I think we agree that it’s a both/and situation with economies of scale, so let’s explore Netflix.

The vast majority of energy for Netflix is not in centralized data centers but at their massive number of distribution points. Those distribution points serve a specific problem: end-user-acceptably fast download speeds.

Is that a reasonable problem to solve? Yes, sort of. Instead of people going back to a central server for their content, they go to a regional server. In essence, while end users don’t own their own storage and search infrastructure, the next best solution is a localish solution for the customers in that region.

But what if we just solved the lack of storage and search at home? No profit. So you’ve got that part right for sure

Than encrypting and decrypting for DRM reasons? Yes. But the reason the cloud exists at all is because economies of scale are real.

Streaming itself is the problem. Storage is CHEAP. Every human should be able to have enough storage for their media consumption for their lifetime. There is no need to consume a stream for the same piece of media through your entire life.

I think you’ve got it backwards. The energy cost is real, so economies of scale make sense.

I mean, these people say what Marx said - life consists of working at various things to express our full humanity. And the circle concept is pretty much spot on for how it should work.

Except, you know, when you decide you’re going to intermediate that circle, interrupt it’s flow entirely, alienate billions of people from their work, extract surplus value so that you don’t have to work, and force everyone into a death spiral.

Law. Arbitration. Judges. Contracts.

You’re not in the land of facts. You’re in the realm of paper reality, an artificial universe made up entirely by humans. The only facts you have here are what the ink on the paper says and a historical record of specific actions taken out of context.

What is the fundamental difference between a Disney operation causing the death of someone through negligence and going to private arbitration run by corporate partners and a Disney operation murdering someone and not being held to account by the law we created to punish murderers?

Maybe enough info will leak and Cuba can produce it and open source it

And CAPITALISM blames WOMEN for lots of things like this so this is just par for the course

Internet is absolutely unusable without ad blockers. And when ads get forced through a service, I stop consuming that service.

And Britain isn’t even under sanctions!

Feel? They literally are being exploited. It’s definitional

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There’s just one small problem which is that my computer is a general purpose machine which means I can make it do whatever I want. They can invent new tricks, but we can always counter them.

It can be fully end to end encrypted and still drop keyword-based metadata into the envelope. But also, I am pretty sure that the feds can access the keys if they need to. It’s e2e encrypted, but that doesn’t mean the key stays on your device.

This is why hexbear disabled downvotes, because it requires the would-be downvoter to engage

Uh, the US has vetoed multiple attempts by the UN to condemn the glorification of Nazis. I hate to break it to you, but Nazis and racists are not illegal.

You should stop using dictionaries to understand massively complex topics. Dictionaries are useful, but they are not authorities on how complex social systems work. Using dictionaries to support your argument in discussion like this signals you as unserious and unaware of your own unseriousness.

Mis/Miso is a prefix from Greek meaning hatred. Gyn is Greek for woman. So the word is literally hatred of women. Just like misanthropy is hatred of humans and misandry is hatred of men. However, one of these words also describes a massive social phenomenon that is structural and embedded in social systems including law, employment, art, literature, fashion, policing, war, advertising, incarceration, health care, politics, education, social norms, cultural traditions, etc. Want to guess which one of these 3 words that describes? Hint - the answer isn’t in the dictionary.

You should read more. The use of misogynistic terminology, that is, referring to any woman as though they are an inhuman dog, is misogyny. When a women uses it to describe another woman, it’s still misogyny. Cleanse yourself of the liberal fantasy that misogyny is only present in people who are fully bought in to anti-woman bigotry and hatred.

Are you saying women cannot replicate misogyny, especially against other women?

The solution is not centralization, the solution is a protocol. The team at Flattr tried to do something that worked for content, but it was centralized. The team at Ganxy tried to expand the definition of monetize, but it was centralized. If we had a protocol where teams could publish metadata that enabled users to use any data-driven app to generate some form of compensation for the contributors, then we could build all sorts of workflows into package managers that made it easier.