The Railway Museum in York is doing a fantastic thing collecting oral histories of LGBTQIA+ people connected with the UK railway (and Eurostar) - I thought this might be of interest to a few folk here!
The National Railway Museum is embarking on a new project to record the stories and memories of the LGBTQIA+ community in a new oral history archive. Do you know somebody who would be interested?
In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of decades in prison, large fines, and other penalties. These federal charges eventually led to his death in 2013.
Hello all @Tutanota! It is a free account. The error message is that I am inputing the wrong credentials. I got disconnected from the service randomly. When I try to put my email and password says it wrong, even though I didn't change a thing. Yes I do have my recovery code aswell but when I try to recover my account tells me the same thing, wrong credentials 😥
Alle relevanten IT-Fachleute warnen vor der Chatkontrolle. Sie gefährdet die IT-Sicherheit aller. Das @BMDS kann das Gesetz verhindern. Doch Minister Karsten Wildberger duckt sich weg. Wenn die Chatkontrolle kommt, verliert er jede Glaubwürdigkeit. netzpolitik.org/2025/chatkontr…
Wenn in Kürze die Entscheidung fällt, ob Europa eine verpflichtende Chatkontrolle bekommt, ist auch die Haltung der Bundesregierung maßgeblich. Doch der Digitalminister mag sich lieber nicht positionieren.
> Cruz was the sole objecting senator, who claimed without evidence that Wyden’s bill could disrupt law enforcement, “such as knowing where sexual predators are living.”
Wait does that mean if a sexual predator becomes a politician they have better privacy protections? And he wants it that way?
📺 PeerTube Co-op FAQ: Building a Member-Owned Alternative to YouTube
The future of video doesn’t belong to platforms. It belongs to people.
We’re building a PeerTube co-op: a member-owned, democratically governed video platform based in BC. No algorithms deciding what matters. No corporate choke points. No waiting for permission.
This is about taking control of the infrastructure, the governance, and the culture—and doing it together.
Why a co-op?
Because co-ops give people ownership, governance rights, and collective resilience. Instead of handing data and control to a platform, members pool resources, share decision-making, and shape policies together.
BC has a strong legal framework for co-operatives, which makes it a natural place to explore this seriously.
Why PeerTube?
PeerTube is federated, open-source, and already battle-tested as a decentralized alternative to YouTube. It’s not perfect—but it provides a solid foundation for a co-op structure to build on top of.
The idea is to pair federated tech with co-operative governance, so neither corporate control nor a single admin dictates the rules.
Who’s behind this?
Right now, this is being organized by me (@atomicpoet) and @Crissy, along with a growing group of interested folks: creators, privacy advocates, security experts, and co-op thinkers from around the world.
We’re still early—think founding conversations, not bylaws and board elections. But the energy is real.
How much does it cost to join?
What follows is the proposed model, not something set in stone. The final structure will be decided by the member-owners once the co-op is formed.
The idea is to keep membership affordable for individuals while ensuring the co-op is financially sustainable from the start—with no ads, no data harvesting, and no outside investors. Just members pooling resources to run the platform together.
Base membership: C$5.95/month
Medium tier (10–100 GB/month): +C$3 → C$8.95/month
Heavy tier (100 GB+): +C$10 → C$15.95/month
At scale, with a typical user mix (80 % base / 15 % medium / 5 % heavy), this works out to about C$6.90 per member per month, which comfortably covers hosting and operational costs.
There’s also a one-time buy-in of C$50, which funds initial setup (domain, CDN deposits, buffer) and helps keep the early months profitable without raising dues. When spread over the first year, that’s roughly C$4.17/month in effective cost coverage.
What happens if the co-op grows faster than expected?
The financial and technical model is step-wise, not linear. As membership increases, transcoding nodes, storage/CDN tiers, and egress commitments scale at defined traffic thresholds.
The co-op’s development will unfold in three phases, with member-owners deciding collectively when to move from one to the next.
Do I need technical skills to participate?
No. Technical expertise is welcome but not required. Governance, policy, communications, creative, and community-building skills are just as valuable. Infrastructure will be professionally managed, with costs shared through dues.
Will the co-op run its own infrastructure or rely on third parties?
The proposal uses managed hosting as a baseline, scaling as membership grows. This provides reliability early on while retaining the ability to self-host more components later.
How will moderation work?
Moderation scales with user base and federation breadth:
Member reporting and rotating stewards handle first-line triage
Paid moderation begins once activity reaches 10–15+ hours/week
Budget estimates: up to C$270/month for ~100 users; part-time moderation (~C$1,755/month) for ~500 users
Will the instance federate with everyone or be selective?
The proposal starts with a curated allowlist of trusted instances to control load.
It will also:
Adopt shared blocklists as a baseline
Document defederation criteria and appeals to keep the process transparent
As membership grows, federation posture can be revisited by member-owners.
What’s the timeline for incorporation and launch?
We’re not working toward rigid dates—we’re building deliberately, in three clear phases:
Phase 1: Formation and groundwork. Incorporation, drafting bylaws, establishing MVP infrastructure, and setting out the core policies (ToS, AUP, takedown).
Phase 2: Growth and refinement. Expanding membership, activating the hybrid pricing model, introducing stipends, and refining federation posture.
Phase 3: Maturity and expansion. Adding part-time moderation, building reserves and insurance, and exploring potential expansion into other Fediverse services.
Each phase builds on the last, and decisions about when to transition between them will be made collectively by member-owners.
What drives costs the most?
Egress and bandwidth dominate, not storage. P2P offload reduces egress as viewer concurrency rises, but outbound data remains the biggest expense.
How does the pricing hold up financially?
At as few as five members, the co-op becomes cash-flow positive, and margins scale significantly with growth.
100 members → estimated monthly surplus C$587
1,000 members → estimated monthly surplus C$6,870
I’ve never been in a co-op before. Will there be guidance?
Yes. The initial bylaws and governance structure will include clear documentation. New members will be onboarded through AGMs, published policies, and transparent reporting, as required under BC Co-operative Association law.
Will you use open-source tools for internal communications?
That will ultimately be up to the member-owners to decide collectively.
For now, tools like Google Docs are being used temporarily to get everyone aligned quickly. Yes, the irony isn’t lost—it’s like holding a union meeting in Jeff Bezos’ living room. But this is just to get the ball rolling, not a long-term choice.
How will governance work?
We’re still defining this collectively, but the plan is to follow BC co-op regulations while ensuring member governance is meaningful, not symbolic. Expect conversations around:
Founding member structure
Board or steering committee setup
Decision-making processes
Transparency and accountability measures
I’m not a PeerTube user, but I’m interested in the co-op structure. Is that relevant?
Yes—very. Some participants are here primarily because they’re passionate about co-operatives, not necessarily PeerTube. That expertise will be crucial for getting the legal, organizational, and governance frameworks right.
Will non-members be able to watch videos?
Yes. As with most PeerTube instances, most viewing will be public, but uploading and policy decisions are reserved for member-owners. The co-op’s primary responsibility is to its members, while still providing an open and accessible platform for viewers.
What will the co-op be called?
The official name and branding will be chosen collectively by the founding member-owners after incorporation.
How do I get involved or stay informed?
The next step will be setting up an initial coordination space (on open-source infrastructure, if members choose that path) to keep everyone looped in and start shaping this together.
If you want to be kept informed, reach out privately or share your email so you can be included when that happens.
Isn’t this ambitious?
Yes. But the response so far has been incredible. The mix of skills and motivations showing up this early—technical, organizational, privacy, cultural—is exactly what’s needed to make something real.
📝 Closing Thought
This is still early days. But something’s forming—a group of people who see the cracks in the platform world and want to build something better, together.
Tired of YouTube calling all the shots? It’s time to build something better—together.Here’s the slide deck for a proposal to launch a PeerTube co-op.Right now, there are three of us ready to get th...
So today I needed an interface with a few intentional accessibility errors that I wanted to show for a demo. It didn't need to actually work, I just needed to briefly record the effect of a particular issue. So I used #AI to vibe code it for me. It was perfect! Within fifteen minutes I had an inaccessible interface that didn't work right! Exactly what I wanted! No, but on a more serious note, it was impressive that it did manage to build in exactly the flaws I asked it for (and some bonus other flaws), and it was full fledged enough that I could show the issue I wanted to demonstrate without writing any code myself. I do find it somewhat ironic, though, that this is easily going to become the way I most frequently use AI at work, and it's going to save me a ton of time and effort.
I’m starting to study in bed again now that I know I’m not really losing time doing homework on my iPad. This is a terrible habit. I know I should not do this. I’m going to do it anyway.
Honestly, the biggest "life improvement" I've ever gotten, certainly my best value vs. price purchase, was a Bluetooth keyboard and an audio cable from my desk to my bed, so that I can use my laptop there.
A government shutdown looks inevitable. Too bad that doesn't mean that the entire MIC shuts down with a halt in US military action and the wars the US funds, including Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Like we’re seeing in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and many other government bodies and organisations, the Austrian military (Bundesheer) has migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.
I know it's complicated and all that, but... it still kind of beggars belief that the government of the most powerful and wealthy country in the world just keeps running out of money every now and again
I have a question for photographers today, more for digital than film.
How do you feel about camera technology over the past decade? It feels to me they're making cameras better and better for video, but are they advancing features for still photography at the same rate?
What new developments in camera tech have been your favourite when it comes to still photography?
A lot have plateaued. The big change is the phasing out of SLR from the two lasting major vendor: Canon and Nikon. But it seems that about 24MPix-ish (my 5D MkII do that) is pretty much standard for full frame or APS-C with the more (40-ish) high-end having more.
Indeed the hybrid photo / video has been probably the biggest evolution. But it's gonna plateau soon.
#allsystemsgo re "A Security Model for systemd" the one little thing that really stood out for me was "WX for filesystems". how did i not think about it that way before? this makes total sense as a policy for secured immutable systems
https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2025-354-a-security-model-for-systemdLinux lacks a coherent security model, and by extension we never defined one for t...
Tools I use a lot for my job: regex101.com, CLI scripting, and Python. Perhaps, I should write a blog about it. What tools do other preservation people use? #regex #bash_scripting #python #digipres
Alexa’s survival hinges on you buying more expensive Amazon devices Echo speakers and displays for Alexa+ require more expensive components. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Does anyone know of a way to emulate Enter from a Focus 40 Blue display in NVDA? If Dot 8 is supposed to do it (I’m not even sure about that), it doesn’t work here with NVDA 2025.3. Strange that something this basic isn’t documented in NVDA’s training material or user guide. @NVAccess
How basic and commonly needed a feature it is is probably up for debate (This is the first time in 8 years Basic Training has existed I have seen a complaint that this feature isn't in it - Input Gestures are mentioned though not covered in great detail) - but since you've raised it, I've added it to my list to look at next update!
Thanks, but in the list of 11 emulated system keyboard keys or functions available, there's no mention of emulating the Enter key. Moreover - and even if this work-around eventually operates, I do think the Enter key or function should, by default, have a Braille key stroke equivalent on Braille displays such as the Focus 40 Blue.
No there isn't an existing emulated input gesture for enter, or for shift+f7, or for "d" - but you can add any of those if you have a need.
As for whether it should be there already, I believe we go off the manufacturer's documentation for the unit - but feel free to create an issue if it should be there and we've missed it: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
Well, what to say? You gain access to a $3500 Braille display, only to find out that it can't press the Enter key by default using your screen reader of choice, and the suggested work-around may or may not work. If this is what the manufacturer has specified, let's RIP that manufacturer. In cases like this, NVAccess should add the most basic functions or emulations IMO.
What do you mean the workaround may or may not work? The steps in that post SHOULD work - if they don't, that is definitely a bug and please let us know.
As for whether NVDA should have a default emulation setup, again, we'll accept a GitHub issue for that. I don't even know whether we wrote the original code or if the manufacturer submitted it. I just had a look through the user guide, and around 2/3 had a way of pressing ENTER, so it's definitely a valid request
I should see my friend who owns this Focus 40 Blue to test the suggested work-around as that person isn't an advanced user to risk going through adding the emulation. Another issue is that if the Braille output is set to Persian Grade 1, in MS Word 2021/2019/ 2024 NVDA adds extra 8 dots to all cells when English text appears on the screen. JAWS doesn't have these issues. I guess I should borrow the Focus 40 Blue to file a few Braille issues more reliably.
Anyone else (Sysadmins, Developers etc) find they have a difficult time thinking about what exactly should be automated? Is putting in a medium to large amount of time to automate something really small actually worth it? I find it difficult to visualise this sometimes.
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