gravitas

This post is an ongoing project to document all the many poor decisions of google's controlled opposition browser called "firefox" which is developed by the advertising firm known as "mozilla" (and technically in name, the Mozilla foundation)

In 2015 Firefox began including the service now defunct addon/service "pocket" as an integrated add-on, the first add-on to ever be bundled with their browser up to this point. This decision baffled many users at the time including myself. Many wondered why such a niche service was given such consideration ahead of much more desirable addons such as ublock or adblockplus. In hindsight we now know this is because bundling such adblockers would result in a near complete loss of funding for the project from google, with little hope of another advertiser like microsoft being interested in taking over.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/15/06/09/1722236/mozilla-responds-to-firefox-user-backlash-over-pocket-integration

https://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/07/mozilla-needs-to-make-up-its-mind/

https://lwn.net/Articles/650869/

In 2014 after just 11 days as CEO, proud bigot and vulture capitalist Brendan Eich stepped down due to the backlash Mozilla recieved over knowledge that Eich donated $1000 toward funding californias anti-gay marriage bill.

Eich is now CEO for the web browser Brave and continues to support fascist causes.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/04/03/1924250/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo

In 2014 Firefox "reluctantly" added DRM to the browser. This move while logical given the rise of services like netflix requiring it, was yet another nail in the coffin for open web standards.

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe-to-support-digital-restrictions-management

For enabling nvenc support in peertube i had to add binds to the nvidia libs on host machine

services:
  peertube:
    image: chocobozzz/peertube:production-bookworm
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: peertube
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              count: 1
              capabilities:
                - gpu
    ports:
      - 29511:9000
      - 1935:1935
    volumes:
      - /storage/peertube/data:/data
      - ./docker-volume/config:/config
      - /usr/lib/libnvidia-encode.so.1:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-encode.so.1:ro
      - /usr/lib/libnvcuvid.so.1:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvcuvid.so.1:ro

Without the libs it should fallback to x264 cpu encoding.

I've added the mlmym front end for lemmy available at: https://old.ugh.im/ or via tor at http://rhmoebzw3x54opox6m6bdn7spn5prp7vapimdxufizuqv6zdnhanmhyd.onion/

This front end does not require javascript.

I managed to get discourse working finally.

https://forum.gravitywell.xyz/

Seemed like a logical thing to be running given everything else.

https://cloud.gravitywell.xyz/

Chat is architecturally designed to be forgotten. Messages flow by in streams and channels multiply until nobody knows where anything is. Important decisions get made in casual conversations that disappear into the archive.

The result is that organizations are getting dumber as they grow. Because community memory no longer exists in any accessible form. Everything lives in someone’s head until that person leaves or forgets.

We used to have forums. And forums had one massive advantage: you could find things. Threads had descriptive titles. There were categories. Search actually worked because the content was structured for retrieval.

That's what we've really lost: the idea that some conversations should be designed to last, that communities and companies need memory to function, that real-time and permanent aren't the same thing, and that we need both.

The alpha preview was fun but a bit too janky for regular use. User accounts and all that are reset but most of the old uploads should still be available in the primary library.

I wish we had a decent request system for music in place, if anyone knows of something like JellySeerr that can interface with either slsk, lidarr, and/or tidal-dl, please let me know.

All of the music content is also accessible via NaviDrome, mStream and Jellyfin so users can choose which they prefer.

I got tired of themes and just went with a minimalist white on black layout. I put the only indexes at index2.html and index3.html