This documentary is how the meeting of a Palestinian filming as much he can on site in Gaza with an independant French journalist unable to go in Gaza to show the world what's happening managed to hack the israeli lockdown together.
For those who are not familiar with him, Charles Villa is an independant french field reporter and war journalist who covered many conflicts, consequences of war and managed to get interview with elusive people such as mexican sicario, members of the mexican gang of sinaloa documenting how they make cocaine pass the US border, drug cartel members documenting how they make heroin in forest kitchen, children working in rare earth mine, children soldiers in Congo, drones pilots and makers in Ukraine, neonazis group in Ukraine, European undergound fight clubs, produced a documentary on fixers (people who make field journalists able to work), investigated daech and islamic state, and much more.
This time it's a full length documentary on inside Gaza over 2 years with a focus on children, the biggest project of his career according to him. despite his field experience and what he has seen during his presence in conflict zones, he says he has never seen such a scale as what is happening in Gaza and has been working with Suhail Nassar, a Palestinian who filmed everything he could, to provide this documentary for free to the world thanks to crowdfunding.
one has to understand that the point is not to protect kids, it never is, but to control online activities. also this is not an organic law, this is the result of intense lobbying by transnational corporations such as facebook, pushing hard for this and there are reports from inside the parliament that this is rushed to be release ASAP despite not being ready or properly tested.
Except that this kind of age verification is not what "transnational corporations such as Facebook" is pushing for. In fact such a system is probably the worst for them: they can't use the token for tracking, and it can make it harder for them to target children because it is likely to come with further restrictions.
What the tech giants want is OS level attestation. They want to control what you can install on your device, to me the thing to avoid at all costs. This is not it, this is an open source app that you can run anywhere.
The proposed solution is the closest you can get to one that is designed to protect kids more than to control online activities. The weakness of the system, where a determined kid can get through is a feature, not a bug! More than that and it becomes more about control and less about kids (who will get through no matter what).
I am not commenting on how necessary age verification is. Personally, I am all for a wide open internet but many people actually want to "protect the children". The argument wouldn't be used as a justification for surveillance laws if they didn't.
> This is not it, this is an open source app that you can run anywhere
The service for EU age verification app requires Google Play Integrity API check. So as much as you "can" run the app itself anywhere, you are forced to do it on whitelisted build of an OS on a whitelisted device.
These companies are pushing for it, just as far as humanely possible from them. They're not in the business of protecting kids, but in the business of the plausible deniability.
What’s wild is that most things having to do with light, magnetism, and/or electricity are interchangeable and reversible. Put electricity through a wire and it’ll create a magnetic field, or wave a magnetic field near a wire and it’ll create electricity. That means that putting electricity into an LED creates light and a magnetic field, or putting light into the LED creates electricity and a magnetic field, or waving a magnetic field near it will create electricity in the wires and light from the LED. Granted for that last one you’ll need a spinning magnetar nearby, or just add some more wire to the LED and it becomes a kitchen counter experiment.
Same interchangeability with solar panels, transformers, thermoelectric devices, etc. The effect might be big or small, depending on the setup, but the physics is happening either way.
I’ve spent time lost in space thinking about how much stuff is really just a copper wire in various configurations.
Have a copper wire - it’s an antenna, magnet, inductor, fuse, thermometer, heater, and strain gauge.
Put another copper wire near it - it’s a capacitor.
Curl one more than the other - it’s a transformer.
Put iron on it - it’s a thermocouple.
Put electricity through it - it’s a peltier cooler.
Add salt water - it’s a battery.
Put electricity through it - the iron is now a permanent magnet.
Wave the permanent magnet near it - it’s a generator and a microphone.
Put electricity through it again - it’s a motor and a speaker.
Heat it up and it’ll make Cuprous Oxide - it’s a solar panel and a diode.
it's been 3 years since I completely gave up on kdenlive.
I put time and effort to get around the dated and unintuitive UI/UX, but it is too convoluted to do even some basic stuff. and the repeated crashes are too much of a pain to be ready for everyday use.
I tried alternatives such as openshot and shotcut, but they too have a lot of room for improvement. it seems there always a flaw of some kind and a lack of usability for this kind of software.
not taking anything for the time, efforts ad good will the devs put into these software, and many thanks to them for everything. but commercial software benefits from the years of having team of full time employees giving them a serious edge on opensource software for video editing.
For those who are not familiar with him, Charles Villa is an independant french field reporter and war journalist who covered many conflicts, consequences of war and managed to get interview with elusive people such as mexican sicario, members of the mexican gang of sinaloa documenting how they make cocaine pass the US border, drug cartel members documenting how they make heroin in forest kitchen, children working in rare earth mine, children soldiers in Congo, drones pilots and makers in Ukraine, neonazis group in Ukraine, European undergound fight clubs, produced a documentary on fixers (people who make field journalists able to work), investigated daech and islamic state, and much more.
This time it's a full length documentary on inside Gaza over 2 years with a focus on children, the biggest project of his career according to him. despite his field experience and what he has seen during his presence in conflict zones, he says he has never seen such a scale as what is happening in Gaza and has been working with Suhail Nassar, a Palestinian who filmed everything he could, to provide this documentary for free to the world thanks to crowdfunding.
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