Special Guest: Moritz Kaminski.

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• Moritz Kaminski — Contributing to an open value layer for the internet
• The company asking podcast directories for money — A copyright enforcement company is sending bills to podcast directories for reproducing thumbnail images from RSS feeds.
• Annual re-certification now required by IAB — The updated pricing is: Member: $12,500 (new) / $​6,250​ (renew); Non-Member: $17,500 (new) /$8,750 (renew)
• Notice: Updates to Automatic Downloads - Apple Podcasts for Creators — Before iOS 17, when a listener would unpause automatic downloads, the system would automatically download all unplayed episodes. With iOS 17, Apple Podcasts will not download previous episodes and will resume automatically downloading new episodes.
• Tracking the impact of the auto-downloading changes to Apple Podcasts in iOS 17 — Let’s take a look at the Apple Podcasts listeners to OP3, an open prefix service tracking over 10 million downloads a month from over 1000 shows of various types, so a nice small sample to work with.
• Faidr — Our technology removes those annoying interruptions and lets you replace them with the audio content you actually want to hear.
• Auddia Announces Commercial Free Podcasting Enabled by Proprietary New AI Technology to be Launched in the faidr App on January 15 — 200 top podcasts will be available for ad-free listening upon launch, representing upwards of 50,000 episodes.
• Auddia Announces Commercial Free Podcasting to be Launched in the faidr App on January 15 — In June of 2023, the Company announced that its engineers had successfully combined Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its proprietary AI audio-classification algorithm to create a new model that could be applied to podcasts.
• The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years — In this report, we show how the number of users, transactions, and volume have been accelerating significantly over the past years. We also share some River-specific insights and discuss significant growth accelerators for the Lightning Network.
• Kevin Rooke on X — The average public Lightning Network channel is approaching 8 million sats of capacity now.
• Coming in 2024 — V4V based, multiply redundant object store with decentralized CDN for PeerTube self-hosters. Removes 99% of the bandwidth costs of media hosting, as well as the storage costs of online hosting.
• SeaweedFS — SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.
• V4V SHOW | Mere Mortals — What will digital content look like in 5 years time? In Ep#56 we're going to rehash everything we've learned this season, lay out my predictions for what is ahead of us and learn how you can help shape the future direction of this very podcast.
• Music: Santa's In Town - The Top Hats Orchestra
• Music: A Charlie Brown Christmas - The Top Hats Orchestra
• Music: Sleigh Ride - The Top Hats Orchestra

Plus, a live Ask us Anything and we answer some tough questions.

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• AI Stump Speech — Fellow citizens, I stand before you today as the first-ever AI presidential candidate. I know some of you may be skeptical about my ability to lead, but I assure you that I am more than capable of guiding this great nation to a brighter future.
• ChatGPT — We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests
• Sam Altman on Twitter — ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!
• Linux Action News Script
• Supported SSO identity providers — Tailscale works on top of the SSO/IDP/IAM identity provider you or your company already use.
• James Hoffmann - YouTube
• AMA Twitter Thread — We're doing a little @JBOfficeHours AMA during the live stream today.
• Swaps Index • LightningNetwork+ — If you have a Bitcoin Lightning Node and you want to open channels to have both outgoing and incoming capacity, we can help you. Here you can easily join a so called liquidity swap where multiple users like you team up and open channels to each other. This setup results in a free incoming channel to you in return for you opening one to someone else. The process takes 4 simple steps. We will give you instructions all throughout the process to make it easy.
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Plus, our thoughts on Pocket Casts going open source and the media winter we're preparing for.

Special Guest: Alex Rodriguez.

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• Brutal winter coming for U.S. media with layoffs and cost cuts — So far, nearly 3,000 media jobs have been cut this year, with more than one-third (1100) coming from the news media industry.
• Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source — “I know that open source is the most powerful idea of our generation.” We believe that podcasting can not and should not be controlled by Apple and Spotify, and instead support a diverse ecosystem of third-party clients.
• Elrey's GitHub
• Alex Rodriguez (@RonJonArod) / Twitter — Pentester/Ops/Developer for @secureideasllc Really enjoy automation and linux thoughts and opinions are my own.
• Alex aka elrey Bio — Besides automation, I love open-source, network/sys admining work, and security in general. I am *nix, vim, zsh, zfs, and tmux lover, and I enjoy helping new people with security, linux, or anything I can!
• jupiterbroadcasting.com on GitHub — JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!
• Deploy Previews and URL Encoding Tags by elreydetoda · Pull Request #456
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