We created a new YouTube channel, and I'm one of the hosts! We decided to make a series out of responding to comments on the @EUCommission social media accounts.
It would really help me out if you hit that like button and leave a comment about what subject we should do next (if commenting on YT is your jam, that is.)
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
@fasnix If you need to get to know Peertube better, let me know. We helped some organizations to set this up: it’s just hosting and syncing works automatically in the background.
If the #EU does not make the move interaction here will drop away, and they will be left to the #dotcons trolls and the algorithm.... it's then more mess they need to compost.
@hannes99 @Veza85UE @rozeboosje That's weird.... wasn't me who deleted it, I don't have the keys to that account yet (or else I would have been answering comments on the weekend) Perhaps there's a filter that automatically deletes links? I will investigate
I think the requirement that it should be in the actual continent is arbitrary and unnecessary, and already stretched by allowing applications from Turkey and Georgia. Technically, Armenia shouldn't be able to apply, nor Greenland but that is ludicrous. In other "european" endeavours we already allow for participation by non European countries. Why not in this one? I'd LOVE to see Canada and Australia join.
@rozeboosje Because we're not a mini UN, nor a theme park with trade agreements? We're a common culture bound by a shared legal framework. It seems staggeringly arrogant to me to assume resource-rich countries on other continents would even WANT to be under the jurisdiction of the CJUE. Also: are we TOO functional right now? Are our institutions working SO well that we need to add lawmakers from 10 timezones away with 0 interest in Europe to our legislative process? #CanadaJar
@Veza85UE IF they show interest, why not? If they don't, grand. We can have, and are making great progress toward having, good trade agreements with such countries and I would be more than happy to also see freedom of movement between us and them.
Freedom of Movement is one of the 4 freedoms under our 🇪🇺 Treaties. It's not free. There are tradeoffs. You're supposed to pool sovereignty to participate in the Single Market, it's overseen by 🇪🇺 Courts under 🇪🇺 law. Btw, Canada has 0 business being in the SM since Manitoba and Québec trade less freely with each other than Sweden and Bulgaria do inside the SM.
Why would any EUropean want to dilute the EU, plus extra vetoes in the 2 Councils?
@Veza85UE If that's all true, Canada would not qualify and in that case the point is moot. The point I'm making is obviously contingent on a close alignment between the EU and Canada or Australia. Until that is achieved, if it's even something those countries were aiming for, it is of course a non runner. All I am saying is that merely not being on the continent of Europe should not be an obstacle. Other obstacles, of course, remain.
@rozeboosje The point is moot because Canada is not a European country and our Treaties and our Union are supposed to *mean* something to us. Again, we're not the UN, nor the OSCE and we can have wonderful trade relationships with allies in other organisations that are not the EU.
Because we're NOT giving veto power over our eurolives to Saskatchewan.
Canada simps can spend time and resources on getting the 10 EU statelets that haven't ratified CETA yet to do it.
Would help if some of these comments were on YouTube 😉 We’ve got some bets going in the team about how many views we’ll have by Monday so I’m trying to push the vids a little more 🤣
@Veza85UE Sadly I am not participating on YouTube anymore. Between Google destroying any community focused functionality and the community I was part of self destroying I gave up on that platform. My "rozeboosje" account is still there but I stopped posting videos or participating.
@rozeboosje I haven't had a google account in almost a decade, I had no idea you needed one to comment on YT, but of course, lol. @hpod16 I love you, but I'm not farming content for them. I learnt something you might find interesting in this convo started by the CNES CM who's asked her bosses if they can get Peertube or at least mirror it (easy?). Some Mastodon users even filter out posts w/YT links. I'm lazy/lowtech, I just put the songs in odesli to ditch the ads.
La CM ne connait pas Peertube, préférez-vous que nous arrêtions de vous partager nos liens Youtube sur Mastodon ? (vraie question, n'hésitez pas à donner votre avis)
@rozeboosje @Veza85UE I will look into it but no promises This was conceived as a dedicated YouTube project, and we brought people in who are YouTubers, etc. pS: dumb question time: what’s the difference between having a peer tube account and just uploading videos on the mastodon server you/I already have? Are there technical aspects to it?
@rozeboosje @Veza85UE There are quite large technical differences that affect how efficiently video spreads between servers, and that is less relevant to users. I haven’t seen any comparisons, but my guess is that large videos are better with Peertube, while smaller ones work well on Mastodon.
There is also a huge difference in how the interface works. Peertube works like a video service, where I can browse a channel’s videos easily. On Mastodon the video is always secondary.
hahaa! Successfully removed all IR and UV filters from my old Canon EOS 600D, I can do full spectrum, UV and IR photography now!
All of the following photos have been taken with a ~550nm+ lpf, meaning cutting everything under 550nm (blue, purple and uv) off. I love the vibrant pink foliage and dramatic turquoise skies #photography
this is so cool!! Taking photos with atypical spectra is a lot of fun, even with the rather old and bulky camera. The imaging technique used here emulates old Kodak Aerochrome film stock. It’s not available anymore, but used to be a colour IR film, which mapped the IR on the blue channel, while remapping red and green to get this pink-foliage look. I do the same here! Blue is solely IR and swapped with the red channel in post. #photography
I also retook a few recent photos in this lovely Aerochrome-style IR! They actually look fantastic, not even sure which versions I like more now.. :D #photography
There are some hardships though, since the camera now sees a lot more light (the full IR spectrum), but the light-meter cannot process that properly, auto-exposing is off by about 2 steps. Even worse, with the missing filters and the phase-detect diodes not being in that path anyways, the auto-focus is now off by a tiny bit. You can get used to it, but at first, I was just way off with my focus and exposure.
The resulting images are also very much discoloured, this is because the red and blue channels have to be swapped, which given that I shoot raw becomes annoying. I don't think there is a command line tool to switch two channels in a canon raw-file (.cr2), imagemagick will just invoke darktable.
Using darktable for development would be great, but I sadly have a bunch of bugs with it and my tool of choice is anyways DxO PhotoLab... which cannot swap colour channels -.-
So my workflow right now is to demosaic all photos in DxO, export them as 16bit tif files, then run a batch imagemagick command to swap the red and blue channel on all photos, just to re-import t
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There are some hardships though, since the camera now sees a lot more light (the full IR spectrum), but the light-meter cannot process that properly, auto-exposing is off by about 2 steps. Even worse, with the missing filters and the phase-detect diodes not being in that path anyways, the auto-focus is now off by a tiny bit. You can get used to it, but at first, I was just way off with my focus and exposure.
The resulting images are also very much discoloured, this is because the red and blue channels have to be swapped, which given that I shoot raw becomes annoying. I don't think there is a command line tool to switch two channels in a canon raw-file (.cr2), imagemagick will just invoke darktable.
Using darktable for development would be great, but I sadly have a bunch of bugs with it and my tool of choice is anyways DxO PhotoLab... which cannot swap colour channels -.-
So my workflow right now is to demosaic all photos in DxO, export them as 16bit tif files, then run a batch imagemagick command to swap the red and blue channel on all photos, just to re-import them in DxO for final development. This actually not tedious, just time intensive...
Anymeow, this is how a raw image without development actually looks like. The white-purple foliage is actually neat, maybe I will do something with it as well some time, but for now I enjoy the pink-turquoise style more
FWIW, here are some near-IR shots I've taken with a camera that has all UV/IR filters removed...and the Bayer color array...so it's a monochrome camera...a poor person's version of a Leica.
Attached: 3 images
Rapidly developing, short lived storms...photographed in southern New Mexico.
They are over the Capitan mountains, 50 - 60 miles northeast of me.
1st photo - no filters.
FWIW, here are some near-IR shots I've taken with a camera that has all UV/IR filters removed...and the Bayer color array...so it's a monochrome camera...a poor person's version of a Leica.
I bought a near IR filter (760 nm) for my regular Canon EOS-70D. Only useable with the electronic screen, bright day, changed EV stop by 2 and only manual focus. Really good IR needs a dedicated camera. I also have an IR LED array. A cheaper sort of phone camera or old vidicon "sees" with it easily. but almost useless for the Canon, which is good really. The cheap phone "sees" the UV light very differently too!
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Or find a discarded point-and-shoot at a flea market and hack into it yourself. You can find how-to vid's on YouTube.
I have experimented a bit with portraiture in various bands using a full-spectrum camera. In near-IR everyone has pasty white skin. Think of the scenes in Dune 2. youtube.com/shorts/5UEGpAvaeEU
If you shoot in near-UV, every freckle or other dark skin mark looks like a blotch of india ink. Folks can look 20 years older in near-UV.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
They never told me how they did it, and I never asked...but my hunch is that they removed the sensor from the camera body and then heated it...just enough to soften the adhesive that held the Bayer filter in place, gently pried it off, and put the sensor back in the body with some spacers to change the sensor height. They had to do that because removing a glass filter out of the converging optical path shifts the resulting focal plane...so they set sensor height so that my manual lenses had the same focus setting...infinity focus setting remained the same after the conversion, give or take a few thousandths of an inch. Works for me. Your mileage may vary.
@KrajciTom from my research into doing it myself, it looks like most manufacturers use dyed versions of the same kind of photoresist that's used when producing the silicon itself make the bayer filter
the correct way to removie it is to buy the dedicated hard-baked-photoresist remover from 3m, some horrbile concoction of solvents that you apply to the chip boiling hot
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.
Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:
@Paulatics @bougiewonderland I can send you a less swear-filled summary version, just let me know (apologies for the swears, it really helps me deal with it all!)
We’re already there though… the Starlink model is to orbit and then ‘deorbit’ satellites by the thousands. The standard ‘space guy’ response to any concerns has become some version of ‘that’s ok, we’ll just be deorbiting them all, so nothing’s permanent’ which is, of course, bullshit.
But I do not have a mass breakdown for what Reflect Orbital is trying to launch - they have been inconsistent in reporting the size of the claimed mirror. So I cannot say how much they would contribute to atmospheric pollution.
As @sundogplanets wrote, the question is how much of a mess the group makes before this all stops.
Yes, but we need to keep reminding ourselves and others that at scale, ‘deorbiting’ satellites is just another way of saying ‘pumps metals and rare earths into the upper atmosphere’ and there’s no way that could go wrong is there?
ever since I saw you mention this yesterday I've been seeing articles about it! Two in my google feed, one last night and one this morning. Hopefully lots of noise gets made about how awful this would be.
@Npars01 @davidtheeviloverlord @datarama The space laser thing* was actually one of those "accusations as confession" statements?!? I couldn't figure out where the absurdity came from at the time. Now, it's perfectly clear. Holy crap.
*when MTG spouted the QAnon conspiracy that Jewish-financed Space Lasers caused the California wildfires in 2018.
@datarama Add a bit of technology to these "sunlight satellites" & could these be converted to a low earth orbit laser platform? thedebrief.org/threat-of-war-i…
In addition to the hazards created by the metallic chaff from Elon Musk's Starlinks that suffer from "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" ie they explode regularly; how much easily weaponizable stuff do we want in space?
@Npars01 @datarama There was a story in Analog science fiction magazine in the early 1980s about this. IIRC, it was a murder mystery. How did this executive get cooked in his office, next door to a green skyscraper where every window:
A) worked as a solar panel, B) adjusted to track the sun, C) could also reflect sunlight like a mirror to cool the building.
Hacksmith Industries is back at it again, and this time, they have built a functional 1.5 Kilowatt Iron Man laser gauntlet capable of cutting through...
@Npars01 @davidtheeviloverlord @datarama What if a high powered ground based laser is pointed to these orbital reflectors? It could act as a directed energy relay and be used as a weapon.
It's not clear to me why techbros keep trying to re-introduce ideas that have already been tried and discarded. Hyperloop is just a rehash of 19c pneumatic rail, already tried and discarded, and just as predictably successful (that is, NOT). So-called 'moonlight lamps' -- giant lamps that illuminated very large areas -- were discarded well over a century ago, too. This seems like just a rehash of that already failed idea. Don't any of these 'smart' guys read?
how do we stop rockets from being launched commercially? Maybe there's ones we need for weather and exploration, but profit driven rockets, how can regular people stop them?
A US company wants to launch a satellite in 2026 that acts as a mirror and reflects sunlight back to Earth. Thousands more are planned. Criticism is increasing.
It's worth scrubbing through the EEVblog video she links.
TL, DW - Dave's simple back of the envelope math reveals the sunlight spreads out to a few hundred MILLIwatts / m^2. Not even enough energy to run the power inverters the solar cells are connected to. Recovered energy == zero.
@arisummerland > this is one of the stupidest things I have seen proposed recently. Next thing you know we'll have LED billboards in space or... whatever
This! Sunlight-as-a-Service is like something out of Idiocracy. What's shocking is not that one nutter envisioned it (some of the blue skies brainfarts I come up with are just as far out), nor that a subculture of true believers formed around it. But that people in control of serious resources took it seriously.
@martinvermeer @tml I'll just say that if they have thousands of satellites, they will have to be at many different altitudes. Something at 600km altitudes is easily visible for a couple hours after sunset or before sunrise, which is fully dark - that's when you see all the Starlink satellites.
18x18m is their first satellite size. Large enough to be damaging to your eyes if it's reflecting sunlight and you accidentally look at it with binoculars. I'd say that's a really big problem.
@tml But as I was arguing, it is visible _well beyond_ astronomical twilight, which is when the Sun is less than 18 degrees below the horizon, and still illuminates the top of the atmosphere. I know, I have observed satellites for years.
Edit: as the name implies, 'astronomical twilight' is before the sky is dark enough to make astronomical observations, i.e., really dark.
@tml It depends. A satellite at 600 km altitude is visible in the zenith well after/before astronomical twilight, in Finland, e.g., all through the night for the summer half of the year. But yes, the central parts of winter nights should be safe.
@martinvermeer But during Finnish summer nights there is more light anyway than what such a tiny orbital space mirror would provide.
The plans of this company are crazy enough as such, no need to use wild exaggerations to fight them. Just simple calculations are enough to demonstrate that it is a scam. I hope.
I remember recently reading an article about... I think it was China, might be wrong... talking about putting up satellites with what I imagine would be significant solar arrays, and then downlinking the power to ground stations as focused microwave beams.
I don't know if that technology is actually feasible, but even then you'd still have to be careful; it might not "blind" astronomers per se, but wouldn't it mess with radio astronomy?
Can I ask just which mental institution these RO people escaped from?? Jeezus... as if our earth's skies aren't congested enough with Musk's space junk.
@startswithabang The big thing is at the end -we already have solutions such as inexpensive LiFePO4 storage to couple with renewables. This is really simple stuff.
@startswithabang I wonder if people in places like ancient Egypt bitched about the pointlessness of the gods demanding them waste all their effort and resources building small mountains for them.
"Next thing you know they're gonna want us to put giant mirrors in space to reflect the sun so they can pretend to control that too."
All the various other places...
"Why we building these stupid statues pointing out to sea when we're all dying?"
@startswithabang I originally thought they were trying to build a satellite death-ray but it seems more like they’re proposing to build a satellite derp-ray.
@startswithabang This is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard of, in a life of technology work, which has the highest dumb idea particle ("stupidons") flux of any industry.
We come up with these grand ideas and never even consider the environmental cost. Both the planet and the orbit atmosphere are already a trash can. Learn how to be responsible first.
@startswithabang To the best of my knowledge, no one has answered my question-what if a third party government objects to the deployment of this technology, can they demand that the mirror does not shine on their territory? Would they be justified in destroying the mirrors if they shine where they are not wanted(after a warning of course)?
What makes you think it's really going to happen? To me it just feels like a grift.
As a side note, from time to time I do solar cooking. I've made multiple cookers with various materials. Space blanket mylar is inexpensive, but it tends to break down after a few months. You can use thicker mylar that works for like two years, but it weighs a lot more, so would cost more to launch. UV in space would be worse.
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@number6 They have a factory where they are building satellites. They paid a buttload of money to the FCC to file for launch. They paid a buttload of money to SpaceX to have a spot on a rocket. They are doing it.
Have I mentioned how much I like Nicole Mortillaro? Great article, includes quotes from @JohnBarentine (there were various good reasons why she didn't interview me for this one, but fortunately a lot of other astronomers besides me are really worried about Reflect Orbital's thoughtless plan)
@JohnBarentine I don't know if it will do anything, but I emailed the company today and asked them to educate themselves more about light pollution, recommended two books.
@Teratogenese @JohnBarentine you're probably not wrong. The company is advertising one of their services as defence.
At the end of the day, all this technology has some connection to killing, torturing, or spying on people. I can see this as a heat ray, yes, or as a means of torturing people by exposing them to constant light. It would make it easier to monitor people too in otherwise dark places.
@JohnBarentine Thank you Prof Sam! As someone passionate about fighting against light pollution, I'm really thankful that you have brought it to my attention and you are working against it. I think another angle you can take here, as someone in Saskatchewan, if these mirrors actually did work, do you think farmers would really pay for this? (they already have lights on their machines and don't need to illuminate the entire field all at once).
@JohnBarentine so what happens when one of them gets hit by a starlink satellite or something similar? 7 years of bad luck and falling shards of a mirror plummeting towards unsuspecting individuals on the ground…
People with such dumb ideas tend to be pretty dumb. They tend to ignore the experts they hire and "move fast and break shit". But moving fast and breaking shit *IN SPACE* (as well as *AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN*) doesn't, um, work very well?
I'll be surprised if they can deploy without trying 50 times.
I'm late to this thread, but can confirm that at our radio observatory, even a brief flash of reflected sunlight would permanently damage or destroy our receivers. This would be a total logistical nightmare, especially as we are near a decently large population center.
Features interviews with me and several of my excellent astronomer colleagues on the American Astronomical Society Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment! Looks like Reflect Orbital has followed SpaceX's lead and stopped responding to journalist inquiries.
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I have doubts about whether or not change.org petitions actually do anything. But if you need to do something small right now against space mirrors, a DarkSky International member set up a petition here: change.org/p/stop-space-mirror…
DarkSky International just posted their position letter on Reflect Orbital. It is direct and to the point:
"Based on current scientific evidence, DarkSky does not see a viable pathway for such systems to align with responsible lighting principles or with our mission to protect natural darkness. These systems would introduce significant ecological, human health, safety, and astronomical risks at a global scale."
Thanks for posting this. What an absolutely horrible idea... As if we don't already have WAY too much night time lighting everywhere! Signed it of course.
So when you teach your children not to look at the sun during daytime as it can burn their retina
Remember to stop them looking at the stars at night as they might accidentally look at one of these stupid fucking mirrors too long & also burn their retina
@startswithabang INSTANT first thought was "oh look, the TechBros have found yet another way to wreck our ecology and the lives of fellow life-forms". Urg.
@thomas_klopf @kilroy_was_here There are a few companies that are trying to do this. The problem is that they just chuck the debris into the atmosphere, where it becomes atmospheric pollution and possibly hits the ground. This is not a solution, it's a mitigation with different consequences.
it seems the pollution created by vaporization would be trivial relative to the other junk we throw up all the time, so the better of 2 evils?.. assuming nothing radioactive is in it. The bottom line is governments need to treat orbit parking spaces as a scarce resource, not a free-for-all for those with the means to launch whatever they want.
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@thomas_klopf @kilroy_was_here Agree! But I want to see what space law has to say about liability for damage on the ground from one of these retrieval missions! Is it still the launching country's gov't like the Space Liability Convention says? I guess this is untested and likely won't be tested until there's a horrible tragedy. Great.
@MamaLake @aadeacon @startswithabang I sure hope that Canada will consider it light trespass and not allow it. But I doubt most people in government even know about it.
@aadeacon @startswithabang I was wondering about this too. The US gets crazy mad when another nations weather balloons drift into their territory, or planes fly over, why don’t they care about satellites??
Intentional Obsolescence - devices are bricked by software
This is a Samsung tablet SM-T550 from 2016. Because Google and Samsung do not update these devices they are useless. You can't install any app almost, and not even browse the Internet. They are making them totally useless. Luckily I managed to install eOS with Android 13 and bring this tablet back to life.
Welcome to our trade based society where all humans care is profit....
RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down on May 1.
Here are the Wayback Machine’s first and last captures of the site.
When websites disappear, the historical record can disappear with them. The #WaybackMachine preserves that history – capturing the web so its past remains accessible.
@ramsey technically ask jeeves was not a real natural language search engine.
source: i was one of the people paid to answer questions for them back in the day. it was a lot of fun. technically probably my first job but their accountant probably will not want to admit to writing cheques to minors.
Google needs to die & we could be observing signs that they're doing it themselves…
Looking for images of my mouse yesterday, all were from sponsored video/ review, store pages like tiktok shop, eBay, big box retailers, or the manufacturer themselves. Not a single image was indexed from community forum, micro blog, sns, repair page... absolutely nothing. Meaning everything was advertising:
We stayed in this place for nearly two weeks last month, in a fantastic free motorhome parking area. It did smell like shit (literally), but it is beautiful and close to some great hiking trails 😊
Peramola, Spain. A wonderful motorhome parking spot. Beautiful views, great mountains and hike trails around, quiet. Smells like shit, literally, but a wonderful place overall.
This video is also a testing for the new camera I (Tio) got, a DJI Osmo Pocket 3. Second hand, small and really good. Will replace my webcams too, not just my main camera.
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1 of May, Workers' Day... Many humans, all obey Trade their way In this system they are prey, Celebrations on the way! Hey Hey Hey:)
This society is still primitive since it relies on everyone to trade, be a worker. Else you are fucked. There should be no celebrations about that. This trade based society has to go. Makes no sense anymore and transforms us into mindless robots.
And now from the window of a four-wheeled cab the Queen of Babylon beheld the wonders of London. Buckingham Palace she thought uninteresting; Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament little better. But she liked the Tower, and the River, and the ships filled her with wonder and delight.
“But how badly you keep your slaves. How wretched and poor and neglected they seem,” she said, as the cab rattled along the Mile End Road.
“They aren’t slaves; they’re working-people,” said Jane.
“Of course they’re working. That’s what slaves are. Don’t you tell me. Do you suppose I don’t know a slave’s face when I see it? Why don’t their masters see that they’re better fed and better clothed? Tell me in three words.”
“The realistic threat chain looks like this. An attacker exploits a known WordPress plugin vulnerability and gets shell access as www-data. They run the copy.fail PoC. They are now root on the host. Every other tenant is suddenly reachable, in the way I walked through in this hack post-mortem. The vulnerability does not get the attacker onto the box; it changes what happens in the next ten seconds after they land there.”
The opening mail by Deepti Bogadi links to a github md page saying "Web developers: strongly positive" — which file links to a github issue with one (1) comment from August. And a blog that doesn't even exist now.
That's strongly positive feedback from web developers? What?
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@Waterfox@mastodon.chrome prompt api : yeah, the architecture allows more aggregation but the progress of ai is diversifying - "intelligence" on people (chrome's prompt api) just forms a marketing profile. existing ai can research and provide online marketing anyway.. its a major step towards "ai run internet"? maybe ai can run the internet without humans having to do leg work coding 🙂
@WooShell because most of them don't care and/or are afraid of change. Not to mention that most people don't even know what a browser is or what it can do except "open Google". I can't even count how many times I've seen people google for the site they want to visit, instead of typing in the address or clicking on a bookmark.
Let's not. Kids are people, not property to be muted at a whim. If they have something to say, the government has no business stopping them from saying it in the place where the general public will hear them, and in 2026 that place is social media.
Frankly I'm shocked at how quickly freedom of speech flies out the window. When I was in school, I was taught that freedom of speech is sacred and our ancestors died for it! Am I the only one who took it to heart?
And what would you sacrifice it for? The convenience of not having to set up parental controls on the devices you give your children? That hardly justifies the burden you'd impose on everyone else.
Are you perhaps worried that your kids will find some other adult who will give them another, unlocked device and social media account to use? Because even with age verification they can still do that!
@argv_minus_one @oberstenzian When I was a teenager, I learned to make decisions about my own behavior. Yes, I did things that my parents disapproved of. We kept talking, and got through it with growth for us all.
With my own son, my wife taught me that the important part was to maintain communication. That means listening as well as speaking. Forbidding behavior shuts down that communication.
This! Kids aren't stupid. They can be reasoned with. In fact they *must* be reasoned with; they don't learn anything from unexplained commandments.
And does anyone else remember their own childhood? Sometimes I was rash and arrogant, sure, but I wasn't dumb, and neither were my fellow kids. We figured out for ourselves how to stay safe online.
Now I'm supposed to believe that kids these days aren't born with brains? Baloney. Of course they are.
@argv_minus_one I use parental controls. I’ll gladly accept more parental controls.
I’m opposed to any forms of age check bs. Especially the methods being rolled out currently.
I think commercial social media entities should be held criminally liable for allowing children on their platforms. And any sleazy ID or age check racket should be forbidden.
They’ll have to come up with a better way to prevent liability. *Like going out of business.*
@argv_minus_one My ancestors didn’t die for freedom of speech. They died to escape slsvery. And the enslavers were demanding freedom of speech for their fellow landowners, not the folks that tilled the soil.
Nationalist myths aren’t a starting point for this. But I get what you mean.
I don’t think social media as we know it was designed for freedom of speech. It can allow for it… but that’s the problem. The *allow* part.
I’d love to see everyone delete their meta, x and google accounts on the same day. #FuckMeta #fuckbigtech #FuckBillionaires oh the wonderful panic that would ensue as the tech industry goes into meltdown when they realise that they are not in control. .. Sadly, just a dream.
what's the point of banning kids from literal children's games, if a 5yo kid wants to use a tablet they would simply ask their parents to bypass the security and use it anyways. These laws are not protecting anyone
@ui3o
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to @ui3o • • •Not yet 😉
Maybe one day though! But I still have a lot of figuring out to do before I branch into Peer Tube
hannah🏳️⚧️
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •flo
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Great news!
Is planned to publish the videos in parallel on PeerTube as well?
@EUCommission
Hannah Grace
in reply to flo • • •Maybe one day, but for now it's really a dedicated YouTube thing. I have a bit more work to do to figure out how to use Peer Tube
Luca Sironi
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Sascha Foerster
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •witchescauldron
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Q. But why is it on googles YouTube...
Please move to native European tech - #peertube you will likely get more views and meany more quality comments #KISS
Arianne B
in reply to witchescauldron • • •witchescauldron reshared this.
hamish campbell
in reply to Arianne B • • •@adb @witchescauldron
If the #EU does not make the move interaction here will drop away, and they will be left to the #dotcons trolls and the algorithm.... it's then more mess they need to compost.
hamishcampbell.com/?s=EU
Search Results for “EU” – #OMN (Open Media Network)
hamishcampbell.comFediThing
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
Unknown parent • • •That's weird.... wasn't me who deleted it, I don't have the keys to that account yet (or else I would have been answering comments on the weekend)
Perhaps there's a filter that automatically deletes links? I will investigate
Pino Carafa
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •But thanks for commenting!
Pino Carafa
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Veza85UE
in reply to Pino Carafa • • •@rozeboosje Buona Giornatta dell'Europa.
Why?
@hpod16 @EUCommission
Pino Carafa
in reply to Veza85UE • • •Veza85UE
in reply to Pino Carafa • • •@rozeboosje Because we're not a mini UN, nor a theme park with trade agreements? We're a common culture bound by a shared legal framework. It seems staggeringly arrogant to me to assume resource-rich countries on other continents would even WANT to be under the jurisdiction of the CJUE. Also: are we TOO functional right now? Are our institutions working SO well that we need to add lawmakers from 10 timezones away with 0 interest in Europe to our legislative process? #CanadaJar
@hpod16
Pino Carafa
in reply to Veza85UE • • •Veza85UE
in reply to Pino Carafa • • •@rozeboosje Because they're not European.
Freedom of Movement is one of the 4 freedoms under our 🇪🇺 Treaties. It's not free. There are tradeoffs. You're supposed to pool sovereignty to participate in the Single Market, it's overseen by 🇪🇺 Courts under 🇪🇺 law. Btw, Canada has 0 business being in the SM since Manitoba and Québec trade less freely with each other than Sweden and Bulgaria do inside the SM.
Why would any EUropean want to dilute the EU, plus extra vetoes in the 2 Councils?
@hpod16
Pino Carafa
in reply to Veza85UE • • •Veza85UE
in reply to Pino Carafa • • •@rozeboosje The point is moot because Canada is not a European country and our Treaties and our Union are supposed to *mean* something to us. Again, we're not the UN, nor the OSCE and we can have wonderful trade relationships with allies in other organisations that are not the EU.
Because we're NOT giving veto power over our eurolives to Saskatchewan.
Canada simps can spend time and resources on getting the 10 EU statelets that haven't ratified CETA yet to do it.
@hpod16
Hannah Grace
in reply to Veza85UE • • •@Veza85UE @rozeboosje
Would help if some of these comments were on YouTube 😉
We’ve got some bets going in the team about how many views we’ll have by Monday so I’m trying to push the vids a little more 🤣
Pino Carafa
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Veza85UE
in reply to Pino Carafa • • •@rozeboosje I haven't had a google account in almost a decade, I had no idea you needed one to comment on YT, but of course, lol.
@hpod16 I love you, but I'm not farming content for them. I learnt something you might find interesting in this convo started by the CNES CM who's asked her bosses if they can get Peertube or at least mirror it (easy?). Some Mastodon users even filter out posts w/YT links. I'm lazy/lowtech, I just put the songs in odesli to ditch the ads.
social.numerique.gouv.fr/@cnes…
CNES
2026-04-30 05:30:26
Hannah Grace
in reply to Veza85UE • • •@Veza85UE @rozeboosje
That’s absolutely fair 😉
Was worth a try though.
If I just share the YT clips here you can still watch em though, right?
Pino Carafa
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to Pino Carafa • • •I will look into it but no promises
This was conceived as a dedicated YouTube project, and we brought people in who are YouTubers, etc.
pS: dumb question time: what’s the difference between having a peer tube account and just uploading videos on the mastodon server you/I already have? Are there technical aspects to it?
Magnus Ahltorp
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •@rozeboosje @Veza85UE There are quite large technical differences that affect how efficiently video spreads between servers, and that is less relevant to users. I haven’t seen any comparisons, but my guess is that large videos are better with Peertube, while smaller ones work well on Mastodon.
There is also a huge difference in how the interface works. Peertube works like a video service, where I can browse a channel’s videos easily. On Mastodon the video is always secondary.
Veza85UE
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Yes, the only filters I have are text-based. My Oubliette is vast and focused on keeping out anglo content, but it doesn't work for videos.
@rozeboosje