No thanks. This sounds entirely plausible and he gig economy should be highly regulated. I want my stuff delivered, yes, but I want it delivered by somebody who isn’t doing it as a last measure to survive and it won’t get them out from the heel they are under.

We need whistleblowers like this. If you’re a software developer and see shady business practices, fucking say something. If not to your superior, then to an authority. Companies shouldn’t get away with this unethical behavior. If even one thing is true of what OP is saying, they should be fucking sued and forced to improve or die.

While I dislike the look and GNOME’s approach to things (“we know better what the user wants than they do” aka the crApple approach), I do appreciate that they do provide an alternative for crApple users. They also write a lot of libraries and software that are undeniably good and useful. No one is forced to use GNOME so I’m glad they exist.

Of course this blog post only has one view of the issues and I’m not going to spend a morning going down the rabbit hole to make an opinion on it. But if System76 really does have a problem with upstream for whatever reason, they are free to fork their stuff and cut all communication. Since they did write COSMIC, it looks like that’s their goal. Good on them. It may just decrease the drama and make GNOME developers’ lives easier.

Microsoft will add 1 million lines of Rust code per month to their repositories and replace all C/C++ code by 2030. C/C++ doesn’t stand a chance!

(At least according to LinkedIn)

I don’t expect a short term solution. Where did you read that?

If we keep android the way it is and just slowly boil the frog, there will be little to no incentive to spend lots of money and time on alternatives. If you seriously believe the majority isn’t already getting fucked over by Scroogle and their spy devices, what world do you live in?

There isn’t going to be an acceleration for a non-android phone if android still stays “acceptable”. It’s not like investments and developments in alternatives are going faster than bureaucracy. When do you expect we get a big third or fourth competitor in the smartphone OS market? Harmony by Huawei?

You want immediate change. You’re asking for the impossible and disappointed you’re not getting it or that it isn’t happening.

🤷

You accept that EU has started doing something and then demand they mandate something which they are in the process of doing.

Crapple built up their position to this point over 20 years in a time where the US were considered allies. Trump has luckily come about to change that perception and to allow the EU to stop being a bunch of pansies clammering to their daddy protector. They cannot piss of the US completely at the moment as it would take a single presidential order from a rampantly maniacal orange man to switch of most of Europe.

Change doesn’t happen immediately. It’s slow. Give it time.

Yep, I enjoyed the article. Unfortunately, it won’t convince zealots. Reason rarely does.

Good luck. Isn’t a lot of ffmpeg in assembly? I wonder how that will be handled. If faster code can be compiled that’d be crazy.

Big tech loves Apache and MIT 💕

Kink? Wat?

The EU commission has multiple ongoing cases against Apple. The opened a new one in April regarding their non-compliance on multiple fronts, including the app store (which is related to Google’s bullshit). They have to give a response within 12 months which means that by 25 April 2026 we should have a response on what the EU will be doing.

The EU forced Apple to make their phones more repairable, they forced them to introduce USB-C charging for all their mobile devices (laptop, phone, and smartwatch IIRC), forced them to implement an alternative app store (very flawed implementation but see above), and probably more that I’m unaware of.

The EU isn’t perfect, it’s being influenced by the US, which have the goal of breaking it up), but they are doing something, which is more than can be said about most countries. I understand cynicism, but in this case, I still maintain that letting google fuck up Android would do the world a service, just like Trump is doing the world a service by fucking his country up. We may go through a few years (maybe decades if the US succeed in breaking up the EU) of difficulty because of it, but we will come out stronger afterwards.

Most people cannot and will not appreciate the EU and everything is has until they are impacted themselves.

Just like all “principles” they shouldn’t be blindly applied. Simply forcing SOLID upon a codebase won’t magically make it better. In fact, I’ve seen codebases that “strictly follow SOLID principles” being terrible to understand, debug, follow, and optimise.

There will always be blind and zealous followers who will vehemently “protect” a codebase (or anything really) from impure modifications. They are the worst to deal with.

I kinda want to see this fail in Europe. As in Google implements it and pisses the EU the fuck off. Please, I just want to see Google smacked in the mouth for implementing this, then losing billions fighting it in court while the EU implements digital sovereignty because the US can’t be trusted.

Please. It’s the only way people learn. First they have to lose something before understanding what it is they had.

I was expecting circular pixels which is what they are on CRTs. Was not expecting non-square rectangles. wtf?

If the EU dedicates itself to digital sovereignty before the US starts turning the wheel back away from self-sabotage, we might actually have a chance.

I only made it work on desktop because it’s the easiest (and that was a hassle as nearly everything is undocumented). On mobile, I wouldn’t even know how to begin debugging it nor where to get logs (or if there are any logs).

From what I understand, you’d have to make the JSON manifest and script available via HTTP(S) somewhere. Update the JSON manifest to point to itself and the script. Then, add a source on mobile and point it at the JSON manifest URL.

If you’re willing to give it a shot, putting it on codeberg and using codeberg pages could work. I’m currently only on radicle. Maybe I can find a way to make that work too 🤔

Edit: OK, surprisingly it worked… Add this source https://seed.radicle.garden/raw/rad%3AzWzu5sgdan7wuErGDRz1u4JTFEF7/head/MediaCCCConfig.json

It haven’t figured out how to sign the plugin itself. There’s no documentation…

Many questions are going through my head, but it looks like they would rather spend time implementing activitypub support in voctoweb than implementing peertube publishing in voctopublish.

I upped my donation to them this year. They really do deserve it.

I’m not sure if I talked to a representative but the last information I had from 3 years ago was that “peertube didn’t fit into the publishing workflow”. Something about bash scripts or something that had to be updated which were specifically tied to the streaming infrastructure do upload videos as quickly as possible. From the explanation I recall, the publishing workflow isn’t modular and a bunch of hacked together scripts that have been used since forever.

There was also a question about financing / sponsoring since the videos are also available directly on a CDN.

And finally, the video files have some extra fancy tracks with some additional media? Not sure. I’ve only ever played them in the browser and assume the large majority will do the same so the tracks will rarely get taken advantage of.

My assumption is that the real reason is a lot of work went into it and there’s an amount of pride + the sunken cost and probably lack of resources. Although, if they asked the community to contribute, they’d probably have some excited participants.

The CCC has multiple conferences a year but the biggest one is the ${conferenceNumber}C3 (this year conferenceNumber = 39 --> 39C3).

They always upload stuff to their own media instance based on voctoweb (which is undiscoverable unless somebody shares it) or youtube which can recommend it you and you can subscribe to their channel where they publish every single talk.

I’m trying to degoogle and the CCC just refuses to setup a peertube instance (or join one) and upload their stuff there (a common theme for opensource and hacking conferences). So, short of writing a script that mirrors all CCC media to a peertube instance, this is the best I could do on my winter break.

Feel free to fork it should media.ccc.de introduce new features. I’ll probably update it yearly to consume the ${conferenceNumber}C3 conferences.