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in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
I don't care how much this administration tries to skew reality. Trans people are real, and they are valid. No amount of scrubbing of official data and illegal orders are going to change my mind.
I knew a trans woman of extraordinary talent; if not for her efforts, I would probably have still been clinging onto an increasingly fragile program called "Windows 7" for everything. If anything, I've gotten better with computers thanks to that Arch installation script she wrote for me years ago - the gateway to the future I needed.
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The remastering of the remaining classic (2021 and earlier) Hardcore Windows videos has been completed, and they are all queued up, ready to deploy over the coming months.
In addition, the extra segments from Razorback are mostly done. I've also finished work on the 9th segment of Hardcore Windows 95, yet to be seen. Three more videos beside it are planned, but one of them has especially taken a while for me to get started on because of the massive learning curve it requires to demonstrate the topic in question.
Once these are all set, I think I'll be done with making new videos for a while. Some of these old ones have been a nightmare to patch up. In turn, I'd want to shift all my efforts towards the development of Sardine Engine following all of this. At least, I sincerely hope that is what I can focus on in the future...
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The catastrophic plummet in Nvidia's value by the flippers of DeepSeek is perhaps the most hilarious pummeling I've ever seen, right in a time when my government is wanting to dump hundreds of billions of dollars into replacing human workers with AI, no less. It's damning proof that the stock market is full of shit and monolithic American companies are unable or unwilling to develop good software. This might just beat out the utter collapse of NFTs and the proposed dystopian metaverse vision.
To sort of reiterate on an older post from the previous owner, let's go back to the 80's and 90's, when some of the best computers of the time were tasked with something much simpler: playing chess. There were two suggested models for how a computer could play chess as good as a human. One, assemble faster computers, and more of them to calculate every single conceivable move through brute force, and two, write smarter software which can make decisions under timed constraints, cutting out useless strategies.
Guess what... the second model won over by the time IBM's Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov, the top grandmaster of 1997. Soon after, hype for computer chess largely dissolved, as the collective realized it's naturally more exciting to watch human players compete. Furthermore, later conventional software could match Deep Blue's chess prowess on a single Pentium 4 desktop.
Throwing money at wild ventures and expecting results isn't always the answer. Innovation and ingenuity are the key factors in driving everything forward. I have no interest in DeepSeek on the founded principle that generative AI is stupid, but the blow it's dealt to big tech over here is a reminder to all of us that efficiency (and affordability) still matter a great deal no matter how bloated products like Windows and YouTube get. 16GB of RAM should never have to be considered a low amount; I remember a time when it was unthinkably huge.
There's a fundamental reason why I have placed so much emphasis on Windows 95 computers, and it's not because of nostalgia. Although Windows 95 isn't battle-hardened, it's still far more powerful than it's often given credit for. My decision to design Razorback to load fast on 486 computers yielded the extra benefit of the site loading fast on even today's slow internet connections, and that's why I want to write my software to run on a computer running MS-DOS or Windows 95 where it can feasibly do so. You don't need to dry up a river to create a solution.
Even now, I still provide hosting for six websites on a single 1GB server, and thanks to some of the design philosophies they derive from Razorback, it's within HEALTHY margins. When I resume work on Sardine Engine, I'm sure that with careful planning, the sites which plan to use it will remain responsive and lightweight. (Some of these huge videos being remastered have continuously held me back from it due to constant flaws popping up...)
I figure the fad of generative AI is going to continue for the foreseeable future, and its output will continue to suck. Even so, the hype which was being built up for the last few years was surrounding OpenAI, and now that said hype has been struck a devastating knockout, I kind of wonder if it's going to make the press a little salty and reduce their emphasis on it. Maybe then, we'll get back our rivers, and computers can stop chasing dumb ideas and start doing useful things again.
I did not forget what techno fads they tried to force down everyone's throats in 2021, and I will not forget the greedy aggression of American AI companies as they tried to sap away organic spirit.
The whale ALWAYS wins.
SUNFISH: MISSION PACK 1
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In case you haven't noticed, I recreated the computer recordings playlist which some here might remember. www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
I found a few cool, and really long videos covering the Windows 95 launch at a CompUSA store. Quite the time, when it was possible to get excited about software releases of this magnitude, kind of like how crowded a local Apple store was when I attended the launch of Mac OS 10.5 there.
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I also got hit with another age restriction on one of many videos I've queued up, though I have successfully appealed that. Hopefully. I wanted to share my findings regarding the mysterious nature of automated age restrictions on a video, but the comment appears to have been deleted on the spot. It doesn't even show up in my Google Activity page.
I don't feel like making a video explaining a few points, especially when I'm still tied up in getting some of the remaining Hardcore Windows videos fixed. Having anticipated the possibility of my comment getting purged, I took a screenshot of it, so I'll drop it in this post.
In the five years since that migration disaster, one constant has remained: although it doesn't get heard much, people are still desperate for another option - maybe now more than ever. Sadly, even for all the effort it takes to *create* that option for your own stuff, it still doesn't do much because the default remains to head over to YouTube or some other giant for everything.
I don't need to talk to many people, so removing the tethers of Discord was absolutely a massive net positive, but I did find that I really like to make things, so I'm still running around the clock trying to make this channel complete, and it really sucks putting up with the hurdles along the way.
If you haven't noticed, there was a remarkable power shift within the internet giants in November which I'm not sure I've ever seen before, and I've seen at least several major platforms come and go in my time online. Anyone remember Digg?
It took a brazen fascist buying an entire Twitter, throwing it into chaos, and very explicitly telling its entire userbase to vote for a presidential candidate to create a power vacuum out of the (quite righteous) outrage of at least half of said users, or former users.
It's a very rare and specific chain of events, but in the end, we got a better and cleaner Twitter called Bluesky, and it shows no signs of stopping. Will it remain good? I don't know for certain, but it's definitely usable enough for me as an advertising outlet.
I've heard a tidbit of the team behind Bluesky wanting to expand its reach, which may include creating another YouTube. Such a task could be far more difficult than replacing a site like Twitter, but if I had to guess, they're probably the ones who could pull it off.
Video hosting is costly, but YouTube's operations are very inefficient given they incentivize quantitative content (distinguished from VIDEOS) and seem to be all fine with AI vomit. If this was not the case, YouTube wouldn't be in its growing space/bandwidth crisis right now, I'm sure of it. In turn, it probably wouldn't be performing some of the bizarre corner-cutting measures everyone complains about now, like deprioritizing videos and channels aimlessly - i.e. demonetization and age restrictions.
Guess I should've made a video about this, huh? Maybe later...
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YouTube Studio is still by far the worst interface I have ever used. At times, it'll tie up as much as 3GB of RAM in my browser and strangle any other tabs I have open until I close all YouTube tabs, and just now it literally slugged my mouse cursor and crashed my GUI when I was trying to add videos to a playlist. Seriously, how does one develop a web interface to be THIS broken?
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I think for now, I may just want to dump the original low quality 240p Politics videos as they are here soon. This series is boring as shit to work on (which is also why I still think I wouldn't want to make any new ones despite some new abominable conditions making the series ripe for them).
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Figured out how to block that AI box? Too bad! If a description is deemed unworthy in the search results, YouTube will now replace it with its own.
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I'm nearly in position to get the Hardcore Windows videos patched up so I may start uploading them soon enough. I've already got Windows 7 running on one of my new workstations. I have run into some snags, however; for one, I am no longer able to use my legitimate license of Adobe Production Premium CS6. I reached out to a support agent after running in circles with the virtual assistant, and it appears it is completely impossible for them to deactivate previous instances of the software on their end now.
That leaves me to have to use other means to get the software working. I already have a file in place to get the software running again, but it requires me to replace all instances of "I-Frame Only MPEG" with "Microsoft AVI" in the project files to get them to load, due to some presets being unavailable, it seems. But if I'm gonna be doing this, I'm starting to think I should use CC 2018 equivalents instead, just to make better use of the new hardware and possibly gain some additional functions. I'm not familiar with that lineup, and get the feeling there could be some caveats. If anyone has experience with these, I want to hear your takes.
The whole thing's a mess, and it could've been easily prevented if Adobe continued to provide perpetual licenses for these programs, or at the very least didn't rob customers of what they paid for. I really do hope that Kdenlive and Olive will catch up a lot more in the coming years.
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The official archive of Razorback's videos created by Kugee. This channel was formerly operated by a commissioner as Razorback Legacy. As of December 22nd, 2024, this channel is now being maintained by Kugee.
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