Dont worry magatards, you still have your backup lord and savior nazilong musk.
Basically you can think of it as plex/jellyfin sans the trancoding with builtin distribution via torrenting, a social network for recommendations, and isnt limited to just movies/music.
The good news is its fairly straightforward to operate the readme has the commands to install the flatpak and we dont really need coding help, actually have a couple other developers willing to chip in once i get this off the ground. They're actually willing to help now but Im waiting until i can compensate them for their time or there is enough interest it makes sense.
Mostly atm testing, feedback, and spreading the word are the big gaps. Im still streamlining the ux but the bulk of the functionality is there. If you tap the signal link ill gladly walk you through it.
But here goes....
- torrenting
- media
- vpn
- archive cloud storage.
- rss feeds
Essentially it can integrate with your normal p2p swarms public or private. And directly index and play the resulting content. (Im integrating tmdb next week hopefully)
Beyond your standard distribution via torrents you have two modes (only one is implemented atm).
First is you can grant access to your library directly with family/friends by adding their public key to the application bypassing the p2p stuff for them. This is a little awkward atm, havent had time to clean it up.
Hopefully by the end of the year ill have a follower system that basically provides magnet links + metadata as recommendations, essentially you'll be tap your friends dht peer id and get anonymous recommendations based on what they watched/added/promoted/were recommended. This allows for the viral spread of content without needing a bunch of recommendation algorithms. Essentially your friends (and their network) are the recommendation algorithm.
The cloud storage piece is for communities to reduce the costs individually of archival storage without having to manage their own infrastructure. While encrypting everything so the service cant actually see the content. Essentially every user that pulls in the same content from the same feed will reduce the cost for everyone else from that feed. While the storage service only will know the mimetype of the encrypted data.
On top of that it can seamlessly recover the data from the archive on demand for either for consumption by the media player or distributing via torrents, so the local disk space requirements are much lower im pretty sure you can get away w/ ~128GB and have tens if not hundreds of tb archived and available to seed/watch. There are bandwidth limits here as that is the expensive bit, im hoping once the system reaches a critical mass of users ill be able to start decreasing the download limitations. ~12k subscriptions that enable the arch linux iso feed. ;)
The storage service provides the income for the services, the cost reduction is 80% per user at ~ 32 users of a file. Aka you have a 1 gigabyte file archived and you end up being charged 200mb of storage because of the other users. the subscription fee covers the initial storage limit (2tb), api servers, and payment processing fees.
Essentially the storage is useful for perseving content like we're seeing this administration try to wipe from the public sphere and provides the revenue so i can continue the work while saving everyone who uses it money. The storage for data only a single person has is charged at cost. (~0.2/gb + payment processing %age)
The vpn provides anonymity for what you're doing obv. Which allows whistleblowers and journalists to communicate without having any idea who the person is. For example tracking and documenting ice activities for others to act upon.
The longer term (and original) plan is to for this platform to also serve content creators by allowing them to directly share their content with their followers and get a direct cut of the revenue from the higher subscriptions and storage profits without having to shill ads or get nickled and dimed.on view counts.
no one fears taco's unless they have heart burn or digestion problems.
yes and no. I think the idea here long term is similar to the printer dots on normal printers. where they track/record those from factory to the point of sale. if the nozzles leave identifying marks (something I'd totally believe) then even destroying said printer might not help you if you used a credit card to purchase it.
yeah, not a huge deal. I'll be using it to as a smoke test for the personal media archive and distribution application im building.
got tired of not having reasonably priced archive storage.
unless its unrelated to the nozzle it'll be easily circumvent by replacing said nozzles.
oh snap. i was not aware of that magnet service. thats handy for testing clients. scribbles down notes
yes. disassociating tech stacks from fascists enablers like FB/google/M$.
Boston needs more wu not krafty oligarchs.
Boston needs less krafty oligarchs but more wu.
Hey everyone, I've had a project in the works for a bit now since all gestures broadly was obviously going to happen since november and watching how the powers that be continually try to punish those who speak out against the crimes of our governments.
But I need some help testing / verifying it and just got it to the point its semi usable. its called retrovibed and its a system for digital distribution via bittorrent but with a userspace VPN builtin, have plans for i2p in the far future (mostly there isnt a good golang library to integrate, if someone knows of a decent one that implements the stdlib interfaces it'd take me less than a morning to integrate).
the goal for the EOY is a completely distributed and anonymous way to publish data using peer ids to follow and push magnet url's. essentially it will let groups and communities publish reports/data without exposing themselves while being easy to use for the non-technically inclined.
Basically, its a torrenting system with a builtin media player, and userspace wireguard vpn, and support for natpmp. essentially it allows you to add a standard wireguard config which secures all bittorrent traffic within the application w/ natpmp support for automatic port forwarding.
Its not quite ready for widespread use as I havent streamlined the publishing aspects. I plan to add a couple small extensions to allow push/follow of infohashes from a dht id for mass distribution without any hosted servers.
but need a little help testing to ensure the traffic is properly secured.
anyone technically inclined (or even better not technically inclined) interested in helping out? its linux only right now, but macosx support would be easy to add. mostly just dont have bandwidth to manually test and write the distribution packaging code.
signal if you're interested.
You probably shouldn't interact W/ people on the Internet. You lack the ability to detect and handle basic sarcasm and nonsense stories.
Ive obviously been around violent drunk people, many times. It was sarcasm. Much like the story of the op's magical ability to simultaneously be unable to stand up and ward off pick pockets is complete nonsense.
because ive never been around violent drunk people. 🤣
i never said drunk people are not dangerous. I said the idea that a drunk person who admitted they could barely stand up and seeing double then goes on to tell how they managed prevent a pick pocket from stealing their knife and then attempted to stab said person is pure fantasy. welcome to the internet where people make up stories all the time.
That story is entirely made up. A person basically unable to stand due to alcohol being able to grapple and perform knife work against a sober individual? 😂
Its just fantasy masturbation.
Is it sensible though? The emotional impact of the pick pocket influenced that person's behavior for years afterwards. Likely resulting in negative interactions with those around them propagating the damage.
Though you'd have to ask is the problem with the pick pocket or the fact our societies lack basic functional safety nets that people have these reactions to losing phones?
No, just fail at conpleting the task. 'we couldn't find them, but we'll keep looking'
yes we all know this lol. jesus people get a clue. the over priced trash on both ends is the reason movie theatres are going the way of the dodo.
probably because the alamo isnt a great experience either. i will grant that its more enjoyable than AMC. shrug I was simply playing with the fact AMC is overpriced garbage across the board. there is no argument one can make that will change this fact.
if they're dropping ticket prices by 50% in the hopes that fucking tues/wednes traffic to the concession stands will make up the difference that only demonstrates how over priced their concession stand is. in either scenario they're capitalist trash behavior unworthy of the shilling going on.
the entire media industry is fucked. shrug
😂 the copium is strong with this one. Imagine ahilling so hard for a douche company like AMC. Man the world is wild
edit: copium above and below. rofl. guys seriously. no one gives a shit about AMC and their ticket prices lol. if you can reduce tickets by 50% and are planning to make it up via the concession stand. that only points out how completely over priced your concession stand is and the tickets themselves. get a clue. =)
tl;dr (even this is long ug): need halp from my fellow anarchists (~5-10) who happen to also share content with the world! Read the requirements section and then post a response. I figured this was the best place to reach out, I checked in with @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com before posting, and we didnt have a better idea for a comm so here I am. =)
For those who volunteer and help, I'll be giving a much more detailed overview of how the system will work and what each part will do and why.
Some of the details about how the system will work that I'll be giving those selected, I'd appreciate being kept confidential. I want you informed but I also would appreciate the ability to surprise and delight everyone when things are released and to build the system at my pace without worry especially in the initial year while I get the base features working.
Requirements
- you've been a member lemmy.dbzer0.com community for 3+ months. (this isnt strict but i will be checking)
- willing to keep the system details confidential. I'll be explicit about which and why.
- reply with 'I'm Interested' and include some information about you.
- you dont need to include your technical / work information like I did. That information is relevant from me because I'm building the software and its directly applicable.
- by responding with an assertion of your interest you're asserting you fit the bill. your post is a vibe check, be weird, lord knows I fucking am.
- you run linux, It'll support macosx/windows eventually just not there yet.
- confident in self hosting / linux administration. while I plan on stream lining everything for the general usage its early yet.
- are familiar with torrenting ecosystems.
- able to safely setup and run a torrent client for whatever you're using it for.
- comfortable with buggy software. im literally building the ship while sailing.
- comfortable with slow update processes come august when my sabbatical ends.
- comfortable with software that will require a full state resets as it evolves. I'll obviously try to minimizes these but there is a whole storage layer aspect I'll need to get to at some point that will require a backup and restore.
Why I'm doing this
- primarily the rise of fascism is going to require non-techy and user friendly anonymous media distribution.
- I believe most (all?) the media platforms on the market are exploitative instead of communal and they suffer as a result.
- I've been extremely bored technically lately.
- I need (emotionally) to be able to do the crazy ideas I have in a number of areas in ML/distributed systems/security.
- I'm tired of my technical know how being used to build things I dislike/disapprove of.
- no company/investors are willing to pay me to do this, since they highly dislike not having control of an ecosystem, see the exploitative comments above.
- I want people and content producers to have a space to share together that's mutually beneficial: producers give up their content to the system and get paid on an ongoing basis. Consumers provide the distribution (free tier), and capital (subscription which enables at cost storage feature) that support everything. The worker collective will be able to fund off the margins.
a little about me:
- I'm a principal engineer specializing in non-linear dynamic systems. (systems that function off random processes in lay terms, its essentially the math that underpins the intersection of crypto/AI/distributed computing)
- I primarily work in startups helping companies go from ideation to real world working systems.
- I dabble in biochemistry and medicine. (currently picking up a BSN for humanitarian work).
- I'm heavily neurodivergent, I was literally one of the case studies children in the 90s for research. take that as you will.
- I enjoy taking things apart to see how they tick. if its a system that does something interesting I literally devour information about it...
- I love niche communities, you'll find me in my home town palling around with the LGBTQ+, fetish groups and often in drag on relevant holidays or just to fuck with people. You won't see pictures of me in tights with a riced linux system though. ;)
What I'm building
- a media player that has torrent protocol builtin implements bep51 for content discovery, rss feeds.
- tracker agnostic. use whatever tracker you want.
- will be daily usable by EO july, but the more complicated stuff will be later.
- the daemon / UX code will be released under AGPL v3 for personal use post this private alpha/beta. No commercial use will be permitted with the single exception of the non-profit I'll be founding as an entity at some point. the non profit will be a worker collective.
- will have a flatpak/debian/pacman installer, in flatpak its containerized essentially by default but will support native package manager installs.
- is efficient of resource utilization. I want it to run efficiently on something like the raspberry pi. its not there yet obviously and some of the initial models won't.
- builtin user space VPN client, wireguard protocol, not implemented yet, hopefully by end of year. which means essentially it can setup a VPN inside its program memory space without affecting your entire system and will work with any wireguard VPN provider.
- personalized content filtering. everything here is controlled client side. nothing is uploaded anywhere. but it'll have builtin filters for content genres, NSFW, etc.
- ability to stream your archived to devices, including mobile, while away from home.
- anonymous recommendations from your peer network (people in the network you subscribe to essentially, but you wont know who it came from) providing virality of content discovery without allowing abuses by larger players in the ecosystem. nothing is sent off your device for this.
the hard part of what I plan on building (1-2yr for everything I think):
- everything below here is opt in. But the storage alone will make it worth while.
- the system Im imagining is designed so only the verified content publishers will be able to determine how much time you've spent watching their particular content. and only the metadata for these providers will be sent off your device to my systems by default. The system will only be able to de-anonymize this metadata during the monthly payout to those producers.
- primarily these things are to fund the content creators, if my idea works 100% of the subscription costs (less the damn fees for the processing) will be given to the content providers in the system. however that requires a minimum number of users before thats possible.
Opt-in subscription tiers
I have a bunch of ideas planned and they're mostly self funding. the subscriptions (long term) are primarily to do payouts to content creators. but initially until economics of scale kick in at 1k subscribers at the base tier will let me do this full time.
- no min seeding ratio in the the default DHT for the application.
- publishing tooling for creators to upload and distribute their content to swarms.
- tiers (probably range from $3-$12/month). There are forces outside my control on the floor here (processing fees, ug) but its around $1.
- E2E encrypted cloud storage for files at cost. Only you will be able to retrieve this content. no distribution from the applications systems. basically this is for backups and long term storage.
- automatic subbing/dubbing client side. any models used / built for this will be 100% open sourced.
Opt-in profit shared advertisements
Two things here, first this requires a user base to be effective, so I dont plan anything here for awhile. Second, I hate ads to, primarily because they are almost never relevant to me. On the other hand informational distribution is important. I'd love to see ads for the specific stuff I want to see. My plans here for the profit sharing will ideally be between you the person who saw the ad and publisher the content you watched that month, but i'm not leaving out a small portion going to the non-profit atm, especially initially.
- Im hoping to be able to hit 95-98% of the ads value will be credited to you. 2% to the content creators.
- you'll be able to directly tailor what you see.
- Im hoping to focus on concerts/festivals/local local community events primarily.
a long but i think great overview on antifa action. something I think we could refresh on.