psl.seattle

SEATTLE IS READY TO VOTE SOCIALIST!

END CAPITALISM BEFORE IT ENDS US!

Our campaign volunteers have been on the ground almost every day talking to our neighbors about the issues they face under our current system. It's clear that people are tired of the two party system that offers no solutions to the problems we face every day. Housing, wages, healthcare, and education are our priorities, not endless war!

The Vote Socialist 2024 campaign is working to address and meet the needs of working class people who have been abandoned by capitalism. The people of Seattle deserve better, and we know that together, we can build a better world that puts people first.

Abandon the two party system and commit to liberation!

SAVE THE DATE: Claudia de la Cruz and the Vote Socialist campaign will be visiting Seattle, Thursday, October 10! Stay tuned for more updates!

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5729803

⭐️A PROGRAM FOR WORKING FAMILIES⭐️

Every elite politician claims they are the “real” candidate to support families. Trump and the right wing package their bigoted, sexist rhetoric as “family values.” Harris says she supports “middle class families,” but the existing administration has explicitly ended policies meant to help families.

Our campaign has a real platform – a socialist platform – that ensures that all working families will have a life with dignity!

Learn more: votesocialist2024.com/our-program

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during a recent press conference, accused African Stream of participating in a Russian propaganda network.

Not long after these accusations, African Stream's social media accounts faced widespread bans across online platforms.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3471120

TankieTube is out of "beta" and everyone's invited!

OpSec

• Email - Make sure to register using an email detached from your legal identity (remember Stonetoss?).

  The software requires an email address, however, I've disabled the verification requirement. This means you can register using something like [email protected] and it will totally work—unless the address is already taken (in which case you should get better material!).

  You would need a real address, of course, to have the option of resetting your password. The only other thing I use email for is explaining and notifying users of any moderator actions I take against them, as a courtesy.

• P2P - The peer-to-peer feature allows the software to scale tremendously well when serving the same viral video to many people at the same time (supposedly at least 1000 concurrent viewers, easily, with a wimpier server than ours).

  A downside of the feature is that it can reveal your IP to a subset of people watching the same video at the same time as you. [Read more]. Therefore, it is recommended to either:

  1. Use a VPN. Or,
  2. Deselect the P2P participation feature in the user settings menu.

History & Goals

I started out with a $15/mo VPS (run by Nazis, as it turned out) and have migrated/upgraded the server twice since then. It's now using the most powerful dedicated server available from Freakhosting at ~$230/mo💰🥴, because I wanted it to not suck. It has a Ryzen 9 7950x3D, which is ~32 times as fast as the first server. It still doesn't have the transcoding throughput to keep up with YT syncing without creating a double-digit hour backlog.

The transcoding power can be boosted by renting additional servers for use as remote runners. It all depends on the amount of support the project can get...

Donation Link 🥺👉👈

I'm afraid to add it up, but I'm sure I've sunk at least $600 into various TT expenses since I registered the domain on 2023-10-27 and started playing around. I didn't want to ask for donations until I was sure I knew what I was doing.

Another goal: making the PT vids embed properly in Lemmy!

About the Outro

The music is La Danse Des Bombes, a great song about the ecstasy of armed combat in defense of the Paris Commune of 1871, which I discovered thanks to comrade [email protected]. PeerTube (PT) is French software, so I think that's neat.

The sound effects are sampled from a video of the Al-Qassam Brigade resistance fighters in live armed combat against Israeli occupation forces. The sound effects correspond to a :hamas-red-triangle: scene in the video.

Underneath it all is a 140bpm beat by "K1 The Producer".

Fifty Channels!

Quoting myself from earlier:

The major difference from YouTube (YT) is that TankieTube (TT) users can create up to fifty (50) channels (the default is 20 but I bumped it up). Channels are analogous to Lemmy communities, except that PT doesn't yet support shared channels with more than one author/user (I believe it's a planned feature). Create a channel for every weird niche topic that you want!

I'll eventually create a style guide. If you want to sync or archive a YT channel, then I'd prefer that you create a unique TT channel that corresponds to it for better organization.

PT has an automatic channel syncing feature, but I have it turned off right now because it was overloading the transcoding queue.

The TankieTube Homepage

The YT homepage is built by a sinister algorithm customized to distract and exploit you. The TT homepage contains whatever-the-fuck HTML I choose to type with my paws. Determining what to put on it will be a big and ongoing decision. If you've made a channel relevant to the site's theme, send me a message and I'll probably pin it!