This nearly 100% depends on how far the gravel/stones will have to move. You always will need several trucks per digger.

Best solution usually is to find a median level, tear down the mountain part above this level, and then use the material to fill up the surroundings to that median. Result: flat land, but maybe not at the level you initially thought.

I currently write a number of little programs, each running on a small processor that lights up a module of my model. They all communicate via WiFi with a Mosquitto broker that coordinates the lighting and the visitor interaction modules.

The test case is a moon base with about a dozen nodes, and later I’ll do the city with nearly a hundred processors.

And that’s just one project. I also wrote an ERP system for the parts I need for building, or tools for text processing, or a mediaWiki extension.

And yes, I do all this on Linux.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I’m currently designing a digital sythesizer running on an FPGA to add sound to one of my models. Just to show you that all kinds of programming can be done on Linux.

About this long holds palms one meter apart.

I would not want them to monitor my calls, either. I meant exactly enforcing SHAKEN/STIR - if they cannot guarantee that the call/text is from the number shown on the display, don’t route it.

This way you can block the spammers or even sue them if you are on a do-not-call list.

It should be the other way round. Telco providers should be fined for any spam call and -text they don’t prevent from happening.

Serious investigation into copyright breaches done by AI creators. They ripped off images and texts, even whole books, without the copyright owners permissions.

If any normal person broke the laws like this, they would hand out prison sentences till kingdom come and fines the size of the US debt.

I just ask for the law to be applied to all equally. What a surprising concept…

I run a computer on Win7 at work, because it needs some important legacy software. It can’t be containered because it has a nasty licence manager.

And my oscilloscope runs on Win98.

About anything to do with computers. Anything.

Lure them in, pull the rug, harvest profits.

Last counting was 114 languages on the LPC1114. And yes, with normal LCDs I’ve done similar things on an 8051 before.

You’re right, cost of content creation comes on top of the running costs, too.

With Taler I wait for it to work the kinks out. And, of course, for it to be available somewhere reasonable.

But even running an indexer on a YT-like scale would need serious money, even if you spread the hosting and streaming load around. And for most users, this would not be attractive, as you probably would have to torrent the data first and view it later.

Then there is the issue with responsibility. If someone throws e.g. CSAM into the system, who could be held responsible? Who would have to deal with DMCA notices? Who would deal with issues like “Dictator X demands all videos showing him in a bad light to be removed immediately!”

And: Opening a payment system is a serious can of worms, especially if you need it to work internationally.

Honestly, I’m not against a YT alternative, but I don’t want it to die after three weeks because the person behind is was too optimistic to consider to potential problems.

Tell this to the LPC1114 I’m working with. Did you ever run a multilingual GUI from 2kbytes RAM on a 256x32 pixel display?

The core problem is that hosting and streaming videos costs money, and that money must come from somewhere. Unless there is someone with really deep pockets just paying for everything, such a platform must use subscriptions or ads to make some money. Netflix & others use subscriptions, YouTube uses ads, and both even offer combo models.

How would a free variant of YouTube work on the long run? Setting up a small model on a server in your home office, maybe with donations to cover initial hardware costs is not the issue at first, but once you need a computer center and employees you’ll need some serious, regular money coming in.

I admire the creativity of idiots. They come up with fresh stupid ideas each and every day.

Simply abandon the US and move the forum to civilization.

This guy never coded in KEIL C on an 8051 architecture. They actually use bit addressable RAM for booleans. And if you set the compiler to pass function parameters in registers, it uses the carry flag for the first bit or bool type parameter.

It is so bad, it is probably not even AI, just incompetent human.

They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.