CoderKat
I write ̶b̶u̶g̶s̶ features, show off my adorable standard issue cat, and give a shit about people and stuff. I’m also @CoderKat.
Some degree, I think is imported from the US. Let’s be honest, US news dominates our internet more than Canadian news. I have to go out of my way on sites like this (or formerly reddit) to see Canadian news. I would actually say I am more familiar with American politics than I am Canadian politics (which isn’t to say I’m unfamiliar with Canadian politics, but rather that I’m really familiar with American politics despite not being American). That means the current US culture war, which is very heavily attacking trans people and anything gender non conforming, is being a heavy influence on Canadians right now.
But that’s only “some degree”. We aren’t blameless. While it’s nice that we have a PM that has a mostly pretty great on gender matters (no matter your opinion on Trudeau for his other faults, I think we can all agree he’s very progressive on LGBT+ topics), that only goes so far. Canadian news media often leans right (and we’re currently seeing a risk of the Toronto Star being acquired by a right leaning US media company). Pierre Poilievre has been stoking these alt right flames. And now we have a bill that is going to see more people using US media because Canadian media won’t be found on Google search. And that’s because of our own, badly written bill (it should have been written just so that sites couldn’t copy/summarize most of the story without sending clicks to the original site, but for whatever reason they instead wrote it as requiring payment to link to news at all!).
They don’t even try to hide their close friendships with developers.
I guess it wouldn’t be so bad if not for the fact that the PCs clearly cannot separate business from friendship, too. We do need development in the province. But not at the cost of the Greenbelt. Nor do we need things like selling off highways or healthcare for profit.
Truly terrible and I’m glad that nobody died. I wonder why the attacker hasn’t (yet?) been charged with attempted murder?
Some people in the class tried to stop what was happening, while others fled the room, he said.
Those people who tried to stop the attacker are very brave. Kudos to them!
Honestly, I’d suggest just leaving it be and waiting for an eventual feature change. I don’t think it’s scalable to be manually requesting all these kinds of changes from the (sole?) admin and this isn’t particularly critical. I think Ernest has a lot on his plate just maintaining and developing this site.
I think the main way that could be achieved is if Kbin and Lemmy had a convenient “upload video” option that actually uploaded the video to peertube. Convenience is king. Back before Reddit offered image and video hosting (and you’d usually upload to a site like imgur instead), there’d constantly be people commenting that they didn’t know how to upload their content.
That said, I’m personally cautious of PeerTube. Hosting small images is one thing, but video is something else. I don’t really understand how PeerTube will keep running if it gets too much usage. Presumably, like most of these sites, it will depend on donations. I don’t know if that will cut it for hosting video. My fear is that it’ll be fine with low usage but as soon as it gets too high usage, we might see it going down (and taking a ton of content with it).
Does anyone know what special equipment includes? (I asked this last time but don’t think I got a response.)
Unsliced? Greatest thing since never.
Yeah, to be clear, MediaWiki is open source and also has alllll sorts of really cool extensions. You also already can download the entire contents of Wikipedia.
I think this desire to federate everything is going too far. Most things don’t benefit from this and in fact just become over complicated. If you can host a regular copy of a site easily… that’s frankly most of the benefits there.
