There's Vimeo, BitChute, Odysee, and Rumble, and even Substack and the Internet Archive support video uploads. Not to mention Twitch, Kick, and the newer cohort.
But YouTube has recognition, and insane infra. That's very hard to match, let alone beat.
Most posts are ignored and are an absolute loss to the company. Which is why platforms like Twitter only allow you to make money from posting once you reach a certain threshold.
They're not an "absolute loss" since they cost bytes to store, and raise engagement and data metrics.
It's just that they don't want to share the fractions of pennies with everyone, so the fractions accumulate for them.
Then they pay a bit to the higher tiers, so they create the illusion that X is a parallel income source, and gives the lower tiers something to aspire to.
Carrot and stick, or rather glass beads and the hope thereof.
Markdown handles complexity by allowing html to be freely put into the doc. The basics are really easy, and if you need to do something more advanced html exists. Though this can sometimes make readability drop to 0. I ended up doing this for a complex table I wanted in a readme file, and kind of regret it. I have to explain to people on my team how to use preview mode in their editor, or to view it in the repo online. Although that view online does look nice.
I mean it’s the same problem with mermaid but I still use that pretty religiously. Being able to have your README natively render graphs is super useful and most engineers these days have a markdown previewer built in to the software they use eg vscode
> to put something online and watch teenagers destroy it.
Lol you're quite right there.
> Share your online service if you've got one.
I don't have anything that's not work anymore.
I got burnt out about a decade and half ago, and since then it's been just work, analog life, and the occasional touch up of a couple of personal projects in dark consoles.
I think SaaS definitely won, but I would love to hear this story updated for 2025. Desktop and web apps have a lot more in common than they did 16 years ago.
In USA you can be held 24 hours without being accused of a crime. People have absolutely been picked up by cops and released the next day without apology, most recently the George Floyd protests in Portland, unmarked cops in minivans picked up protestors without any intent to prosecute, just done to break up the protest
Probable cause is a joke. It's incredibly easy to come up with a suspicion that someone is violating a law. That said, they don't need probable cause to arrest you, just to do so without potential liability. 99+% of people don't have the money, time, or connections to sue the police for probable cause violations, and even those that do likely won't win anything substantial unless there are several incidents.
Heard of "probable cause on four legs"? That's what sniffing dogs are meant for. They can use a dog to find a probable cause, and they don't need a warrant either. That's a carve out from the fourth amendment.
Reasonable suspicion is indeed the standard, but it's quite easy to fabricate if you're literally just trying to detain someone and have no intent of seeking a warrant or pressing charges. I can't imagine they'd need to fabricate much for Oswald, whom they knew quite a bit about.
Certainly, the FBI to this day regularly engages in much legally sketchier behavior with much lower stakes.
Edit: cf their weird habit of actively encouraging children to become terrorists
Much nicer interpretation than the simple impossibility.
Plus takes into account that in text criticism the more difficult spelling is usually the more correct, then rendered into the more common through lapsus calami/scribe error.
Some texts in the field veer off into sacred geometry territory too swiftly, but I think Ghyka's offers pleasant discussions without.
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