⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Inside the Transport for London cyberattack

Link: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/an-utter-shitshow-inside-the-transport
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41964117

If you've ever wondered if it's possible to run a broadcast television network on commodity hardware using open source software when you have no idea what you're doing, the answer is absolutely yes.

We're doing it right now! Or, at least, we will be tomorrow when they plug us in to the head-end.

We're running ffplayout on the server side, building our schedules by hand (new open source scheduler and media asset manager coming Soon ™️) and outputting to SRT and RTMP.

The RTMP stream is consumed by peertube, and then spit back out to our roku channel.

The SRT stream is consumed by a piece of hardware at the cable company (that we paid for, an Impulse 300D Network Decoder)which takes the SRT stream and just shoves it in to their head end.

The Impulse Decoder is the only piece of equipment in all of this that isn't a cheap rented VPS, and whatever it's running is the only time any of these videos touch something that isn't free software.

Shooting on the film I'm most looking forward to, Project Hail Mary, is now complete. It will be released on March 20, 2026.

I'm really looking forward to it.

The world is now just a series of satirical background bits from dystopian 1980s-00s comics that are meant to show how nakedly cruelly capitalist the future world has become

@boggin @tokensane Yes, I know - before I quit the IT industry, the last major project I worked on was the ill-fated NHS Care Records System for England and Wales.

The technical aspect of conversion between different standards was relatively trivial compared to the political problems of getting lots of different customers (NHS Trusts, Department of Health, etc.) to agree on what they were going to use and then finding suppliers who supported the standard(s) properly!

Today, October 26, in 1985, at 1:18 AM, Marty McFly films Dr. Emmett Brown’s first temporal experiment, sending his time machine DeLorean and pet dog Einstein one minute into the future (Back to the Future, 1985)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #BackToTheFuture #TimeTravel

When I was a translator, I was paid per word and realised the word processor doesn't count words, it counts spaces. So I was going like
* * * * * C H A P T E R O N E * * * * *
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I don't post much these days and it's not really my place to interfere in foreign elections. But...

If you live in the USA, please vote for Harris. It's really quite important. Thanks in advance (or thanks if you already have!)

If you are voting for Trump then please unfollow me, mute me, block me, and never listen to another Late Night Linux Family show again.

Thanks,

Joe
Childless cat gentleman

Fuck Jeff Bezos

You gotta love American politics. Twice now we’ve had the race boil down to highly competent & experienced woman and morally & fiscally bankrupt racist rapist (alleged - lost civil case) with it being a total toss up.

Do better voters.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-5165353/washington-post-presidential-endorsement-trump-harris

@ben Every few months, GH sends me a random amount of money - usually less than £2.

I spend it all on Beano comics and Punky Penguin ice creams.

(It all goes in to paying the maps bill for OpenBenches etc.)

And, they just announced subscriptions. Here comes the rent!

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l7bifd4rwd2g (direct link to the sub subskeet) has a bunch of cheerleaders replying “take my money”, as if that will forestall the inevitable degradation of service, as if they weren’t secretly planning this business model shift all along, as if the VCs will just *disappear* if enough people pay $5 per month

that $15M VC investment is not a *loan*, it's a 100-to-1 *bet* on getting out with $1.5B, and they will squeeze and cheat and do whatever it takes to win that bet

it’s #enshittification stage 2: charge rent for full functionality, then add ads to the free tier

(first self-promos, then "offers" (demands) to buy subs, then “partners” (advertisers) including crypto scams from their new co-owners, and influencer-hustling pickaxe salesmen (the real profiteers of the gold rush))

then they'll add ads to the paid tiers too

that’s stage 3, right @pluralistic ? it’s hard to keep the stages straight since they’re all happening so quickly these days)

#bluesky