Shareholders should be pleased, right? Providing a service is a cost. Innovating my “not doing it” should really help their bottom line?

I’m waiting for Google to get refreshingly direct, and simplify their terms of service to:

“1. Fuck the law. and 2. You agree to take personal responsibility when the law eventually notices Google’s bullshit.”

How dare you throw shade at my Great Lakes Avengers! lol.

I plan to operate on expired certificates for two to four years, forcing all three of my users to click past a terrible warning.

Then I will automate my six day certificate rotation with Ansible (officially), but maybe actually with a stupid bash script in CRON (unofficially).

The real value is in the agility needed to update certs every six days.

Six days is still too long to leave a compromised key in play, but anyone who can rotate their keys every six days can probably also rotate their keys quite quickly if there’s a comprise.

Anything you do on USPS also goes to Google.

Opening a PO Box in person should avoid this issue.

Post Office Boxes are the solution.

“fu, I have money”

is waaaay in the rearview mirror for these folks, though.

There is PeerTube. But to your point, full time creators need money, and monetization isn’t solved on PeerTube,

There’s also DropOut.tv, which has many comedians from the former College Humor comedy group.

DropOut.tv doesn’t really do educational content, but their funny stuff is unrivaled and very varied. Their game show, Game Changer is the best thing happening to streaming, right now.

There’s even a (fan) DropOut bot here on Lemmy that creates dedicated threads for the dozen or so of us DropOut fans to discuss episodes when they drop.

And both DropOut and Nebula now have deep back catalogs. I few years ago I felt like I could run out of things to watch. Now I only ever rewatch favorite episodes. Most Game Changer episodes are good enough to watch twice, and then watch the “making of” video afterwards.

It’s still not YouTube where it’s impossible to watch anything. DropOut has a new high quality episode of a flagship show most week days.

Nebula is more like YouTube, where between all the different creators, there’s usually more new content available in a given day than I could consume, if I wanted to.

Curiousity Stream is also an alternative to YouTube. The video quality feels lower across the board than Nebula or DropOut, but it also has some fun stuff, and any competition to YouTube is probably a good thing.

Nebula is a fantastic alternative to YouTube.

It seems like they pay their creators much better, which is enough reason alone, for some of us.

Nearly every video on Nebula has a nice little extra for Nebula viewers. Most are just a quick thank-you, but some are much more substantial.

Legal Eagle sometimes fully drops lawyer mode in post-video bits for Nebula subscribers. This amuses me because I wasn’t sure he could before I joined Nebula. Haha.

Extra History and Extra Credits often have full extra videos on vaguely related topics, I think.

And Nebula is amazingly good for travel videos. Anyone who loves trains should at least try Nebula.

DropOut is my goto for humor, but Abolish Everything on Nebula also regularly provides a solid laugh. Also, DropOut and Nebula folks cameo across companies a bit. No non-compete agrrents there, I suspect.

Obviously, Nebula has much smaller set of content creators, than YouTube.

I appreciate that too though. Average video quality is way higher.

Yes. And perhaps, given time, accessing the wrong version of certain sensitive historic events could even be tracked that way.

politicians like political donations.

Really meta can’t figure out are we humans or not with this massive of data they collect?

That part really pisses me off. Asking for any kind of identity verification is just them gas lighting their users.

But is it anything like Earth? That’s what I want to know. (Edit: Yes it is!)

Edit: I’m told it is Earth-like. I’ve added that here in case the article was too ambiguous about any similarities it might have with Earth.

It’s also fun to pass a “nothing interesting” note privately to the rogue (especially if they’re playing some variety of an untrustworthy scoundrel).

The party jumping at shadows tend to make the rogue’s player grin smugly, which sometimes makes the party jump even harder at shadows.

Lawful Gaston Tank opens the chatlog of the raid plan…

"How can you read this? There’s no pictures!

I hope we can see Freeze given a movie he doesn’t have to share with another rogue and they do it justice.

While I agree, and I feel the same way about movie Bane…

I also kind of want to just throw all my hopes to the wind and watch a new movie where Freeze-in-ator goes toe to toe with swallowed-a-squeeky-toy Bane.

Edit: Ooh, and we could have Jim Carrey’s riddler ham it up without a plan, while Freeze-in-ator briefly one-shot kills sideshow-Doomsday in an after-credits scene.

DC has done some classic villains wrong on the big screen, and I want to see them all unapologetically revisited during the same film. Maybe the hero could be Ambush Bug.

Yeah. I just mention it because I’ve generally just used VNC myself; and wondered what the fuss with fancier tools was about.

But then I realized home Internet has getting worse for some folks, and so folks might be using a service to get VPN-ed together, or whatever.