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Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC

cirno wrote: post #108

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd argue CDN services are our best defense against centralization like AWS and GCP. Cloudflare makes it possible for me to host something out of my house without getting taken down by a mild amount of attention.

Outside of DoS'ing (which is admittedly Cloudflare's wheelhouse, but a rare concern if you aren't posting anything controversial or in a highly competitive space), you can host a site on a $5/month VPS and very trivially withstand being the top post on HN, making Reddit r/all, etc. Not even 10% CPU utilization at peak. And that's without even going to the extreme of making your site static.

Ah, but my example was far more decentralized than a VPS provider: I like being able to run something safely from my own house.

(Probably the only issue I currently hit doing this is that my ISP forbids me to use well-known ports, and Cloudflare will neither provide free CDN on a non-standard port, nor allow me to do any sort of redirecting to another port using their free service.)

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by MereInterest » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:12 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #130

adventist wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are those concerns?

len('accessibility') == 13 So a11y stands for "a word starting with 'a' then 11 letters then ending with 'y'". Compare to i18n, l10n.

The use of a11y-style acronyms fails for r9y reasons.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by sradman » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:14 PM UTC

JacobAldridge wrote: post #145

trog wrote: post #56

I'm a generally technical person and I'm simply flat out uninterested in video content - the stuff that will be on this sounds broadly interesting to me but I'd rather read it in article format. I understand video "performs" well in a lot of contexts (and thus is of particular interest to marketing people) but I am always surprised when content targeted broadly towards the technical community is done in a video-first…

I’m much the same ... and I’m saying that as someone who trained as a TV journalist, once hosted his own tv show, put out 134 weekly episodes of a business video series, and even now focuses on putting out 1-2 videos (on businesses As a creator, it’s laziness - I can produce a video in far less time than a quality article. As a consumer, I’ve started watching a few more video channels to learn from others - but would…

> As a creator, it’s laziness

Perhaps a tad self-effacing but the sentiment reveals a core truth: publishing a stream-of-consciousness video/audio artifact is easier than releasing a carefully planned and/or edited version.

What we seem to be missing is the processes/norms for annotating, enhancing, indexing, editing these rough digital artifacts.

I’m not sure what the value add of Cloudflare‘s scheduled content is. Some events, like press conferences, are one time occurrences. Some events, like Zoom or YouTube Live, involve multiple contributors or audience participation.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by tristor » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:20 PM UTC

I would much rather read an article. I can't watch a video while I'm doing other things, but I can have an article up and go back and forth with it.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by jon_dahl » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:28 PM UTC

RyJones wrote: post #72

I know my employer, the Linux Foundation, is trying to find good platforms for our events. When will this be opened up?

Hey - we'd love to help you out with this at Mux. Hit us up.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by dknecht » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:53 PM UTC

RyJones wrote: post #72

I know my employer, the Linux Foundation, is trying to find good platforms for our events. When will this be opened up?

We will blog about that in the next few days.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by sbilstein » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

I find it very difficult to pay attention to video content or audio content without getting distracted or just wanting to turn it off. I wonder if anyone has tips for how to improve my concentration.

Funnily, I don't have this issue with music or with movies/TV. It's just lecture formats and podcasts that don't work for me.

I much prefer to read articles, guides, transcripts, etc.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by faeyanpiraat » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 4:06 PM UTC

mwexler wrote: post #226

I find video abusive to my time. To consume the content, which I assume is the author's intent, I must give up my time in whatever chunk the author chooses. But I can consume text at my own pace in multiple methods. Tech usually prefers async, decoupled processes. Advertising and attention-for-money, however, demand a synced experience. If I'm looking for entertainment, sure, video, audio, whatever. But if I want to…

I’ve started learning angular, and watching a couple of explaining while actually coding vids related to how angular works, tips and tricks, rxjs patterns, etc.. really helped me understand how it works.

For vids where the ppl speak slow, i up the speed to 1.25 or 1.5, which helps sometimes.

For introduction to some new tech it’s fine..

Of course I have to go actually read the docs and start coding stuff, which takes way more energy, but now the vids convinced me this worth investing my time into.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by wrigby » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 4:09 PM UTC

sbilstein wrote: post #237

I find it very difficult to pay attention to video content or audio content without getting distracted or just wanting to turn it off. I wonder if anyone has tips for how to improve my concentration. Funnily, I don't have this issue with music or with movies/TV. It's just lecture formats and podcasts that don't work for me. I much prefer to read articles, guides, transcripts, etc.

I find it really helpful to actively take handwritten notes, for two big reasons:

Firstly, hand-writing notes without falling behind the content forces me to choose the most relevant information presented and reword that information into a concise-enough form that I can quickly write it down. This helps me actually process the content instead of just hearing it. Mentally, it feels like the information soaks into my brain, rather than bouncing off of it.

Secondly - and this is comically simple, but just as important as the first - it keeps my hands off of my keyboard/mouse, so I don't get distracted by other interesting things on the Internet (like HN) and tune out.

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Post by hinkley » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

trog wrote: post #56

I'm a generally technical person and I'm simply flat out uninterested in video content - the stuff that will be on this sounds broadly interesting to me but I'd rather read it in article format. I understand video "performs" well in a lot of contexts (and thus is of particular interest to marketing people) but I am always surprised when content targeted broadly towards the technical community is done in a video-first…

Videos are great for motivating me to dig into a topic, but when I actually have to apply that knowledge then I get quite frustrated.

There's really no good way for me to make a bibliography of videos. And even when you do find the bit you care about, the presentation is rarely at the speed of absorption, so you end up pausing and rewinding a lot (and sometimes, there simply is no rewind button, and jumping back 15 seconds in an hour video? forget about it.)

I recall during the dotcom boom someone discovered that there was just a little bit of unused bandwidth in TV signals and wanted to earmark it for adding hypertext to the video, so that with a smart tv you could jump to further reading on a subject. This seems like a best of both worlds situation and I was disappointed to see it go nowhere.

I wonder if there's a way to do something similar with the CC data in videos...