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+title = "Social Networking Done Right"
+lang = "en"
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["social networks", "diaspora", "federation"]
+
+[extra]
+author = "harald"
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+
+For the past year and a half or so I've moved most of my social networking
+presence to [Diaspora*]. It's been quite a nice ride, I think. The
+change of pace from Facebooks aggressive and immersive ad-driven style to a
+smaller community has been both refreshing and enlightening.
+
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+
+This could be just another social media platform, however. In which case it
+wouldn't be very interesting. A matter of preferences and taste, combined with
+where the people that you know hang out would determine which platform you
+prefered. It could essentially be just another facebook clone. There's enough
+of them already, and they're all uninteresting.
+
+What sets Diaspora* apart is that it's a platform for sharing and communicating
+with anybody. It's distributed nature is well known. There are a number of
+_pods[^pods]_ located around the
+internet. [Choose one] that you like and has terms you agree with.
+You can even [run your own]. You can share and communicate with
+others _regardless of which pod they are signed up to_.
+
+While that's great by itself, it really shines when you realize that you can
+share and communicate with people on completely different platforms too! As
+long as the other platforms implement the same protocol for sharing messages
+and posts that Diaspora* does, it doesn't really matter on which platform your
+friends are signed up to. For now this means that anybody on [Diaspora*],
+[Friendica] and the [Red Matrix] can communicate with each other.
+
+If you ask me, that's just how social networking should be. Not locked up silos
+like Facebook and it's clones, but open platforms for communicating and sharing
+ideas regardless of the underlying platform.
+
+[^pods]: Servers running the Diaspora* software.
+
+[Diaspora*]: https://diasporafoundation.org/
+[Choose one]: https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Choosing_a_pod
+[run your own]: https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Installation
+[Friendica]: http://friendica.com/
+[Red Matrix]: https://redmatrix.me/
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+title = "Popcorn Time"
+lang = "en"
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["film", "popcorn time"]
+
+[extra]
+author = "harald"
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+
+{% figure(img="Popcorn_Time_logo.png") %}
+The Popcorn Time mascot
+{% end %}
+
+Lately I've been trying out [Popcorn Time]. I know it's hardly news anymore,
+but I'm one of those who like to pay for the movies I watch, so I've been
+looking a bit around for what alternatives I have. So far, given my prefered
+platforms and a requirement that the solution needs to be playable using [Free
+and Open Source] software, I've really only had one choice: [Vimeo].
+
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+I like Vimeo, there's a lot of really great independent film makers out there
+who make films that are both interesting and well made. Through Vimeo's
+video-on-demand service they have a chance to screen their films for a price
+they set themselves – and you know that at least part of the money reach the
+film makers. The service is quite good, and I will definitely keep using it.
+
+Pretty much everything else requires proprietary software that isn't even
+available for my systems (read _Microsoft Silverlight_.) That's a no go. I'm _not_
+going to install a closed source proprietary software from a vendor that is
+known to [cooperate] with the authorities of hostile nations
+just to watch movies. I'm not _that_ stupid.
+
+So I've read about Popcorn Time, but shrugged it off, as I would rather like a
+solution where I can give back to the film makers. Until one day, I decided to
+try...
+
+It does have it's problems. The search is not very good. I would like to search
+on films by country, by director, by actors etc, but it seems it only provides
+search by title. Also given their own claim that they have everything, I think
+the selection of movies is rather thin. They have the most mainstream stuff,
+but there's quite a few of my favourite movies I have not been able to find
+there yet. Third, for less popular movies the download rate may be wildly
+varying, which gives a frustrating viewer experience when the move halts
+altogether for extended periods of time.
+
+That said, when it works, damn how it works! Compared to the commercial
+offerings that have jerky playback with occationally severe coding artifacts,
+Popcorn Time provides really smooth playback, much better image quality and
+crisper sound. If you love movies, I really see no other alternatives coming
+even close to this.[^1]
+
+My question is: _Why hasn't the movie industry looked into this?_
+
+The code is licensed under [GPLv3], which means the movie studio who first
+decides to try this model has a good and working codebase to start off with
+when they decides to make their own offering. The catch? Any software derived
+from Popcorn Time must also be free and open source.
+
+But this is actually an advantage! You'll get a community of people that would
+help you develop the software, you just need to provide the movies and a way to
+pay for them. Given that Popcorn Time is based on the [BitTorrent]
+protocol, it even means that everyone watching films is also helping you
+distribute it. So you'll even save on bandwith costs compared to the
+traditional video-on-demand solutions of today. Popular movies will practically
+host themselves, less popular ones may have to be served more directly.
+
+Give us a way to pay for the movies, provide enough server bandwith that we can
+watch even the less popular movies without trouble, and fix the crappy search
+and we should have a winner.
+
+Please!
+
+[^1]: I've sometimes paid for movies on other services, just to end up watching
+  them on Popcorn Time because the experience is so much better!
+
+
+[cooperate]: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid
+[Popcorn Time]: http://popcorn-time.se/
+[Free and Open Source]: http://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
+[Vimeo]: https://vimeo.com
+[GPLv3]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html
+[BitTorrent]: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html
+
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+title = "190 fascists marching in Oslo"
+lang = "en"
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["fascism", "racism"]
+
+[extra]
+author = "harald"
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+
+{% figure(img="hammer-Swastika.png") %}
+Fascism is rearing it's ugly head again. We need to crush it!
+([Illustration from here](http://www.permanentrevolution.net/category/21).)
+{% end %}
+
+A group trying to bring the PEGIDA crap to Oslo held it's first march tonight.
+They managed to drum up [190
+supporters](http://www.vepsen.no/2015/01/190-i-hatmarsj-i-oslo/), among them
+well-known figures from the 80's and 90's neo-nazi scene, as well as more
+recently active figures from the more recent anti-islam movement.
+
+Far from overwhelming numbers, but by Norwegian standards it's more than any of
+the other movements has been able to gather for a very long time. Let's hope it
+is the last time we'll have to endure such scum in our streets!
+
+On the other hand, the counter demo counted some 500 people.