I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. As may be apparent I have spent some time on the microblogging side of the fediverse, where people tend to take less kindly to their content being aggregated without consent. I understand if perhaps sentiments are different in a discussion forum mode, and your decision reflecting that. I appreciate the consideration you put into the matter.
Look, at a glance it looks to me like you’re populating a monetised platform with content off the fediverse without attribution. That’s strike one.
Then you seem to stall for time to implement federation while admitting your developer quit… and continuing the above content scraping. Strike two.
And from what I read in this thread it appears you’re actively dodging defederation by using subdomains to keep scraping content. Strike three.
My concern in this is the integrity of the fediverse and its users. Yours, apparently, is “saving” a platform that leeches content off federated platforms to make a buck off those users. I don’t see much chance of agreement on “what is fair”.
@jwr1@kbin.earth, I stand by that request to defederate.
I’m not completely clear either on how Microsoft have implemented this previously. As I said, I didn’t look very deep into the repository.
If these are indeed other Python projects they piled together, as others suggest, I’d be happy to hear what speech recognition library this might’ve built on.
The single exception to this (which is actually buried fairly deep in the feature list) is the audio transcription tool. I didn’t take a closer look at what is used to perform this, but at least it’s not “just” document conversion like pandoc.
Or just Google doing their best filter bubble. I don’t think they have any useable info on me any more, haven’t used their search for ages.
Either way, I’ll take your word for it and just thank my lucky star that I can continue to use Newpipe without problems.
Okay, I’ll click your Google link —
It looks like there aren’t many great matches for your search
— and certainly none mentioning Newpipe 🤷
It also has way more features, which might exain the extra resources. I’m sceptic but would love to proven wrong that Lemmy would fare any better with a bunch of FB-like features tacked on?
Calling in @jwr1@kbin.earth re possible domain block.
Cannot confirm, in my usage I have never encountered this. I use Newpipe almost daily and do not have a YT login.
Occasionally Google has done something (deliberately or coincidentally) to limit third party app access, but that’s usually worked around very quickly.
Defo go for F-droid! Dunno if it’s baked into Graphene but I use it almost exclusively on Android.
I also recommend Firefox/Fennec with the Web Archives add-on for viewing paywalled articles. You will be depending on others archiving the full version to read them, but with most larger outlets they will.
Context? Graphene related advice?
For Youtube w/o ads just use Newpipe, an open source, privacy aware, third party app. You’ll never need to log into Youtube again. And it’s not even piracy, even if Google might think differently 🙂
Oh, do educate me on my life choices based on an unrelated online comment, internet stranger 🙄
FWIW, I’m living my best life, rejecting influencers and enjoying a low- to no-drama fediverse. Anybody feeling bad for a Youtuber failing to peddle their bullshit to Mastodon can kindly get in the sea.
Have a nice day
Good, mission accomplished 👍
“Ghost town” = Not driven to oversharing by algorithms.
“getting shit” = nobody wanting to listen to a youtuber’s outrage bait.
It must be confusing to log into the fediverse straight off of Youtube, though. “Why aren’t people compulsively clicking and subscribing to everything? How am I not being recommended radicalising posts by conspiracy theorists and terror organisations within five clicks?”
“Honey, this is Mastodon”
<switches to Blooskie>
“Ah, much better!”
Interesting piece, didn’t know about iOS stealth apps, and the ages of the accused certainly makes the news stand out —
— but can we talk about that hilariously bad “AI” generated picture they chose to illustrate it? That disembodied hand left of centre holding up the “iPhone”?
WHO WAS PHONE? 😄
I do love markdown files myself, so a browser-side parser is very interesting. Definitely skips some Jekyll/Hugo exports 🙂
Limiting that feature to IPFS is sort of one sided for my taste, though.
Thanks for that. I worried it was something worthwhile that I’d just forgotten about in the mind-boggling meantime of “almost a year” since last update.
It not only supports IPFS, it is “built on top of” it, according to the website.
This makes me wonder if it’s usable for regular web browsing or only IPFS sites. The latter would sort of make it a splinternet browser, and way less interesting.
Given how much fediverse users have actively campaigned for instances to defederate from Threads, this martyr posturing tells me a lot about Minds.
Besides, they’re still free to talk, doesn’t mean others have to listen.