There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.

I set up my own Mastodon instance with open sign ups, https://cyberplace.social, if any of your friends need a home.

It's funded upfront for a year, to about 2k active users.

The instance is designed to compliment the excellent work of infosec.exchange, ioc.exchange, defcon.social etc by adding more diversity to the fediverse for #cyber.

In case you missed it, FediVideo now has an accompanying PeerTube server at:

➡️ https://fedi.video

It's mainly focused on collecting together interesting channels from other servers in one place, but I'm also uploading some public domain and CC videos too and federating these to other servers.

Do you know any interesting PeerTube channels that I should add to the site? Let me know!

Boosts appreciated! 

Back to #networkengineer ing topics.

The Packetpushers, currently represented in the Fediverse by @Drew_CM, opened up their (former paid) treasure, with series like

Learning #BGP and #DataCenter Fabrics by Russ White

Practical #Python for #Networking by Eric Chou

and many more.

Great content!
https://www.youtube.com/c/PacketPushersNetwork/playlists

Seven years ago, a fellow named "MIDI_MAN" compiled 130,000 unique MIDI files by browsing a ton of sites, placing them into directories, and generally assembling years of MIDI music.

Now that collection (1gb compressed, 3.5gb uncompressed, 130,000 files for real!) is at the Internet Archive at this URL:

https://archive.org/details/midiman_melody_kit_1.0_2015-06