Example person

Umm...

@Mithical Okay - but, one of the other 'simple' questions I have is - 'Bitrates v/s compression (lossy/lossless)' - 'Bitrate affects video quality - and compression too. So, if I use lossless compression, and very low bitrate - what would happen?' - atleast you can point me to a document where I can learn more about all these concepts

Encoding. Not encryption

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry And I have some questions about h264 encoding and decoding.

Well - what if the question is something along the lines of "I have an mp4 encoded with a lossy profile, decoded to ... how to encode the ... back to an mp4 that exactly resembles the original mp4, or atleast uses the same amount of space?"? - Maybe this question title would be too long, but I think you get it

almost all of them are in SO. But I am not sure that my questions will be programming related - which is the main rule there - if I understand it

Hey there - I was wondering, where can I ask about mp4s, encoding, decoding, etc.?

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack, oops. forgot about that

I mean, for easy data access, they could be archived to one place

@Shadow can we do that ( see my prev comment) ? what do you think?

we could instead archive all potentially AI generated answers, and perform analysis on them. But don't ask me how we can perform analysis on them (i literally don't know). @Shadow, can we?

@GcL lol..

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack afaik, it will increase suddenly on one day. Not only about posts 'bad' enough, but about everything they have done on the internet. The amount of data collected about their brains to create generative AI.... and so on/

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack, until they do care about it

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack, what do you think about privacy on the 'modern' internet? Time to RESET the internet. Too many issues with it.

There is no way we can teach them though. That's not our responsibility either. Google can teach if they want to. (but I can't tell that for sure, you know)

That's a sad truth many don't learn right away.

lol

@ZoestandswithUkraine I respect your opinion

@ZoestandswithUkraine, there should be some kind of barrier to avoid privacy issues, don't you think?

Well, what if the user deletes the comment thinking it is gone? It is extremely common from my experience.

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack wow. Nice logic.

@ZoestandswithUkraine Don't accidents happen? (especially to new users)

"but there are definitely scrapers that do precisely that" - think about it.

@ZoestandswithUkraine hmm...

@ZoestandswithUkraine, what do you think about the privacy issue from the chat that archives comments?

Hmm...? How, wouldn't that cause data loss?

I can't even imagine how they do these things

Wow.

@PeterKolosov, compression? To such great extent?

I am not running any servers lol

Of course that could, in theory, be a privacy risk, but they can significantly minimize storage for files containing the same data

Maybe they have internal techniques for using 'symlinks' to the same file if two users upload the same file?

They give about 20 GB of free space for every user's google drive. How can they handle 20 * 1 billion users, atleast

:P 1/0

And google on the other hand has infinite storage

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack Thanks for understanding. What happened to the strike now? Still going on?

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack, I wonder how much data can SE servers hold

Is there one for SO? or only for metas?

I mean, when a user posts sensitive info, and doesn't know about that chat, what will happen to the sensitive info in the chat?

What if they don't know about that chat? It is very common for new users to make such mistakes

What if personal info is posted (by accident ofcourse)? then what?

Ohh... That's why I never saw it before. Nice.

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack, I never realized there is a comment archive in meta and SO meta, what purpose does it serve? How on earth does it fetch new comments? (pls tell me)

How do adblockers block them if they are not ads (or from ad related sites?)

Trackers? How do those get sent to google?

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack You mean, through the ads on SO?

That question I mentioned seems to have answers that imply that git treats them as regular files

The answers have thousand votes and stuff, would google actually consider those things?

I was talking about this