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https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1664761311291400192?ref_src=patrick.net

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#Antifa and supporters of children’s pride events retreated following a fight outside Saticoy Elementary in Los Angeles. Mostly Armenian-American families gathered to protest the school’s pride celebrations.

Has video, but too large to upload. Wait, I can truncate the video with QuckTime Player, so here's the beginning:

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1664761311291400192?ref_src=patrick.net

MrAndyNgo

#Antifa and supporters of children’s pride events retreated following a fight outside Saticoy Elementary in Los Angeles. Mostly Armenian-American families gathered to protest the school’s pride celebrations.

Has video, but too large to upload. Wait, I can truncate the video with QuckTime Player, so here's the beginning:

Just create a bitchute account, and upload it there.

That would work, but then I'd be dependent on Bitchute to maintain patrick.net content.

Patrick says

That would work, but then I'd be dependent on Bitchute to maintain patrick.net content.

No you aren't.

You are using mySQL aren't you? If you had a string, like this: e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 (that's an SHA256SUM, entirely unique in the world) somehow denoted so you can recognize it, as a redirect, you can simply change it. Put it on Bitchute, Odysee, whatever, you can link it back to your server later.

Storage will just get cheaper and cheaper.

Just substitute the string, and later, put it on the server if you want.

256GB is around $25 bucks now. In 10 years, I expect 1TB will be that price.

You need to have a thing like tinyurl.com that will point to anything and have multiple storage locations, if you want to preserve the history. You can even upload to archive.org - if THAT is really an archival system. I can show you how to embed that if you wish.

What I'm saying is that Bitchute or whatever other video hosting site can turn woke and delete the video.

Then I can't show it anymore.

Patrick says

What I'm saying is that Bitchute or whatever other video hosting site can turn woke and delete the video.

Then I can't show it anymore.

You need a redirect link in your database, so the video can be redirected.

Ultimately, as storage gets cheaper, you can store it locally. You should always have backups of any video anyhow, I suggest you back them up as the (sha256sum).mp4. Then it's easy to locate from the database.

If BitChute become compromised, you just have to spend (a lot of time) uploading the files to another server and redirect.

I don't depend on 3rd party sites either, but I can reconstruct everything quickly, because I store it all offline. 6GB is cheap now. That is an enormous amount of storage. Everybody does this now, all producers of content have learned their lesson.

I keep telling you, that your own internet connection is capable of driving this entire site. You could run this site on a raspberry pi, sitting next to your router, with an ethernet plug.

richwicks says

You should always have backups of any video anyhow

Yes, that's the summary of what I'm trying to say. My server storage space is small because I'm a cheap bastard and patrick.net has no revenue. I suppose I should just buy a set of decent sized external drives and then I could have the primary storage be at Bitchute, but if they turn woke, I could replace the videos with my stored copies, spending more for a bigger server.

Patrick says

Yes, that's the summary of what I'm trying to say. My server storage space is small because I'm a cheap bastard and patrick.net has no revenue.

Well, when I was in college, my total disk storage was 1MB. I'm cheap bastard too. Nothing wrong with that, but here's Plan 9 From Outer Space, which is in public domain:



That's on MY computer. You can do this now, but you probably don't have GB ethernet like I do. You will. You're not going to need a server forever. 2 dozen people can simultaneously download that from me, and I won't notice it. I'm on the same Internet connection.

You need to link local storage files to external storage. Eventually you won't need external storage at all. It will happen, you need to be able to move to local storage from offline storage, with a very simple modification. It's going to happen.

Even nerds and geeks don't understand what they have. You can trivially run this site off from a raspberry pi, sitting at my desk - if this site becomes massively more popular, then it's a problem, maybe.

..I should add, I'm not keeping that file up forever. Eventually I'm going to have to update this machine.

To be clear, that file is sitting on a hard disk 2 feet away from me, and access goes through a COMMERCIAL router to the public. Perhaps 1/2 the websites in the world need a hosting site. Most people can run them at their desk. It's good enough. The US was the FIRST with the internet, and telephone, and television, which is why our infrastructure sucks. My internet connection is standard in Korea and Japan and it's "cutting edge" in Silly Con Valley, that made it. We're still lugging along with the internet infrastructure of 2000, and cable connections from the 1970's and telephone lines from the 1950s. We work with existing infrastructure, which is incredibly out of date.