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Est—what?
(thelemmy.club)
lol
Matrix message sent
terrorist
^NOUN^
- any person who fights Israeli occupiers
He was a Democrat? TIL.
Storage is about half the ongoing costs.
If the movie is bad and you have no intention of ever watching it again, then I suppose you may as well delete it. On the other hand, having a large library of quality or rare content is a boon to the site, so please keep anything that's good and well-organized/labeled. Deleting videos also deletes their views from the global views counter, which makes me slightly sad.
A lot of the storage bloat is due to "abuse" by users unrelated to Hexbear and has resulted from my failure to crack down and set a reasonable policy, so don't feel guilty.
As for redistributing/decentralizing videos, that may be possible but I think it may be too complex to justify the benefit. It would require me first to migrate from BackBlaze to a custom storage server and configure PeerTube to serve videos from the filesystem instead. That's something I'd like to do anyway, but once the capital is expended for it, the ongoing storage costs will be pretty low, which greatly reduces the relative benefit to decentralizing the videos. It would also require other people to setup and maintain a high-availability web server.
White-balanced Parenti
LNPJ
Which Myers-Briggs type is this?
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Investing in a server with mass storage would "pay for itself" in less than a year, compared to what I'm currently renting (I'm low key scared to look up the prices of DDR5 RAM and NVMe drives though). Since I plan to maintain TankieTube "forever", it seems like the best option.
I'm so ready to ditch BackBlaze because their timeout errors are causing ~90% of the current problems with the website (external storage move failures and buffering problems). 
I have plenty of experience assembling computers and the thought of building a server is really fun, but I've never used colocation before.
Questions/Thoughts/Concerns:
- Do datacenters let you walk inside to maintain your own server? There is a datacenter in my home city, which would be convenient, but using it would effectively soft-doxx my location. Right now "Burgerland" is as specific as I publicly reveal.
- If I ship the server to a more remote location, how would I replace failed drives? Is that a commonly provided service? Would using a datacenter within ~2 hours driving distance be the best compromise between accessibility and location obfuscation?
- Is paying with Monero an option? Is it a good idea? Could I mail replacement drives directly to the datacenter without revealing my home return address?
It looks like I'll need NVMe drives in something called the U.2 form factor (instead of M.2) in order to enable hot swapping. TIL.
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Note: I may be slow to update the post title with the current goal progress, but these badges should be automatically updated [Edit: Hexbear proxies images so I have to make them hyperlinks instead].
Receives X USD | Goal Progress Y %
TankieTube is holding its first ever fundraiser! 
If you've found the site of value, then please consider becoming a sustaining member through Liberapay (if you have the means to do so)! 
It's our preferred method.
https://liberapay.com/TankieTube/donate
We've set an ambitious goal of $100 per week, which would cover much of the current server, bandwidth, and storage costs.
One-Time Donations
Liberapay currently doesn't support one-time donations, but you can effectively make one by signing up and then cancelling your subscription after the first payment.
Other ways to make a one-time donation, for your convenience:
1) 
PayPal/Venmo/Credit/Debit [No anonymity]
Pros: Simple, fast, no account creation required
Cons: Your name and address is revealed (to me); it's not private and anonymous like Liberapay
2) 
Monero (XMR) [Ultimate OpSec]
8AaqRrPGfzPfGmZbmBc43WQ4BEnTBujbKiNrMcCZWXKo84LfhH8hysNZxV6JhvESmp2XueM4nHg9J6tLf6pKpbH4KH6dTR4
Pros: Untraceable: Neither I nor Liberapay will know your identity. Can bypass US sanctions which affect PayPal and Liberapay.
Cons: Complicated
The majority of existing cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, have transparent blockchains. Transactions can be verified and/or traced by anyone in the world. This means that the sending and receiving addresses of these transactions could potentially be linked to real-world identities.
Monero is the only major cryptocurrency where every user is anonymous by default. The sender, receiver, and amount of every single transaction are hidden through the use of three important technologies: Stealth Addresses, Ring Signatures, and RingCT.
If you buy Monero on a public exchange such as Kraken, then transfer it to a private wallet you control before sending a payment.
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Slop? How dare you. This was a hand-crafted artisanal meme that took me a whole night in GIMP to make! 
https://xcancel.com/mightbejell0/status/2042447337201483991
[CW: racism, ableism, homophobia, slurs]
https://xcancel.com/TankieTanuki/status/2042395973822136721
Cowbee's Law: Effective agitprop will make you enemies.
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"It really puts life on Earth into perspective"
(thelemmy.club)
Astronaut on the beauty of space
spoiler
Fake quote from Clickhole in 2015
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You can now do live streaming on TankieTube
(thelemmy.club)
I upgraded to v8.1.3 this morning which fixed several bugs, and in the process I also enabled live streaming.
As part of the version upgrade, channels can also now have more than one owner/collaborator.
Edit: I also installed the livechat plugin
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TankieTanuki
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joined 5 years ago
Like the drug dealer?