I began versioning #hyper8 today so release procedures for the upcoming beta can be put in place. If you're on Debian or Ubuntu, a first alpha release package (0.12.0) is available now at https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/docs/installation.html
Before you go wild with it, mind the alpha version fine print: "Hyper 8's browser interface performs destructive file operations on your behalf and pending wider testing the program should be handled with caution, on a well back-upped system." With that in mind, have fun! :)
Last log entry before the first big milestone: Hyper 8 (https://simonrepp.com/hyper8) is probably going beta on wednesday. ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶
In this first official release, no singled out part will be a big deal by itself - not yet - but I think the whole package is going to prove a critical point:
Video on the web can be done a) without depence on big tech (Youtube etc.) b) without dependence on financially and/or socially volatile community infrastructure (Peertube etc.) c) without much technical know-how at all, d) practically maintenance-free forever (as long as the web still stands) and e) with a user experience (talking audience here) pretty much on par with contemporary alternatives.
I think for everyone who's not blissfully happy with their big tech solution (probably has an expiry date), blessed with reliable community infrastructure (also might have an expiry date) or technically privileged to depend on neither of the two, Hyper 8 is going to be big news in the long run. Can you tell? I'm super excited about this! :)
@silmathoron Possibly yes! I have a memo in my todo list to look into PeerTube's P2P load balancing approach for video and see if and how it could be integrated at some point. That said, priority-wise this is for me still very far away, as there's a ton to do on many other fronts first. :D Related to this, I'm fairly certain that I want to support torrent-based downloads eventually (could be used to serve lower-quality streaming formats online, but offer higher-quality formats with distributed download for offline to ease server load). In either case, usecase wise I'm also going for smaller producer/audience situations first. Folks who do only, or primarily, video, including with large audiences, will probably anyway be on multiple platforms, potentially using professional paid services and/or have other requirements hyper8 does not cater to - livestreaming, livechats, live analytics, etc.
As for @dried re. S3 + CDN - no dedicated ideas on that front yet, I'm first and foremost getting the generic deployment options ready (rsync is implemented already with some caveats, ftp is my next target right now). I also suspect that folks who wrangle S3 and CDNs and so on will anyhow bring the expertise to set up their custom deployment for these things (as seen with faircamp \o/)
Folks, it is my great pleasure to announce that today, the Hyper 8 Video System officially entered Beta!! \o/
I'll keep it short for this announcement, so if you're curious what this is all about follow the thread back in time (especially the most recent toot explains it really well I think!).
Special shout-out to austrian federal ministry BMKÖS for making this possible with a project grant for digital cultural heritage and my lovely project collaborators at dérive society for urban research in vienna - things wouldn't have worked out nearly as well without their initiative!
With this I'm raising a glass in celebration and starting a few days of vacation ;), cheers and thanks for your support everyone, I'll be back in the workshop in a few days. <3
after much configuration and long build times, I have managed to upload the 130+ albums from my :bandcamp: Bandcamp page to Faircamp, the amazing site generator by @freebliss for music catalogs by artists and/or labels.
@gavcloud generally speaking any changes made that do not alter the streaming or download formats requested (so for instance changes of description texts, site theme, etc.) should build within mere seconds. Asides for future updates of faircamp that might mandate retranscoding, you should not face any long transcoding times for a while now (if you're happy with your audio formats and don't want to change them for the time being of course!). If you observe anything counter to what I'm describing let me know, then it's a bug. ;) @keefmarshall
@gavcloud this is amazing, I think this must be the largest faircamp site in existence (at least that I'm aware of). Well done and let me know if there's any observations on what would (have) made the process easier for you. I'm happy to improve things for handling such large sites!
Wirtschaftskammer Wien erfragt in ihrer aktuellen Unternehmerumfrage: "Sind Sie für oder gegen den Bau des Lobautunnels?". Hm, wo genau liegt nochmal die Relevanz und Kompetenz in dieser Frage bei der WKW? Braucht man jetzt wieder wirtschaftliche Laienmeinungen zur Verkehrsplanung weil einem die wissenschaftlichen Verkehrs- und Umweltgutachten nicht schmecken? Seufz.
@computersandblues Genau das, wobei ichs nochmal lustiger/trauriger find dass der Einzelhandel dabei in der Regel nicht mal seine kapitalistischen Interessen sinnvoll vertritt, sondern aus Ignoranz heraus eine Lose/Lose Situation für alle verfolgt. Wenns nach den Wirtschaftstreibenden gegangen wäre, wäre z.b. die Mariahilferstraße in Wien nach wie vor eine laute, schirche, zugeparkte Straße - dass die Verkehrsberuhigung nicht nur die Lebensqualität an der Straße, sondern auch den Umsatz der Geschäfte signifikant erhöhen würde, wollte keiner glauben. Jetzt ist die Straße nicht nur eine angenehme Flaniermeile geworden, sondern auch an Einkaufstagen so voll mit einkaufswütigen Leuten, das würde sich platzmäßig nicht mal ansatzweise ausgehen wenn da noch Autos fahren würden. Man würde meinen die Wirtschaftstreibenden lernen aus sowas, aber natürlich ist es bei anderen Verkehrsberuhigungrojekten wieder genau dasselbe: "Bitte bitte nehmt uns nicht den Beton und die Autos und die Parkplätze weg jammer jammer ..." 🤡
The Willow Sideloading protocol is a new protocol for securely delivering Willow data by whatever means possible. USB keys, email attachments, torrents, and other ad-hoc means make a “sidenet” we can use to deliver eventually consistent data using the infrastructure users already have.
@gwil willow sounds really cool (and now even more so)! I read through some of the documentation previously and am tentatively pondering to build something on top of it in the future :)
extrem liebevolles portrait meiner Arbeit in deutsch 😭 von Karl Ludwig im Sommer 2023 aufgenommen und produziert... coole trackauswahl auch spannt mehr also 20 Jahre <3
AGF - "Hören, nochmal Hören" - Die Vokal- und Wortkomponistin Antye Greie-Ripatti