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Some weird, German communist, hello. Obsessed with philosophy (German Idealism and its subsequent evolutions) and history (mainly everything since the French Revolution), as well as the Fediverse. Secondarily obsessed with video games as a cultural medium. Also somewhat able to program, but not that good.

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Could in theory, you can make a good income on PeerTube only?

For context, I saw a Lemmy post about Gamer Nexus' video about their video been taken-down by Bloomberg and seeing the comment of "just use PeerTube then." Which has got me thinking of the sort of content that YouTube channel makes definitely has high production value which unsure if donation would cover the cost but I know they ...

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In theory, yes. Several of the channels that publish on PeerTube and YouTube have referral links, sponsored segments and the likes - The Linux Experiment and Gardyner Bryant are two big ones off the top of my head, as you also pointed out. There's a support button integrated to link to Patroen/Liberapay/Ko-Fi and the likes, and during their AMA over at opensource@lemmy.ml icon Open Source three months back, they mentioned having better Patreon integration on their radar at least, although not a huge priority at this point.

In practice - it comes down to the chicken and egg problem again, as well as currently a lack of discoverability. One reason creators put up with the BS on YouTube is that, even when ad monetization is basically nothing worthwhile at all for the vast majority, and the algorithm also forces them to hamstring their creative process at times, it is the one place where people are most likely to discover your videos, thanks to the algorithm being trained to keep the audience engaged in addictive binge-watching, and the way it - to its credit - can also sometimes push small, still unknown creatives into people's feeds if the audience could be interested in the topics/video style.

Now, an addictive, obscured algorithm like that would rightfully be anathema to the principles behind PeerTube, but there have been some attempts to create better discoverability. This Firefox add-on is super basic, and it doesn't seem to work without hiccups - but it did help me discover some stuff at least. Communities like this one here help with word-of-mouth discovery. And some creatives that are focused on the Fediverse leverage Mastodon integration to engage with their existing community there, and have those users as their main audience, which can quite seemlessly interact with videos through mastodon.

So, in theory, there is nothing that would prevent living on PeerTube alone, ad revenue from video ads is not nothing, but for many, it is not the main source of income, sometimes basically just pennies. Referral links and sponsored segments work just the same as on YT, basically. In practice, the community is still too small, so most creatives will opt for publishing on PT and YT simultaneously, if at all - very understandably so, with varying levels of taking PeerTube seriously and putting some effort (like engaging with comments on there, or checking if your YT-imports actually succeed and such). Increasing that number could help with growing an engaged community on PT, which would then increase the attractiveness of it - potentially to the point where one day, it could become more feasible (alongside other potential developments, like better integration of PT with platforms like Patreon/Liberapay/Ko-Fi).

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I haven't used Bazaar myself, but in general, frontends like this usually just do that behind the scenes. If you are comfortable/used to using another frontend/method, you probably won't need it. It's all about the GUI, comfort and also usually the selection of featured apps (although that could be distro-dependently handled, too). The one thing here I personally agree with being great which I personally haven't seen like this (I'm used to Pamac, myself), is having fundraising/donation info right in the GUI for the projects.

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I mean - kind of? I do agree a lot of "reaction" content is bottom-of-the barrel shit, but it's not like this one is just making funny faces and going "woaaah, nonono, they didn't!!" or something. He does use the video as a jumping off point for his own commentary, providing his own perspectives (those segments are also edited with cuts, showing this wasn't just turning their webcam on and rambling without any evaluation later). Just roughly looking through the preview thumbnails hovering over the video progress bar, easily more than 50% is talking about topics in the reacted video without even the reacted-to footage on screen.

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Will Moomin's rope be in time? I don't know, but what I do know is, that that is one hell of a throw!

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Feel free to do so! After all, I've also just linked to their PT video, and this is not about "Karma", just about spreading the content :)

Autorennen in Krefeld: 18-Jähriger verliert Führerschein am Tag seiner Erteilung ( rp-online.de ) German

Ein 18 Jahre alter Krefelder hat am Donnerstag, 14. August, seine Motorsportambitionen mit dem Verlust seines Führerscheins und der Einziehung seines Mobiltelefons bezahlt. Nach Polizeiangaben hatten Zeugen berichtet, dass das weiße Fahrzeug gegen 21.30 Uhr mit deutlich überhöhter Geschwindigkeit und aufheulendem Motor in ...

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Aus der Pressemeldung der Polizei ergibt sich auch keine gesonderte Begründung. Ich schätze für die weitergehenden Ermittlungen? Dürfen die dann ohne Richterbeschluss eigentlich drauf zugreifen? Nachrichten usw. sollten ja nochmal einem anderen Schutz unterliegen - aber hab da zugegeben wenig Ahnung von der genauen Rechtslage. Vll darf man es schon vorher konfiszieren damit nichts gelöscht wird? Auf jeden Fall wirkt es etwas willkürlich, auf mich zumindest.

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BonziBuddy was a herald of the apocalypse.

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It's about Clippit, which was a mascot that notoriously annoyed MS Office users in the 90s and 2000s. It did not yet collect your data the way everything does now.

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That was an interesting summary of the happenings since last time, and I appreciate them delving into the criticisms of their last documentary - which I think was overall also a good work of research overall, even if the mistakes they made (and acknowledged) were real.

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To give them some leeway - it seems that wasn't for lack of trying to get more statements from other people involved, and they did try to provide statements by all involved parties were relevant with what they had available.

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Huh, that is weird, I have missed 3 episodes as it seems - they don't show up on my instance and I wasn't notified as a subscriber. Did a very quick check of logs in the PT admin interface, but nothing stands out on my side as a federation issue. (But I may have missed something for sure.) @ozoned@piefed.social avatar ozoned - do you know what could be the issue? Will try to see if I find more later today, too.

I guess as a workaround I can try watching on mastodon/piefed - although I am not really using the former at the moment, and the latter is not the best for following PT yet.

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Ah, good to know and thank you for looking into it! Yeah, I added you to the instances I mirror automatically, I can remove you or you can add me to trusted - whatever works better for you. I have a lot of space to spare, so I reserved a big chunk of it to mirror stuff automatically from trusted instances for better network availability.

Will restart PT later when I'm back home. Thanks again for the heads up! And already excited to watch/listen to what I missed later.

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I'm not giving up hope on Summer Eternal creating something that - even if the effect of DE can't be reached again ever - could build on it in interesting ways. They could channel the outsider effect along with convictions in the team in a way, that could provide at least some magic. But I am ready to be disappointed, of course.

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Thank you for taking time and effort creating these videos and providing them on the Fediverse, will have a watch later!

As for Kdenlive messing with colour levels, never experienced that myself - but I only used it for very casual editing and also didn't really pay attention to it. Maybe you can try asking about it on kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE ?

Crack greift um sich: Ist Deutschlands repressive Drogenpolitik gescheitert? Derweil zeigt die Schweiz, wie es mit Entkriminalisierung und Konsumräumen besser geht. ( www.tagesschau.de ) German

Ähnlich wie Suchtforscher und Konsumenten fordert der [Kölner] Polizeipräsident Räume, in denen sich Konsumenten aufhalten können, runterkommen, weg von der Straße. Dafür fehle Kommunen wie Köln das Geld, sagt der verantwortliche Gesundheitsdezernent der Stadt Köln, Harald Rau. "Alle diese Maßnahmen, die kosten Geld. ...

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Und die KillerDrogenspiele!!!!!

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Man kann mit Ping-Nachrichten, die im Client vom Empfänger nicht sichtbar sind, anhand der Zustell-Bestätigungen und Zeitunterschieden bei diesen Dinge abschätzen wie, nutzt die Person gerade Desktop/Mobile, Browser/app, welche Geräte hat die Person? Welche sind gerade aktiv? Wird gerade aktiv auf die App geschaut? Damit kann man Profile von Aktivitätsmustern erstellen, abschätzen ob jemand gerade zu Hause ist oder nicht.

Hat man mehrere Geräte, z.B. weiß der Angreifende, dass man auf Arbeit einen Mobile-Client und zu Hause einen Desktop-Client benutzt, dann kann daraus auch geschlossen werden wann man wo war.

Für WhatsApp wird erwähnt, dass durch gezieltes spammen von solchen Trash-Ping-Nachrichten Datenvolumen und Akku bewusst aufgebraucht werden kann. Erwähnt werden 13GB pro Stunde bei einem dedizierten Angriff. Grund ist: Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung ermöglicht hier, dass erst wenn solche Nachrichten vom eigenen Client bereits heruntergeladen wurden, diese als Trash aussortiert werden können - Server zwischendrin bemerken zu Recht ja nicht, was genau in der Nachricht steckt.

Maßnahmen-Vorschläge sind: Automatische, zufällige Verzögerungszeiten einbauen in die Bestätigungen, um die Rückschlüsse zu erschweren/unmöglich zu machen, und automatisches Blockieren von unbekannten Nummern/Accounts standardmäßig zu ermöglichen.

Der Exploit wurde letztes Jahr im September entdeckt und an die Betreiber weitergereicht. Laut Video gab es noch keine offiziellen Äußerungen, weder von Meta noch der Stiftung hinter Signal, dazu.