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Trainguyrom

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  • Basically because the planet the craft is being launched from is hurtling around the sun, you have to first cancel out all of that...let's call it horizontal motion. Its the same way that orbits around earth work, you throw the thing horizontally fast enough and it will just fall around the planet. Want it to stop orbiting? Now you have to slow it down enough that it no longer falls around the planet but falls onto the planet.

    Well while things are falling around (orbiting) the Earth, the Earth is falling around (orbiting) the sun. To launch something from earth and have it hit the sun, it first needs to get through all of Earth's atmosphere, achieve orbit around the Earth, then exit the Earth's sphere of orbital influence by increasing the height of the orbit so that the craft is no longer orbiting the Earth but orbiting the Sun, then decrease that orbit around the sun until eventually you get so close to the sun you fall into it rather than falling around it.

    Now, if we were a real space program planning a real mission, we'd probably do something frugal and smart like using gravity assists to make the whole endeavor more achievable (which is exactly what the Parker Solar Probe did!)

  • Hasan Piker banned from Twitch for calling ICE supporters "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs'

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  • The problem is, bandwidth is simply so dang expensive that every company which hosts video content struggles with it. Netflix goes so far as to offer cache servers that ISPs can install in their networks to reduce bandwidth costs for both Netflix and the ISP, because again, bandwidth is expensive as hell!

    Peertube seems like the most viable solution because individuals can host instances for small numbers of users keeping the collective bandwidth costs reasonable (some VPSes offer up to 1TB of bandwidth per month bundled into their contracts for example) while federation permits access to an extremely wide catalogue of content

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  • Hasan Piker banned from Twitch for calling ICE supporters "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs'

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  • This is one of the core features of Peertube, although it doesn't work 100% on all browsers/devices/networks. It also necessitates sharing your IP with others in order to actually save any bandwidth for the host

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  • Well shit I wonder where that number came from. Either way that's a pretty dang good payout for the first stream on YouTube in 8 years

  • Hasan Piker banned from Twitch for calling ICE supporters "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs'

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  • Its just a number he mentioned during his stream. I don't have a timestamp but the VOD is here

  • Hasan Piker banned from Twitch for calling ICE supporters "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs'

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  • The challenge is the bandwidth required is prohibitively expensive. From hyperscalers like AWS we're talking 5-10 cents per GB of egress.

    Lets do some quick math! Suppose we have a 2 hour live stream with 1000 viewers

    2 hours of 720p 30fps h.264 video at 10mbps bitrate would be about 9GB. at 5 cents per gigabyte of bandwidth that's $0.45 for each viewer who watches the whole stream.

    Lets supposed 25% of viewers watched the whole stream, 25% saw an hour of it and 50% watched only 15 minutes of it

     
        
250*0.45=112.5
250*0.225=56.25
250*0.05625=28.125
112.5+56.25+28.125=196.875

    So that 2 hour stream cost the platform about $200 in bandwidth alone.

    If we extrapolate this to match Hassanabi's first YouTube stream numbers where he had around 140k concurrent viewers, and triple the length to match his normal 6 hour stream length, that comes out to a cost of about $84k in bandwidth costs alone for that single stream. The real cost is probably 2-3x that once you factor in all other infrastructure and engineering costs. Lets call it 250k for some easy math (and we're well beyond the point of back of the envelope math making any sense). Assuming a similar stream is hosted 5 days a week, that's a cost of 65 million dollars per year. Will Hassan pay at least $65 million in platform fees during that year? Maybe! But there's a reason Twitch is losing money hand over fist

    But lets be honest with ourselves, any open alternative to Twitch would either be so small as to be hosted on a cheap VPS setup with fixed costs or big enough to be just as bad as Twitch is about things. And since a given person has about as good a chance at winning the lottery as they do at becoming a professional streamer, we aren't talking even a thousand viewers, we're talking a few hundred probably at best. At that scale, peertube is a very good option (especially with its brilliant bandwidth sharing features)

    TL;DR Feel free to go build your leftist alternative to Twitch on Peertube!

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  • I don't watch him but my wife does and I'll certainly listen in while I do other things if I'm in the same room. There's definitely people who want nothing but to tear him down and will invent scandals, but also he definitely leans into the controversy, just like how he seems to enjoy highlighting some of the worst takes by his chatters.

    just another reactionary

    He's been doing this for over a decade now, and provides valuable commentary to the news coverage he's covering, and also he'll do debates & interviews with folks, encourages viewers to check out the works of certain journalists, etc.

    nepo baby

    He's addressed this before, basically stating that yes he did get his start thanks to his uncle's success with The Young Turks. He doesn't pretend that he succeeded in a vacuum based entirely on his charm/smarts/etc. and he runs his company as a coop with employee pay directly related to the company's income rather than whatever is the "industry standard"

    producing low brow bait content

    Honestly he tends to do a better job reporting on current events and providing relevant context than [insert national cable news network here] does

    narcissistic effort to feed his own ego

    Yeah probably

    i haven’t watched any of his streams, just piecing together what bits and bobs i’v been exposed to

    So you don't have anything to base your opinions on. Want something to base opinions off of? Here's him interviewing the attorney general of Minnesota after attending one of the anti-ice rallies immediately following Alex Pretti's execution or here he is interviewing prisoner firefighters in LA during the fires in early 2025

    the dog was obviously distressed.

    My wife happened to be watching that stream and she's dropped streamers she's watched religiously for far less than animal abuse. Literally nothing happened. You're seeing edited/manipulated clips trying to make a scandal out of nothing.

    Look, Hasanabi ain't my cup of tea exactly, (I appreciate his content but I'm not going to seek it out) and I intentionally avoid getting attached to any public personality or person because all too often they end up being a piece of shit, but he's out there doing good work covering real news and educating real people on how the real world works. Until he actually does something worth dropping him, I'll keep paying attention whenever my wife watches him (and she'll probably know before me if he does something terrible or some revelations come out)

    TL;DR stop spreading misinformation!

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  • My wife was watching that stream and just in shock. He made something like 7 million dollars *$18,000 *from superchats on his first(?) YouTube stream. He started it bashing the platform and by the end he was talking about his plan for what he'll be posting/streaming to YouTube in the long term. The temp ban definitely backfired by pushing him to a platform where he immediately got 10x the viewers he'd normally expect

    Edit: I had remembered a completely incorrect number for his superchat income

  • What's your favourite historical photo and why?

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  • "I'm sure they were just good friends"

  • Drone footage showing the sprawling sea of people that came out to protest during the Ice Out General Strike (Minnesota | 01/23/26 | -10°F)

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  • And of course that's just the base temp, the Midwest was blasted with windchills around -40 give or take 10 degrees depending on the latitude

    Legitimately weather where you're risking frostbite within minutes if you aren't properly dressed (and properly dressed means 3+ layers on your upper and lower body, multiple layers of gloves, full face coverings, multiple layers of socks, etc.) and even when properly dressed frostbite can sneak in if you stay outside too long

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  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • I work in IT and run a number of Linux servers and desktops, but my main gaming computer hasn't run Linux since about 2021. Around mid-2021 I got tired of not playing certain games due to lack of Linux compatibility and realized my Windows skills were slipping so I switched it over to Windows 10

    September of 2025 I installed a new SSD into my desktop and installed Bazzite (I have a bad habit of breaking my Linux desktops through too much tinkering, so they accumulate configuration quirks that I can work around but become more and more of headache. I describe it as being like a mechanics car to non-technical users, it works perfectly but you can't use third gear, you have to cycle the heat before the AC goes and you use the screwdriver in the glove compartment to change the radio station) so immutable seemed like a really safe bet, plus its already preconfigured 80% of the way to how I like things which is closer than other distros

    I fully expected to find some key game that I play a lot or software that I rely on wouldn't work under wine/proton, but everything just kept working perfectly so it's stuck for over a quarter of a year already. Also I've had less problems with KDE than I've previously had when running KDE 5+ years ago, so definitely some improvements there

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Running Forza Horizon (a historically Xbox-exclusive game that's still heavily integrated with Windows/Microsoft services) on Linux feels so wrong but it runs flawlessly

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Will have to find a web browser based tax software instead of what I’m used to

    I just went to a tax preparer this year. Costs about the same and my 2025 taxes are going to be all sorts of fun because I did fun new taxable things like contract work and a Roth conversion that I need to make sure are accounted for correctly. But yeah I just give them the documents and they file it all for me.

    Right now might be a little late though. Most tax places will already have their clients for 2025 locked in and very little opportunity to take on more clients

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • If you're having OOM issues you might have have good luck enabling ZRAM

    On Debian based systems it's as simple as running sudo apt install zram and rebooting

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • I generally prefer to manually install and update my own mods so I've never tried running a mod manager in Lutris, but generally the thing you want to be mindful of is if you have everything running in the same wine prefix that needs to interact with each other. Each wine prefix is kinda isolated from another, so when you change which wine version (and therefore prefix) launches a given software, it loses all of its stored data from the appdata folder because that was left in the old prefix

  • YSK Tips for a Winter Storm

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  • Most of a continent is about to see much colder than usual weather. Forecasts where I am are predicting windchills down to -40, and I have a friend north of me who's looking at windchills down to -60F. I have a coworker in Texas who's looking at snow and ice in the next few days as well. Tips like this are useful for folks who live in places that don't get snow and ice

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Off the wall idea, but what if you apply a static IP on that network? Then you'll only have issues when the DHCP server happens to hand out the same IP which you can simply change the IP and have a decent chance of getting a free one