@prologic@twtxt.net Potentially, depending on the features supported / hardware used.

I’ve long wished for an appliance (like a video game console) that hosts my essential services - email, shared files, social media, etc. - but which “just runs” in a box behind the TV.

So what do you have in mind? 🤔

PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, S … ⌘ Read more

Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers’ Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out
Twitch will begin allowing Amazon to use streamers’ content to train generative AI models by default, requiring creators to manually opt out if they don’t want their videos and audio included. The decision has drawn backlash from creators, with Twitch’s own product chief acknowledging that an opt-in system would likely … ⌘ Read more

How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Two days before tens of thousands of migrants surged into Ceuta, one of Spain’s enclaves on Morocco’s northern coast, a newspaper there posted a video on TikTok and Instagram showing two young women walking in the city in wet suits, their hair still damp. The posts didn’t say so e … ⌘ Read more

US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers
The FAA says its push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has helped it hire more than 2,000 trainees, reaching 94% of its hiring goal. Another 2,000-plus candidates are in the pipeline. CBS News reports: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a recent social media post that the federal agency’s recruitment campaign to recruit g … ⌘ Read more

Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs
Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabling AV1 video encoding via Vulkan Video on DG2/Alchemist hardware… ⌘ Read more

A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices On a Call
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the video conferencing platform Zoom that could have … ⌘ Read more

The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Robotics companies promise that video-camera-toting security robots can deter and detect crime. But many companies are rethinking the approach after a trail of canceled contracts and questions about whether the artificial intelligence-powered bots are meeting the needs of businesses and local governments. Proof News found evidence … ⌘ Read more

Slashdot Reader Builds ‘Spaced Linux’, a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro
“I’ve been a Linux IT administrator for 30 years now,” says crhylove (Slashdot reader #205,956), in a new video on his YouTube channel. “I used to be a data center architect, at one point I was the IT director for 13 school districts… I just haven’t been happy overall with all the other operating syste … ⌘ Read more

The US Government’s Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn
Japanese officials have repeatedly asked the Trump administration to stop using characters from franchises such as Mario, Pokemon, and Naruto in unauthorized government memes and pro-war videos, warning that the posts could damage the intellectual proper … ⌘ Read more

Gonna recreate the classic [Break out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game) game this weekend for the Mills Games Cabinet – Anyone else got any ideas, requests? 🤔 #games #ebitengine

150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame Workers ‘Hardship Fund’
“An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis,” writes Kotaku.

Launched Thursday, it’s already raised $57,859 from 3,984 contributors. (Aver … ⌘ Read more

Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Released With Stock Asset Library
Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution… ⌘ Read more

Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default
In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default… ⌘ Read more

Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Opens The Door For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC
This week’s round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA “Nouveau” driver… ⌘ Read more

Intel Media Driver & VPL GPU Runtime 2026Q2 Updates Continue Prepping For Nova Lake
Over the past few Intel VA-API Media Driver releases we have seen preparations made for Nova Lake video acceleration. That has continued today with the Intel Media Driver and Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime releases today with their new quarterly feature releases… ⌘ Read more

Steam Client Adds HDR Streaming On Steam Deck OLED, AV1 Video Streaming
Today’s Steam client beta update brings some new game streaming enhancements for Linux gamers… ⌘ Read more

Arizona State Launches Influencer Degree Where Students Must Gain Real Followers
Arizona State University has launched a 120-credit bachelor’s degree in content creation that teaches video, podcasting, branding, analytics, media law, and social strategy. For their capstone, students are “expected to build a real social media account and demonstrate audience growth during the program,” reports De … ⌘ Read more

A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5
“The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy,” reports Bloomberg. Workers ditch office jobs not to become celebrities, necessarily, “but to piece together an income online through brand deals, affiliate links and highly personal videos documenting everyday life.”

In m … ⌘ Read more

Three Astronauts Safely Return from Space Station, Landing in Kazakhstan Steppe
“Welcome home!” NASA posted on X.com, sharing footage of a successful “parachute-assisted” landing on a Kazakhstan steppe for the Soyuz MS-28, carrying three astronauts who’d spent 241 days on the International Space Station. (And YouTube has a full two-hour video with NASA’s coverage of the landing.)

A NASA web p … ⌘ Read more

32 of 35 Students Caught Using Hilariously Wrong AI-Generated Answers for Professor’s Midterm
“32 of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response,” history professor Jason Gibson says in a viral video shared over 10 million times. “And apparently, they didn’t proofread it.”
The instructions included a … ⌘ Read more

Amazon Cracks Down On Use of AI Images By Sellers
CNBC reports:

Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain “AI-generated people” after New York recently passed a law mandating greater transparency around “synthetic performers” in ads… The policy directs sellers to tag images [and videos or other graphics on listing pages] with specific metadata keywords before they’re uploade … ⌘ Read more

Facebook Offers a Verification System Certifying to Other Users That You’re a Real Human
Facebook announced Friday they’re launching a badge “that verifies there’s a real person behind a profile”.

“You record a short video selfie, which we check against your existing profile photos to confirm a match. The process is free and typically takes just a few minutes. Accounts must meet our trus … ⌘ Read more

Bwahahahaha, wie geil! :‘-D Wenn Österreicher Hochdeutsch sprechen müssen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-l1wfIDXY Gestern Abend den Austrian Kiwi entdeckt, ein Neuseeländer, der seit ein paar Jahren in Österreich lebt. Der hat ein paar absolut großartige Videos.

Instagram Is Now Banning Pickup Artists, Pranksters Who Use Meta Glasses
Instagram is banning videos filmed with Meta smart glasses that harass strangers in public, including prank videos targeting service workers and pickup-artist clips of women who may not realize they are being recorded. “If you’re posting content that is taking advantage of people and harassing them, like a lot of these pickup line … ⌘ Read more

World’s First Wave Power Generator Receives Certification For Regular Use
“The Norwegian certification agency DNV has certified the commercial wave-driven power generator Corpower C4 for regular use,” writes Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino. “German news site heise.de has a detailed write-up. See a CGI video of the power station and its internals, as well as the company’s website [at their respec … ⌘ Read more

Google Adds Selfie Video As a Log-In Option
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: You’ll now be able to use selfie videos to log into your Google account. It has long been possible to log into Google using your face, via your phone’s face unlock or if your passkey login uses biometrics for verification. This is yet another option to get into your account using your face to authenticate your identity, which could be esp … ⌘ Read more

dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2
While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven’t let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 for continuing to enhance this leading open-source, CPU-based AV1 decoder… ⌘ Read more

@ponderpoints@twtpub.com Welcome to Yarn.social 👋 Interesting video, I actually watched it all the way through, riverting stuff really and quite well put together. The idea of “subjective experience” is a rather complicated thing to describe and you’re right, how do we even know we have them? 🤔

I really think I should go back to Java.

Writing programs in Python is so exhausting. I want a compiler and I want static typing. No, linters and type checkers and IDEs are not good enough. Compilers catch way more errors in advance.

Rust is also exhausting. They’re constantly adding language features and, at the same time, the runtime library remains tiny and you need 3rd party libraries for everything. Many of those are still at version 0.x (SemVer!) and you can’t rely on anything. Often times, you need the latest Rust nightly compiler.

Go is … I don’t like it. And huge binaries.

I like C as a language, but it’s too fragile. I want to have a proper HashMap every now and then.

None of the above have good GUI libraries, at least not on Linux.

And then there’s Java. This is my fractal renderer that I wrote over 17 years ago:

https://movq.de/v/fcd3c4e557/vid-1784121825.mp4

It’s fast. It has a GUI with custom widgets and those weren’t even hard to make. It still works without changing a single line of code. The source code files have timestamps from 2009 and I just noticed that the JAR file I’m using in the video was compiled in 2010.

Java as a language is relatively easy to learn and to master. There are few surprises. The source code organization with packages is good. Java API docs are clear and well written.

The JVM ramp-up times have improved considerably:

https://movq.de/v/e7314e521e/vid-1784121998.mp4

This isn’t like the Dark Ages anymore. Might even be usable for some CLI tools.

The only thing where Java really sucks is anything close-ish to the kernel. Try issuing an ioctl() … I couldn’t have made my TUI framework in Java, but then again, I wouldn’t have needed to because Swing already exists and it just works.

XMPP greatest peak was when Google Talk was around. Being able to chat with thousands, if not millions, of Google users at that time, using your own domain, and your own XMPP server was amazing. Then Google, in all its wisdom, and as it does very often, decided to kill it.

I might be on the minority, but can care less about video calls. Heck, even calls! Text is King. 🤪

Anyone using XMPP? I’ve been hearing a lot about how it is the OG messaging protocol. That G00gle Talk used to use it as a back-end, that FB messanger and w_hatsapp use some modified version of it or something; And that setting up a server (or even using a public one) would be a better alternative to the aforementioned apps, so I did. Now the question is: “Where the Fu__ are my video calls at!!? 🤣” … The protocol supports videoconferencing and I’m yet to find a decent Desktop/Mobile client that implements it. I wish I knew enough Code-Fu to contribute/help implement some, somewhere.

4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux
One area of Linux hardware testing I haven’t explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

Video Game History Foundation Says Piracy Remains the Only Viable Preservation Method
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechSpot: Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi recently supported claims that piracy is the only effective way to preserve video games. The comments lay the blame squarely on game companies’ refusal to keep legacy content available or allow archivis … ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.7.2 Brings Fix For Most Common KWin Crash, Better Chromium Video Playback
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 is out today as the latest point release to deliver bug fixes for the Plasma 6.7 desktop that debuted earlier this month… ⌘ Read more

California Sheriff Says Their Drone Disarmed a Suspect, Shares Video on Instagram
The Los Angeles Police Department says about 1,500 police agencies across America have drone programs, reports SFGate, and 58 of those drone-using police agencies are in California.

The Sacramento County sheriff’s office recently posted drone footage on Instagram set to theme from “Mission: Impossible,” claiming “ … ⌘ Read more

Shotcut 26.6 Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Display On Linux
Shotcut 26.6 is out today as the newest major feature release for this popular cross-platform, open-source video editing solution… ⌘ Read more

AMD Contributes ONNX Runtime Backend To FFmpeg DNN Filter
An AMD engineer has contributed to the upstream FFmpeg library an ONNX Runtime back-end for its DNN filter. The FFmpeg Deep Neural Network (DNN) filters allow for running AI models natively inside the video processing pipeline for upscaling, object detection, background segmentation, and more. This ONNX Runntime back-end support is notable in that it expands the GPU and NPU capabilities with FFmpeg… ⌘ Read more

Mark Zuckerberg Directed Meta To Create a Prediction Markets App
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, recently dispatched a small team at his company to create a smartphone app similar to Polymarket and Kalshi, two employees with knowledge of the matter said. Users would not wager money, and the app would probably rely on a video game-like poi … ⌘ Read more

Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of two people aboard the plane, both of whom died.

Guillemot founded Ubisoft with his fou … ⌘ Read more

TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds
“About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account’s For You feed are AI slop,” writes Search Engine Journal, “according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That’s roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube.”

The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, countin … ⌘ Read more

Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves ‘Winning’ With Fake Bets
In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket — one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Street Journal. “But none of those bets were real.”

Instead its creator was “one of dozens of mostly college-age creators Polymarket paid to film thems … ⌘ Read more

How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks
The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them “can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone… can surf the web as if they were you.” (And this is especially true for “knockoffs that you buy online”…)

In a video report this wee … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s what I believe as well. But again, it shows a similar thing when a video cannot be downloaded. Anyway.

Doom Composer Bobby Prince Has Died
Video game composer and sound designer Bobby Prince has died at age 81 following an illness. Developer id software shared the news. Engadget reports: Prince was perhaps best known for his pioneering work on the Doom series. The Library of Congress inducted his soundtrack for the original game into the National Recording Registry just last month. “Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drive … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org take a small video, pretty please! I would love the see them shining in the fields! On the pics, 1 is mine, all mine! 🥰

Stop Killing Games Fails To Secure EU Law Despite 1.3 Million Signatures
The European Commission has declined (PDF) to propose a law requiring publishers to keep discontinued video games playable, despite the Stop Killing Games initiative collecting nearly 1.3 million verified signatures. Instead, it plans to develop a voluntary industry code covering end-of-life transparency and preservation. Dextero … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yiha! Alternatively, you could embed the

Oh god, finally: The thumbnail generator for my blog now renders a typical “play” icon for videos.

Saves me the need to write “this is a video” every time. 😬

Britain Unveils Sweeping Ban On Social Media For Under-16s
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from NBC News: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a sweeping ban on social media use for those under 16, joining other countries around the world seeking to protect children online. “It’s a big step for our country,” Starmer said in a recorded video message released Monday. “Social media is maki … ⌘ Read more