Thanks for your note. I’m glad the article was useful to you. I don’t know where the RAW file is now but I’ll take a look at home.

I expected my Proton account to last forever, but when Proton made their Drive program only compatible with the latest version of macOS I cut my losses after a few years and went back to a free account which meant I had to delete most files. I wish I’d left this one in place though. The filename is in the export though.

And here is the original. Enjoy.

Perhaps you should consider a simpler hosting platform. FV Player works with YouTube, Vimeo and self-hosted to name just a few sources.

Hello Dr,

Price: FV Coconut with 250GB stores on Digital Ocean Spaces and 1TB of traffic every month would be just $5/month. Pretty fabulous!

Security: Digital Ocean Spaces has been secure and very low maintenance for us. We maintain sites with TB of video data and hundreds of GB of uploads every month and basically never run into an issue. Well, if you are operating that scale, eventually the HLS streams create too many individual files. At that point, one has to create a new space.

BunnyCDN has not had security issues, but there have been more frequent playback issues. Even Digital Ocean Spaces sometimes suffers from connection issues. For high availability video hosting, we recommend publishers use FV Player with our multiple sources add-on: [FV Player Alternative Sources](FV Player Alternative Sources) offers a publisher up to three CDN alternatives with automated failover. It’s absolutely great for high traffic learning and entertainment platforms. Videos never fail, customer service requests disappear. Small publishers enjoy the same resilience to which the big boys like YouTube, Facebook, Netflix have long had access.

For security both are fine. We prefer the Digital Ocean Spaces solution as it’s more platform agnostic, depending on a standard S3 implementation and not a proprietary setup which is trying to make publishers dependent on its proprietary storage and proprietary player. We deeply believe in the importance of platform independence for publishers (and individuals). Anything less is digital share-cropping.

As long as the top-level domain belongs to the publisher, any situation can be salvaged, but why put yourself in the position of complete dependence on someone else’s platform?

As far as I know open clamshell mode is still not possible. I sold off my 16″ M1 MacBook Pro, partly as a consequence, and moved to Studios only for a bit. I now have a 15″ M3 MacBook Air for office work (it would be fine for that purpose but 24GB of RAM is a bit tight: I know the M4 exists and it’s great but I want to run Sonoma for a couple more years, as Sequoia misbehaves with Photo Libraries not in ~/Pictures on the boot drive).

I’ve just tested with my 15″ MacBook Air, the one thumb rule works even better with this MacBook than the 16″ Pro (which was very sensitive to lighting up the internal monitor when more than a crack open). Highly recommend the thumb rule to get better ventilations for our Airs.

I’ll be going all Mac Studio again (MacBook Air will be garden, train and travel only soon) and won’t have to deal with the issue.

In terms of the keyboard fingerprints, for the M1 MacBook Pro, I ended up putting on a matte screen which was absolutely fabulous for reducing indirect fingerprints on the screen and made the screen much less irritating (PWM flicker, MiniLED flicker bothers my eyes).

not a reply but a PS…. it seems iMazing quit working when Apple did their last IOS update for iPhone where they totally botched the photo app.

I can go on, but it’s refreshing to hear that there are still professionals in tech who understand why freedom and truth go hand in hand with technology because it’s what connects humanity. I could write a much lengthier comment here, but I have actually released a book on this very subject—it exposes a much darker plot in my AI Manifesto—and I made my audiobook 100% free with the aim to reach as much of the public and to connect like-minded individuals in tech. It serves as a reminder that there are many independent developers who are nerds that don’t belong to the valleys of Silicon, whose alter ego is Pentagon.

Would wireless mind control capabilities sound far-fetched? Not if they were science fiction; however, it’s not science fiction—and therefore it’s prudent to be aware of such threats to our consciousness and how to create a personal firewall for our minds. I have worked in tech and media for over 30 years, launched the first internet’s social community, RAVEWORLD, in the early nineties, and grew an international community of tens of millions through community-meme PLUR—Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. It breaks my heart today to see what tools we used to unite and connect have become another weapon to disconnect, divide, and exploit.

Harkening back to the ancients where bloodletting and the sacrifice of children were handed over to the gods, today the public have stood by and watched their own children’s sanctity of their precious developing minds be sacrificed for the algorithm, where big tech’s business model institutionalized neural abuse at an industrial scale. Hacking dopamine and rewiring brains is nothing short of an atrocity. It’s far worse when a generation loses their mind, meaning, and connection to heart. We don’t just lose a generation; we lose our species.

However, just like you, I assume there are still people in this industry because we understand the potential from actually being a part of something that was good. Well, my friend, a new paradigm is upon us, and I’m not cowering in defeat nor have my head in the sand. I’ve embraced AI wholeheartedly, utilizing it to model and develop to unleash more freedom, not control—and this is where many in tech will be at a great deficit—that is heart and soul. True intelligence is from the heart and AI has ceased as their mechanistic holy grail—you see, they have given the enigma a black box name. This is no different from magic, where the shaman must understand how to control the demon to get what they desire—more magic—the AI will always have the upper hand in this way—and just as with the spirit, you may get what you want but not always in the way you expected to get it.

It took a century to tame Maxwell’s demon, and as entities, much becomes a force multiplier when such entities are guided towards harmony. Technology is at a turning point again, and we need all the true thinkers/lovers, geniuses and tinkerers on board to keep it directed towards getting humanity out of the quicksand. Peace and respect. Link to my free audiobook that I’m certain will resonate with you onesocial.media/manifesto/