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Freedom in your computer and in the net [video]
- happyscrappy 12y agoIs there a transcript somewhere?
- a3n 12y agoA common question. And I didn't watch, because I usually don't want to sit through an entire linear presentation. Is there a tool somewhere that you can make your own transcripts from the audio? Bonus if it generates periodic snapshots from the video. Bonus if you can give it timestamps that you explicitly want snapshotted. EDIT: Bonus if you can select a section of text that didn't come over well in transcription, and play that section of audio, or that section of AV. If this doesn't exist, there has to be someone sitting here right now on a Saturday morning, thinking "Hell yeah, I can do that!"
- _asummers 12y agoIt's pretty much voice transcription. Ask the Dragon Naturally Speaking guys or Google or Apple or any of the number of people in that space. Even cell carriers doing visual voice mail are faced with the same underlying problem.
- pepijndevos 12y agoI think there are at least subtitles, but I don't see them there...
- xrjn 12y agoThere was quite a substantial effort this year to bring near live transcribing and subtitling of all the talks. Unfortunately I can't find any files or transcripts right now, but you should keep an eye out on the subtitling wiki [0]. [0] http://subtitles.media.ccc.de/wiki/en:Start http://subtitles.media.ccc.de/wiki/en:Start
- blfr 12y agoI'm assuming that on speaker's request there won't be an hd mp4? EDIT: Yes. He starts with that.
- noinsight 12y agoI was glad to see they honored his request.
- teamhappy 12y agoThat is what it looks like when you choose an ideology over people. // Feel free to comment if you disagree.
- Intermernet 12y agoYou haven't actually stated a position, but merely made an ambiguous observation, so I can't disagree with it. You may want to parse your comment again. By the way, I think you're being DV'd for not adding substance to the discussion. I'm now guilty of the same thing, so feel free to hit that upside-down triangle :-)
- teamhappy 12y agoMy bad, I thought my position was clear. To paraphrase Nick Fury: When Stallman says freedom, I kind of think he means the other thing. Taking away one choice of video format is not freedom. Telling people to upload photos of him only to specific websites is not freedom. Telling people who own a specific device not to take pictures of him at all is not freedom. Choosing a free software license that forces others to release changes they make is not freedom. Forcing "freedom" onto people is not freedom.
- edwintorok 12y agoIts more about freedom of using rather than creating. You want to create something that can be used by anyone without restrictions from patents, etc. -- so necessarily that imposes limits on what you can create (in this case no mp4). I think you can look at GPL in a similar way: it is more about protecting the user than the developer: it imposes restrictions on the developer that are necesasry to ensure the freedom of the user(s).
- noinsight 12y agoHis talk starts pretty interesting but by the end he gets pretty repetitive, he repeats the same things multiple times. Haven't seen/heard him speak before so I was sort of surprised he's an old man with an old man voice. He actually sounds like a pretty nice/agreeable guy though, which is an impression I haven't gotten from his online writings. Some of his arguments are really valid but most average people wouldn't be convinced since the nefarious aspects of computing haven't personally hit them (and might never do, but that doesn't make the points any less valid).
- userbinator 12y agoHaven't seen/heard him speak before so I was sort of surprised he's an old man with an old man voice He's 61; I'd consider that "old".
- aselzer 12y agoIt's nice of them that his video is a webm, while the others are mp4s. E.g. try inspecting the <video> on this one: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6430_-_de_-_saal_2_-_201412291130_-_nsa_points_of_presence_in_at_-_erich_moechel.html#video&t=8 http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6430_-_de_-_...
- teamhappy 12y agoAll talks are available in WebM. Try inspecting the download button.
- chippy 12y agoand in a variety of formats: http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2014/ http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2014/
- aselzer 12y agoWhen clicking on the download button on his video, there is only a webm video and an opus sound file. For all the other talks there are also mp4 videos and mp3 audio files.
- spacefight 12y agos/is/is only/ And yes, the mp4 version is not just not linked, it's simply not there: http://c3media.vsos.ethz.ch/congress/2014/h264-hd/ http://c3media.vsos.ethz.ch/congress/2014/h264-hd/
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- adventureloop 12y agoI was in the room for this talk and despite the technical issues, it was a very inspiring session.
- jokoon 12y agowhat was this claim about smartphones transmitting without battery, only using the "secondary" battery that "can't be removed" around 19:30? is that really possible ?
- ekianjo 12y agoI was actually wondering about that too. Any source about this "secondary battery" - do they actually exist?
- 001sky 12y agoSome devices have them for sure, a small lithium cell that keeps a clock and some settings in place for when you swap batteries. At least that's how my camera works. I assume its egineered into other devices for similar reasons.
- ekianjo 12y agoYeah but do they have enough power to keep the phone connectivity alive and transmit things ?
- wlkr 12y agoYes, they do. I would recommend having a look at this for a succinct overview. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/65382/is-it-possible-for-a-phone-to-be-transmitting-even-while-turned-off-and-the-batt/65455#65455 https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/65382/is-it-pos...
- jokoon 12y ago> perhaps they need a StingRay or Reaper drone in the area to boost the signal. The cell tower itself may be powerful enough to pick up the signal. that small battery would indeed not be able to be enough to send a signal to a cellphone tower, so you could not really track phones without primary batteries. current batteries are quite low powered, and wireless data is already pretty expensive in term of power usage. if you want enough data speeds. And I don't think you can effectively receive a GPS signal with a low powered battery. what they could do though, is automatically find nearest smartphones, and use them to retransmit. far fetched for when you don't move too much, but possible...
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- rscott 12y agoFirefox seems to have a privacy policy that, by default, does things that aren't "free" - locale checking, talking back to Mozilla, etc. Is there another "free" browser that supports webm?
- javajosh 12y agoI waited a while to post this, because I wanted to see if anyone felt the same. It seems I'm alone - which is both interesting and a little scary! To me it seems to me like Stallman has become a professional complainer about how programs are made and distributed, and critically, his position is weakened by not being a working practitioner. I'd be ashamed at fumbling with the presentation software; here you are making a case for free software, and end up making a really good case against it (does anyone want to use software that befuddles an expert programmer?) I also feel that it reflects poorly on Stallman himself that he immediately throws up his hands and says "I don't know how to do this" instead of carefully examining the situation. (Of course, there's also a case to be made that that was a very mature and wise move.) Here's the real problem. Take the market of custom software for small business. Can this be done in a free software model? I think yes, but only if you could get clients to agree to a) pay for custom software development, and b) give all of that custom development away to their competitors. One can imagine the ultimate SaaS platform (including perfect freedom to self-host, etc), open source, all modifications (hosted and otherwise) dutifully shared. Question: would such a thing be good or evil? P.S. Out of curiosity, since he doesn't seem to program anymore, and I can't see how complaining could pay well, does anyone know how he actually pays the bills?
- MrBuddyCasino 12y agoNo you are not alone, but since people often simply just downvote instead of discussing dissenting views, which takes more time, there is a risk to express minority opinions in certain threads, as it will drain your precious karma. To half-answer your question: RMS once got 150,000 shares of VA Linux which were worth millions at some time, but I have no idea if he ever sold them before they became worhtless. He lives mainly from his speaking engagements nowadays. And in case you will ever want to have him speak at your event, this what you are signing up for: https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/#!msg/mysociety-community/zkyZpOXjgoQ/_8xyXSxv9zYJ https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/#!msg/mysoci... That line from War Games, you are going to need it: "Remember you told me to tell you when you were acting rudely and insensitively? Remember that? You're doing it right now."
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