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I’ve recently tried to use peertube and I think it could improve a lot if it showed all the content in all instances.
The policy of different PeerTube instances differs greatly therefore a lot of admins decide to federate with a limited number of instances. This also has an advantage. I’m on the LinuxRocks instances and it only federates with tech oriented instances. This keeps the instance clean of a lot of unwanted content. BTW: A user can still add interesting channels to it’s PeerTube account that show up for the user only.
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Here is a link to an article what to expect from v4: https://framablog.org/2021/11/30/peertube-v4-more-power-to-help-you-present-your-videos/
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First of all I’m no security expert but I do know that security is relative. I’ve yet to see a objective scientific approach that can compare the security models of GNU/Linux and Windows (or any other OS). This could, given a proper experimental setup, provide objective data to substantiate that a certain Linux installation or distribution (or Windows for that matter) is secure (or insecure) in comparison. Understandably this scientific approach is very difficult to define given the numerous variables one has to include in this experiment. Until then we have to settle with self-proclaimed security experts that argue perhaps even rightfully why one system or the other is (in)secure. Often leading to endless debates without a decisive clear outcome.
As a sidenote. It’s funny that the author while describing the lack of sandboxing applications in Linux puts Linux against ChromeOS while the latter is a Gentoo Linux-based operating system.
And another one. Any OS is as secure as it’s user.
Definitely Mindustry. Great strategy game that I played hour after hour especially in coop mode. Not too steep learning curve and always enough challenge to keep coming back. Also it runs on low spec machines. https://mindustrygame.github.io/
There is the excellent InfoSec for Journalist handbook from Silkie Carlo and Arjen Kamphuis. The latest edition is from 2016 but it still contains valuable information and it covers a lot of topics. The handbook is no longer being updated which is likely caused by the disappearance from Arjen Kamphuis in August 2018.
https://beschermjegegevens.nl/wp-content/uploads/InfoSec-for-Journalists-V1.3-1.pdf
I also found this more elaborate book, a collection of articles, posts and lectures and a handy InfoSec guide from Arjen Kamphuis. The InfoSec guide starts at page 307 but is probably the same as the one linked to above.
https://beschermjegegevens.nl/wp-content/uploads/arjenkamphuis-infosecurity-small.pdf
An important reason for lack of adoption is simply because every PC or laptop comes with Windows installed for free (as in gratis). People are generally lazy and don’t bother with installing another OS. I’m pretty sure that the general public doesn’t need the feature rich MS O365, and certainly doesn’t care about the toxic community or GNOME vs KDE/Plasma. They just take what’s already installed.
Three years ago I installed Linux Mint on my fathers laptop because of the slow performance of Windows and all the malware issues that he had. Before that he used to call me once a week the ask for help for his laptop but that stopped immediately after I installed Mint. He’s a happy Linux user now but he can’t tell you anything about his desktop environment, package manager or whether he’s running systemd. He doesn’t care about that, he just wants his laptop to work. If the laptop had come with Mint in the first place he probably wouldn’t have known that it had Linux on it.
Interesting thoughts. My first reaction is that too many changes can easily lead to feature creep. I like Lemmy for what it is an ethical Reddit like alternative. Having said that, the idea of a better description of what a community is about is good but that can already be covered in the sidebar. Nevertheless it could help mods to structure the text in the side bar.
Some of the ideas seem more of a burden to the community mod e.g. setting up a matrix server (and modding that too). But then again you already wrote that that is optional.
Back in the early '80s I was still in high school and had absolutely no money for a home computer (that’s how we called them) but I had money to buy computer magazines. So almost frantically I read articles about Sir Clive Sinclair and his inventions, ZX80, ZX81 and ZXSpectrum, imagining what I could do with one. I actually never bought a ZX (but years later a COMX-35 instead) but Sir Clive was the one who got me interested in computers in the first place.
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Yeah, it’s hard to imagine how the blockchain stuff coincides with the sustainability goal of the NGI Initiative. I also find it ironic that the pdf that explains the research and innovation program, specifically targeting open source privacy, is made with MS Word on OSX. https://www.ngi.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/48/2020/04/NGI4ALL_NGI_Projects-and-people.pdf
According to the Fediverse definition it is. The definition is: ‘… able to communicate over the boundaries of the instances because the software running on the servers supports one or more communication protocols which follow an open standard’. These open standards are: ActivityPub, Diaspora Network, OStatus and Zot.
I’m only discussing instances here that have quality content. TILvids is big and it has quality content but it doesn’t federate with any other instance which kind of defeats the purpose of PeerTube. Better would be to join a PeerTube instance that federates with a proper number of other instances and has good quality e.g diode.zone.
Now that’s good spending of EU money. Where did you find that information because I couldn’t find it. The only thing I could find is this on the NLnet website ‘The foundation’s current funding comes from donations, legacies, collaborative funding and subgranting mechanisms, after having been kickstarted by a substantial capital established by pioneers of the European internet’
With all the billions that the EU is spending on farmers and industry it would be a good idea if they actually start funding existing free and open source projects. Perhaps in the same way NLnet (https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html) is funding free and open source. Imagine what could be done.
Movim has a very nice news feed. It allows to subscribe to some of the major news outlets. I’m happily using it for two years now. https://movim.eu/
Perhaps a little bit of topic but this post takes me back 40 years. In the '80s computer code was distributed over a radio signal. First on FM later on AM. On the receiving end me and many other computer enthusiasts were recording this signal on a little cassette recorder. The recorder was then connected to the computer and we could load the source. O, sweet nostalgia. Copyright on software didn’t exists and we had never heard of Bill Gates. I suddenly feel very old now ;-)
I switched from OpenELEC to LibreELEC years ago after most of the OpenELEC developers decided to leave and start their own version. Amazing for what it does, minimal Linux distro to run Kodi. Has never failed me. Also a demonstration of the strength of free and open source software. If needed you can always create your own fork and (try to) make a better product.
I agree that the post is rather pessimistic about the future of the Fediverse. It is possible however that the Fediverse eventually will become a bunch of silos with every silo their own version of ActivityPub or another protocol. Perhaps the biggest strength of the Fediverse, next to federation, is that I can login with let’s say a Mastodon account to post a comment on PeerTube. One account to rule them all.
I definitely agree with your last point and for me Lemmy is a good example of that.
I think it’s also depending on whether or not the network is able to reach critical mass: a sufficient number of adopters of a new idea, technology or innovation in a social system so that the rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth. Now to reach critical mass for a social media network the following factors are important: money, hype/publicity/marketing, quality of the network and timing. Social networks often fail due to lack of money and being unable to generate enough publicity. Kind of a Catch-22. Federated networks may be able to avoid the money issue by spreading the burden of the costs over many instances and not having to satisfy shareholders. This can contribute to their chance of survival in the long run provided that a opportunity comes by where one or multiple incidents generate enough influx of new users.
I can recommend this instance https://open.audio. It allows to upload 3Gb of libre audio or even upload your own non-libre audio. The latter as long as you use it personally and not share it publicly. The instance is well moderated and curated. Content wise it is of course nothing like Spotify because of the copyright restrictions. The instance currently has over 60.000 songs a far cry from the millions of songs on other platforms. Use cases for Funkwhale are either upload your own libre music, have your own music cloud or listen to more experimental music which can actually be a lot of fun. Lastly via RSS you can subscribe to podcasts.
If you just want to listen to a large library of mostly non-free music Funkwhale isn’t a good option. Better turn to Bandcamp or even Soundcloud.
First that would be a wonderful world. But even without malicious intent. If privacy doesn’t exists as a consequence everything would be public. Whether that’s online or not is not relevant. Let’s assume I’ve fallen in love with someone. And let’s say I’m not ready to share it with everyone but just a couple of friends maybe even online. It’s obvious that I want to have control both online or offline who to share it with.
I think it’s much deeper than stop mainstream tech companies from gathering data. I couldn’t say it better than Edward Snowden though “Privacy isn’t about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect. And that’s who you are. That’s what you believe in. That’s who you want to become. Privacy is the right to the self. Privacy is what gives you the ability to share with the world who you are on your own terms.”
I just watched a video about Tauon Music Box this morning https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/rQuqEhaB6uJZanxhDCb3w6. From the video description: Tauon Music Box is a minimalist Spotify Front end and Music Player for the Linux Desktop. It’s in active development and designed to be both beautiful and to get out of the way.
https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/ https://github.com/Taiko2k/TauonMusicBox
Based on my own experience and from what I’ve read I’d say it’s not better than other countries (and definitely worse than Germany). Most people that I’ve spoken to about this topic regrettably don’t care at all and the lessons from WWII seem long forgotten. This is generally speaking of course, the more thoughtful people still care a lot about privacy but that’s definitely a minority.
I can speak with some knowledge about the situation in the Netherlands where we continuously take a step forward (GDPR) and two steps back when it comes to privacy. Police and intelligence agencies either lobby enough to have a new surveillance technology pass through our legislators, as was the case with the dragnet legislation, or surveillance technology is implemented that is plainly against current legislation, as is the case with biometric surveillance. The case that police and intelligence agencies make over and over again is that surveillance is needed to counter a perceived threat e.g terrorism. Although the Netherlands has seen very little terrorism over the last two decades the lobby is apparently very effective. The most simple explanation that I can offer is that legislators and many citizens choose to be ‘better safe than sorry’ and easily throw away privacy for perceived safety. In that regard I suppose that regretfully citizens from Europe differ very little from citizens from other parts of the world.
I read over it at first. It seems that he did that on purpose, which is a shitty thing to do.