#Google just announced that going forward, any account not logged into for two years gets deleted.
This means huge amounts of rare or unique #video is about to disappear from #YouTube as accounts get flagged as inactive, such as when the user dies. Families' #HomeMovies (often posted by an older relative for their family's benefit), historical footage, rare #television clips, etc. What an incalculable loss to human #history and culture!
If there are videos important to you on someone else's video channel, find a way to download them. And if you have rare #media of historical importance, consider leaving it to institutional #archives or lending it to archives for digital preservation.
Whether you started with a 2600 and a joystick in your hand, an N64 with a blistered palm or building your first PC in your teens, what is that one video game you've played at some point that to this day sits at the top of your list.
The master tapes have been found by the ReBoot Rewind documentary crew and they need our help with finding a working D1 tape deck to digitize them.
Crossposting this from Facebook:
🚨THE MASTER TAPES EXIST AND WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨
Hey you, YES YOU! We have some good news to share!
For years, there have been rumours circulating about the status of the original PAL D1 masters of ReBoot and whether they still exist. After visiting Mainframe Studios yesterday to take a look through their ReBoot archives, we’re happy to confirm that the masters are all here, for every episode of the show!
Getting a proper digital transfer of the D1 masters is high priority item for us. It would mean having the entire series in the best possible picture and sound quality, presented as accurately as the day it was rendered. There’s also a library of additional ReBoot content (animation tests, toy commercials, Electronic Arts video game footage, IMAX content) that is currently stuck on the D1 format and we need to preserve it for the future. This would obviously benefit the documentary but ultimately, it would benefit the fans the most!
Here’s where we need help. We need a working D1 tape deck to capture all these tapes. Mainframe hasn’t had one for years. We haven’t been able to find anyone in Vancouver, British Columbia, or even all of Canada that has one of these tape decks. We’d greatly prefer buying or renting one of these decks so that the tapes can be captured locally, without needing to ship them.
If anyone has a lead on where we might be able to get one of these decks, please contact us!
My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.
Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.
There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.
So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?
You know when you have a video loop, but to make it loop something disappears in an improbable manner?
And you think, that's a shame, because I really like this little clip.
And you could crop it so, for example, a bird doesn't disappear in mid-flight, but then it looks unbalanced so you need to find some unobtrusive way for the bird to disappear so it appears natural?
This is a gorgeously written article about meltwater and accelerating ice loss on the #Greenland#ice sheet.
Glaciologist Alun Hubbard, who rappels into moulins to study the ice sheet from the inside, writes about how meltwater rivers are fracking the ice sheet and deteriorating its internal structure. It's both new research and a broad look at the forces speeding up Greenland's ice loss.
the fact that "Europe's first ever intelligent video #surveillance system" is installed in a German region governed by the Green party @GrueneBundestag which is supposed to defend civil liberties.
Or the staggering certainty with which the engineer #MarkusMüller at #FraunhoferSociety thinks his surveillance wet dream of unlimited realtime knowledge about public spaces is somehow good.
PeerTube réalise un test de charge avec 1000 spectateurs simultanés en live (soit l'équivalent de 99% des flux de Twitch en 2022) : ça fonctionne !
Conclusion :
PeerTube, un logiciel libre financé par des dons, développé par des contributeurs bienveillants et un développeur rémunéré, offre une alternative abordable, résiliente, efficace et solide à la technologie des géants du numérique.
Radio Liberty has analysed a video of Russian soldiers on the battlefield leading Ukrainian soldiers forward and firing at Ukrainian positions under their cover.
So I looked out the window and thought, bright moon tonight. Then realised it's a new moon, so hadn't risen yet.
The brightest aurora I've seen for a long time (the very bright one recently was obscured by cloud). Easily visible to the naked eye, and brighter than any I have photographed before, so much that I reduced exposure from 15seconds back down to 10, and it's still quite bright (iso2500).
Moving 100GB to make space for processing.
Excited to see how it turns out, should be my best.
Kbin: What is your all time favourite video game?
Whether you started with a 2600 and a joystick in your hand, an N64 with a blistered palm or building your first PC in your teens, what is that one video game you've played at some point that to this day sits at the top of your list.
[Video] Destruction of a russian ammunition depot in Donetsk City (streamable.com)
Watch "Destruction of a russian ammunition depot in Donetsk City" on Streamable....
Russians hide behind captured soldiers of Ukrainian Armed Forces - video (www.pravda.com.ua)
Radio Liberty has analysed a video of Russian soldiers on the battlefield leading Ukrainian soldiers forward and firing at Ukrainian positions under their cover.