Lohan G @lohang@mastodon.social

Phew! Power outage ended after 7.5 hours. That was the third full-workday outage within the past 7 days. Thank you CEB!

#lka #Kegalle #PowercutJournal

Another morning. Another power outage. They all start around 9.05. You have to wait and see whether this is a full day outage or just a minor hiccup.

#YouTube is back. 95% of the users will now return to their normal lives, watching videos and producing content (podcasts, shows, live streams etc) on AND for #YouTube .

I hope at lest a 5% will start doing the actual work that needs to be done :

https://fediverse.party/

#fediverse #PeerTube

#decentralized , #distributed and #federated platforms are the solution to the problem that we now face with #YouTube .

I hope this epic outage will give a boost to the federated social web, also known as the #fediverse :-)

https://fediverse.party/

And here's a comprehensive introduction on how to get started with #PeerTube a free and open alternative to #YouTube that never goes down (because it is #decentralized ) . You can simply run your own #YouTube with it :-)

https://medium.com/we-distribute/getting-started-with-peertube-ec5dbf007058

While #YouTube is down, have a look at this page that gives you a nice introduction to #PeerTube that doesn't go down like #YouTube because it is part of the #decentralized and #federated social web :

https://joinpeertube.org/en/faq/

#YouTube 's 500 Internal Server Error and a photo of a monkey that had been dispatched to deal with the situation

Pages purged by Facebook were on blacklist promoted by Washington Post

PropOrNot, an organization that published a blacklist of oppositional media organizations in 2016, hailed Facebook’s actions as the precursor to shutting down the targeted organizations' web sites.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/13/cens-o13.html

#Facebook’s purge of left-wing media: A frontal assault on freedom of speech

There is no longer a question as to whether US technology companies are consciously engaged in political censorship.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/15/pers-o15.html

Internet Relay Chat turns 30—and we remember how it changed our lives

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2018/10/internet-relay-chat-turns-30-and-we-remember-how-it-changed-our-lives/

What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet

Oh well. That was just a minor one. We are back. We really need an uninterrupted power supply today.

This cannot be happening. Another power outage!

Work in progress.

#painting #sunlight