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Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history (arstechnica.com)
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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Eh. The Internet is too full of useless crap thst costs energy to keep alive. No one needs endless swathes of boring videos. If there are some valuable recordings there, then they can preserve those.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I agree in this case but this is what they thought at the dawn of computing, too and we lost a lot of history.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

True but at the dawn of computing we were too naïve. We couldn't imagine people would record everything.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think the point is that you can't know what you don't know. They weren't naive back then, they were ignorant and limited by the technology of the time.

We preserve stuff precisely because we don't know how it might be useful in the future.

We have a name for things we know for sure won't be useful in the future: Trash.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, absolutely, but we also preserve everything because separating the wheat from the chaff is too much work. For example, most people store all the pictures they take because it's easier than selecting the ones we might want later. But we kmow some of them are useless.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

See but that's my point. They are useless as far as we can tell in the present.

Maybe in 2 years we will regret not having mountains of recorded streams when we're training models for AI streamers. And so on and so forth.

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