The_Decryptor

Plan 9 even extended the “everything is a file” philosophy to networking, unlike everybody else that used sockets instead.

Existing JPEG files (which are the vast, vast majority of images currently on the web and in people’s own libraries/catalogs) can be losslessly compressed even further with zero loss of quality. This alone means that there’s benefits to adoption, if nothing else for archival and serving old stuff.

Funny thing is, there was talk on the Chrome bug tracker of using just this ability transparently at the HTTP layer (like gzip/brotli compression), but they’re so set on pushing their AVIF format that they backed away from it.

For a game I don’t think it’s the end of the world, but you could end up in a situation where the first check passed, then you go to use the file and that fails, so you end up having to handle the “can’t use file” case twice anyway. But for something like showing a “Continue” menu item you obviously need to check that there’s an existing save to begin with before loading it.

In general checking first leads to race conditions known as “time-of-check to time-of-use”, the pitfalls of which can vary greatly, but realistically aren’t a problem for a lot of cases.

You can’t do normal BitTorrent in browsers, there’s no support for plain sockets that you’d need to communicate with other peers, WebTorrent is technically a new protocol that implements the BT semantics over stuff the browsers do provide (So you can proxy between the different swarms, that’s the “hybrid” nodes in the image on the WebTorrent page)

But it turns out it’s all a moot point, since PeerTube removed WebTorrent support anyway in favour of their own P2P system

Edit: Ok so I misunderstood, and it seems like it’s a bit complicated. The server can (it’s disabled by default) use WebTorrent to import videos, the client still uses the WT trackers to find peers but uses a different protocol to actually share the video data.

There’s this tool that provides the ability to automatically seed videos, but development has stalled because no up to date client will ever make use of it.

I think the one remaining use is the “download as torrent” option, but even then that’s just using a web seed, so it’s just an alternative way to download the video.

Unfortunately WebTorrent isn’t compatible with normal BitTorrent, so unless you’re using a client that specifically supports it, you’re not helping out any PeerTube clients

His personal LLC is called “Excession”, considering some of the plot points in that book I doubt he enjoyed it at all, it’s just “nerd set dressing”.

At the time it was just an ad-lib by Jason Issacs, guessing he wished on a monkey’s paw for it to make sense in context.

What’s the problem with that, though? Systems like that are pretty much guaranteed to be isolated from the internet.

Because things break down eventually, and when it comes time to buy replacement parts you discover that they’re effectively impossible to find. Then instead of having a nice, planned transition period you’ve got like a weekend to cobble together something to get it working again.

Yep, our center-left government recently announced plans to keep using natural gas for at least another 25 years

But it’s ok, because we’ll work out carbon capture in the future! Which is the exact same notion that our previous right wing government based their policy on.

Sounds a hell of a lot like my Australian school experience.

My high school was great, if you were doing poorly in a class then next year they’d put you in an easier class to bring up your average grade (And if that didn’t work, then they’d just ignore you).