Old Seminole Heights — Tampa — Florida — U.S.A. Journalist. Consultant. Neighborhood trustee. Voting rights advocate. Non-profit theater board member. Citrus grower. Beagle foster dad. Wife guy. Signal: 352.222.2706 https://timburkelegalfund.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyzhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml5td6dbbcoyjust learned a baseball player with a great remember-that-guy name grew up on this property & did off-field training in the garage that is now my office his name combined with the Tampa team name made for great headlines over the years06 May 2026 04:08 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5td6dbbcoyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml5puanzscoy"we can't have buses, roads are too busy, we're encouraging people to take uber and lyft instead" [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 03:06 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5puanzscoyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml5pbpbjxkllno, it doesn't. whether it's hls or mpeg-DASH, the video gets to your TV via your TV/STB/etc requesting a file by http and the server returning it. that's it. the decoding takes place on the client device; the encoding only happens ONCE, & can be done by a $0.25 chip. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 02:56 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5pbpbjxkllhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml573oqpns2gCouncilmember Charlie Miranda bringing... 🔥🔥🔥🔥05 May 2026 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml573oqpns2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml5555tlzcllnetflix serves 800Gb/s from a single server as of a few years ago, because serving video fragments takes almost no CPU and very little disk i/o because most of them are in RAM anyway. 2008 FB required 10,000 servers and they still had that bug that made them go offline for a day bc FB is db-heavy! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5555tlzcllhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml4ybxbmas2nIt remains baffling how this guy has a platform and audience [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4ybxbmas2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml4seldbjsdkgod they're all such FANTASTIC LOSERS [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4seldbjsdkhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml4eaqinrsdkholy shit learn how to be journalists again, i beg you [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4eaqinrsdkhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml4c4wvhucwygreat example! Netflix's OCA is 19"x24"x8" (2.8 ft³); 19,000 of them =53,200 ft³ i live in an urban neighborhood but w/ deep 50x180 lots, 9000ft² the servers every person on Earth connects to for Netflix could be stacked 7.5’ high around my yard & still have room for both my house AND my office [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4c4wvhucwyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml3gq24z7cwyi seem to remember someone being impeached over an issue involving lying under oath? https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/politics/hegseth-biden-2024-troops-voting-locations-fact-check05 May 2026 05:18 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3gq24z7cwyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml3fooj252wythe 3/5 compromise was about whether slave states should get to count people who lacked voting rights as population for the purpose of proportional representation & had nothing to do with anyone's consideration of the value of a human being; it was the slave states who wanted slaves counted in full! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 04:59 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3fooj252wyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml3fdb722kwywhat. ppl protest data centers for reasons of public health and pollution. nobody "protests" clean energy or transit, & the people protesting housing are definitively different people than those protesting data centers bc data centers are not going up in places where the land value is that high! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 04:53 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3fdb722kwyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml3eb6sqdswy👀👀👀👀👀👀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 04:33 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3eb6sqdswyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml3dx53g5kwyTwitch isn't paying millions or in fact anything really because they laid off most of their streaming engineering team two years ago [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 04:28 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3dx53g5kwyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml3cjdagpkwythat's not how HLS or Dash streaming has ever worked. When you watch Andor or whatever on Disney+ your app is pulling mp4 segments via basic http and those segments were both encoded and encrypted a very long time ago, & it only needs to be done once [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 04:02 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3cjdagpkwyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml3cd2mde2wywho was it that wrote the great analytics article about how blocks aren't particularly valuable stats?05 May 2026 03:59 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3cd2mde2wyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml2y553xzcwyI am fortunate to have spent some individual time with him and can say that he's far too smart, kind, and insightful for that job [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2y553xzcwyhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3ml2wpnbkfc2ban all time great baseball TV moment05 May 2026 00:31 +0000at://did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2wpnbkfc2b