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Over a Thousand Videos (or Audio Files) and More Protocols Supported

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Summary: From just a Web site (ordinary HTTP/S protocol) we've expanded to alternative channels of communication; this is a quick roundup, with focus on last night's development work (already pushed into our self-hosted Git repository)

SEVEN years ago we started writing more and more about the EPO and a year later the EPO threatened us several times, so we focused even more on the EPO, mostly at the expense of Software Freedom matters/perils.



"It's self-hosted in the sense or to the effect that we needn't worry about censorship for the contents of (e.g. what's said in) the videos, so the language is unrestricted."It was only last year that the site expanded from IRC and HTML to several other protocols, with Gemini as a medium, IPFS as a medium, more videos, and even text-only bulletins. We're glad to say adoption of these is increasing. Our home (seed) node of IPFS does about 2.5GB per day, Gemini requests in the Techrights capsule are set to be around 65k for the first half of May, compared to ~105k for the whole of April and 74k for March. Gemini space is growing. Gemini protocol is being appreciated by more and more people. We've also added many more videos so far this month (and editing is done automatically from the command line with scripts, even uploads are scripted as of this month). It's self-hosted in the sense or to the effect that we needn't worry about censorship for the contents of (e.g. what's said in) the videos, so the language is unrestricted. That doesn't mean cursing and shouting is recommended, it's just that we need not worry about faceless monopolies retaliating against us for it. That's increasingly happening to a lot of people. Their work and their audience got 'captured' by corporations that abuse control over them (both those who do all the work and the audiences, which get manipulated for no reason other than profit and political gain).

On airThe video above covers a range of topics, mostly site news and FSF news. "An open letter in support of Richard Matthew Stallman being reinstated by the Free Software Foundation" will soon have 6,700 signatures, whereupon we'll replot the graph. Might we get there by Monday? I take note of some of the latest changes in stallmansupport.org ("Debunking False Accusation Against Richard Stallman"). The people who run that site support our site, which attempts to do as it preaches, including self-hosting whenever possible. Last night we started working on a full(er) video archive page for the site, which is still work in progress. Many of the videos on the site aren't properly indexed anywhere, except in the Wiki or some old blog posts. In the site's WordPress side (or section) we now have 30,414 posts, totalling 1.2 GB of compressed WordPress database (tar/gz). The total number of files in the Techrights Web site is 176283 and total site size (disk space) is 85GB, with just about half of that being videos. The site currently has 497 ogv files, 139 ogg files, 385 webm files, 113 mp3 files, and 53 mp4 files. It would be useful, we think, to have them all listed properly in one place. That's over 1,000 multimedia files.

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