I guess Goggle must be waging war on Free Code front-ends again. Both NewPipe and PipePipe have stopped being able to play YouTub videos on my Android, sometime in the last 24 hours. At least Invidio.us was still working on my laptop last night, and is working in my mobile browser for now.
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Sara's Costume Codex series does a thoughtful, sex positive critique of 7 of 9's costume in Voyager. Focusing on whether it suits her character, or the show's themes, or contributes to its worldbuilding;
"It's not great to be objectifying anybody. Unless of course it serves the story. I don't think there's a clear line here. More of a spectrum, as with most things."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AciXUJrP63M
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The great thing about YouTub is that when it comes to web video, it's got pretty much everything. The biggest problem with YouTub is that it's got pretty much everything, and most of it is puerile garbage, AI slop, and ads disguised as "content". Or in some cases, all 3 in 1 video.
It's like a backyard pool after a party for spoilt trust fund kids. Full of lukewarm vomit and bits of poo, but with the occasional gem in there if you can be bothered to sieve it out.
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Current interests include #videogames, #MagicTheGathering, #TTRPGs, #WebVideo, #musicals, and #jazz. I'm on an interesting physical and mental health journey, I love traveling, and my spouse and I are #foodies who like to cook at home.
I'm interested in chatting with the people on this server because as a #newcomer to Canada, I'd like to make friends as an adult... which is SUPER hard. Do you want to be friends or at least acquaintances? Ask me a question; I'll tell you no lies.
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Watching Cold Crash Pictures defence of Gone With the Wind, as a pointed satire of confederate apologetics (part 2);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDkwGQFLcjE
It occurs to me that we could be seeing a reworking of the history depicted, on a larger geographical canvas. Let me unpack that a bit.
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#video #WebVideo #ColdCrashPictures #cinema #CinemaHistory #GoneWithTheWind
"I think it's possible to be too relaxed, because the filter between your brain and your mouth is there for a reason."
#SarahMillican, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BWI5XtJI4s
Has ADHD, can confirm : P
Earth's neighbours are concerned ...
"The way I think of an oligarchy is of a group of powerful people kind of acting in unison."
#ChrisAnderson, 2025
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_and_chris_anderson_can_big_tech_and_privacy_coexist
Dude doesn't know the difference between an oligarchy and a cartel.
Here's a skit for you, on the challenges of being a motivational speaker when you live in the MCU. Classic Ryan George;
Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.
I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html
Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.
I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.
I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.
My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!
Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.
#mastodon #webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization #edgeComputing #webGL #W3C #activitypub #AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon
The WebAssembly build of FFmpeg allows you to run this powerful video processing tool directly within the browser. In this blog post I explore FFmpeg.wasm and create a simple client-side transcoder that streams data into a video element, with a bit of RxJS thrown in for good measure.
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