"you'll be able to host your media losslessly and easily on MediaCrush until the end of time" "What's the upload limit? A very generous 25 MB!" For real? Nice.
For really reals. We're considering bumping it up to 50 MB, too.
MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast
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Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast
#72So you have done a poorly designed website which is nothing but yet another uploader with file compression (using third party tools) and some other falsely claimed features (caring about privacy while using Google Analytics, AdSense, Disqus and did not dig much more). This is an okay idea, but being serious here, this does not take more than a few days to develop and should not have much attention, except if there ar…
Disabling Analytics and AdSense is very easy - just enable DNT on your browser. We haven't found any acceptable alternatives, although building our own analytics software[1] is on the roadmap. [1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/118
Have you considered Piwik?
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disabling Analytics and AdSense is very easy - just enable DNT on your browser. We haven't found any acceptable alternatives, although building our own analytics software[1] is on the roadmap. [1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/118
Have you considered Piwik? http://piwik.org/
Yes, but after evaluating it we decided not to use it. Also, we have a strict no-PHP policy.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but after evaluating it we decided not to use it. Also, we have a strict no-PHP policy.
Have you decided to not use it only because it's written in PHP or are there any other reasons?
There are other reasons, but PHP is a pretty big one. If we're going to use anything other than Google Analytics, we want to integrate it pretty deeply with our frontend. We were thinking of making a Flask extension that would capture all non-personal information without having to serve analytics code to the client. Also, as far as I know, Piwik does not support DNT.
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#76Needs to put more information in the README on what it does, not just installation.
I'm guessing based on the libraries used that it tries to make the sizes of static media content smaller, like smaller png's etc. But that's just a guess.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you decided to not use it only because it's written in PHP or are there any other reasons?
There are other reasons, but PHP is a pretty big one. If we're going to use anything other than Google Analytics, we want to integrate it pretty deeply with our frontend. We were thinking of making a Flask extension that would capture all non-personal information without having to serve analytics code to the client. Also, as far as I know, Piwik does not support DNT.
Piwik actually does support DNT and also can process server logs.
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#78Hmm... did this site get served a secret warrant last week? Or did they just forget to update their warrant canary? https://mediacru.sh/transparency/warrant-canary.txt (Note: the date 08/11 is written European style meaning November 8th, as you can see if you go up a directory.)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a reply to a comment posted by graue on 2013/11/21 at 06:00h GMT. > Hmm... did this site get served a secret warrant last week? Or did they just forget to update their warrant canary? > https://mediacru.sh/transparency/warrant-canary.txt > (Note: the date 08/11 is written European style meaning November 8th, as you can see if you go up a directory.) Hi, just wante…
Speaking of warrant canaries, has anybody open sourced one to produce something similar with PGP and news?
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Ack! My other half is responsible for the warrant canary. He keeps forgetting it. We may as well not even have it. It doesn't mean much without a signature, but I assure you that we have never been served a warrant.
can't you make it automatic, taking the news with rss and stop it if you get a warrant?
That defeats the purpose.
I think the whole point of a warrant canary is that you have to do something, every week/month, to confirm that you never had to obey a warrant. And (presumably, I don't think it has been tried in courts yet) a gag order can prevent you to speak about a warrant, but it can't force you to do anything, including actively saying that you didn't receive anything.
If it's automated.. the gag order prevents you to stop it, so it might as well not be there.