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10 months. 342 commits. Dearest people of the Fediverse, may I present: Hyper 8 Video System _ 1.0 _ – A static site generator for video publishing

Hyper 8 Video System

Hyper 8 Video System

For screenshots, videos and written notes on everything that happened in these last releases, check out the rich release pages for 1.0 (

1.0 – Hyper 8 Video System

) and its equally feature-packed predecessors at

Hyper 8 Video System

These major developments in 2025 were made possible through a project grant from

netidee

netidee

Österreichs große Internet-Förderaktion mit einer Gesamtfördersumme von 1 Million Euro pro Jahr.

, an open source funding programme by the austrian

Internet Stiftung

Homepage - Internet Stiftung

Die Internet Stiftung fördert die Entwicklung des Internets in Österreich und den freien und geordneten Zugang zu dessen Netzen und Diensten unte...

– thank you so much for supporting this work and enabling tools that benefit independent artists, communities and organisations worldwide! I would also like to say a huge thank you to all of you out there already running your own Hyper 8 sites, testing, reporting, contributing, donating, giving feedback and being just all-out positive and supportive on this journey, it really means a lot to me and makes a big difference! For this latest release, special shout-out to @npub148c7...dk8r, @npub1ma73...j9n3, @npub1fz2s...85s6, @npub1eehj...x5ye & @npub1sa5a...kqgw for helping out on these last meters! 1.0 is now out for all platforms and is accompanied by a new, video-augmented tutorial, completely overhauled documentation and more available packages than ever – Enjoy! #hyper8

Hey Vienna! In exactly two weeks our 4th

permacomputing

meetup is taking place - and notably "on the eve of the end of Windows 10". Our plan for the evening: - Crisis counseling for Windows 10 users: Bring your questions (and if you want, computer) if you are affected by Microsoft's declared end of the support of Windows 10. Together we can talk about our options in this situation (Do I need a new computer? Are there alternative ways out? etc.) and you can also try out free alternatives to Windows, if you like! - Afterwards we'll watch a recording of the talk "Permacomputing 101" by Devine from Hundred Rabbits, recently presented at Critical Signals 2025, and have a bit of talk and discussion around it. You are warmly invited to also bring other topics to the meeting of course - lighting talks, announcements, ad-hoc discussions ... just come by and join in! Note that the meetup is also very much open to newcomers - interest for the general topic is all that is required! We'll see each other on October 14th from 19:00 to 22:00 at the beautiful, cozy

gtblank.org - gtblank.org

GT_ is a cooperative and inclusive space aimed at providing room for shared infrastructure and interdiciplinary discourse. Currently it focuses mai...

- See you soon! #vienna #permacomputing

Ever watched a video on YouTube just for the music? Ever wished you could stream _just the audio_ when you do? The Hyper 8 Video System - your friendly, independent alternative to YouTube - now allows you to! With this, I proudly present Hyper 8 v0.23: Audio-only streaming, Customizable ordering for playlists and subcollections, Site design and layout refined, Deployment from CLI, and much more!

0.23 – Hyper 8 Video System

Hyper 8 is a hybrid (GUI+CLI) static site generator for video publishing. To learn more and discover some sites running Hyper 8, check out

Hyper 8 Video System

Hyper 8 Video System

! Thank you so much to this release's contributors - @npub1ma73...j9n3, @npub160jr...7ewk, DURAD, ecogex and @npub1jlxt...tlw0 - and especially to

netidee

netidee

Österreichs große Internet-Förderaktion mit einer Gesamtfördersumme von 1 Million Euro pro Jahr.

for funding these extensive developments throughout 2025 (with more still to come)! And that's all for today. Thanks for your attention! ＼ʕ◕ᴥ◕＼ʔ #hyper8

Results in a search engine always require scrutiny (whether provided by an AI or not), so I was pondering the difference in how search engine results fail us when they are, or aren't, provided by an AI. After all, somebody might (and probably does) argue that AI search results are no more untrustworthy than their predecessor! But, I think the stark difference is that there is actually something very predictable and comprehensible in the way that search results have historically been wrong: They are completely submerged in their source context (and as far as mainstream AI goes, erasing this context in the name of convenience is the very nature of what's going on). Each site that offers me results in a "traditional" search as we know it conveys intent: A technical article from a startup is going to serve recruitment ads, but they have an incentive to serve me quality. A wikipedia article might be target of history revisionists, so this is where my attention could be. A fresh stack overflow post will be swarming with gamification-reward-addicted posters that will serve low quality advice, I will be wary. There is a skill in navigating this, it can be learned! AI results however? It's me against a black box - likely operated by profit motives - now. How am I supposed to reason, to retain my grip on reality in this?

Faircamp 1.5 is out! To learn what's new, check out the release page:

1.5 – Faircamp

Thank you so much jcx, @npub1akgw...8c0s and @npub1elew...hxjm for helping with the new feature and critical fixes, @npub18swm...4yjt for the new finnish translations, and @npub14lxs...6fd2, @npub1ldva...9hsy, @npub1j9ey...kyrp and [@vac](

Visos upės teka

Vac, Jr. :kultura_karikatura: (@vac@river.group.lt)

419 Posts, 257 Following, 136 Followers · Real name: Vaclovas Intas (people usually call me Vac, Vaccy.) Being a software #translator of some sor...

) for the updates to the existing translations! <3 To learn more about #faircamp visit the website:

Faircamp

Faircamp

And there's more: 1. Tomorrow (July 31st) I'm excited to join @Fireside Fedi to talk about my projects, including faircamp! If you have questions you'd like to see asked you can send them beforehand or join the livestream! See this post for all show details:

social.firesidefedi.live

Post by Fireside Fedi, @firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live

Just a reminder to folks that I'm going to be talking with @freebliss@post.lurk.org tomorrow, July 31st at 1300 Eastern UTC-4. This certainly isn't...

2. In recent weeks I put in a lot of effort to apply for funding for bigger developments next year, as well as to plan and prepare smaller, directly crowdfunded feature work over the coming months. As soon as there are updates on either of the two I'll send word of it - this is just to keep you up to date with some of the not so visible work that is happening behind the scenes as well. :) 3. This release again uses (and improves) tooling for release communication that I'm currently developing and will eventually release as free software. \o/ Poster image background for this release: Alexandre Debiève/Cildo Meireles – thank you!

I'd like to run a virtual smartphone somehow (preferably from my linux desktop) in order to run proprietary 2FA apps for banking and such. I'm looking for a setup that is reasonably stable and reliable. Anyone happen to have pointers to solutions? ʕ◜0ᴥ0ʔ

Delightful observation I keep making (exponentially more often?) in the last years: Copy-pasting and adapting from my own (hand-written, if you will) software corpus is a _huge, reciprocal productivity boost_. [x] I constantly build on and expand my own repertoire [x] I understand (or at least once understood :)) everything I reuse [x] Re-used code can have issues but I have full trust that it was written with best intent, to the best of my ability [x] Reused code is improved/refined with each iteration [x] Improved code goes around to be re-integrated with the source eventually [x] I learn tremendously in the process [x] I don't need to pay anyone for this [x] No new datacenters need to be built for this [x] This gets better every year ʕ◜0ᴥ0ʔ

The accomodation provider: "You can always contact our 24/7 support if there is a problem with accessing your room!" The 24/7 support: ChatGPT The response to the support question: "For security reasons I'm unable to help you. Contact the guest experience team through the support option in your guest dashboard" The support option in the guest dashboard: 24/7 support (ChatGPT) ahahah (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`) Duly adding "AI hotel businesses" to the AI hellscape list.

The upcoming Hyper 8 release (0.19, probably in a week or two) is going to introduce four different feeds in one go: Atom, Plain RSS, Podcast RSS and Media RSS. As a visitor on a Hyper 8 site you'll be able to subscribe to the site itself but also selectively to every subcollection and playlist on a site. In the coming weeks sometime I'll also be implementing audio-only media/formats, with that there will probably also come a feed differentiation that allows people to subscribe to audio-only feeds. In effect, hyper8 becomes a (video and/or audio) podcasting platform¹ with this as well. (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ #hyper8 ¹ edit - I better put this in quotes: "platform". :)

Podcasters rejoice: #faircamp 1.3 is out! Video walk-through of the highlights:

/video

Introducing Podcast RSS (and more) – Faircamp 1.3

Get the new release from the Faircamp website (https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/).

New to faircamp? Visit

Faircamp

Faircamp

What started with a music-minded design approach now opens up to the world of narrative, episodic and long-form content, allowing you to publish your podcast(s) using fast, maintenance free static site technology. \o/ (Almost) everything new in a nutshell: Podcast RSS & Atom feeds, Support for linking to timecodes/tracks, Playback speed controls, new volume slider, new raster-based procedural covers, Integration of missing images in track list and browse/search, new --preview-ip flag, many apple-specific fixes, Portuguese (european) translations, and much more – see the changelog:

Cookie monster!

This big new development was made possible through an NGI0 grant by [@nlnet](

nlnet.nl

NLnet, @nlnet@nlnet.nl

We are NLnet foundation. We support organisations and people who contribute to an open internet for all. If you are working on a project that helps...

), funded by the european commission's [@EC_NGI](

European Commission on Mastodon

Next Generation Internet (@EC_NGI@ec.social-network.europa.eu)

135 Posts, 19 Following, 4.29K Followers ·

) initiative – thank you so much! Also many thanks to all helping hands, this time especially @npub1ke53...4add, @npub1elew...hxjm, lnicola, @npub1dnk2...qy28, @npub1nuua...gjr3, @npub1pvtr...r0ys, [@controlfreak](

mas.to

controlfreak (@controlfreak@mas.to)

118 Posts, 845 Following, 108 Followers · Using what we got to express #agency #sovereignty #indigeneity and rage against climate and structural i...

), @npub1akgw...8c0s, invadeuse, @npub1h0z0...wndc, @npub19ga5...gq9r, N4ta, @npub1c44l...wp95, @npub1rvyy...6l5j, @npub1alhq...yll6, [@Vac](

Chicken Road Žaidimas | Demo &amp; Lietuviški Atsiliepimai | RTP 98%

), Patricio Maripani and Patrik Wallström - if you were also directly involved in the adventure and I somehow missed you (so much going on oof! •ᴗ•), apologies and please feel included! <3