As another American I second this.

“so what do you do for work?”

Lostpod.space, which is the Peertube instance I am most familiar with says right at the top that the video view is from Lostpod.space and from 438 other places.

You can click the filter button and toggle between “Videos from all platforms” and “Only videos on this platform” without having an account on Lostpod.space or logging in or anything so… I think a Peertube instance can probably disable a federated view, but in a case like Lostpod.space it is just a simple toggle hidden behind the filter button.

https://lostpod.space/

Also check out the “Discover” tab as well.

I understand that being confusing, local view makes sense as a default but I rarely check it over my federated feed.

This article explains things well.

https://fedi.tips/how-to-fill-your-peertube-server-with-federated-videos/

How do I see just the videos on a particular server, and hide the videos it has federated from other servers?

To just see a server’s own videos and hide all the videos it has federated from elsewhere:

1. Go to the server’s website
2. Click the Browse Videos tab
3. Click the More Filters link just below the “Videos on…” heading
4. In the Displayed Videos dropdown menu, select “Only videos from this platform”

These are the videos that would be federated to your server if you follow them.

So change the setting back from this.

I think Germany will continue to do so longterm no matter what is being said right now so long as genuine fascists don’t take power in Germany… which with the AfD is always kind of a worrying concern.

Still, Germany is a vibrant country and like the US no matter how much the leadership does or does not try to do to sabotage Ukraine it doesn’t really change the average person’s feeling that Ukraine is a sympathetic cause for pretty simple reasons. As such there is only so much the US and German governments to keep their people from helping Ukraine.

I was literally thinking the same thing lol

hahah true, not nearly as much as the SaaB GlobalEye though… which isn’t to knock the aircraft it just literally looks like an AI generated image of a plane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalEye

They can still exit the war, but the collapse of the russian empire is a foregone conclusion now.

This is a delusional and dangerous as hell perspective to take.

It is too late losers, russia would have been fine if they exited the war a year ago, but now? It is WAY too late.

No, that is like asking for a working bicycle except without wheels, it is no longer a working bicycle.

Beyond All Reason or Xonotic.

Xonotic is so fast and smooth.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=K2FoeKWm5a0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2FoeKWm5a0

I did not expect the next German Fascist Leader to look like Mr. Mackey.

Genuinely scary.

Steel Panthers.

I always come back to this Christopher Alexander talk from 1996 where he was invited to talk about how his architectural design book inspired Object Oriented Programming and feed into that hype, and instead he basically just flat out told them to grow up and think about WHAT the impact of their work is because he argued programmers have an immense power to shape the future and as far as he could see programmers didn’t really seem to give a shit about the WHY at all, it was all about HOW…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QzdKci6OY

So, today, I am standing before you, thinking to myself…right, I’m now talking to people who are in a way the core of the computer revolution. You probably realize, I know you must realize the extent to which the world is gradually now being shaped more and more and more, indirectly, by the efforts of all of you who are sitting in this room—because it is you who control the function of computers and their programs. It is the programs that control the shape of manufacturing, the shape of the transportation industries, construction management, diagnosis in medicine, printing and publishing. You almost can’t name a facet of the world which is not already, to some very strong degree, under the influence of the programs that are being written to manage and control those entities or those operations. And this is still in its infancy. How long has this been really going on? Not long. About 10 or 15 years, though of course, the preparation for it goes a lot further back than that. But really this is quite new. It is going to look a whole lot different, even more powerful in its degree of influence.

And yet, as a professional body, I don’t think that you are yet fully aware of it. I’m probably speaking out of turn here but, you know, I’ve thumbed through the proceedings of this conference, for instance. Jim was kind enough to show it to me yesterday. I don’t really see discussion about What, collectively, are computer scientists supposed to be doing with all these programs. How are they supposed to help the Earth? And, yet, the capacity to do that is sitting right here in this room. That is an amazing situation. You have so much power.…but that means that you also have an enormous responsibility.

https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html

I am sure at the time most programmers laughed and thought “isn’t that quaint what Christopher Alexander is saying, what a quirky dude he kind of sounds a little like a communist!”, let the thoughts from the talk fly out of their head forever after waving condescendingly, and turned to focus on the next career climbing move at the conference.

I fear nothing has changed, especially since the US tech industry fantastically failed to unionize in the two decades since and now the industry is likely going to significantly shrink in the US after the AI bubble pops as the few consolidated massive tech companies left fired all their talent to buy a bunch of useless data centers that aren’t even built yet and may never be built.

Programmers had a chance to wrestle control of the future away from oligarchs, but instead they became obsessed with playing Factorio with every aspect of society without EVER thinking about what the consequences were or why they were being paid to do what they were doing.

Mission accomplished for Trump, he found a politically tenable way to deny Europe and Ukraine missile interceptors so his daddy, Putin, can retain leverage over Europe even though russia’s military has been shattered.

Microsoft - The Genocide Computing Company!

Bullshit those jobs are real and the few that do come will at best be only semi-permanent.

Not really though, but they lean into that lie when it is convenient for them.