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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1566737

I've tried Nero and remain unimpressed. The mochi waffle at Canffle is pretty good though!

 

I’ve posted a fair bit of links around Bill C18 and how it’s bad, and had people assume that I’m somehow on the side of Google & Facebook.

Moscrop does a good job explaining that literally everyone involved here is bad, but that it does need fixing.

we ought to accept a few things: the Online News Act is bad law that needs to be amended or scrapped, Google and Meta are not your friends, we need to find a way to save journalism, some (legacy) media companies are awful themselves, and we need to reign in the tech giants and force them to pay for what they extract from their workers and from us.

 

The news.cosocial.ca server is now updated to Lemmy v0.18. Changes are described in the release announcement

I did hit the server error and set icon to null to fix from using ansible to deploy.

 

Michael Geist's commentary on Google removing corporate media from Search and News

That surely presented an unwelcome choice either way: agree to flawed legislation that creates a dangerous precedent on paying for links or knowingly decrease the value of its own service. By choosing to block links, the damage will be felt across Canada. For the news sector, this could result in news outlets shutting down altogether as the combined effect of blocked news links and news sharing on the Google and Meta will cut some sites traffic in half and lead to huge revenue losses. Services with existing deals with likely see that revenue disappear as well. For Canadians, Google search will be less reliable with Canadian news links removed and the Google News service shut down. This is likely to increase reliance on foreign news services and lower-quality services at the precise time that concerns over misinformation continue to grow.

(emphasis mine)

Previous post by Michael Geist: Media Chaos

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The TLDR elsewhere is that... Canadian universities have actually risen in rankings and for our population this is actually good.

 

The Online News Act may be only days removed from having received royal assent, but the government’s plans to support the Canadian media sector have already backfired spectacularly. While it claimed its Bill C-18 would add millions of dollars to the sector and support struggling media companies, the reality has quickly intervened: blocked news sharing on Internet platforms with cancelled deals on the horizon, reports of direct corporate intervention in news departments, massive layoffs and regulatory requests to decrease spending on news, and now a nightmare merger proposal between Postmedia and Torstar. And that is just over the past week. Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has amply demonstrated that there is no Plan B, offering up the prospect of further dependence on government through more public spending to mitigate the harms from his massive miscalculations. Not all of this is the government’s doing, but having relied on empty assurances that blocked news sharing was merely a bluff, Rodriguez picked politics and tough talk over good policy and is now left with media chaos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There were a couple of food vendors and some singing when I walked by the other night.

 

cross-posted from: https://news.cosocial.ca/post/3965

I’ll have to add it to my Espresso Tonic List.

Also Razzy-Jazzy iced tea, cold brew, and whatever Raspberry Ripple Cold Brew is.

What other Vancouver cafes have espresso tonics or other fun drinks?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have seen worse behaviour and bias from corporate media than independent. I think we perhaps have very different pictures of what this means.

My 20 years of seeing people denigrated as “bloggers” while opinion columnists are platformed and not held accountable hasn’t made me feel good about the information coming from corporate media.

And yeah we’re in a tough spot. We need much better discussion tools. I don’t think the CRTC is the right entity to do a good job here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My opinion on the corporate media that is the only one funded by this is the same as what you've just said. Just in a rich get richer approach to media in Canada. That's (one of) the big issues I have with this bill.

 

cross-posted from: https://news.cosocial.ca/post/4190

I just went to see the current exhibition at the New Media Gallery, DUST:

Search and you will find dust woven through the universe; swept up, dispersed and deposited across the globe; collecting in every corner of our lives. All of humanity lives on a fragment of cosmic dust…and we are dust. Visible, invisible, meaningful, reviled; dust has been exploited by artists as material, subject, ontology and here as landscape…full of properties, concepts and relationships and the potential to convey expansive ideas, Dust has been handed down to us through histories, words and images. In this exhibition it is interpreted through complex technologies, data collection, augmented videography and sound. DUST brings together three award-winning artists who have created extraordinary, populated landscapes, each underscored with striking aggregations of sound.

Features 3 artists:

  • Denis Beaubois, No longer Adrift (2013, updated 2023)
  • Herman Kolgen, Dust Surface (2010)
  • Michael Saup, DustVR (2018-2023)

All three are amazing. GO SEE THIS SHOW

Also shout out to Director/Curator Gordan Duggan who was our guide for the show. We try and catch all the shows here and he's very often the person there, and he's a great guide and personally excited about all the pieces and artists.

 

I just went to see the current exhibition at the New Media Gallery, DUST:

Search and you will find dust woven through the universe; swept up, dispersed and deposited across the globe; collecting in every corner of our lives. All of humanity lives on a fragment of cosmic dust…and we are dust. Visible, invisible, meaningful, reviled; dust has been exploited by artists as material, subject, ontology and here as landscape…full of properties, concepts and relationships and the potential to convey expansive ideas, Dust has been handed down to us through histories, words and images. In this exhibition it is interpreted through complex technologies, data collection, augmented videography and sound. DUST brings together three award-winning artists who have created extraordinary, populated landscapes, each underscored with striking aggregations of sound.

Features 3 artists:

  • Denis Beaubois, No longer Adrift (2013, updated 2023)
  • Herman Kolgen, Dust Surface (2010)
  • Michael Saup, DustVR (2018-2023)

All three are amazing. GO SEE THIS SHOW

Also shout out to Director/Curator Gordan Duggan who was our guide for the show. We try and catch all the shows here and he's very often the person there, and he's a great guide and personally excited about all the pieces and artists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Do you agree that indepedent Canadian media should also get paid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it's OK for independent media in Canada to not get paid?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure. Then it should also apply to independent media. Which the Canadian bill does not. The Canadian government is picking and chooseing who news media is.

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I’ll have to add it to my Espresso Tonic List.

Also Razzy-Jazzy iced tea, cold brew, and whatever Raspberry Ripple Cold Brew is.

What other Vancouver cafes have espresso tonics or other fun drinks?

 

This was OpenMedia’s fix Bill C-18 campaign. It’s unclear if any of this was fixed when it got passed.

Right now, most of the funding goes straight into the pockets of large broadcast media like Corus, Rogers and the CBC. Newspapers? Minority players. Local news that’s already disappeared? Zero help. Startup outlets? Not included. Effective news support should be concentrated on where news is fast disappearing, not on broadcast outlets that don’t need the help.2,3

What about press independence? As written, Bill C-18 hands enormous power to Big Tech and to the CRTC to secretly shape the type of news that gets made in Canada. News organizations enter into secret deals with platforms to get funding; there's no public reporting on who receives funds, how much they’re receiving, or why some groups wind up approved while others are rejected.4 That’s not good enough. Transparency about who’s funding the news and how they reached their deal is vital for the public to maintain trust in the news industry.5 Any legislation must ensure that eligibility decisions are made publicly, transparently, and without government or platform pressure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Because it’s supporting Canadian mega corporations. Read OpenMedia https://action.openmedia.org/page/121153/petition/1?

 

cross-posted from: https://news.cosocial.ca/post/3896

Walking through Woodland Park yesterday and saw this sign and went and looked up the event

A celebration of the rich cultural traditions of the West Coast Indigenous peoples.

Every Wednesday night through the summer starting June 21, 6 PM to 9 PM.

This is a family event. Alcohol and drug free.

 

Walking through Woodland Park yesterday and saw this sign and went and looked up the event

A celebration of the rich cultural traditions of the West Coast Indigenous peoples.

Every Wednesday night through the summer starting June 21, 6 PM to 9 PM.

This is a family event. Alcohol and drug free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Sure. Except, if you read the article, this is about a fundamental discussion about paying to link to things. Should every post to Lemmy pay the website it links to?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, you’ll get different content based on everything from flaky federation (software that isn’t perfect) to differences in moderation.

So, for moderation, let’s do an example. Bob has an account on Server A. He posts a comment on a community with his Server A account which is federated from Server B.

But Bob breaks the terms of service / moderation rules on Server B. Server B mods block his account and his comment is not visible there.

If Alice views the comments on the post on Server A, she’ll see Bob’s comment. On Server B, where Bob is blocked, Alice won’t see Bob’s comment.

On Mastodon, servers will sometimes connect to Relays which specialize in moving content between many different servers, which is different than moderation blocks ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My wishlist would be to be able to link Mastodon accounts to Lemmy accounts, so the Lemmy system "knows" it's the same person. Including being able to edit the posts that come in from Mastodon, which right now is the biggest issue.

This post as an example, I was framing it as a Masto post, and it's pretty terrible on Lemmy. I'd focus on optimizing favourite/boost/comment from Mastodon as that is I think going to work best - comments don't need first class titles, links, and feature images.

For OPs, wouldn't it be amazing if I could DM some links and images and stuff, and then login to Lemmy/kbin and have it appear as a draft, and then publish it natively with rich text tools on the Lemmy/kbin side.

Subscribing via Mastodon works much better for me, even if I then go over and interact with my Lemmy account. I want both OPs and comments, and it's easy enough to put in a list or otherwise manage notifications from my clients. Micro-blog native vs Thread native people are going to differ in their opinions here :)

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