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Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store
Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.
Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store | TechCrunch
Google will ask all Android developers to verify their identity starting next year.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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I sent Apple to hell because of dumb "you can't change UI to your liking", guess Google is next
*yes, this was seen miles away. I work with a laptop most of the time, so phone doesn't matter much for me, apart of a box that rings a few times a year
**Yes, both companies are run by greedy dumbfucks. I am getting tired and angry that finding companies that are different takes actual dedication. It should not be this way
Trump taps DOGE-aligned tech leader to overhaul federal websites
Trump taps DOGE-aligned tech leader to overhaul federal websites
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, new chief design officer of the United States, is the latest Silicon Valley technology leader to join the Trump administration.Jory Heckman (Federal News Network)
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NZ’s shift to more private healthcare will likely raise costs and reduce quality: what the evidence tells us
NZ’s shift to more private healthcare will likely raise costs and reduce quality: what the evidence tells us
Analysis: Studies show public healthcare is more likely to lead to better health outcomes, and diverting public funds to private healthcare erodes the quality of public care.Kaaren Mathias* (RNZ)
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Il viaggio speculativo della Wüstenschiff, ipernave veicolare trans-sahariana - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il viaggio speculativo della Wüstenschiff, ipernave veicolare trans-sahariana - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
In una rassegna d’invenzioni pubblicata nell’ottobre del 1931 dalla rivista statunitense Modern Mechanics, figura in un angolo l’accattivante dicitura: “Prova che la Terra è tonda per vincere 5.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar
Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar
Opinion: Tech giant Amazon's NZ boss makes one of the clumsiest and most embarrassing attempts in a long time to spin good news out of a fiasco, writes Jonathan MilneJonathan Milne (Newsroom)
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Health minister leaves message for nurses striking outside his office
Health minister leaves message for nurses striking outside his office
More than 36,000 nurses are walking off the job in a pay dispute, and Simeon Brown had a message for them.Felix Walton (RNZ)
India's Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage | TechCrunch
India's Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage | TechCrunch
India's Offgrid Energy Labs has developed proprietary zinc battery tech as a safer, more cost-effective alternative to lithium for energy storage.Jagmeet Singh (TechCrunch)
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KEA: ”En Gazao la afero estas tre klara kaj akuta”
Kataluna Esperanto-Asocio en aŭgusto faris oficialan komunikon pri la situacio en Gazao, kun la titolo ”Ĉesigu la genocidon”. Libera Folio petis la prezidanton de KEA klarigi, kial la asocio decidis fari deklaron ĝuste pri Gazao, sed ne ekzemple pri la milito en Ukrainio, kiu rekte tuŝas multajn esperantistojn.
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What is the URL for AudioBookBay?
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Seems to be. I like using fmhy.pages.dev to check things like what domain is correct:
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Samsung and Nvidia (NVDA) Warned after New U.S. Crack Down on Chinese Chip Movements - TipRanks.com
Samsung and Nvidia (NVDA) Warned after New U.S. Crack Down on Chinese Chip Movements
Shares in South Korean chip-making giants Samsung Electronics ($SSNLF) and SK Hynix were lower today because of new U.S. restrictions on imports to China. AI Battle...David Craik (Tipranks)
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Q&A on the Trump EPA's Effort to Curtail Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Q&A on the Trump EPA's Effort to Curtail Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions - FactCheck.org
The Environmental Protection Agency is holding public hearings this week on its effort to undo the legal foundation for its regulation of greenhouse gases, the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change.Kate Yandell (FactCheck.org)
Republicans voted against independent redistricting in 2021
Republicans voted against independent redistricting in 2021
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom said Republicans didn’t vote for national independent redistricting. House Republicans voted against a multifaceted 2021 bill that had such a measure. Republicans in at least four states supported state initiatives.@politifact
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Sports Piracy in 3D
Has anyone here checked the 3D live in the usopen.org page?
usopen.org/en_US/scores/
I must say I was impressed. It is not perfect, but if what you to want to watch is just the sport being played, it might very well meet your needs. Add a little sound to it and I could watch a whole tennis match that way.
That made me think how one could convert any sports event to 3D and stream it. I don't know how many cameras IBM uses for that 3D stream, but a handful of volunteers recording the game with their phones and uploading it to a server that would process it could, in theory, generate a 3D version of the match. Maybe even the cameras of the official stream itself could be enough to create this.
The best part of this is that the 3D stream would be untraceable. It can't be watermarked, it's just the movement of the players and the ball, nothing else. And it also would have a ridiculously low bit rate. You could watch a match in 4K using a 100 kbps stream. You could even customize the assets to remove ads and make the players wear the uniform of your choice.
I'm probably dreaming too much, but a man can dream, right?
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Usually at these events there are staff who constantly look around for people who might be recording, and they don’t hesitate to kick you out if you’re caught more than once. So it’s possible if you have a decent number of people who are good about being sneaky and have covert equipment, but not easy.
It makes you wonder what will happen when more people start wearing smart AR glasses that can record everything and barely look any different than regular glasses.
How to use PeerTube for Podcasting
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So .. I've been making a weekly podcast for over 14 years. For all that time I've had complete control over my own content by hosting all the audio, the transcripts, the website and the RSS feeds on an AWS S3 bucket for a couple of dollars per month.
I submitted the RSS feed to several aggregators like iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and others. There's eBooks, I send out weekly email, post on Mastodon and Lemmy (previously on Xitter and Reddit) and it's included in other podcasts, news broadcasts and magazines.
How is adding PeerTube adding anything except more cost to me? What is the benefit of this that goes beyond people using their preferred podcast player downloading the audio from my own existing platform?
It adds video. If you don't care about video, and you already have a system that works, it's probably not for you.
If potentially a new person wanted somewhere to host a podcast, they could do that using PeerTube. Along with all the other video services it offers.
Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party’s Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year
In a recent interview in his downtown Manhattan office, Mr. Nadler, 78, said he hesitated to step aside when he believes that President Trump is threatening the foundations of democracy. But he said he had been persuaded it was time for a changing of the guard.
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A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day
A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day
Most of the long-overdue planks on this Domestic Compact for America are supported by both liberal and conservative families who live, work, and raise their children here.ralph-nader (Common Dreams)
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RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes
RFK Jr. Is Running Michelle Obama’s Playbook
It didn’t work a decade ago, and it won’t work now.Tom Bartlett (The Atlantic)
Leda Battisti – Sole, mare, e vento
“L’AIDS ti batte – è velenosa morte”
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Good, he's not US based.
Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, estimates he and a group of volunteers have publicly identified at least 20 ICE officials recorded wearing masks during arrests. He told POLITICO his experts are “able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible.”
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"Some Democrats concerned about the masking are pushing for regulations to make it easier to identify law enforcement officials — but they still say they’re uneasy that vigilante campaigns have begun using technology to do it."
Luckily we have Dems clutching their pearls because people have taken action.
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House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
Wikipedia, one of the world's most-visited websites, allows users to edit most articles, making content moderation an ongoing challenge for the platform.NBC Palm Springs
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House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
Wikipedia, one of the world's most-visited websites, allows users to edit most articles, making content moderation an ongoing challenge for the platform.NBC Palm Springs
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House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
Wikipedia, one of the world's most-visited websites, allows users to edit most articles, making content moderation an ongoing challenge for the platform.NBC Palm Springs
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This is slop. Not necessarily AI generated, but definitely dumbass-generated.
Literally not one ounce of effort. No digging into vague studies Republicans are talking about. No overview of Wikipedia's current policy. No questions posed to someone who knows about Wikipedia and/or government attempts to control the narrative.
It's not even a good thing that the article only tells you the core facts. Too much goes unsaid. No context might as well be a hallucination from an AI for how much it bridges the gap between what you think and what reality contains.
They are just trying to annoy people and micromanage any left leaning or non partisan organization so they give up and just submit to the nazi's.
Don't do it, nothing good comes from giving the nazi's what they want.
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Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks
GitHub - Tencent-Hunyuan/Hunyuan-MT
Contribute to Tencent-Hunyuan/Hunyuan-MT development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Who is dab.yeet.su
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It must be costing them
From their Terms:
DAB Music Player does not host any copyrighted content. Our Service acts as a search and streaming interface that connects to publicly available APIs. We do not store or distribute copyrighted material.
When you open the Webbrowser Developer Tools, Network tab, you can see where it streams from.
When I check on a song, it streams it from a CDN of qobuz (qobuz.com).
[JS] Four phones, three weeks: Everything we saw on teen TikTok.
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Teen self-esteem and social media’s distorted mirror.
Four phones, three weeks: Teen self-esteem and social media’s distorted mirror
Teenagers say they feel 'bombarded' by body image content on social media - and that it can lead to a darker side of the algorithm.Kate Newton (RNZ)
Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape
Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape
‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is projected to cut nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid spending over the next decade. Parents with sick kids and doctors tell Rhian Lubin the cuts are ‘final nail in the coffin’Rhian Lubin (The Independent)
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[PDF] Over 16,000 compromised servers uncovered using Secure Shell key probing method
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36708596
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Attackers regularly use SSH (Secure SHell) to compromise systems, e.g., via brute-force attacks, establishing persistence by deploying SSH public keys. This ranges from IoT botnets like Mirai, over loader and dropper systems, to the back-ends of malicious operations. Identifying compromised systems at the Internet scale would be a major break-through for combatting malicious activity by enabling targeted clean-up efforts.In this paper, we present a method to identify compromised SSH servers at scale. For this, we use SSH's behavior to only send a challenge during public key authentication, to check if the key is present on the system. Our technique neither allows us to access compromised systems (unlike, e.g., testing known attacker passwords), nor does it require access for auditing.
With our methodology used at an Internet-wide scan, we identify more than 21,700 unique systems (1,649 ASes, 144 countries) where attackers installed at least one of 52 verified malicious keys provided by a threat intelligence company, including critical Internet infrastructure. Furthermore, we find new context on the activities of malicious campaigns like, e.g., the 'fritzfrog' IoT botnet, malicious actors like 'teamtnt', and even the presence of state-actor associated keys within sensitive ASes. Comparing to honeypot data, we find these to under-/over-represent attackers' activity, even underestimating some APTs' activities. Finally, we collaborate with a national CSIRT and the Shadowserver Foundation to notify and remediate compromised systems. We run our measurements continuously and automatically share notifications.
[PDF] Over 16,000 compromised servers uncovered using Secure Shell key probing method
Main.Attackers regularly use SSH (Secure SHell) to compromise systems, e.g., via brute-force attacks, establishing persistence by deploying SSH public keys. This ranges from IoT botnets like Mirai, over loader and dropper systems, to the back-ends of malicious operations. Identifying compromised systems at the Internet scale would be a major break-through for combatting malicious activity by enabling targeted clean-up efforts.In this paper, we present a method to identify compromised SSH servers at scale. For this, we use SSH's behavior to only send a challenge during public key authentication, to check if the key is present on the system. Our technique neither allows us to access compromised systems (unlike, e.g., testing known attacker passwords), nor does it require access for auditing.
With our methodology used at an Internet-wide scan, we identify more than 21,700 unique systems (1,649 ASes, 144 countries) where attackers installed at least one of 52 verified malicious keys provided by a threat intelligence company, including critical Internet infrastructure. Furthermore, we find new context on the activities of malicious campaigns like, e.g., the 'fritzfrog' IoT botnet, malicious actors like 'teamtnt', and even the presence of state-actor associated keys within sensitive ASes. Comparing to honeypot data, we find these to under-/over-represent attackers' activity, even underestimating some APTs' activities. Finally, we collaborate with a national CSIRT and the Shadowserver Foundation to notify and remediate compromised systems. We run our measurements continuously and automatically share notifications.
[PDF] Over 16,000 compromised servers uncovered using Secure Shell key probing method
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36708596
Main.
Attackers regularly use SSH (Secure SHell) to compromise systems, e.g., via brute-force attacks, establishing persistence by deploying SSH public keys. This ranges from IoT botnets like Mirai, over loader and dropper systems, to the back-ends of malicious operations. Identifying compromised systems at the Internet scale would be a major break-through for combatting malicious activity by enabling targeted clean-up efforts.In this paper, we present a method to identify compromised SSH servers at scale. For this, we use SSH's behavior to only send a challenge during public key authentication, to check if the key is present on the system. Our technique neither allows us to access compromised systems (unlike, e.g., testing known attacker passwords), nor does it require access for auditing.
With our methodology used at an Internet-wide scan, we identify more than 21,700 unique systems (1,649 ASes, 144 countries) where attackers installed at least one of 52 verified malicious keys provided by a threat intelligence company, including critical Internet infrastructure. Furthermore, we find new context on the activities of malicious campaigns like, e.g., the 'fritzfrog' IoT botnet, malicious actors like 'teamtnt', and even the presence of state-actor associated keys within sensitive ASes. Comparing to honeypot data, we find these to under-/over-represent attackers' activity, even underestimating some APTs' activities. Finally, we collaborate with a national CSIRT and the Shadowserver Foundation to notify and remediate compromised systems. We run our measurements continuously and automatically share notifications.
[PDF] Over 16,000 compromised servers uncovered using Secure Shell key probing method
Main.Attackers regularly use SSH (Secure SHell) to compromise systems, e.g., via brute-force attacks, establishing persistence by deploying SSH public keys. This ranges from IoT botnets like Mirai, over loader and dropper systems, to the back-ends of malicious operations. Identifying compromised systems at the Internet scale would be a major break-through for combatting malicious activity by enabling targeted clean-up efforts.In this paper, we present a method to identify compromised SSH servers at scale. For this, we use SSH's behavior to only send a challenge during public key authentication, to check if the key is present on the system. Our technique neither allows us to access compromised systems (unlike, e.g., testing known attacker passwords), nor does it require access for auditing.
With our methodology used at an Internet-wide scan, we identify more than 21,700 unique systems (1,649 ASes, 144 countries) where attackers installed at least one of 52 verified malicious keys provided by a threat intelligence company, including critical Internet infrastructure. Furthermore, we find new context on the activities of malicious campaigns like, e.g., the 'fritzfrog' IoT botnet, malicious actors like 'teamtnt', and even the presence of state-actor associated keys within sensitive ASes. Comparing to honeypot data, we find these to under-/over-represent attackers' activity, even underestimating some APTs' activities. Finally, we collaborate with a national CSIRT and the Shadowserver Foundation to notify and remediate compromised systems. We run our measurements continuously and automatically share notifications.
Bear Blog is now source-available
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Microsoft-backed hollow-core fiber boffins show speed boost
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A critical component of optical communications is the availability of a suitable waveguide technology for the transport of electromagnetic waves with low loss over a broad spectral range. In the past four decades, despite extensive research, the attenuation and spectral bandwidth of silica-based optical fibres have remained relatively unchanged, with state-of-the-art fibres offering values of 0.14 dB km^−1^ and 26 THz below 0.2 dB km^−1^, respectively. Here we report a microstructured optical waveguide with unprecedented transmission bandwidth and attenuation, with a measured loss of 0.091 dB km^−1^ at 1,550 nm that remains below 0.2 dB km^−1^ over a window of 66 THz. Instead of a traditional solid glass core, this innovative optical fibre features a core of air surrounded by a meticulously engineered glass microstructure to guide light. This approach not only reduces attenuation and other signal degradation phenomena, but it also increases transmission speeds by 45%. Furthermore, the approach theoretically supports further loss reductions and operation at wavelengths where broader bandwidth amplifiers exist, potentially heralding a new era in long-distance communications as well as remote delivery of laser beams.
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The quest for long-distance communication has driven human creativity for centuries, from the use of fire beacons at night in the Old and Middle Ages, to the mechanical optical telegraphs of the Napoleonic era, up to the groundbreaking electric telegraphs of the 1850s. The transmission of the first Morse-coded message across the Atlantic via a sub-sea telegraph cable in 1858 was a monumental achievement that shrank geographical divides and revolutionized communication. The realization in the early twentieth century that modulated radio waves could be reflected by the ionosphere further enhanced communication capabilities, thus enabling long-distance communications even in the absence of a direct connection and of a line of sight. However, the inherent noisiness, unreliability and limited bandwidth of radio wave communication prompted the development of higher-quality cables that could transmit multiple voice calls simultaneously. Heaviside’s coaxial cable, with suitably developed conductive and insulating materials, became the technology that underpinned long-distance transmissions for decades. The transition from coaxial cables to optical fibres marked another notable milestone in communication technology. The pioneering work of Kao and Hockham in the 1960s identified the potential of using purified glass for transmitting modulated optical signals (hence information) to kilometre-scale distances, leading to the development of low-loss optical fibres by Corning in the 1970s. This innovation ushered in the era of digital optical communications, which for the last half a century has formed the backbone of global telecommunication networks and enabled the internet revolution. Is a further step ahead possible?All these breakthroughs were driven by the primary objective to transmit more information, as either more simultaneous messages and voice calls in the analogue electrical era or more bits per second in the digital age. A second, non-negligible goal has always been the reduction of the attenuation (or ‘loss’) of the transmission medium, to increase the distance that a signal could reach before needing regeneration or amplification. Shannon’s mathematical theory of information linked the two goals: lower attenuation required less amplification; the resulting improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio enabled the system to increase its maximum throughput of information.
Upshifting the frequency of the modulated signal carrier from tens of MHz used in the long-distance electrical coaxial cables to hundreds of THz used in optical communications enabled an increase in information throughput of more than a million times. Simultaneously, optical fibres also presented an ultralow level of attenuation of around 0.15 dB km^−1^, which remained approximately constant over a bandwidth of ~10 THz where optical amplification from erbium-doped fibre amplifiers was available. This was a substantial improvement over coaxial cables, where attenuation was frequency dependent (as √f) and reached much higher values than optical fibres at the top frequencies (for example, ~4.5 dB km^−1^ at 30 MHz in the transatlantic TAT-6 cable).
Despite unrelented progress in the field of optical communications since 1970, the minimum attenuation of silica glass fibres has remained approximately unchanged for more than four decades: from 0.154 dB km^−1^ in 1985 to 0.1396 dB km^−1^ in 2024. The seemingly insurmountable attenuation limit of ~0.14 dB km^−1^ for information-carrying waveguides has so far hindered further breakthroughs in communication systems. It has also forced technology to converge to this relatively narrow frequency range of only 5% of the carrier frequency (10 THz at around 192 THz).
Having failed in many decades to identify and synthetize a more transparent glass than silica, a potential route to further lower the propagation loss of a long-distance communication waveguide is to avoid the scattering and absorptions introduced by the glass and which cause loss of signal power in telecoms fibres. This can be achieved by transmitting electromagnetic radiation in a hollow region rather than through a solid glass core. Theoretical foundations, early loss estimates and first experiments for cylindrical, metal, hollow waveguides pre-dated the development of ultra-pure glass fibres. Experimental works from Bell Labs in the mid-twentieth century with dielectric-coated metallic hollow pipes (WT4) reached losses as low as 0.5 dB km^−1^ at frequencies of 70 GHz and impressive capacities of 476,000 voice channels15. The technology was however discarded in the mid-1970s for installation complexities and techno-economic reasons.
New research in the late 1990s and 2000s investigated the potential for achieving ultralow loss at visible/near-infrared frequencies by transmitting light through hair-thin flexible hollow core fibres (HCFs). These glass-based waveguides could transmit light in an air core, thanks to a periodic ‘holey’ cladding around it that created an out-of-plane photonic bandgap. While such research produced an outstanding new tool for scientific investigations, it failed to attain fibres with attenuation below 1 dB km^−1^ and with adequate modal purity for long-distance communication. It is only with the advent of a second generation of HCFs, guiding light through antiresonances and inhibited coupling effects in sub-wavelength-thick, core-surrounding membranes, and with the introduction of nested tube designs, that the prospect of achieving sub-0.14 dB km^−1^ losses became viable. Over the last 6 years, through improved designs and engineering, loss in these nested or double nested antiresonant nodeless hollow core fibres (NANFs/DNANFs) has decreased by an order of magnitude, reaching near parity with the fundamental attenuation of silica glass telecoms fibres at 1,550 nm, and lower values at both shorter and longer wavelengths.
In this work, we showcase the latest advancements in hollow core DNANF technology and present the first optical waveguide that surpasses conventional optical fibres in both loss and bandwidth simultaneously. With a measured loss of under 0.1 dB km^−1^ across an 18 THz bandwidth, this breakthrough result paves the way for a potential revolution in optical communications, enabling unprecedented data transmission capacities, more energy-efficient optical networks and longer unamplified spans.
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Microstructured air-core optical fibre provides unprecedented low-loss transmission of light signals over a broad wavelength window.Nature
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in reply to Deceptichum • • •Evono
in reply to TropicalDingdong • • •Issue is such channels need giant amounts of storage for this.
Linus tech Tips showed his multiple upgrades over the years it's quite crazy what they need on storage space.
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in reply to socialsecurity • • •What do you want people to buy food with. Welfare checks lol? Where would they get money to buy stuff for testing. They have an acoustic chamber that's fairly expensive.
Revenue and professional channels are intimately linked and removing the revenue stream would open them up to bought reviews like heiLTT.
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in reply to richmondez • • •We live in a society... What makes you think he'd even have a channel if he didn't need money?
Most of anything exist because people need money for food. Companies, technology, stuff. If people didn't need money the channel most likely wouldn't exist since stuff largely wouldn't exist.
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in reply to zpiritual • • •That isn't true though, plenty of people engage in creative endevours just for the pleasure of it.
Maybe this channel wouldn't but as soon as it started relying on other people and platforms there was always the risk those wouldn't align with the creative message and something would have to give.
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in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •When I worked with an influencer who made free workout vids, his ad revenue was 80% of income. It was an extreme minority from free videos to buying something in his store.
Then some algorithm change in 2018 broke his entire income, he couldn't afford me, and last I checked, he was sponsored by diet pills or whatever fake garbage.
It's a damn shame because his dream was always to provide free workout vids.
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in reply to Ofiuco • • •So, there are options.
You have three challenges:
If you just make videos and torrent them, you're not monetized, you're not discoverable and you're not really very accessable to the average person.
Youtube is this nifty one-stop-shop that provides all three to a certain point.
Peertube gives you some discoverability and lots of accessibility, but nothing for monetization.
Odysee gives you a tiny bit of discoverability and lots of accessibility, but almost nothing for monetization.
Floatplane (assuming GN wasn't feuding with LMG) gives you reasonable monetization and accessibility but almost nothing in discoverability.
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I'd like to see some form of partially federated system that works with peertube. I think the platform could scale and we could give youtube a run for their money.
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in reply to xep • • •He's got 935 followers and about 20,000 views there
Rumble only takes half the cut YouTube does, But the amount of traffic on there is microscopic compared to YouTube. There's some room there to make money.
The vast majority of the content on there is a conservative echo chamber. I'd be a little worried about his ability to maintain journalistic integrity against big companies in that ecosystem. I'm also wondering what their ads look like ;)
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in reply to rumba • • •TIL. It's always rather amusing as someone outside of America that posts containing factual information get downvotes purely based on the perceived alignment of the subject on the zero-nuance American Political Spectrum. I block ads, so I wouldn't know.
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in reply to xep • • •I certainly didn't downvote you.
It's definitely not a bad idea to look. Rumble is probably the second best option which is why he's there. But spend about 2 minutes looking around on rumble and it's like taking your dinner in the sewer. Anti-woke, anti-DEI, crypto, people praising armed military flooding into the streets of peaceful cities. The second most popular channel on there is newsmax which is literally propaganda. His will be able to resonate with the people that are there, But the rest of the content on the site is so edgy that it pushes away the vast majority.
One of the biggest complaints about the platform is the lack of traffic. The ease of use is there, the monetization is there, but the discovery isn't.
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He gets around 750 Million Youtube verified views per month , he's releasing about 5 hours of content per month.
He's not self-hosting that cheaply.
His sponsors are giving him the a nice pile of money based on his view count, he's not going to manage that on his own without the algo pumping users to him. Search engines kind of suck and video bloggers at that scale need organics to keep going.
You can't add monetization without discoverability and accessibility.
Looking at those numbers, I don't even know that peertube could handle it, he'd probably need to setup his own cluster to mirror them all.
There's a reason why we don't have a lot of competition to YouTube.
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in reply to Ofiuco • • •Nobody is gonna watch a torrent tuber, the audience would get cut to 1/100th if even that.
Too many people rely on the aggregates and the algorithms.
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in reply to Ofiuco • • •theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…
‘So grimy, so cheap’: New Zealand Matrix fan film becomes oldest active torrent in the world
Eva Corlett (The Guardian)Harbinger01173430
in reply to Ofiuco • • •😻
resetbypeer
in reply to Harbinger01173430 • • •towerful
in reply to Ofiuco • • •Yeh, absolutely.
The DMCA takedown works because music/film industry execs have previously gone after YouTube for not responding to legitimate copyright infringements.
So YouTube now favours the person claiming the strike and makes it very difficult for the defendant to exonerate themselves.
Changing how they publish will sidestep YouTube overplaying.
But YouTube has revenue split with content creators, and has an absolutely massive audience with discovery algorithms and community stuff. Moving away from that platform would be an insane move
Ofiuco
in reply to towerful • • •Well I didn't mean not publishing on YouTube completely because we know that's not possible at this point in time, I meant like having an archive of their own videos accesible via Torrent... Kinda like how some let's players are doing by putting their uncensored versions on Patreon (with swearing and stuff) or early access to their content, but in this case, putting the YouTube version in a torrent in case some shit like this happens so the access is not lost forever.
Like, not choosing only one way of publishing or another, just casting a wider net.
towerful
in reply to Ofiuco • • •Oh, gotcha.
I'm pretty sure they have a patreon.
They ran a Kickstarter to fund the production of this specific 3h episode, and all levels of backers got a USB key with a copy of the video on it.
The issue isn't it being deleted. It won't disappear.
The issue is the contents potentially not reaching as many new viewers unaware of Nvidias shady behaviour and how the black market of GPUs actual works because Bloomberg (who have sponsorship from Nvidia) DMCAd the video.
Either because their articles were used as a source and the text of those articles were shown on screen (potentially reducing views those articles would have received if they were linked? Or something? No idea how you would provide a snapshot of the information as it was at the time of publishing the video, tho. Cause the article could be edited after GNs video was published, making any soft references meaningless).
Or because they used some of Bloombergs video of POTUS, which (in my understanding) cannot be copyrighted.
So to me, it seems like GNs video was frivolously DMCAd to reduce its impact on Nvidia.
The impact of that DMCA is that: as it was starting to trend it gets taken offline for ~10 days. After which, YouTube's algorithm will be unlikely to promote it via its algorithm because it hasn't had any new views for 10 days.
Effectively killing the video.
Gamers Nexus gets a "strike" against their channel (of which they get 3).
Bloomberg has 0 repercussions.
Unless we all kick up enough fuss to cause some repercussions, and support GN enough to get the exposé trending again.
fluxion
in reply to towerful • • •rumba
in reply to fluxion • • •Messy. Youtube could just refuse to serve his videos because they decide they don't want to :/
They have more lawyers than God, I can't help but think the contract they all have with Google favors Google to the extreme.
towerful
in reply to rumba • • •Yeh, exactly.
It's a private company.
It's a huge platform, but YouTube can choose what YouTube is.
The only way any change happens is if YouTube gets raked over the coals by enough content producers (that they could collectively start their own platform) by media and potentially by governments (recognising them as some sort of critical communications or something and implementing regulations?).
Or if all the YouTube viewers decide they have had enough and go elsewhere (where, tho? Kinda goes hand-in-hand with creators starting their own platform).
So the pressure needs to keep building, YouTube needs to keep doing shitty things. Eventually... Hopefully?... Something changes: YouTube gets better, a new platform is born.
rumba
in reply to towerful • • •We need monetization in peertube, and peertube to have community tools like (or exceeding) lemmy.
I think it's a pretty low bar, but it's not just going to happen without massive interest
toad31
in reply to rustyredox • • •OboTheHobo
in reply to toad31 • • •Zwrt
in reply to OboTheHobo • • •Can someone explain me why creators cant do both? Reupload a mirror on peertube.
Its in their interest to have a solid backup when youtube inevitably dies.
rumba
in reply to Zwrt • • •It'd be dangerous to his revenue stream.
If he reduces views on YT, the algo will recommend him less. His internal sponsors won't pay more for the non YT content so he'll just be gutting his own traffic if it takes off. Assuming he has disks around with all his finished content on it, he could stand it up later if he wanted, but it's not like Peertube can host an unlimited amount of video for free. Someone is paying for those disks and for the transfer of those bits.
Ideally, he'd stand up his own PT and we'd share in watching his stuff and reduce costs Peer style. But he's still going to be out a serious payment stream and the PT network can't just perpetually bare the cost of his storage.
It's like if LMG wanted to host their back catalog, we'd need peer tube hosts with a PB of storage sitting around ready to take his catalog.
SaltySalamander
in reply to rumba • • •rumba
in reply to SaltySalamander • • •3abas
in reply to Zwrt • • •sugar_in_your_tea
in reply to Zwrt • • •3abas
in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •kadu
in reply to toad31 • • •That would defeat the entire purpose of sensationalist headlines and blowing up a Google search as a "deep investigation" which is this channel's main source of attention.
They want the clicks on YouTube. Moving to PeerTube would be great if they just wanted the information to be out there, but that's not their primary concern.
Laser
in reply to kadu • • •I don't think they're sensationalist, they just don't sugarcoat the industry bullshit. And believe it or not, they need to make money from this, it doesn't pay itself. It's like saying newspapers should be free, or else informing the people isn't their primary concern.
"A farmer wants the money. Giving the good away for free would be great if they just wanted to feed people, but that's not their primary concern." Can even play that game for nurses etc
kadu
in reply to Laser • • •To the contrary, they massively inflate whatever they can find that will gather clicks.
msage
in reply to kadu • • •SpaceCadet
in reply to msage • • •Um, the video in question here?
The channel is not in danger of being deleted, not even close. They received a single copyright strike, which in principle already got reversed by youtube (though still pending a 10 day waiting period for the claimant to reply and file legal action). It takes 3 valid copyright strikes within a 90 day period for a channel to be deleted.
They're not angry because their channel is in danger of being deleted, they're angry because they got hit in the moneys, losing ad revenue on a video that probably cost quite a bit of money to produce. Because of how the algorithm works, they'll probably not recoup the lost views on that particular video, even when it's reinstated.
It's also not like abusive and frivolous copyright strikes are a new thing. They've been a byproduct of the safe harbor provisions (aka OCILLA ) in the DMCA for almost 3 decades now (DMCA was introduced in 1998), and the chilling effects on online speech and liberties have been well documented and covered to death by various publications over the years, but somehow GamersNexus only discovers it and starts to care when their bottom line is affected by it. I get that it's not cool, but I don't get why people should care about this particular instance of DMCA abuse, especially as it seems to be going as well for GamersNexus as a copyright strike can possibly go, given that Youtube already ruled in their favor.
To me it comes across as a hastily put together video to spring on their audience to whip up outrage and compensate for lost ad revenue. It's a tried and true tactic, if you don't have news, make the news. It seems to be working too: after one day this video already has more views than anything else they put out in the last 6 months, so it will probably make them more money than the taken down video would ever make. Good for them, but that doesn't mean that you can't see it for the sensationalist click bait non-story that it is.
database of legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials; project of Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)BananaIsABerry
in reply to kadu • • •Frezik
in reply to BananaIsABerry • • •Their bread and butter is hardware reviews and weekly news. No, they're not a drama channel. Just because that's the only time you, personally, hear about them doesn't mean the rest of us work that way.
Telling Linus to fuck off is a good idea regardless of views.
BananaIsABerry
in reply to Frezik • • •Frezik
in reply to BananaIsABerry • • •SpaceCadet
in reply to Frezik • • •I'm willing to say that too, but you have to admit that it's a lot easier to say such things on a Youtube video that gets you 900k views in a day.
Also: careful to censor those middle fingers so you don't get ... gasp... demonetized
rumba
in reply to kadu • • •DoucheBagMcSwag
in reply to rustyredox • • •Spaz
in reply to DoucheBagMcSwag • • •REDACTED
in reply to Spaz • • •Jeffool
in reply to REDACTED • • •If you're knowledgeable, I have a question. Years ago I uploaded a YouTube video that wouldn't publish because of an automatic claim. I instantly disputed it, and it took like 5 or 6 months to resolve. But I saw someone today say that claimants had a week or two to respond to a dispute. Do you know if that's the case now, or if someone was talking trash?
(I found a similar claim on YouTube, but they may've found the same line and repeated it, and who knows if FAQs are actually up to date.)
REDACTED
in reply to Jeffool • • •Honestly sounds like a glitch. Never heard of this before and from a quick search, I don't see anyone else having this issue. Did this by any chance happen in 2022 summer-autumn? At that time youtube was modifying it's dispute system and how many days it can take, which could have resulted in some oversight for some who were already in the process of it.
Claimants have 30 days to respond, after which it is automatically thrown out and your video should be good to go. The 7 day thing applies to counter-claims and escalation, not standart disputes, so 30+7 days(x*), but not months of just waiting.
Jeffool
in reply to REDACTED • • •I initially uploaded it on March 30th, 2021. YouTube still shows that as the upload date for the video, and I'm stuck on my phone at the moment, so I'll look to see if I can find a date for the claim updates later to sate my own curiosity, but that's recent enough that I trust my memory of it being months, plural. I got an email about the claim that day, disputed it, got a copyright strike the next day, disputed THAT... And was eventually approved. I don't have another email about that video saying it was approved or dropped or anything, until there was another claim (after apparently a manual review) on February 9th of 2023, resulting in a regional block.
So maybe it was because I disputed the actual strike and not just the initial claim?
Not that I'm complaining at you. I'm just surprised. I thought this was typical. Though I was annoyed at YouTube. I thought the video could've done a little better on YouTube than it did in Vimeo if I pointed people there instead, you know? (100-ish on YouTube now vs 30k on Vimeo those months earlier. But it was a timely video.)
But thanks for the insight. I appreciate it.
DonutsRMeh
in reply to rustyredox • • •Buffalox
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •Bloomberg has 10 days to file for lawsuit against Gamers Nexus. If they do, the take down stands, and it's a strike until Gamers Nexus may win the case. Which will be expensive. 3 strikes and YouTube closes the channel with near zero option for appeal.
Gamers Nexus cannot manage if a big company like Bloomberg goes all in. They can easily bankrupt a small channel like Gamers Nexus with frivolous lawsuits. And if you are bankrupt, you can't defend yourself.
The US judicial system is heavily tilted towards those that have more money.
Redredme
in reply to Buffalox • • •"small."
Make no mistake. Gamers Nexus is a multi million dollar company.
Sure, Bloomberg is much, much bigger. But while gamers Nexus is the underdog, it's not the toothless underdog. That little fucker will bite in bloomberg's ankles before it dies and tbf: it looks like it's already yapping and took it's first bite.
Buffalox
in reply to Redredme • • •That is true, but yes Gamers Nexus is (relatively) small, and a million dollars can be gone in no time, if a multi billion dollar company decides you need to be gone.
1 million dollars is far from enough to run just a single somewhat high profile copyright lawsuit.
This case is simple, so they will probably manage that pretty easily, there is basically no way Bloomberg can win. It's just a typical harassment tactic that will work against by far the most smaller outlets. But Steve is smart, he knows bullshit when he sees it, and he is not easily scared.
But if Bloomberg gets pissed enough, Gamers Nexus could soon be toast. Just like Gamers Nexus has friends more powerful than themselves, so does Bloomberg.
And 3 frivolous take down notices can appear from various sources in no time. And to YouTube Gamers Nexus is definitely small fry.
uid0gid0
in reply to Buffalox • • •Buffalox
in reply to uid0gid0 • • •Seleni
in reply to Redredme • • •What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?
Answer: roughly a billion dollars.
Being a million-dollar company means nothing against a company where a million dollars can count as little more than a rounding error.
maaneeack
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •DonutsRMeh
in reply to maaneeack • • •Right but Bloomberg only did it once, right? Or are they talking about "in general"?
Why is this being downvoted? I'm genuinely asking questions 😂.
JcbAzPx
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •DonutsRMeh
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •SpaceCadet
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •DonutsRMeh
in reply to SpaceCadet • • •SpaceCadet
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •So what you're basically saying is that any YouTube channel since the dawn of the DMCA has been permanently in the status of "Our Channel Could Be Deleted". That's... not exactly news is it? What makes the GamersNexus case special?
JcbAzPx
in reply to SpaceCadet • • •SpaceCadet
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •You angered the tech jesus fanbois
DonutsRMeh
in reply to SpaceCadet • • •paraphrand
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •I sympathize with Steve and how he is, and how he goes about explaining things. And the style of making sharp points.
But he’s also flawed, and knows how to play the content game. This is nearly just clickbait. And they flew across the country in service of his style of rhetoric.
I honestly wish more people with audiences were just as pedantic and critical as he is. But he also has his own set of biases in the computer landscape. He is still a Gamer after all.
helmet91
in reply to paraphrand • • •I don't think it's clickbait at all. He's in real danger of being silenced. With this latest project he reached into a massive wasp nest for sure, but I admire his efforts to speak up in cases like this.
And I haven't found any bias in his content in general. He's pretty transparent about his methodologies.
magikmw
in reply to helmet91 • • •Title is clickbait, because a sentence like that without context is alarmist.
It's not wrong, it's mentioned and explained in the video, byt it's still clickbait.
The story here is Bloomberg fuckery and the copyright strike, not the imminent channel deletion.
WhyJiffie
in reply to magikmw • • •paraphrand
in reply to WhyJiffie • • •SpaceCadet
in reply to paraphrand • • •Just because it's being normalized by the Linuses and Tech Jesuses on youtube doesn't mean we shouldn't call it what it is.
This video is click bait and the content is rather mid. We're clearly supposed to feel some kind of outrage over a freedom of press kinda thing, but in reality the video is more like: waaah our ad revenue took a hit on this one video because of Big Evil Company abusing the copyright claim system, NOT FAIR! (Ignoring that this has been happening hundreds if not thousands of times per day for over a decade to much smaller channels than GamersNexus, without a peep from Tech Jesus on the issue).
paraphrand
in reply to SpaceCadet • • •I’m actually on your side. I was bringing up those questions to question why they would get upset with be gently applying clickbait label.
Usually fans of these channels fall in line with the rhetoric.
But once again, I tried a conversation style that failed when I didn’t get a response from who I was talking to, and I got downvotes.
WhyJiffie
in reply to paraphrand • • •paraphrand
in reply to WhyJiffie • • •No worries are directed at you. It’s just me lamenting how I keep going about things wrong.
I need to touch grass, for sure.
WhyJiffie
in reply to paraphrand • • •WhyJiffie
in reply to paraphrand • • •paraphrand
in reply to WhyJiffie • • •So it was strike 1? And wasn’t strike 3 and the deletion is pending? It’s not the worst stretch of things, but it’s stretching it a little unless the deletion is pending.
I don’t think your perspective is invalid tho.
WhyJiffie
in reply to paraphrand • • •paraphrand
in reply to helmet91 • • •He has a huge bias against Macs. I suspect you won’t be receptive to that idea.
There’s a general sense of consoles and other devices being beneath the channel. Little comments often surface during news segments that touch on them. It’s not that they don’t acknowledge them.
And with how shitty Microsoft is, you’d think they would be more even handed about the whole thing.
But this is filtered though my sensitive ears because I came up with Mac gaming and console gaming, and I’m sensitive to when people are dismissive of other options. The same thing use to happen to Linux until the Steam Deck and associated software support from valve forced people out of treating all Linux gaming as an afterthought.
Edit: use your words guys. The downvotes are nonsense.
ozymandias117
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •DonutsRMeh
in reply to ozymandias117 • • •ImgurRefugee114
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •MourningDove
in reply to rustyredox • • •skisnow
in reply to MourningDove • • •Nikls94
in reply to skisnow • • •MrScottyTay
in reply to skisnow • • •Isn't this a bit disingenuous to why they originally started to change the algorithm though?
People figured it out and started abusing it by spinning up proxy websites that would just link to the sites they wanted higher up in the rankings. You could argue Google only became an advertising company so that they could regulate that whilst also taking a slice.
I'm not arguing that they've since lost their way though.
Schlemmy
in reply to MrScottyTay • • •Zink
in reply to MourningDove • • •MourningDove
in reply to Zink • • •Oh absolutely. And it’s one of the same 3 or 4 voices in every video. And not only that, but a lot of the videos themselves are AI. Check the comments… yeah. No one notices or even cares.
It’s a foregone conclusion at this point. AI going to absolutely wreck the creativity of mankind. Art will be viewed in history books, and it’s fucking sad.
quid_pro_joe
in reply to MourningDove • • •MourningDove
in reply to quid_pro_joe • • •quid_pro_joe
in reply to MourningDove • • •MourningDove
in reply to quid_pro_joe • • •I’m just thinking about all of the gigs and contracts musicians and other artists are going to miss out on because some smug kid with a laptop can coherently type a string of words into a field a produce what gets the job done for a quarter of the price.
It’s a shame.
quid_pro_joe
in reply to MourningDove • • •flop_leash_973
in reply to rustyredox • • •The actual title of the video is:
Way less Click Bait sounding. And while a shitty thing for Bloomberg to do it is not any different than what tons of channels have been dealing with for years. So the Youtube sky is not falling any faster now than it was last week.
kieron115
in reply to flop_leash_973 • • •A copyright strike is a little bit more serious than a content id match, fwiw.
support.google.com/youtube/ans…
beeb
in reply to flop_leash_973 • • •Schlemmy
in reply to rustyredox • • •