Arjen P. de Vries @arjenpdevries@mastodon.social

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2020 summed up

Enjoy live streaming?
Prefer self-hosting?

Check out Owncast, a neat self-hosted live streaming server!

Opensource, written in #golang, easy to install & setup!

It's still fairly young, but looks super promising and already works amazingly well 😍

Homepage: https://owncast.online/

GitHub: https://github.com/owncast/owncast

Curious what #Owncast is up to? I wrote up a little status of what the self-hosted live streaming + chat server has been working on, and what we could use some help with. Anything in there catch your eye that you'd like to be a part of? There's a lot of things going on, and we'd love to have you. Boost/share with your streaming and developer friends!

https://github.com/owncast/owncast/discussions/339

Ik ben het lang niet altijd met haar eens, maar vandaag schrijft ze precies waarover ik al twee dagen mee zit. RIVM en GGD, zet je schouders eronder ipv de noodrem.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/11/14/het-vaccin-gaat-werken-nu-nog-de-overheid-a4020014

"These machines are the first general purpose computers ever where you have to make an exclusive choice: you can have a fast and efficient machine, or you can have a private one... Short of using an external network filtering device like a travel/vpn router that you can totally control, there will be no way to boot any OS on the new Apple Silicon macs that won’t phone home, and you can’t modify the OS to prevent this."

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

Fmstrat/#winapps: Run #Windows apps such as Microsoft #Office in #Linux (Ubuntu) and GNOME as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. | #RDP #VM #WSL #LSW https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps

PhD student Ivan Veul vertelt op radio Nijmegen over zijn onderzoek naar wat we mogen verwachten van Big Tech partijen als Google, en hoe hij voor zijn onderzoek een (online!) burgerdialoog heeft georganiseerd over de toekomst van het internet, met honderd mensen.

Interview:
https://soundcloud.com/rn7online/promovendus-ivan-veul

Meer informatie over Ivan's onderzoek:
https://www.radboudrecharge.nl/nl/artikel/burgers-voor-het-eerst-op-zon-grote-schaal-een-stem-bij-vragen-rond-internet

Meer informatie over de burgerdialoog:
https://www.ru.nl/nieuws-agenda/nieuws/vm/isis/2020/wereldwijd-gesprek-toekomst-internet/

We've just created https://join.lemmy.ml to list public lemmy servers.

#lemmy #activitypub

"We are asking Spotify to raise the average streaming royalty from $.0038 to a penny per stream."

https://www.unionofmusicians.org/justice-at-spotify

Evgeny Morozov: Tegen dit verhaal over 5G kan geen samenzweringstheorie op - https://decorrespondent.nl/11735/tegen-dit-verhaal-over-5g-kan-geen-samenzweringstheorie-op/648365685385-6a995506

[ https://tweets.newsbots.eu/dcrrspndnt/status/1319891392999624704 — #bot]

Call for Papers

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing | Theme issue on intelligent systems for tackling online harms
https://www.springer.com/journal/779/updates/18096208

Research contributions on misinformation- and harm-aware intelligent systems:
* assisting users in making informed decisions in the context of online misinformation, hate speech and other forms of online harms;
* improving detection methods and diffusion modelling as well as addressing concerns such as social biases, fairness and explainability.

Not a computer scientist but curious after all those developments people refer to as Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Here's a New Scientist special edition on AI, in English and Dutch. Enjoy!

https://www.cwi.nl/news/2020/amsterdam-coalition-publishes-special-ai-edition-in-new-scientist

Hilbert 5 Red on Black
linocut print, 6"x6"

Experiment printing on black paper. I like it! Got it up on Etsy:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/874042190/hilbert-5-red-on-black-blockprint

It’s not that I told you so but… no actually I told you so.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/iab-europes-ad-tracking-consent-framework-found-to-fail-gdpr-standard/

#docker/awesome-compose: #Awesome #Docker #Compose samples https://github.com/docker/awesome-compose

The #NSA phone #surveillance program was #illegal and #expensive: And it did not stop a single terrorist attack. | #terrorism #useless https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/nsa-phone-surveillance-illegal-expensive/