> Peertube specifically is unusable, has no content and has no incentive for content creators
Peertube users do not need content nor incentives: they just want to publish their videos and post links to them to their audience.
My photo gallery doesn't need content nor incentives for content creators either... I supply the content and my content creator incentive is showing my vacation pictures to my friends !
It's presented as an alternative to youtube for current Framasoft members and users.
It's meant to be understood as “Don't put faculty course videos on youtube, which you can't necessarily rely on if the subject is sensitive, put it on your college or association's PeerTube server.”
Framasoft is originally a non-commercial association of French academics. They have no desire to replace youtube for music videos, unboxing and Minecraft lives.
> PeerTube is specifically advertised as a YouTube replacement.
And about 99% of people who upload to Youtube are not concerned with any kind of incentive other than "Let me share this video". For 99% of people, it is a perfectly capable Youtube replacement (well, beyond being able to search well - a problem the whole Fediverse has...)
> being able to search well - a problem the whole Fediverse has...
I still don't understand the Fediverse's surprisingly common hostility to indexing: a publishing platform that won't let indexers record its publications - what is that supposed to be ?
> it’s hard to understand how everyday people can use this platform
Because they are not platforms: they are software, free to use. Their audience is systems administrators, not users.
Either the user is it's own systems administrator, or someone else has to do it... And in any case there is infrastructure to be paid for. Most users currently prefer someone else to do it and the price to be the watching of advertisements.
I believe a sweet halfway point is hosting cooperatives - not free of cost, but delivering user-control at a reasonable cost to users who do not wish to take on the burden of sysadmining.
The brave comment I was looking for... I feel the same: Silicon Valley used to be holy Mecca to this French person; since I started having Internet access in the early 90's, all daily online activity was turned towards it - and some of that remains, as I log on here. To me, the financial success of the companies was a minor side-effect of the technological utopia which was the main point. But those who found financial success turned Silicon Valley into a toxic brand... They managed to make quietly progressive European companies look cool in comparison !
Please, I would be delighted if you published that code... Just yesterday I was thinking that a two-faced Samba share/USB Mass Storage dongle Pi would save me a lot of shuttling audio samples between my desktop and my Akai MPC.
The tool itself would be of a lot of use in school science and design labs where a bunch of older kit lands from universities and such. I used to put a lot of floppy to usb converters on things like old ir spectrometers that were good enough still for school use.
Yeah, to clarify-testing is closed book for everyone.
Control group might be using AI tools(I tell them not to but who knows) but the experiment group has received instructions and are encouraged to use the tools.
I was also writing a SANE-to-Paperless bridge to run on an RPi recently, but ran into issues getting it to detect my ix500. Would love to see the code!
old.reddit is nice but it feels like having a conversation while on death row - still a couple of appeals pending but the endgame is not really in doubt.
The end of RedditIsFun (https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/) was the end of my Reddit era - I'm still on r/askHistorians, r/askScience and a couple of niche leftovers, but I stopped moderating - the interests of the platform and its users have obviously diverged.
Not to mention, moderation tools are spread over the old site, the new site, and the mobile site in completely incongruous ways.
I'm sure there are tools I'm not even aware of as a mod, because I'm not interested in digging into two additional interfaces, when most of what I need to do is "remove post", and "ban user from subreddit".
> We need to do end to end text recognition. Not "character recognition", it's not the characters we care about.
Arbitrary nonsensical text require character recognition. Sure, even a license plate bears some semantics bounding expectations of what text it contains, but text that has no coherence might remain an application domain for character rather than text recognition.
> Arbitrary nonsensical text require character recognition.
Are you sure? I mean, if it's printed text in a non-connected script, where characters repeat themselves (nearly) identically, then ok, but if you're looking at handwriting - couldn't one argue that it's _words_ that get recognized? And that's ignoring the question of textual context, i.e. recognizing based on what you know the rest of the sentence to be.
Not really. I have an HTR use case where the data is highly specialized codes. All the OCR software I use is tripped up by trying to find the content into the category of English words.
LLMs can help, but I’ve also had issues where the repetitive nature of the content can reliably result in terrible hallucinations.
> Strawberry is better for me but still kind of janky
Strawberry isn't the most solid program (a few times a year, its search hiccups and gets stuck for a few seconds), but it carries the torch of Clementine's UX - which is my ideal music listening experience.
The About page says "We’re both in the forever business" but doesn't back up the claim with any financial information to even credibly argue that they are in the ten years business.
It's run by the Harvard Law School Library and a consortium of libraries worldwide. Why does it need financial information specifically to argue they're in the ten year business?
Them being run by a library that is older than you and everyone else here is worth a lot more than a random company's 10-year funding plan.
To play the devil's advocate, the library can exist for ten thousand years more but it is still possible it will drop perma.cc project when they get a new director, right?
Peertube users do not need content nor incentives: they just want to publish their videos and post links to them to their audience.
My photo gallery doesn't need content nor incentives for content creators either... I supply the content and my content creator incentive is showing my vacation pictures to my friends !
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