#DonaldTrump has full presidential immunity due to #TrumpVUnitedStates, so he can't be tried INSIDE the U.S., but since killing the survivors of the Venezuelan boat strike is a #WarCrime, he CAN be tried by international law. Then let's do that. He can't pardon himself internationally.
Our car was clamped while parked at the NET Forest Tram Park and Ride in /Nottingham, and we had to pay Β£140 to have it freed.
The prominent signs displayed at the entrance state that those parking without using the tram will be clamped. We did use the tram to and from the city centre after walking in the adjacent park.
It was the enforcement officer who pointed out a notice on the BACK of the entrance sign which stated, in small print, that #drivers have to buy a ticket on arrival. We appealed citing inadequate signs but the appeal was rejected.
This is really disturbing and dangerous. It's more insidious than censorship because viewers cannot tell a video has been altered.
If you post to YouTube, I'd strongly recommend you start ALSO posting to PeerTube, either on your own server or a public server. There's a complete guide here:
I understand why some creators, including myself, don't leave #YouTube. However it's *vital* now more than ever to also make yourself a #PeerTube server. You need an accurate archive of your work that YOU control, even if no one watches it there. youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJgDHJJoβ¦
HOLY SHIT this is a new low even for YouTube. If YouTube just randomly alters content, there is ZERO reason for ANY creator to stay. Because who guarantees that YouTube will stop there? They could alter content so aggressively that it completely twists what you stand for, and DEFACING your hard work. YouTube could stab you in the back at any time by essentially posting FAKE content under your name.
Creators need to make a very LOUD STINK about this. Oh, and leave. This is BAD.
That's why having a copy of your videos on PeerTube is so important, it means any alterations on YouTube instantly become obvious by comparing the two versions.
It also means your viewers who want to avoid YouTube/Google completely are being given the option of watching on PeerTube.
and having content created for YouTube on PeerTube is a nice positive externality. One thing Youtubers need to understand is that the copying/import facility that PeerTube provides isn't a solution, there should be a specific upload to PeerTube and not a simple backup from YouTube (the later risks having the Big Tech altered video on PeerTube). @Wuzzy
@jt_rebelo Wait. I don't think I understand your post. When you import a video from YouTube in PeerTube, that's NOT a full copy but basically just a mirror? Meaning that changes to the video will change the video in PeerTube?
If so, that should be made SUPER clear in the UI because that sounds like a trap. It should be clearly visible to the creator when a video was added not as a full independent copy but is pulled from another site. This distinction is important IMO.
As far as I know it's not a mirror, it's just YT-DLP downloading a copy. If the original changes, it isn't reflected on PeerTube.
However, the advantage of a direct upload is it never even passes through Google's systems. Usually this just means higher image quality, but if Google is going to alter uploads with AI then it would avoid that too.
I mean, if the video is already on Youtube there might be no way (unless it happens right after the original is uploaded) to know (without watching the video copied to PeerTube) that it was altered (I'm not talking about new uploads, or at least not videos that haven't been for a while on Youtube - doing what they want to do with the videos has to take some time, even if it is fast). And knowing Big Tech, we all know that sooner rather than later they'll do their alterations while the video is being processed (after the upload) and before being posted (might not fool everyone, but they only need a small part, like they did with ads on videos uploaded by accounts that had no way to receive ad revenue - they did it to my "channel" years ago). @Wuzzy
However, YT-DLP is unreliable, through no fault of its own. YouTube changes its blob configuration so much that theyβre constantly chasing it.
When I left Google a while back, I just included my videos in my βtakeoutβ archive. Then I manually uploaded them to PeerTube. It took a while, but I knew I could trust the integrity.
@jt_rebelo Ahhh, so you mean YouTubers should just upload the video from their computer directly. Yeah, makes sense, there is a risk the YouTube video might have *already* been defaced before you click the Import button. π
I really hope more YouTubers WAKE UP to this nightmare and leave this shitshow of a website for good.
Oh wait, you meant to tell YouTubers they should post on PeerTube as a means of collecting EVIDENCE for when YouTube has defaced your work? Interesting.
IMHO YouTube just needs to DIE. A platform that so blatantly HATES the own creators does not deserve anyone's time. PeerTube FTW!
(I'm not a YouTuber btw, the few videos I did post are all on a PeerTube instance anyway lol.)
If a video creator wants to make sure people can always see the original versions of their video, it's important to have versions uploaded somewhere that Google/YouTube cannot touch them. PeerTube seems to be the best option, especially if it's your own server, as it's outside corporate control.
I tried to find a server on peertube that would allow me to upload my videos, but none of them allow an unlimited upload. The biggest server I found would let me upload a maximum of 25 videos in 4K quality and that's it. Can you please advice me on how to make your suggested back-up without having to manage my own server.
Fediverse servers are run by volunteers who do not run ads and do not sell people's data. They have to pay for the data storage costs themselves, out of their own pocket.
In those circumstances it's impossible for anyone to promise unlimited uploads.
You can avoid limits by paying for the storage yourself, by setting up your own server. This is also covered in the same guide: fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videoβ¦
Can someone explain how to simply watch a video on PeerTube. I've been thrashing through reams of stuff telling me what PeerTube is but nowhere is there a simple link telling me how to watch a video there.
honestly this is not a good argument. YouTube has always altered the content through encoding and what they are doing now is not that much different. The only difference is that it may not be deterministic (if it is, then the only difference is the technology being used).
That's really "uncool". Perhaps many more should know this. I didn't like YouTube since it looks like spam when I just follow an interesting link. I wish #peertube becomes much more popular.
p.s. If you already have a PeerTube account and want to get more visibility for your videos, here's a guide all about that: fedi.tips/how-to-promote-your-β¦
To be fair, they mailed me last month about my two channels, showing how to opt out before they start to do it.
That being said, I already recreated that two channels on PeerTube earlier this year and think this is an important move, even if nobody watches it on PeerTube, at least to have a ready-to-go backup.
The Trump administration is so sure it can get away with anything that itβs willing to try anything. That misapprehension of the situation has resulted in at least 200 rulings against the admβ¦
Well, this puts things in a bit of perspective. Holy hell.
EDIT: Well, this blew up! Lots of comments and the image, while compelling, is definitely misleading. Need to dig in if these are intended to be proportionally the same size, or just represent βwhat if an eastern portion of the USA was occupiedβ.
Either way, worthy to consider in either context to get folks (including myself) thinking.
This has to be, like, the equivalent of the inner harbor in Baltimore; surely there's more to it than just some soda can houses and a guy with too many spices.
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Hi @sivy, don't be fooled. 'β¦ Newsblur and feeder.co showing β¦' the 'showing' implies the conversion from the html entities like < to characters < etc.
P.S.: for convenience of writing you may fill your content into a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA as @jef recommended, but mind it cannot contain the ending-mark inside.
Are masked agents stalking your town, looking to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but donβt know where to start?
This guide is based on the knowledge that an array of people have accumulated in Chicago over the past several months during βOperation Midway Blitz.β
As federal agents expand their assaults on communities across the country, it is crucial to share and build on these practices.
So if I wanted to get off of Spotify and take my playlists with me, what's a good accessible alternative, and how do I migrate?
When I used Title last, it was a mess of unlabelled buttons and deeply unpleasant to use. If that has changed then I'm fine with switching but I never got it to work.
Earlier this year I used TuneMyMusic to transfer some of my playlists from Spotify to Pandora, but despite it saying all over the website that it works, it now throws up some weird error about the connection no longer working, Pandora not having an API, and asks if I want to @ Pandora on X to complain about it. No thanks, I click. Why are these buttons always "No thanks" and not "Fuck no" or just "No?"
Are there any nice options I'm missing? I'm fine with CLI tools and CSV or somesuch, just predictably this has gotten worse and I've been putting it off because I didn't have the spoons. Sometimes I hate it when I'm right.
Apple Music has a migration tool. This won't matter if you're not an Apple person, but I recently used it to copy over playlists containing tens of thousands of tracks and it very helpfully pointed out the 55 or so it wasn't sure about at the end, letting me confirm or choose an alternative in a pretty accessible interface.
if this is true, then it will be the second of two things. Heβs actually done during both of his presidencies that I like, and think actually did give benefit to the country. But this is Donald Trump, so it could be walked back in an instant either by him or by one of his cronies.
@Xoa Gray @Tiki Bunny Imports πΉππ»π³οΈβπ Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, but it'd be cool to see it happen, especially with the push back coming from a quasi governmental agency that's been leading to them getting banned.
@Xoa Gray @Tiki Bunny Imports πΉππ»π³οΈβπ I don't think we'll see that, but there's a lot to do, after all I do believe the law banning them wasn't targeted at them, but more mainstream vehicles that were being imported, so exceptions could be made for them, from decreasing the wait time on importing them, kneecapping the group that's trying to ban them, simplifying the import, creating a special classification for them and maybe city cars, hard to say, Americanized versions definitely won't happen though.
Oh yeah, there's a lot of things that could be done. But the American auto industry lobbyists are spending millions to do everything they can to make sure it doesn't. That's where the real fight is right now.
@Xoa Gray @Tiki Bunny Imports πΉππ»π³οΈβπ I find it hard to imagine American car company manufacturers worried about these, despite the increased interest, they wouldn't likely offer much competition as they're not a segment anyone operates in here. Now for side by side and UTV manufacturers, a definite threat.
In 1859, Abolitionist John Brown was executed for βtreason.β 1st American ever executed, for the crime of freeing the enslaved.
The 2nd American ever executed for treason was Aaron Dwight Stevens at 29yo, also an abolitionist. He served Brown during his failed raid on Harpers Ferry, VA.
Brown's raid lasted Oct 16 to 18, 1859. He initiated a slave revolt, now called the dress rehearsal to the Civil War.
A stark reminder that legality is not always a measure of justice & morality, but power.
Treason against *a state*, not even the nation. Treason against Virginia.
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."
Among the soldiers surrounding his gallows, Stonewall Jackson, John Wilks Booth, and Edmund Ruffin -- the man who legend has it fired the first shot at Fort Sumter.
the way history really said βyou either stay quiet or get pickledβ is wild. but hey, freedom tastes good on toast, right? letβs brine for change!
yeah I never really had much of an interest in biology until after I began transitioning, at which point I realized that I needed to cultivate a special interest in endocrinology, stat.
which, it is genuinely interesting! finding out that vitamin D, for example, is a hormone? that's neat.
Yes, if you take a vitamin D supplement of any kind, you're engaging in HRT.
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