Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 16

@gedvondur I'm a streaming service. I get $5 a month from each user for all-you-can-eat viewing. A cinema chain offers me $1 per viewer per episode, for a license to screen my original content. That's free money. If I turn it down, as well as NOT GETTING FREE MONEY, I risk the death of a business that subsidizes production of a lot of the content I resell. Why would I do that?

@lanodan you could offer group discounts that work out as $20 a season for 10 or more people, which incentivizing people to encourage their friends to commit too, and making the TV experience more sociable.
@icedquinn

@ssokolow it's a long and frustrating process and its not inevitable, but it's happening because thousands of people are putting in the work to make it happen.
* There's never been more interest in #federated and #P2P replacements for the #datafarms than there has been over the last year, nor more libre community-hosting services springing up.
* there is a #libPurple plugin for #Matrix: https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix#readme
* Breaking the chip monopoly breaks the remains of the x86/Windows monopoly

@wolf480pl Not in #NZ. I've been in cinemas where there were less then 10 people.

@Tutanota
Checking your own code is not an audit. An audit, by definition is conducted by third-parties. Users will decide who they trust to audit the client they use with your service, whether it's yours or a third-party one. If what you're doing is transparently secure, rather than depending on #SecurityByObscurity, surely it's based on common protocols, and standard crypto not #RollYourOwn, and has clearly documented specs that third-parties can follow securely.
@resist1984

Published on #PeerTube by @erik

"This talk will explore #OpenHardware projects relevant to #Linux, including boards like #BeagleBone, #Olimex #OLinuXino, #GiantBoard and more. Looking at the benefits and challenges of designing #OpenSource Hardware for a Linux system, along with BeagleBoard.org’s experience of working with community, manufacturers, and distributors to create an Open Source Hardware platform."
- #tech #talk by #DrewFustini
https://peertube.togart.de/videos/watch/11bd5715-2db3-42a6-b297-cc25596a56aa

#AcidBlackCherry are what would happen if #Nine Inch Nails and #Placebo had a Japanese love child. Here's a failure good quality #video of a full #LiveConcert:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=VOi843wiReA

@JayatiGhosh
"Notwithstanding the necessity of economic packages, public policy should not be confined to such largesse. We need a new politics around collective obligation for welfare."

This applies to #NZ as much as India.

@JayatiGhosh
It certainly isn't. What the author is describing is #technocracy, which is currently being pushed hard by the corporatist ("neoliberal") centre in multiple countries, as the solution to the rise of #populism in both its right/nationalist and left/socialist forms. I wish more people would pay attention to #Taiwan's model of hybrid democracy, which uses elements of both representative and participatory ("direct") democracy.

@JayatiGhosh
"Deliberation, decentralisation and dissent constitute important gains made through democracy ... We are about to lose those — and the irony is that we may lose these of our own volition. A first step in that direction is decisions without consultation; the next is to overemphasise the virtue of quick decisions; the third would be to delegitimise different viewpoints; finally reaching a point of conformity where no dissent is possible. #India may not be alone in this."

If anyone running a cinema business is looking for free ideas, here's mine. Streaming services are eating your lunch. Why not share theirs? I think a lot of people would pay to watch big budget #VFX-heavy series like #TheMandalorian or #TheWitcher at the movies, one episode a week. You'd be wise to focus group it, but I reckon $5 an episode, or $25 for a season ticket would get people out of the house (one we're allowed ;) Can't hurt to try it, right?

Could the cinema experience experience be one of the casualties of #COVID19?
https://movieweb.com/movie-business-future-streaming-no-theaters/

I doubt it. The cinema industry had a cunch when #VCR and video libraries became available, but ultimately watching movies at home is no substitute for going to the movies. Cinemas refocused on what movie-goers really wanted and rebounded in two forms; popcorn flick multiplexes for families and teenagers, and arthouse cinemas with cafes for childless couples and older folks.

@lanodan ah, OK. It's like a kind of #improv theatre. Yes, there are some intriguing possibilities for using VR to augment improv performances.

#MeWe is just centralized, proprietary #Hubzilla. Why is that attractive to anyone looking for replacements for the #datafarm platforms? A more user-friendly UI I guess?
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=iUZMtNS54ZU

@grin
> Jitsi has a good working mobile app which BBB lacks.

Have you tried using Big Blue Button in a mobile browser? What's that like?
@torproject

@RemoteLearning

#ShowerThoughts among the plethora of decentralized software out there, two things are being designed and built; #UX (User eXperiences), and protocols for the exchange of data to make those experiences possible. I suspect that the maturing of (re-)decentralized tech will involve natural selection among the protocols until only a small subset are left in common use (standards are a natural monopoly), and the re-engineering of most of the UX on top of those protocols.

@onymous
> the community in SSB is amazing.

Funny, that's what people used to say about Titter, and before that IRC, and before that, old school BBS networks like #FidoNet. The common denominator is early adopters, it was said about each when they were small populations using relatively unknown platforms.

@icedquinn