I would definitely want my door locked for that.

Maybe not your particular board, but platformio supports Linux for ages. I worked with that 6 years ago (on arch, btw).

There’s nothing wrong with UDP. At least not that I know of.

Sure, but the thing is: only a single person needs to break it temporarily in some way and this person can then leak the DRM free copy for everyone to consume.

That’s why DRM is such bullshit. It only ever punishes legitimate users. All others are unaffected.

Tell me which so I can develop a competing service and steal your userbase!

So we could use a blockchain… (/s)

That’s not easier than not needing a VPN in the first place.

Piracy has never been easier or safer or faster than it is now

What?! It was way easier and safer in the era of Napster, edonkey and emule. Easy discoverability and companies didn’t pay any attention yet. Since then it’s a cat and mouse game.

For the service they offer (the hosting basically) I am actually willing to pay quite a bit. But what they typically ask for (about €15 for a single account) that’s just not worth it, given that YouTube isn’t the producer of the content they serve. Music might be a bit more complicated thanks to the fucking idiotic way how licensing around that works. Anyway: nothing of that excuses the excessive use of ads they serve nowadays.

As others said: VPN. Ukraine seems to work good currently, since the Credit Card address isn’t validated. Cheaper countries like India or Turkey now check if the CC you use is from that country. That is a bit more complicated to pull off, so that wasn’t worth it for me.

I got fed up with this shit and invested a bit of time into getting a working Premium Family plan through a cheap country (Ukraine is about $4 per month). I invited my whole family (parents included) so essentially 6 people have an ad-free YouTube now for less than $1 each (per month). I assume that’s still less than what they have gotten by serving us a shit ton of ads. And I am rid of that cat and mouse game for a while.

I really hate being so shallow, but just seeing here face makes my blood boil. I just hope it’s simply the news papers picking the dumbest photos possible.

If you run it in old-school CGI mode, no, because each request would spawn a new process. But that’s nowhere near state-of-the-art. So typically you would still have a long-running process somewhere that could manage a connection pool. No idea if it does, though. Can’t imagine that it wouldn’t, however, since PHP would be slaughtered in benchmarks if there was no way to keep connections (or pools) open across requests.

Anything under like 100ms load is instant to the user, especially a page load.

True, but it accumulates. Every ms I save on templating I can “waste” on I/O, DB, upstream service calls, etc.

For a bit of templating? Yes! What drives response times up is typically the database or some RPC, both of which are out of control of PHP, so I assume these were not factored in (because PHP can’t win anything there in a comparison).

Yup, I also do that. If I just need a variable to put in what will be returned, I call it result. What it means should be clear from the function name. Repeating that feels redundant.

Pff. I know someone who generated programs using XSLT.

As if there are equivalent and small phones with Android.

Ah one of those endeavours where an executive thought “well, it can’t be that hard. We will do it better and cheaper and reap the profits”. Just to be hit with reality.