We don’t need a single mind to understand the entirety of how the brain works. One of the powers of human knowledge is its distributed nature arising from our ability to write things down and create abstractions. What matters in the end is that we as a collective understand the brain.

I think the idea is that you keep the layout as simple as possible such that you don’t need any code for it, css or otherwise.

The problem with the subscription feed is that it shows you every channel that you’re subscribed to. If I only want to see cooking videos for example, then it has to be through the standard YouTube recommendations page. What it needs is the ability to manually group channels and let us choose which set of channels we want to see.

I believe the main cost is in hosting all the videos. A lot of them are probably junk that were never meant to see the light of day. I certainly use it as an extra backup for many of my videos with no context and random UUID titles.

For everything else, a potential solution is to have everyone come in with their own videos hosted elsewhere and the platform just integrated with a bunch of APIs for fetching and serving those videos. For small time creators, the cost should be fairly low to none since a lot of platforms allow you to store a small number of files for free.

I’d also be surprised if no one goes after him for trying to run away from debts. If we know anything, it’s that most laws only apply when they benefit the rich, and he’ll be making a lot of rich people angry if it turns out he did have extra money squirreled away.

The real question is whether the collapse of his house of cards will lead to a 99.7% loss of wealth or >100% loss. He won’t be a billionaire anymore if it’s the latter.

Remember when we had mailing lists that basically acted like forums and group chats with your various friend groups that consisted of these long email chains?

Yes, because they still allow you to spend your money elsewhere if a new storefront appears on the market. Epic is actively preventing that.

I don’t know why everyone’s going on about weather. 1 mile is a 20 minute walk. A bus can do it in 5. That’s huge time savings regardless of the weather.

Let’s be real, it’ll probably happen faster on 40 hour work weeks than 60.

Considering how few people block all scripts, this could also make it trivial for them to fingerprint you.

Oh, yeah, I can see why uniform randomness would be a problem. I thought the criticism was directed at “Just sort people into a Lemmy server either based off their interests or location”

I was thinking that you do a little questionnaire and it gives you the best matching server.

Do you know why? It sounds to me like a great addition to the fediverse.

Shut down as in someone shut down the website or people telling you that the idea is trash?

Pick the one everyone else is using. Your friend has a Hotmail? You make a Hotmail. Everyone switched to Gmail? You’ll also switch to Gmail. Also for a lot of people, email is just email. They don’t even know that you can choose a different provider.

The poll in the article…

Would you use an app to unlock retail store displays?

• Yes. If it speeds up shopping, that’s a win for me.

• No. I don’t need an app to shop, and will just find and employee to unlock it.

Where’s the option of “no, I didn’t need it as much as I thought I did”

When it came to email, we didn’t care about the system becoming too centralized. They were all run by large companies that had the resources to keep things running for a long time, so no need to consider how long your email will survive. Most people didn’t even know they had options. If someone you know made an aol email, then you also made an aol email. The content you receive is exactly the same regardless of where you sign up. No need to think about who federates with who, or how the instance gets moderated. Email is email.

You can’t log in from your lemmy.world account, but you can interact with it through lemmy.world as if you had an account there.

Reddit has a recommendation algorithm to do most of that work for you.

That would be a fair assessment if someone presents you with the two choices and you choose to ghost. But often what happens is that you just completely forget that the app existed. The question of cost never even comes into play.