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Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos by chirau on Saturday July 04, 2026 @10:41PM (#48790865)
As a 'software engineer' myself, I fully understand your position, but please qualify the statement about the software you work on. Either add 'efficiently' or 'at scale', because all that infrastructure you mentioned could definitely be built without your software. It was possible before your software and it sure would be possible without it, it just would not be as easy.

I am sure someone is going to dwell on that if not fixed.

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Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos by maccard on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:32AM (#48792669)
This is silly. People survived before the Haber Bosch process but an overnight removal of it from the world would absolutely result in a catastrophic collapse.

If you want to be reductive, we’re all going to die due to entropy anyway, it will all balance out so there’s no point in doing anything at all.

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