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Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
Yeah, really great news: more vertical integration for higher walls around those gardens. And, as usual, the majority of hackernews is celebrating this as a win and will happily shovel more money into the pockets of tax evasion and anti-competitions champions, privacy invaders, and polluters.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
I think introducing a law to require open documentation plus repairability at launch, and open-source+hardware at EOL (maybe even before say 5 years after launch) could work. Businesses keeping their secrets to make a profit and get a head start for a while is OK - it should create competition. Driving pollution with e-waste through forced obsolescence is not.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
> The lesson? There’s no tool, however well designed, that can bring pure reason to politics.

The whole article is just slamming an attempt at improving the situation without suggesting any improvements. It's the typical "Hah! Look! They tried! Idiots!".

Do you think you're going to be able to convince the bricklayer, that just came back home after 8 hours of work and 2 total hours in traffic, to spend several hours reading up on a party's + candidate's history, political stance, ideology, scandals, in-depth interviews, program, and so on an so forth for every party available?

We should be happy that these things at least exist and try to aid people when making these decisions, instead of belittling them (the tools and their makers) and calling the whole thing futile. At least there are attempts to counter (at least a little bit) the deluge of opinions, misquotes, misinformation, faux news, deception and lies, that are spread, facilitated and guided on and by social networks.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
If WebRTC is activated in your browser and webtorrent (https://webtorrent.io/) is being used by the instance, yes. However, you could say the same for Zoom or most video calling platform, if I'm not mistaken.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
WebTorrent (https://webtorrent.io/) is built upon WebRTC, but I believe PeerTube should fallback to simple HTTP mp4. There is a download link handy that you can open in the browser, vlc, mpv or your favorite video player.

https://diode.zone/download/streaming-playlists/hls/videos/b...
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
It's not P2P, it's federated. Anybody can host an instance and probably that one has low bandwidth and isn't mirrored by other instances.

Instances like https://tilvids.com/ or https://video.ploud.fr/ have better bandwidth.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
It does use Webtorrent by default (it can be turned off).
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
Is this comparable to IPFS running on I2P?
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
It depends on the configuration of the server. Some disable Webtorrent (probably because it doesn't support HLS). When they do that then I think it pulls from the federation, which then depends on how many have mirrored it.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
Please not mailinglists. They are unbrowsable and who likes getting their inbox spammed in order to follow a discussion?

What's more, not everybody follows etiquette:

- reply and just keep the original message at the bottom

- reply in between the original message

- reply at the bottom with the original message on top

- Some mix quotes and then reply to some parts in the original

And then how do you link to users or messages from your email client?

Plus who wants to have 5 different email accounts for 5 different mailing-lists? And why would I respond in a manner that allows the world to see my private email address?

I heavily disagree that emails are the way forward in this regard (maybe even in any regard).
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
I'm a little split on it because they don't use IPFS. It would be great if they had a button to "mirror" or "contribute bandwidth", because that I would do. I have a few VPSs contributing bandwidth to other smaller projects + a fiber connection at home with aging disks lying around.

A simple docker-compose.yml with an IPFS service and a coordinator to pin the least replicated or most wanted items would be great. Cloudfare also has an IPFS pinning service + gateway, so they could offload some traffic to them as well.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
It's not JS or node that's the problem, it's the JS ecosystem. Badly or too broadly defined dependencies can (and do) lead to pulling a new version of a dep that introduced a breaking API change and tada, you have to start hunting for the right version.

Most projects don't define the node version that their project runs on either, so what ran in node 8 might not run in node 14 now.

What's wonderful to run into is non-JS dependencies: node-gyp happens to be used here and there. Sometimes the native lib will be pulled, sometimes it will be built, who knows why. And node-gyp might then depend on python2 which might not even be present on newer distros anymore.

And so on and so forth. If it doesn't come in an AppImage or docker image, there's no chance I'm getting myself into a node mess.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
I'd go even one step further: EOL software and hardware should be forced to be open-hardware (at least open schematics) or opensource. If you're not willing to support a product anymore then it should not be possible for it to simply turn into a brick because you turned off a server.

This would either create a market where companies will sell the license to support old products to other companies, or old hardware and software would finally be able to be supported by the community. There wouldn't be a need to reverse engineer or develop stuff in a "clean room" for fear of litigation.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
That's going to take a while. But at least the linux kernel is starting to integrate Rust. It's doubtful they'll rewrite the whole thing in Rust, but getting it in there is a start.

I know the Chromium team was considering switching to Rust too, but who knows if that's ever going to happen. IIRC Chromium has more LOC than the linux kernel.
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
This reminds me of the words in the video "Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet)" [0]

> At the very bottom are plugins, extensions, mods and hacks. They fundamentally depend on the indifference or obliviousness of a larger company, who they often mean very little to. And when their goals differ the larger company always wins.

Any third-party dependent on another party will be at the whims of the other party. yt-dl can see it happening with age-restricted videos, people using tools to migrate from Spotify depend on them turning a blind eye to leaving customers taking their data with them, fan-made games that continue a story (pokemon for example) and get a cease-and-desist, probably many other examples, and now this too.

Kudos to this dude for writing an entire framework for bots as a friggin' doctor in his spare time. Hats off for staying at it for so long. Also, respect for drawing a line in the sand and not giving in to any demands from Discord or users to just lie down, take it, and continue developing the framework with more constraints.

[0]: https://youtu.be/mviTS_cIWXg?t=277
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
https://zorin.com/os/pro/ is basically what you're looking for
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
1. Other OSes (at least linux) have user keychains.

2. Once malware is running as your user, how do you expect to protect against that even with a keychain? They can log all your keystrokes, extract certificates and keys from applications running as your user or anything your user has access to, etc.

3. How are you going to support different keychains on different OSes? And what happens when they diverge? Say Apple gets "brave" again and allows only Apple signed binaries to access the keychain with the excuse of "user security", will binaries have to roll their own keychain? Are you going to make apps add another corporate dependency?
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
While watching live, probably not, but once downloaded they lose value, don't they?
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
Considering the current system and real options that they have right now, what are they supposed to do if they want to earn money (or even a living) making videos that will make you happy?

Perhaps more importantly, would you give them money?
Popegaf
·5 lat temu·discuss
Will this set a precedent for other countries or economic regions to follow suit? I could see France for example pointing to SK as a successful model and implementing it. Probably other EU powers will disagree, but they seem like the most like EU contender to limit Apple and Google.