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Written by Konrad Hinsen on 2024-10-14 at 07:22

Preprint of my Onward! Essay "Redressing the Balance: A Yin-Yang Perspective on Information Technology"

https://khinsen.net/papers/onward-essay-2024.pdf

It's mostly about computational science, although that's probably not obvious from the title.

I will present this next week at SPLASH (as a remote participant). This is my first contribution to a CS conference!

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Written by Konrad Hinsen on 2024-10-25 at 06:17

Today I will present my Onward! Essay "Redressing the Balance: A Yin-Yang Perspective on Information Technology" at SPLASH (as a remote participant). It will be live-streamed at 18:00 UTC (that's 20:00 for my fellow CEST residents):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1pOMC41bS8

https://2024.splashcon.org/details/splash-2024-Onward-Essays/3/Redressing-the-balance-a-yin-yang-perspective-on-information-technology

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Written by Konrad Hinsen on 2024-10-28 at 06:53

The recording of my Onward! Essay presentation "Redressing the Balance: A Yin-Yang Perspective on Information Technology", including the Q&A afterwards, is available at:

https://www.youtube.com/live/L1pOMC41bS8?t=3370

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Written by Boud on 2024-10-29 at 18:07

@khinsen

yang: Only a few of the #invidious front-ends to GAFAM.youtube are currently running and those don't have download buttons;

yin: understanding the talk through the pdf is nevertheless possible: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689492.3689808 - and I just scrolled up and noticed that it's at the top of this thread anyway :P.

Nice paper :).

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Written by Konrad Hinsen on 2024-10-30 at 06:30

@boud I'd love to upload my talk somewhere else, but I have no idea where. All the PeerTube servers I have tried in the past have disappeared rather quickly, or at least closed for new uploads.

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Written by Boud on 2024-10-30 at 21:49

@khinsen I've been using https://peertube.stream/@boud at a modest scale for quite some time, run by @raph and I can't complain :).

I thought there were quite a few édu-nat/CNRS peertube instances @FR - a quick look gives these (uploads only for institute members?):

https://www.passages.cnrs.fr

https://peertube.laas.fr

https://videos.ahp-numerique.fr

https://video.cnil.fr

though I thought that there were some more open services for anyone in the FR research/uni system?

instance list: https://joinpeertube.org/instances

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Written by Konrad Hinsen on 2024-10-31 at 06:22

@boud Let's check out peertube.stream... There it is: "Les inscriptions avec un quota pour publier / diffuser sont closes."

Which I understand. Free video hosting is not sustainable.

Institutional servers would be a good solution for research, but none of the institutions to which I belong made such a choice. The closest would be https://www.canal-u.tv/, but I can't create a channel there as an individual. I'd have to set up some workgroup first, or convince my lab to create a channel.

@raph

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Written by Boud on 2024-10-31 at 10:43

@khinsen I hadn't realised that the sustainability of open peertube instances was under stress. Individuals like @raph have to be realistic in limiting what they can offer to the community.

https://peertube.tv is run by @stux who two weeks ago was 385 EUR in the red [1]. You or I as individuals can financially support individuals running peertube instances, but I think our ethical obligation is to try to convince our institutes to act ethically (not easy).

[1] https://mstdn.social/@stux/113322902946765310

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Written by Konrad Hinsen on 2024-10-31 at 10:50

@boud Basing individual instances on donations looks too fragile. Income fluctuation creates a risk of catastrophic failure. Better mutualize, e.g. via http://opencollective.com.

As for our institutions... I doubt ethical arguments will work with them. At best, we can look for arguments that will make them do the right thing for the wrong reason.

@raph @stux

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