Re how it works, as far as I can tell, a viewer doesn't have to do anything special. Just go to the link and press play, just like YouTube. (You don't even need to have an account or be logged in.)
Also, you can download without any special tools or tricks: just click on the three-dot menu below the video and choose "Download".
The real difference (I think, I'm not an expert) is behind the scenes. Instead of the video data coming just from a single instance, it can also comes from other instances and even from other viewers (so if multiple people are viewing the same video at the same time, they are sharing the work of serving the file, like a Bittorrent P2P swarm).
Videos are made available via HTTP to download, but playback favors a peer-to-peer playback using HLS and WebRTC P2P... Users connected to the platform act as relay points that send pieces of video to other users, lessening the bandwidth of each to the server and thus allowing smaller hardware to operate at a lower cost.
Watched it for the first time a couple of weeks ago, great movie and great spooky all-electronic score (the first ever, apparently).
Posted about it on c/RaygunGothic, also posted the watch party too.
Watched it on Peertube free of adverts, if anyone wants a Fediverse option.
Yeah, I rewound and freeze framed and thought "Damn, that really is Stack doing it himself, not a stuntman!"
(Of course, no move can be as sweet as the Shatner barrel roll or the two-handed punch.)
Now if someone with the photoshop skills could take this scene and replace Robert Stack with Avery Brooks, and the Jehovah's Witness with Kai Wynn. (And the various other woo peddlars from Trek.)
I wonder if that "413% increase in assaults against ICE officers" includes the alleged body slamming by congresspeople in New Jersey.
Oh dear, how could I have asked such a question during National Police Week!
oh, maybe, yeah.
If that's mad, what about Once Brewed / Twice Brewed?
A motorist arriving over the B6138 from the east will see the place name shield "Once Brewed", while those coming from the west will read "Twice Brewed".
The name is different depending on which direction you come from???
I love the Shatner cover, too. But for Joe Jackson's vocals, not Bill's. :)
System: Linux Mint 22.1 Xfce, with the following golang files installed.
Screenshot
I'd like to install meme
- https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-candy-meme-fun-tool-create-memes/
- https://github.com/nomad-software/meme
But when I try the installation instruction from the GitHub page, I get
$ go get -u -v github.com/nomad-software/meme
go: go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory.
'go get' is no longer supported outside a module.
To build and install a command, use 'go install' with a version,
like 'go install example.com/cmd@latest'
For more information, see https://golang.org/doc/go-get-install-deprecation
or run 'go help get' or 'go help install'.
When I replace get with install, I get:
$ go install -u -v github.com/nomad-software/meme
flag provided but not defined: -u
usage: go install [build flags] [packages]
Run 'go help install' for details.
go help install returns an overwhelming amount of info I don't understand.
There is no package in the repo, and no .deb or .appimage on the GitHub Releases page. (I don't do Flatpaks on this machine.) Any tips on how I can get this program to install?
Thanks
EDIT
I've got a little further now.
$ go install github.com/nomad-software/meme@latest
go: downloading github.com/nomad-software/meme v1.0.2
go: downloading github.com/fatih/color v1.15.0
go: downloading github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0
go: downloading github.com/nfnt/resize v0.0.0-20180221191011-83c6a9932646
go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.13
go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.19
go: downloading github.com/fogleman/gg v1.3.0
go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.12.0
go: downloading github.com/golang/freetype v0.0.0-20170609003504-e2365dfdc4a0
go: downloading golang.org/x/image v0.12.0
But:
$ meme -h
Command 'meme' not found, did you mean:
command 'mme' from deb plc-utils-extra (0.0.6+git20230504.1ba7d5a0-1)
command 'mame' from deb mame (0.261+dfsg.1-1)
command 'memo' from deb memo (1.7.1-5)
Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
EDIT 2:
To get it working:
- Go to my home directory
- Show hidden files
- Open .bashrc in a text editor
- Add the following at the end of the file
# meme path
export PATH="$HOME/go/bin:$PATH"
- Save the .bashrc file
Now I can open a terminal and use the program. :)
Thanks to occultist8128@infosec.pub
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Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility
(www.tomshardware.com)
Two 19-year-old guys, Phillip Chandler and Marlowe Hammer, have been locked in a bunker since the nuclear war of 1986 but finally break out into the post-apocalyptic world of 2001, armed with little more than their naive horniness and their love of 1940s hard-boiled detectives, and promptly get caught up in a struggle over the keys to the last remaining nuke on Earth. Dealing with girl biker gangs, "disco mutants", cannibals, punk singers and, naturally, femmes fatales.
Fallout meets The Wonder Years meets The Maltese Falcon!
Featuring Michael Dudikoff, star of the American Ninja franchise and 20% of all 90s straight-to-video action movies; but the comic relief here. And John Stockwell (Christine, directed Into the Blue, Kickboxer:Vengeance). Cameo from George Kennedy.
A sci-fi horror comedy detective musical, written and directed by the late, great Albert Pyun, who somehow did not put cyborgs in it?!?!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_Dreams
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091818/
- https://letterboxd.com/film/radioactive-dreams/
- Review https://www.videoreligion.net/2018/11/radioactive-dreams-1985.html
Not available on the usual streaming services, but... it's out there.
"Radioactive Dreams" is also the title of the book about the cinema of Pyun, written by Justin Decloux.
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RFK Jr. Travels To Texas To Look Over What He Helped Create, Including A Tiny Casket
(www.techdirt.com)
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/153911
A second child has died from measles. And RFK Jr. attended the funeral.
Kennedy said in a social media post that he was working to “control the outbreak” and went to Gaines County to comfort the families who have buried two young children. He was seen late Sunday afternoon outside of a Mennonite church where the funeral services were held, but he did not attend a nearby news conference held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the outbreak.
As with most of what comes out of Kennedy’s mouth, his claim that he’s working to bring the outbreak under control is dubious. Kennedy is the same man who has spouted vaccine skepticism for decades. He’s the same Secretary of Health and Human Services that opined only weeks ago that maybe everyone should just get the measles. The same man who has compounded the negative outcomes from the outbreak by pushing alternative treatments that have caused some people, mostly children, to get even sicker. And the department he leads, the one charged with keeping diseases like measles in check, has slashed thousands of jobs, including jobs that would be directly employed to help with this very outbreak.
As a result, 50 vaccination clinics in Texas have been scrapped, places that were working to combat the outbreak that has spread largely among those who are unvaccinated.
More than 20 public health workers have also been laid off, including those who administer vaccines and lab staff who are tasked with measles surveillance and prevention.
I don’t believe RFK Jr. is quite so evil so as to be actively trying to ensure people are infected with measles, particularly children. But his attendance at a funeral he helped to author is vulgar, to put it mildly. And that he punctuated that visit first with what should be table stakes for a man in his position, advocating for the MMR vaccine as the solution to the outbreak, and then followed it up by praising doctor’s once again for employing alternative treatments is certainly evil, intentionally or not.
During his visit to Texas, RFK Jr.—a regularly debunked vaccine skeptic—offered his strongest endorsement of vaccination yet. He stated in a social media post Sunday that “the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR [the combination measles, mumps, and rubella] vaccine.” At the same time, he continued to promote medically unsound treatments for the viral disease. In a separate post, he stated that he met with two doctors, Richard Bartlett and Ben Edwards, and claimed that they had “treated and healed” some 300 Mennonite children using a combination of aerosolized budesonide (a steroid) and clarithromycin (an antibiotic).
Doctors have occasionally turned to steroids for serious and relevant measles complications, such as brain swelling, but there isn’t strong-enough evidence supporting its standard use. A 2023 study, for instance, failed to find that steroids were associated with better outcomes during a 2017 measles outbreak in Italy (thankfully, they weren’t associated with worse outcomes). Antibiotics can be used to treat secondary bacterial infections that could emerge from measles, but they can’t directly treat viral infections. These medications aren’t risk-free either: steroids are known to weaken people’s immune systems, for instance.
These deaths are a result of Kennedy’s misapplied “advocacy” against vaccination. The blood of two children and one adult are, at least partially, on his hands. That he then hijacked such a tragic moment for these families to turn them into a photo opportunity for his Twitter account represents a level of debasement I honestly wouldn’t have thought possible.
It’s hard not to be angry about all of this. Angry at RFK Jr. for helping create the anti-vaccine climate to begin with. Angry at Trump for daring to put Kennedy in charge of American healthcare. And, I’ll admit, angry at the parents of these children who are willing to sacrifice their children’s lives for a belief structure.
Last month, when The Onion had a headline about how Kennedy had tepidly advocated for the MMR vaccine, one of its fictional man-on-the-street quotes was so brilliant that it made me literally laugh out loud.
That becomes far less funny when you see this very real quote from the mother of one of the children who died from measles. She was asked by a vaccine skeptic if her thoughts on the vaccine had changed after losing a child.
Through a translator, who spoke low German, the parents’ primary language, her response was that she would still say, “Don’t do the shots. There [are] doctors that can help with measles. [Measles is] not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
This is pure cultish behavior. The idea of essentially burying one of your children but saying what killed them wasn’t all that bad because your other four kids survived is one that I can’t comprehend. But because of a combination of enablement by the likes of RFK Jr. and an administration willing to let him steer our collective healthcare, we’ve reached the point in the story in which mothers of dead children say they’d do it all over again if they could.
And all that really means is we’re not likely to see the end of this measles outbreak any time soon.
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I heard Trump abolished the penny. I wonder what's going to happen to all that old pocket change.
By the by, here's a story about what happens when someone throws coins into a jet engine.