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🗓️ Tomorrow 17 July at 4pm CET! Register to the @w3c @wot online meetup "An #OpenSource software stack for #IoT virtualization and convergence with #EdgeComputing technologies"

▶️ w3.org/events/meetings/d5ca808

The implementation of VOStack is aligned with the Web of Things specifications and is implemented in the framework of the NEPHELE Horizon EU project. #standardization

Slides: nephele-project.eu/sites/nephe

cc @ege @hipeac @EclipseFdn

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@christianp

Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.

I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23

Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.

I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.

I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.

My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!

Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.

Scott LogicIn-browser transcoding of video files with FFmpeg and WebAssemblyThe WebAssembly build of FFmpeg allows you to run this powerful video processing tool directly within the browser. In this blog post I explore FFmpeg.wasm and create a simple client-side transcoder that streams data into a video element, with a bit of RxJS thrown in for good measure.

#Whisper #WebGPU by #Huggingface sounds very exciting!

Does this mean an #activitypub server could delegate translation-into-user's-language of all the posts to the user's device?

I'm too thick to have been able to find any system-requirements information for just the text-translation feature... Is this #translation feature likely to fly on mobile devices too?

Am I getting too excited too soon?

dev.to/proflead/real-time-audi

github.com/keatonkraiger/Whisp

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@ramin_hal9001 OFC this mostly considers stuff in /etc/, /opt/, ... and is intended to be an explicit "opt-in" - style configuration managment.

For me it's more of a way to find a better & simpler alternative to #Ansible that doesn't require me to install something on the target #Server (or "#EdgeComputing node") and "just works"...