Month: May 2018

Testing peertube webRTC seedboxes

Have been test useing seedboxs to store and server video for peertube installs. For first test setup am useing Vuze with a RSS and webRTC plugin as this is a easey.

The latist version of peertube am useing https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/local has implemented feeds, these work fine and send the new videos posted to the torrent dowenload app, which then dowenloads and seeds these videos in throry vier webRTC torrents. Anyone new watching these videos should get part of the video from my seedbox (on a modern laptop/fast DSL line in london).

The problem is that very rearly duse anything come off my seedbox. I have sat and watched it for few days, its now serving 36 videos for 3 diffrent peertube instances. Some of these videos I posted my self some are dowenloded ver RSS feed.

Have a look at this image full screen to see whats happening.

A look at the #geekproblem

In alt-tech, everything feels broken. At the heart of this is a deep, unexamined assumption: that control and certainty are required to make “good” software.

But in reality, software – like people, like communities – is transient, messy, lossy. It drifts. It composts. It never fully stabilises, and that’s normal.

Trying to force idealised control onto something that’s inherently fluid is exactly why so many alt-projects fail. They fight their own nature. They chase perfection, purity, and certainty, and in doing so, they kill the culture that would have kept them alive.

This is the root of the #geekproblem: the belief that the world should adapt to the code, rather than the code adapting to the world.

Until we let software breathe like humans do – flawed, shifting, open – we’ll keep breaking the very alternatives we’re trying to build.

In the alt tech, everything is broken. At the heart of this is a assumption that control and certainty are needed for good softwear. Were in reality softwear matches the human condition trasentery/lossy. Trying to force the ideal is why most of our alt projects do not work. This is the base of the #geekproblem