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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by hsbauauvhabzb on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:45PM (#35517777)
They could do it on a few clients then ship the data back to the server. If they’re resourceful those clients don’t even need to be watching the video! (they could send it and compute the output in the background of another stream)
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by TeMPOraL on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:53PM (#35517851)
But that's a distributed problem now and those use up valuable developer time, which we know is the most important resource in the world...
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by hsbauauvhabzb on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:43PM (#35534044)
Yeah, but if google solve distributed processing just imagine the cost savings elsewhere (imagine involuntarily crowdsourcing video encoding, it would save them millions)
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