Yeah this article makes no sense, really seems like puff piece slapped together in 15 min from a PR email he sent them. Retired 36 year old multi millionaire shows people they too can solve math puzzles for the low price of 2 mill?

using only publicly available unused cloud storage space ... "I was able to do it just by using big tech’s leftovers."

So he ostensibly used donated storage? Is computing primes even storage intensive? What about the compute? Is that where the 2 million went?

Plus what would "publicly available unused space" even be? Cloud providers don't just give stuff away to random people because they aren't using it

He used servers in 17 countries across 24 data centers and on two cloud providers to find the number,

So he was just running this on 2 big cloud services. Did the author just misunderstand him getting some credits from the providers? Did they run his workload as a low priority thing when they were over provisioned, is that what they mean by "leftovers"? Who knows.

he and his programmer father were writing a prime number computer code.

3,00o[sic] to 5,000 volunteers

Come on WashPo doesn't have editors anymore?

Durant said he also spent the time and money on finding a prime number to show that GPUs can be used for more than AI

What a banal statement. Seems like it's just a way to shoehorn in a way to bring up AI in the article.

Why would they sub cocaine for ecstasy? I don't buy it. There's hardly even any ecstasy in most random ecstasy pills anymore, super stepped on drug

1. You use something as a baseline if you think they're comparable. The cost of running a picture platform and a video platform are very different and would not justify a comparable split, much less a less favorable split. The split is unjustified by underlying platform costs and therefore greedy.

your insistent on there being malicious actions taken is so odd

2. What are you even trying to say? It's odd to write a single comment saying that a YouTuber has an app with a poor revenue split? You're a clown

I do love adding emojis in comments. Programmers can have a little unicode as a treat

Lmao isn't Mint based on Ubuntu also? If you're going to suggest switching distros entirely for slow loading on a single app might as well choose one that's not derivative

all my rods and cones gone

Told you not to use multiple slurp juices on a single eye

Love when my true democracy excludes 35% of the population it governs from citizenship and voting rights

Don't forget learning about systemd and then immediately deciding you actually don't like it and would prefer something else

I never have any problems. You using a VPN?

Many such cases

I use PIA because it's cheap as dirt. I don't use their client and I have it setup so exclusively my torrent client uses it. It works for my use case because I'm pretty much just trying to avoid nasty letters from my ISP. I wouldn't trust them with any of my regular traffic because they're sketchy and there's got to be a reason they're so cheap.

Although I would consider what your usecase for a VPN is - ie what attack vectors are you trying to protect against when using it for regular traffic? There's arguably very little a VPN does to protect you on public WiFi and also opens you up to new risks

Shouldn't need one if you trust your seedbox provider to not log. And even if you don't trust them you'd need to find a VPN to trust more and they're almost all super sketchy.