I once prototyped something like this for another media platform upon request. We found that a) users loved it b) content creators hated it.

Yes, but we aren't talking about life critical systems, just mild inconvenience. Undesirable failure modes may be acceptable if the impact of them occurring is less than the impact of mitigating the failure.

Tricky thing would be making sure clients are authentic (and have uncorrupted data) and are just as trustworthy as the authoritative server.

Steampipe indeed uses HTTP, and clients also support diff patching (which has consequences when you build your package if you want to optimise downloads!)

Maybe like losing all the skin and muscle on your foot and walking on your foot bones ?

I dearly hope I can implement this successfully one day 😂

You might say it's the Utah teapot ... but that's not popped up as often recently in my experience! More of a thing with graphics programmers than modern devs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_te...

@jamie.laundon.org may disagree with this shirt 😂

Actually given the fumes that I'm trying to remove from my house now, it probably has good reason to be.

I learnt: not to put my finger in a running desk fan, and 1/30000th of a second is faster than a goose in a high wind. Whatever that means.

No I'm just inflating your bandwidth bills 💵

Wait I think that one was for me ...