@jonny Hey, I started running the SciOp torrents, and I noticed there are a bunch of movies from the Blender Foundation there (Big Buck Bunny, Tears of Steel, Sintel, etc).
They are marked as "endangered" even though I don't think they are (because they are available on Youtube, Vimeo, other torrents, archive.org, ...); and some of the torrents are 600GB worth of .png or .tiff images instead of a normal video file.
Is that expected?

I raised the issue in the private supporter chat, along with a side comment on a trivial matter with matrix.org's ticketing system. The Element CEO commented on the latter, but ignored the issue.

Matrix won't let me leave a room that permanently displays a notification.
Element developers say it's a Synapse bug (https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/28599), Synapse devs tell me that it requires matrix.org admin intervention (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/18007).
matrix.org admins tell me they can't remove me from the room because they "observe very strict privacy policies" and I should ask the room admins to kick me.
The room admins have left (they upgraded the room), and can't join it back to do it.

Mastodon 2.6 will introduce a new privacy setting, better suited for your most important toots.

What if the galactic singularity in xkcd's "Team Chat" (https://xkcd.com/1782/) is running on Amazon Lambda?

startup idea: RPG Maker, but for chat applications

2000: your conversation medium is a standard protocol with a native client on every platform
2010: your conversation medium is a website
2015: your conversation medium is a web app
2017: your conversation medium is an app only available on Android and iOS