Of course, as an individual, you’re an interesting person. But are you a Person of Interest? By that I mean, are you a person that it is individually interesting to hack, or are you just a person who is immersed in the mass of data that the hacker has targeted? With the confinement and the video binge, the opportunity is too strong to make discover some TV series to neophytes, and to debate with them on all the questions they open. After having made discover series like Person of Interest (for mass surveillance and hacking), but also Mr. Robot (for hacking), we have a lot to do, and especially to question ourselves. So, are you a Person of Interest?

Mass surveillance in China

In the last episode of…

A short summary of these series that launched the debate, and thus this article, may be useful (thanks to Wikipedia).

Person of Interest centers on a mysterious reclusive billionaire computer programmer named Harold Finch, who develops a computer program for the federal government known as “The Machine” that is capable of collating all sources of information to predict terrorist acts and identify people planning them. The Machine also identifies perpetrators and victims of other premeditated deadly crimes, but, because the government considers these “irrelevant”, he programs the Machine to delete this information each night. Anticipating abuse of his creation, Finch created a backdoor into the Machine. Tormented by the “irrelevant” deaths that might have been prevented, he eventually decides to use his backdoor to act covertly. To escape detection, he directs the Machine to provide only a tiny fragment of data: the social security number of a “person of interest”. The person may be a victim, a perpetrator, or an innocent bystander caught up in lethal events. The first episode shows how Finch recruited John Reese, a former Green Beret and CIA agent now presumed dead, to investigate the number provided by the Machine and act accordingly. As time passes, others join the team. From the beginning, the program raises an array of moral issues, from questions of privacy and “the greater good” to the idea of justifiable homicide to problems caused by working with limited information.

Mr. Robot follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a cybersecurity engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety, dissociative identity disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as fsociety (namely “F*ck Society”). One of their missions is to cancel all consumer debt by destroying the data of one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

Let’s not forget The Bureau, and in particular its latest season, which puts a little more emphasis on hacking.

Ok, that I’ve turned paranoid…

Personally, I’ve grown very fond of these shows. Not so much for the technical aspect (far too romanticized on Person if Interest, and a few too many mistakes on Mr. Robot), but for the questions they always raise. A good way to awaken the paranoid or conspiratorial in you.

The first question to be generally stated is:

But is there such a thing as mass surveillance?

There, you just have to call back quickly, for example:

• China, and its mass surveillance system, as well as its capitalist drift with a point system…
• the various revelations of Edward Snowden
• mass surveillance in Russia

You’re being watched

We are talking about everything that is state-owned, but we should not forget private interests:

• the massive use of cookies to track users through their internet browsing
• social authentications
• coverage of major groups: Google (with Android, Nest, GCP, …), Amazon (with AWS, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Photo, Amazon Prime Music, Alexa, …), Apple (with iPhone, iMac, iCloud, Siri, …), Facebook (with WhatsApp, Oculus VR, Giphy, Atlas - an advertising agency -, …)

And scandals related to the (mis)use of your personal data by all these organisations regularly make the headlines.

You shall not pass

The second question is in general:

But how easy is it to hack me, whether it’s my phone, my computer, or even my online banking account?

You shall not pass!

I like to answer this question in such a way as to make sure you are totally paranoid: excessively easy. Well, I admit, that kind of answer often makes me lose a part of the audience that is already between throwing the phone and the computer into the fire. But, for those who remain open, we can dig up the why.

If you have finished building your Faraday cage at the foot of the Green Bank Telescope, we can continue with my explanation.

The first answer to be given concerns the means. For those that do (see the second answer), companies spend astronomical budgets to guarantee the security of information systems. However, the result is not “is the door locked properly”, but “how long will the lock hold”. As with your armoured door. The real goal is not to prevent access, but to slow down the attacker enough so that you are warned and can take action. And very often these companies fail: just read the various daily announcements about massive data theft. So if, with their means, these companies fail, how can you be perfectly impervious?

The second answer concerns responsibility. So we know that your means are limited: you don’t necessarily have the knowledge or the support to do it. All too often, security measures are so restrictive for normal use that users end up competing with each other in ingenuity to circumvent them, and thus make them useless. Under these conditions, it is therefore incumbent on those who provide you with these services to guarantee their security, but also their confidentiality. This is the purpose of, for example, the GDPR in Europe, or the CCPA in California. In the same way, they must provide you with simple (and motivating) ways to make use of any security that you may be entrusted with.

It’s time now

But are they all effective? What can you do? The answer varies greatly from one solution to the next, but when I hear some people take pride in having “secured” their iPhone with FaceID, I can only recall an old episode of Columbo, where the assassin’s accomplice was driving around in a car, carrying a picture of the assassin to fool the cameras. Of course, not everyone is Columbo, but what about that young boy who manages to unlock his mother’s phone with his own face?

Columbo’s mask

The first rule is to review your PIN codes and passwords:

• finish your son’s date of birth
• no more 4-digit code
• no more using your children’s names as passwords
• no more using the same code or password everywhere

So yes, it can quickly become very complicated to have an ultra-complex password (a number, a special character, a lowercase, an uppercase, a hieroglyph, an emoticon, and especially in the right order in relation to what you ask the site or application.

But it doesn’t matter: you still have your post-its and your notebook… … … Did you hear me yelling there?

If you have an excellent memory and like mental gymnastics, you still can:

• remember a page from your favorite religious book, and use it as a password with all the punctuation that goes with it *
• or define a “dynamic” password: a fixed password base, that you specifically and logically complete/modify for each site.
• put all the important dates in your life in a row

Except that you will always have sites or applications for which this will not fit, and you will have to find an exception… and how to memorize it.

Some users are more perverse: they lie about anything at every use and as soon as the system asks them for a password again, they follow the lost password procedure. It’s almost effective, but it’s tiring.

Others will rely on password portfolio solutions (Dashlane, 1Password, …). Why not! But we come back to the above mentioned aspects on responsibilities and their obligations. On your side, this can clearly simplify your life: there is only one password to memorize, and you can make it as complex as you want! But there is one important point to remember: they can sometimes send you a temporary code to your main e-mail address to make sure that it is you who is trying to access the wallet, so remember the password as well. That’s only two, but still.

But a password, it’s crackable. So it may take time, but since there is no such thing as zero risk, … It has to be reduced. That’s what the different techniques of [MFA] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication) are all about:

The use of multiple authentication factors to prove one’s identity is based on the premise that an unauthorized actor is unlikely to be able to supply the factors required for access. If, in an authentication attempt, at least one of the components is missing or supplied incorrectly, the user’s identity is not established with sufficient certainty and access to the asset (e.g., a building, or data) being protected by multi-factor authentication then remains blocked. The authentication factors of a multi-factor authentication scheme may include:

• Something you have - some physical object in the possession of the user, such as a USB stick with a secret token, a bank card, a key, etc.
• Something you know - certain knowledge only known to the user, such as a password, PIN, TAN, etc.
• Something you are - some physical characteristic of the user (biometrics), such as a fingerprint, eye iris, voice, typing speed, pattern in key press intervals, etc.
• Somewhere you are - some connection to a specific computing network or utilizing a GPS signal to identify the location.

The applications listed above can help you with this, for example.

Okay, great, so you can “secure” access to your tools within certain limits. But what about your devices (computers, phone, …)? They are just as vunerable. Coming back to our friends Harold and Elliot, you too often leave open access to your phones: Wifi, Bluetooth, NFC, … So start by disabling them whenever possible. In the case of Bluetooth, some software versions allow to have it active (so that it connects elsewhere) but without “publishing” it. Same for the Wifi in your home.

Then, a good antivirus is always useful. A paying one is better. It’s stupid to say but, the advanced functions above are very useful but paying. You could always multiply the free applications that each brings a part of these functions … But this can become counterproductive in terms of security, but also in terms of performance. We then come back to the constraints that you would try to bypass.

Yes, but me I’m under Mac OS, and there’s no virus or anything like that!

Objection!

Just last week, I was able to demonstrate just by installing an antivirus on a friend’s Mac that it was a nice marketing illusion that had served its time.

Yes, but when I’m on the net, I surf via a VPN

Well, beyond the question of trust in this VPN service, a VPN is still a tunnel. Have you ever seen a road tunnel preventing a pedestrian from entering it in the opposite direction of the cars? It’s bullshit without a no, but it’s possible. So your VPN, apart from getting you to the other side of the mountain, has little use in that. And when I see the TV commercials of some people promising you privacy on the internet, I can’t help but giggle…

Am I safe?

It depends. We can finally get back to the original subject: are you a Person of Interest?

You have now done a lot for your security: you have cut useless accesses, you don’t use Social Logins anymore, you have made your passwords more complex, you abuse MFAs, … It’s not bad. So you still have the sites and applications you use. Remember, you got out of your Faraday cage to come back on the internet to read the rest of this article. You are therefore connected to third parties.

I remember last year, a friend of mine was worried because he had received an email “sent by himself” (remind me to tell you about Sender Forgery and Spoofing), threatening him to “divulge he knows exactly what was found on his hard drive” unless he paid a Bitcoin ransom. So for one, this famous friend is a bit paranoid and only uses LiveUSB. And two, he doesn’t store anything because he’s unable to find anything (which can be funny in private life). Anyway, the question was: why was he targeted?

Well, he wasn’t actually targeted. His email was simply found in a database that was hacked, and the vile offenders decided to send emails to all known addresses found in it. After all, they would find at least one person “who knows very well what was lying around on his hard drive” and who would pay his ransom without flinching.

However, there is no stolen confidential data here, nor any real ransom. This is just an attempt at a mass con.

But the point is interesting. This reminds me of the episode Shut Up and Dance of Black Mirror. That pretty much sums it up. If we hack you specifically, knowing you for real, there’s an interest. But this is still extremely exceptional, and no, your personal savings do not interest us. Either you’re doing something illegal, and that interests the authorities or the avengers. Either you actually have money (we are talking in billions). Or finally, you have access to interesting information (business, strategy, … always for values in billions).

But, again, this is an exception. The general rule is that you are just drowning in the mass of information hacked from vulnerable sites/tools. There are various ways to see if this is possible: the portfolios mentioned above, but also a well provisioned website: Have I been pwned?.

My soul of great paranoid romantic prefers to stay on the idea that I am a Person of Interest, and that the Machine is watching me. And you, are you a person of interest?

PS: remember: You’re being watched.

Original post of Francois Aichelbaum.Votez pour ce billet sur Planet Libre.

Today, we are publishing the roadmap for the next six months of PeerTube’s development. With your help, we want to continue improving on this software that allows individuals, structures and collectives to emancipate from YouTube’s chokehold and regain power over how their videos are hosted.

Creating the world after with PeerTube

From YouTube channels to Facebook lives, as well as Amazon-Twitch, Instagram, Snapchat and Tiktok videos, the web giants’ tools are made with the same political ideology in mind : surveillance capitalism. Their goal is simple : get your attention in to study your behaviors, file them and improve their targeted advertising. Their method is effective : offering as much software comfort and immediate gratification as possible, in order to make you abandon your control over your tool, so that they can invade and fill your available human brain time.

As such, these tools are perfectly adapted for people who have no issue with a society based on over-consumption, and who trust multi-billionaire companies (and therefore the « market ») to decide what will or will not be shown on our screens (like with Tiktok, which moderates the videos and accounts of users they deem too ugly, fat or poor).

At Framasoft, we’re on the other side, the one that wants to see a contribution-based society arise.

Connected even when isolated. Illustration CC-By-SA association LILA

The pandemic we are currently going through has been a good opportunity for us to question what we are doing and what we want to do : we thought about our role in this vaunted « world after ». More than ever, we believe that our place is close to those people who make efforts and contribute to a more human, more resilient and more respectful society. And we believe that PeerTube is a tool that can be of use to the people who defend this vision of society.

Because it is free and federated, and as such efforts have to be made to share power and responsibilities, because it democratizes online video hosting, because it empowers academies and allows previously marginalized communities to show themselves and exist… We are convinced that PeerTube is a tool that we must strengthen so that it can even better serve those who participate in this contribution society.

QueerMotion is a French-speaking PeerTube instance hosted by and for queer creators.

The « Roadmap » shows up on JoinPeertube.org

We just released a roadmap describing our intentions for the next six months of PeerTube’s development, which will lead to its third version, a « v3 ». These six months will be split between 4 steps, and each step will focus on a specific part of PeerTube. The idea behind this v3 really is to strengthen what’s already there, based on the feedback we got from instance hosters, video creators and viewers.

We are aware that searching for videos on a PeerTube instance can be frustrating for viewers who just want to get access to content without having to wonder who’s federated with who. For the first step of this roadmap, we will create a globalized video index to make it easier to search for content throughout the whole federation. This index will be made so that it can be easily reproduced and configured so that anyone can offer their own index, with its own eligibility rules. We hope to see indexes with no adult content, others with only content from instances dedicated to videogames, and so on.

If each version of PeerTube has brought its share of moderation tools, we are aware that those features are essential for the teams that administer instances, manage their federation bubble and moderate the content hosted there. For the 2nd step of development, we will dedicate a month to developing and improving moderation tools. From reports monitoring to fighting spam, without forgetting moderation history : our list is already quite full and we will prioritize it depending on the feedback we got.

During the third step of the roadmap, we want to improve on the ergonomy and display of Peertube’s video playlists. The goal is to allow video creators to more easily embed playlists into their websites as well as their social media threads.

In addition, we want to make it easier to contribute to PeerTube’s code. To this end, we will improve the plugins system that allows for the addition of new features to PeerTube without having to access the code itself. We want to create a video annotation tool by ourselves. This will allow us to better understand how to facilitate and highlight the work made by those who contribute to PeerTube by creating plugins.

PeerTube v3 : going live !

The 4th and final step of this roadmap will be dedicated to the development of a new, highly anticipated feature : live peer-to-peer video streaming. We ran some tests, we know that this is a big undertaking, but we are confident that we can do it.

But be careful, with a single full-time developer on this project, we will not program the « twitch-killer » that’s as fun as « insta lives » in just two months. If you were expecting live chat modules, funny animated gifs when Karen42 makes a donation or hearts and thumbs ups popping up all over your screen, you’re going to be very disappointed !

It is now a matter of laying the foundations for live peer-to-peer streaming. By using the « HLS » video player implemented in PeerTube version 1.3, we believe we can have live streaming with one minute of difference (or 30 seconds in optimal cases) between the video creator and the viewers. In return for this slight delay, the stream load will be able to be shared between all the devices that will be displaying the stream.

As such, this first implementation of PeerTube live streaming will be minimalist, and will probably require some effort (such as using the free software OBS to capture your audio and video streams). Nevertheless, this would be the beginning of a revolutionary tool : no need for Amazon-Twitch’s huge datacenters to stream live videos to a large amount of people, peer-to-peer will let us democratize live stream hosting !

Marie-Cécile Godwin Paccard, designer

On top of those 4 steps of development, all throughout those six months, we intend to do in-depth work regarding PeerTube’s user experience. We have chosen not to announce anything specific on this subject, to let those who will work on these matters all the freedom they need to improve PeerTube in the way they deem the most relevant.

Progressive fundraising for no-condition development

Before the pandemic, we considered starting a crowdfunding to get the € 60,000 we need for those 6 months of work dedicated to PeerTube v3. Today, as France is getting out of quarantine and as we can barely fathom the awful human and material consequences this crisis will have for many people, this does not seem appropriate to us.

However, PeerTube v3 seems even more important to us when we imagine a world where we might need to stay at home, broadcast live classes and conferences remotely, or stream an event live. We feel like we need to develop it, that we have to. Imposing a condition stating « if we do not get our 60,000€, then there will not be a v3 » here, would be a lie, marketing manipulation : this is not the kind of relation we want to maintain with you.

Sepia, PeerTube’s mascot, as they’re watching a « Can a digital tool be apolitical ? » debate video (allegory)
CC-By David Revoy, re-framed by us.

Nevertheless, we will still need to find those 60,000€. Here at Framasoft, we commit to developping PeerTube v3, even if we need to take money from the donations made to the association to support all the projects we undertake, and therefore from our 2020 budget.

At the same time, we have placed a donation button dedicated to the PeerTube project on the roadmap’s page, as well as a bar indicating where we are regarding the funds for this project. This is far less exciting than the stretch goals and the countdown of traditional crowdfundings, where people are incited to donate before a deadline, so that they do not forget and move on to something else…

Yet this is also much closer to our reality : we will make improvements, because we believe that this tool is a necessary one. This is why we are willing to take the risk to put a bad strain on our 2020 budget. We know that we can trust you to contribute to funding PeerTube if you share our enthusiasm and if you have the means for it.

Study CC-By David Revoy. We thank him dearly for illustrating this roadmap.
Click to find the final original drawings.

Get further away from marketing, get closer to you

Off we go towards six months of development. On the Framablog, we will share our progress on the various steps of development as well as the finances when we will publish PeerTube’s v3, planned for November 2020. Until then, if you want to follow each step of the development, you can subscribe to the PeerTube newsletter (sent in French and in English), whose information is archived on the news page on JoinPeertube.org, and relayed by JoinPeertube’s Mastodon and Twitter accounts.

« Another » world cannot be built using surveillance capitalism’s tools.

Making it easier to access content, sharing power and responsibilities, opening up to contributions, generalizing live broadcasting thanks to peer-to-peer… PeerTube’s v3 aims to consolidate it as an alternative to Google-Youtube and Facebook-Live that is more and more convivial.

A case of force majeure has encouraged us to go even further away from traditional marketing ploys regarding fundraising : in concrete terms, our 2020 budget is in your hands. More than ever, we will need your help to actively follow and share this roadmap, make it known around you and outside of the French-speaking world.

In the end, we have decided to believe in PeerTube and to believe in you.

To go further

• Discover PeerTube’s v3 roadmap
• Support PeerTube’s development
• Follow PeerTube’s news :
  • The Newsletter
  • On Mastodon
  • On Twitter
• Talk about PeerTube on our forum
• Share this post in French

Original post of Framablog.Votez pour ce billet sur Planet Libre.

Nous dévoilons aujourd’hui la feuille de route des six prochains mois de développement de PeerTube. Avec votre soutien, nous voulons poursuivre les améliorations sur ce logiciel qui permet aux particuliers, structures et collectifs de s’émanciper de YouTube et de reprendre le pouvoir sur l’hébergement de leurs vidéos.

Faire le monde d’après avec PeerTube

Des chaînes YouTube aux live Facebook en passant par Amazon-Twitch, les vidéos Insta, Snap ou Tiktok, les outils des géants du Web sont conçus dans la même idéologie politique : le capitalisme de surveillance. L’objectif est simple : capter votre attention pour étudier vos comportements, les ficher et mieux cibler la pub. Leur méthode est efficace : offrir un maximum de confort logiciel et de gratification immédiate pour que vous abandonniez votre contrôle sur l’outil afin de mieux envahir et meubler votre temps de cerveau disponible.

Ces outils sont donc tout à fait adaptés aux personnes qui n’ont aucun problème avec la société d’hyper consommation, et qui font confiance à des entreprises multi-milliardaires (donc au « marché ») pour décider de ce qui se verra ou pas sur nos écrans (comme TikTok, qui modère les vidéos et les comptes des membres jugés trop moches, gros ou pauvres).

Chez Framasoft, nous faisons partie des autres personnes, celles qui veulent voir exister une société de contribution.

PeerTube permet de créer du lien même lorsqu’on doit s’isoler.
Illustration CC-By-SA l’association LILA

La pandémie que nous vivons actuellement a été l’occasion d’une grande remise en question de ce que nous faisons et voulons faire : nous avons réfléchi à notre rôle dans ce fameux « monde d’après ». Plus que jamais, nous croyons que notre place est auprès de ces personnes qui font l’effort de contribuer à une société plus humaine, plus résiliente, plus respectueuse. Et nous pensons que PeerTube est un outil qui peut servir les personnes qui défendent cette vision de la société.

Parce qu’il est libre et fédéré et donc qu’il demande l’effort de se partager le pouvoir et les responsabilités, parce qu’il démocratise l’hébergement de vidéos en ligne, parce qu’il autonomise des académies et permet à des communautés invisibilisées de s’afficher et d’exister… nous avons la conviction que PeerTube est un outil que nous devons renforcer, pour qu’il serve encore mieux celles et ceux qui font la société de contribution.

Page d’accueil du collectif QueerMotion, qui héberge une instance PeerTube réservée aux vidéastes Queer.

La « Roadmap » s’affiche sur JoinPeertube.org

Nous venons de publier une feuille de route décrivant nos intentions pour les six prochains mois du développement de PeerTube, menant à une troisième version du logiciel, ou une « v3 ». Ces six mois seront découpés en 4 étapes, et chaque étape se concentrera sur un domaine spécifique de PeerTube. L’idée de cette v3, c’est vraiment de renforcer l’existant, en se basant sur les retours que nous avons reçus des hébergeuses d’instance, vidéastes et spectateurs.

Nous savons que la recherche de vidéos sur une instance PeerTube peut être frustrante pour les spectateurs qui veulent juste accéder simplement à un contenu sans devoir se demander qui est fédéré avec qui. Pour la première étape de cette feuille de route, nous allons créer un index globalisé des vidéos, pour faciliter la recherche de contenus au travers de toute la fédération. Cet index sera conçu de façon à être facilement reproductible et paramétrable pour que quiconque puisse proposer son propre index, avec ses propres règles d’admissibilité. Nous espérons voir fleurir par exemple des index sans contenu pour adultes, d’autres avec uniquement les contenus d’instances dédiées aux jeux vidéo, etc.

Si chaque version de PeerTube a apporté son lot d’outils de modération, nous savons que ces fonctionnalités sont essentielles pour les équipes qui administrent des instances, gèrent leur bulle de fédération et modèrent les contenus qui y sont hébergés. Durant la 2^e étape de développement, nous allons donc consacrer un mois à développer et améliorer les outils de modération. Du suivi des signalements à la lutte contre les spams en passant par les historiques de modération : notre liste est déjà bien remplie et nous la prioriserons en fonction des retours que nous avons reçus.

Au cours de la troisième étape de la roadmap, nous voulons améliorer l’ergonomie et l’affichage des listes de lecture de vidéos dans PeerTube. L’objectif est de permettre aux vidéastes d’intégrer des playlists directement dans leurs sites web ainsi que dans leurs fils de médias sociaux.

Par ailleurs, nous souhaitons faciliter les contributions au code de PeerTube. Pour cela, nous allons améliorer le système de plugins qui permet d’ajouter une nouvelle fonctionnalité à PeerTube sans toucher au cœur du code. Nous souhaitons réaliser nous-même un outil d’annotation de vidéos, ce qui nous permettra de mieux comprendre comment faciliter et mettre en valeur le travail des personnes qui contribuent à PeerTube en créant des plugins.

PeerTube v3 : ça part en live !

La 4^e et dernière étape de cette feuille de route sera consacrée au développement d’une nouvelle fonctionnalité très attendue : la diffusion de vidéos en direct et en pair-à-pair. Nous avons fait des tests, nous savons qu’il s’agit là d’un gros morceau, comme on dit, mais nous sommes confiant·es sur le fait d’y arriver.

Alors attention, avec un seul développeur à plein temps sur le projet, nous n’allons pas coder en deux mois le twitch-killer avec tout le fun des insta lives. Si vous vous attendez à des modules de tchat en direct, à des gifs rigolos qui s’animent lorsque Karen42 fait un don ou encore à des cœurs et des pouces qui poppent autour de l’écran, vous allez être très déçu·es !

Il s’agit là de poser les fondations techniques de la diffusion en live et en pair-à-pair. En utilisant le lecteur vidéo « HLS » mis en place depuis la version 1.3 de PeerTube, nous pensons pouvoir réaliser un direct avec un décalage d’une minute (voire 30 secondes dans les situations optimales) entre les vidéastes et les spectatrices. En contrepartie de ce léger délai, la charge du flux pourra être partagée entre tous les appareils qui afficheront le direct.

Cette première implémentation du live dans PeerTube sera donc minimaliste, et demandera probablement certains efforts (comme celui de passer par le logiciel libre OBS pour capter vos flux audios et vidéos). Néanmoins, ce serait le début d’un outil révolutionnaire : plus besoin d’avoir la grosse ferme de serveurs d’Amazon-Twitch pour diffuser des vidéos en direct à un grand nombre de personnes, le pair-à-pair permettra de démocratiser l’hébergement des lives !

Marie-Cécile Godwin Paccard, designer

En plus des 4 étapes de développement, tout au long de ces six mois, nous comptons entreprendre un travail de fond sur l’expérience d’utilisation de PeerTube. Nous choisissons de ne rien annoncer de spécifique à ce sujet, pour laisser aux personnes qui vont travailler sur ces points toute la liberté d’améliorer PeerTube de la manière qui leur semblera la plus pertinente.

Une collecte perlée pour un développement sans condition

Avant la pandémie, nous envisagions d’animer un crowdfunding pour récolter les 60 000 € que vont coûter ces 6 mois de travail consacrés à la v3 de PeerTube. Aujourd’hui, alors que la France sort d’une période de confinement et que l’on peine à cerner les conséquences humaines et matérielles terribles que cette crise aura pour de nombreuses personnes, cela ne nous semble pas décent.

Néanmoins, cette v3 de PeerTube nous semble d’autant plus importante lorsque nous imaginons un monde où l’on doit parfois rester chez soi, diffuser des cours et conférences en live et à distance, ou filmer en direct une manifestation. Nous avons la conviction que nous devons la développer. Imposer la condition « si nous ne récoltons pas 60 000 €, alors il n’y aura pas de v3 » serait -dans ce cas précis- un mensonge, une manipulation marketing : ce n’est pas la relation que nous voulons avoir avec vous.

Sepia, regardant un débat « un outil technologique est-il politiquement neutre ? » (allégorie)
Illustration de David Revoy recadrée par nos soins – Licence : CC-By 4.0

Pour autant, ces 60 000 €, il va bien falloir les trouver. À Framasoft, nous nous engageons à développer cette v3 de PeerTube, quitte à devoir puiser dans les dons qui sont faits à notre association pour soutenir l’ensemble des projets que nous menons de front, donc dans notre budget 2020.

Dans le même temps, nous avons placé un bouton de don dédié au projet PeerTube sur la page de la roadmap, ainsi qu’une barre indiquant où nous en sommes de la récolte de financements fléchés pour ce projet. C’est beaucoup moins palpitant que les paliers et le compte à rebours d’un crowdfunding traditionnel, où l’on est incité à donner avant une date limite, pour ne pas oublier et passer à autre chose…

Mais c’est aussi beaucoup plus proche de notre réalité : nous allons faire ces améliorations, car nous croyons en la nécessité de cet outil. Nous prenons donc le risque de sérieusement grever notre budget 2020. Nous savons que nous pouvons vous faire confiance pour contribuer au financement de PeerTube si vous partagez notre enthousiasme et en avez les moyens.

Étude de David Revoy, CC-By, que nous remercions chaudement pour les illustrations de cette roadmap.
Cliquez sur l’image pour retrouver les dessins finaux (et leurs sources).

S’éloigner du marketing, se rapprocher de vous

Nous voilà parti·e⋅s pour six mois de développement. Nous ferons, sur le Framablog, le bilan sur la réalisation des étapes de développement ainsi que sur les finances lorsque nous publierons la v3 de PeerTube, prévue pour novembre 2020.

D’ici là, si vous désirez en suivre chaque étape, vous pouvez vous inscrire à la newsletter de PeerTube (envoyée en français et en anglais), dont les informations sont archivées sur la page actus de JoinPeertube.org et relayées par les comptes Mastodon et Twitter de PeerTube.

Un « autre » monde ne pourra pas se construire avec les outils du capitalisme de surveillance.

Faciliter l’accès aux contenus, partager les pouvoirs et responsabilités, s’ouvrir aux contributions, démocratiser le direct grâce au pair-à-pair… La v3 de PeerTube vise à consolider cet outil comme une alternative de plus en plus conviviale aux Google-YouTube et autres Facebook-Lives.

Un cas de force majeure nous a incités à nous éloigner encore plus des techniques de marketing traditionnelles pour la récolte de fonds : concrètement, nous mettons notre budget 2020 entre vos mains. Plus que jamais, nous allons avoir besoin de votre aide pour suivre et partager activement cette feuille de route, la faire connaître autour de vous et hors de la francophonie.

Nous avons, en fait, décidé de croire en PeerTube et de croire en vous.

Alors… vous embarquez ?
Illustration de David Revoy – Licence : CC-By 4.0

Pour aller plus loin

• Découvrir la Roadmap pour la v3 de PeerTube
• Soutenir le développement de Peertube
• Suivre les actualités de PeerTube
  • La Newsletter
  • Sur Mastodon
  • Sur Twitter
• Discuter de Peertube sur notre forum
• Partager cet article en Anglais

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En ce moment j’utilise Xfce comme environnement de bureau, pour soulager mon ordinateur portable âgé de sept ans qui fatigue un peu.

Comme je suis myope, je change toujours la taille des polices en changeant le DPI, pour le régler à 120. C’est facile à faire dans Xfce en utilisant le module « Apparence » du panneau de paramètres.

Mais dans certaines applications qui utilisent le framework Qt ce paramètre n’était pas toujours respecté. Après quelques recherches, j’ai trouvé qu’un moyen simple de changer l’apparence dans ces applications est d’utiliser le fichier ~/.Xresources. Ce fichier est utilisé par le serveur X pour configurer ses applications clientes.

Voici la configuration que j’ai utilisée :

!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
! Xft settings
!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Xft.dpi:        120
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.rgba:       rgb
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight
Xft.autohint:   false
Xft.lcdfilter:  lcddefault

Il faut ensuite utiliser la commande xrdb pour appliquer ces paramètres :

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

Et voilà, mes applications Qt comme KeepassXC ont la bonne taille de police !

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