

So, to the point, pretty much every fedi platform has similar problems with small servers taking a beating whenever a post goes viral. This ends up costing the server owner a bunch of money trying to keep their server alive while thousands of instances attempt to pull large static files from the original host's post. This recently instigated this call to action on this forum.

I've never seen the question of torrents answered and it feels like a lot of effort and a bit self entitled to get the ear of fedi software devs to implement torrents as a solution, so I'm putting this here.

If media files were made into torrents when a post was being created, an extra object could be added to post objects like

'torrentcdn': {
  'https://imagePathAsKey.jpg': {
    'infohash': 'ba618eab...',
    'torrentLocation': 'https://directlinkto.torrent',
    'webseed': 'https://imagePathAsKey.jpg',
    ...
  }
}

This would not break compatibility as it would just be ignored by anything not looking for a 'torrentcdn' object, yet up to date instances could use this instead of directly pulling the static files.

This would benefit instances as when a post goes viral, the load would be distributed amongst all instances attempting to download the file.

This could also benefit clients and instances as larger files like short videos could be distributed using webtorrent, massively reducing the load on server when many people are watching the same video.

Thoughts?

I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I don't mind if indie devs try something experimental that melts your computer. Like beamNG needs a decent computer but the target audience kinda knows about that sort of stuff.

The problem is with games like cities skylines 2. Most people buying that game probably don't even know how much RAM they have, it shouldn't be unplayable on a mid range PC.

I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I can think of a few games franchises that wouldn't have trashed their reputation if they'd have had an internal rule like "if it doesn't play on 50% of the machines on Steam's hardware survey, it's not going out"

everything actually important is already metric in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

In the UK, weed is measured in authentic receding British imperial units where an ounce weighs one less gram every year.

Simple FOSS GUI for Python in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if this something you're deliberately trying to avoid. Apologies if you are, and I've missed the point, but

I gave up on doing anything in TK years ago. For all the effort to make stuff work in it, you might as well just use flask and have a HTML frontend. That way, you know it's going to work on everything and includes remote access as a bonus.

Edit: for a lot more power with a little bit more learning curve, look at fastapi.