Peertube, the video service John Gruber says we need
I stopped reading John Gruber a few years back as I felt his Apple schtick was just old (I'd been reading him since the early 2000s) but while importing my feeds into NewsBlur today I ran across this recent post of his, riffing on an article in Political Wire about Jimmy Kimmel:
John says:
The big problem is YouTube. With YouTube, Google has a centralized chokehold on video. We need a way that’s as easy and scalable to host video content, independently, as it is for written content. I don’t know what the answer to that is, technically, but we ought to start working on it with urgency.
John is on Mastodon, and I don't know how active he is, but in my corner of "the fedi" PeerTube ("An alternative to Big Tech's video platforms") is fairly visible:
With PeerTube, no more opaque algorithms or obscure moderation policies! PeerTube platforms you visit are built, managed and moderated by their owners.
PeerTube allows platforms to be connected to each other, creating a big network of platforms that are both autonomous and interconnected.
Peertube is a video service that runs like Mastodon - it's an an ActivityPub service - where anyone with the time and inclination can run a video hosting service that allows its users to "like and subscribe" to users on the same server and others.
Yes, John is popular enough that I am certain a great many reply-guys have mentioned Peertube to him, but I am not them and this is for _you :heart:)_
It's only a crime if no one profits
In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of decades in prison, large fines, and other penalties. These federal charges eventually lead to his death in 2013.
https://mastodon.xyz/@johl/115293173964294449
OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
It's kind of hilarious that they go "if you don't want me to pirate your movies, you need to opt out". OTOH it's tragic that any ordinary person would've been fined to hell and back for this behavior, but companies get a free pass as usual.
https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/ad9ptt2s993v01j8
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet and setting it to download academic journal articles from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Chicken.pics: For all your weird chicken painting needs
Welcome to Chicken Town
Behold an abundance of fowl. Tap to embiggen. Share with anyone who needs a chickie break.
I loved these so much I used one for my mastodon profile pic.
Yeah yeah I'm back
The site is still a bit of a mess but I've managed to get it up and working. I'm back on Django now, and the home-brew blogging system is multi-tenant through Django's simple but terribly useful Sites framework. I'll be using that to host several of my sites in one place now.
I'm currently using Cloudflare to front the site but as they don't mind hosting Nazis I'll be moving to Fastly as fast as I can (it's more technical and I haven't had time).
I'll post another update soon and hopefully the posts will be flowing again.
The divine is always invoked to conquer, to exclude, to strip away the humanity of others
"The divine is always invoked to conquer, to exclude, to strip away the humanity of others. ...
This is America’s problem. We imagine fundamentalism as the product of religion alone, but in truth it is about power. It thrives in systems that punish dissent and demand obedience. It flourishes where inequality is already deep, where racism already wounds."
~ Lola Ibrahim
#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Zionism
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https://www.alternet.org/religious-fundmentalism-us/
#fundementalism #religion #power
A co-worker's description of reading old code:
Staring at it long enough so that it may show me its secrets
#programming
Poynter: Resources for Fact Checkers worldwide
Poynter.org – a globally-known organization promoting Democracy though Journalism, has a section on their site for the International Fact-Checking Network:
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world. The network advocates for information integrity in the global fight against misinformation and supports fact-checkers through networking, capacity building and collaboration.
(Source: @nelepoldvere@fediscience.org)
Working on it
updating the site, hope to be done soon #blogging