6 months ago:
Video download link | md5sum 27f7863e432cc2cf4403306186be5565
.NET in Ubuntu and Chiseled Containers – Canonical & Microsoft
Original here from Microsoft
Summary: Canonical isn’t working for GNU/Linux or for Ubuntu; it’s working for “business partners” (WSL was all along about promoting Windows)
Summary: As the NSA leaks turn 10 it’s important to remember the role Free software played in whistleblowing
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This happened 10 years ago:
And he still talks about the dangers:
Summary: Many people have set aside the lessons learned from the NSA leaks, almost as if all these practices just gradually stopped over time (they’ve only gotten worse since then)
Published just over a day ago
Summary: Fairly accurate history as told by ForrestKnight on Sunday
Video download link | md5sum 4184f491056ffe03e287b7f838fbcb45
YouTube is Not Free
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
Summary: YouTube is becoming increasingly unacceptable, both for viewers and “creators” (what Google calls people who do all the actual work); it’s time to get out because Google/Alphabet is “farming” people for money, it’s not “free hosting”
THIS Web site started publishing videos routinely way back in 2020 (the second lockdown in the UK). The motivation was explained at the time (scarce resources like time had been freed up by the pandemic response) and we spent several days researching how or where to publish videos rapidly. We checked a number of options; YouTube barely was one, even though we previously (about a decade ago) filed hundreds of videos there, as mere copies of what was published here in Techrights.
“It’s barely even a site anymore, it’s a JavaScript “webapp” that returns invalid pages until proprietary scripts are being fully allowed.”YouTube has gotten worse and worse over the years.
Spamification of YouTube, being a video-centric social control media, was covered here many times before, especially in early 2022 when we saw channels defecting to the marketing ‘industry’ and more ads being imposed while actual creators get de-monetised and lose viewers. The goal was becoming money-making, but the revenue has since decreased and the longtime chief of YouTube stepped down (she was one of the first employees in Google).
“YouTube is generally a moving target. If you settle in YouTube today, you don’t know what it will be tomorrow.”Invidious no longer works for all videos and some browsers, especially with particular extensions, cannot render the site. It’s barely even a site anymore, it’s a JavaScript “webapp” that returns invalid pages until proprietary scripts are being fully allowed.
Now there are plans [1,2] to prevent people from watching videos unless/until they watch ads. Think that’s bad? Wait for what comes after that. Some possibilities are explained in the video above. YouTube is generally a moving target. If you settle in YouTube today, you don’t know what it will be tomorrow. One day it will be offline for sure. █
Related/contextual items from the news:
Summary: The above LibrePlanet talk by Anthony Wang was uploaded by the FSF 8 days ago (slides here; PeerTube link); From the official page: “Free software needs free tools! We’re making software development collaboration and hosting websites (a.k.a forges) talk to each other using shared protocols, hopefully allowing the free software community to create a decentralized network of self-hosted forge websites powered by fully free software, and whose UX design is geared towards filling human needs rather than company profits. We’ll explore this vision, talk about (and see) our latest development progress, examine the challenges, and present our roadmap for realizing this dream.”
Licence: CC BY SA 4.0
Summary: The above LibrePlanet talk was was uploaded by the FSF a week ago (PeerTube link; talk’s slides); From the official page: “This talk will begin by shining some light on the vastness of Wikipedia’s technology landscape and the technical community behind it, supporting the development of projects in many different areas to set the room for understanding the need and role of developer advocacy for such a large community. It will then focus on the developer advocacy’s role in engaging the technical community behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, for example, through dedicated FOSS outreach, mentoring programs and events, awards and ceremonies for developer recognition, grants and partnerships, community metrics and health, platforms and services, developer portal, and more. Through this talk, the audience will gain insights into what a good return on investment means for such initiatives in nonprofit organizations and gather new ideas for building stronger developer communities.”
Licence: CC BY SA 4.0
Summary: The above LibrePlanet talk by Rayner Lucas and Tristan Miller is a remote (not physical presence) talk and it was uploaded by the FSF a week ago (slides here; PeerTube link); From the official page: “Today’s social media users are locked into proprietary platforms, under the control of a few large corporations. Users are not customers, but a product to be sold to advertisers. These companies have little reason to care about fostering healthy discussion, only to keep advertisers happy. But there is another model for social media. Federated social networks began with Usenet, a distributed system of discussion forums invented a decade before the World Wide Web. Since then, projects such as Mastodon and Diaspora have used open standards and common communication protocols to give users power to choose their own social media experience. What lessons can we learn from Usenet? What does it get right, and what could it do better? And does Usenet still have a place on the modern Internet?”
Licence: GFDL 1.3
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