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On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:44:48 -0400
"Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

> You could use anything you want to use, sure, but the independence of 
> the data from the contraption, it being streamed online, is a benefit.

What a peculiar thing to say. Data has no reality in meatspace outside
of a contraption, unless you count printed matter. Weighing one con-
traption against another, then, streaming has many more possible points
of failure and its end result is exactly the same: moving pictures with
accompanying audio.