I wrote for a paper back in the 1990s. With a desk first at an alt weekly in Cincinnati called Everybody’s News and then later as an assistant and stringer for the law desk at The Cincinnati Enquirer. I attended District Court on a regular basis and took notes for that desk. I was also lent out to the politics desk to conduct interviews of elected officials in Columbus when no one else was available. Like for sick days and such.

So I’ve actually been in that legislative hall in Columbus and interviewed elected officials for byline reporters at that regional newspaper in Ohio. I also took graduate J classes at Harvard and earned my BA there.

Whatever his credentials, I think this was a deeply flawed decision on his part and badly serves the News community at BeeHaw. He clearly mistakes opinion of a political party for official statements by legislators under color of law. No pro I’ve ever met confused such things.

I will gladly leave if admins ask. It’s their site. I made my point.

This is a content neutrality issue. So a Senator could go on the Senate floor and recite, ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ and it would still be news. Especially if that Senator was engaging in filibuster. And it wouldn’t matter the Senator was speaking a nursery rhyme. See C-SPAN, which IS NEWS. And is regularly cited as such.

That is NOT a mere ‘press release’ by political party PR staff. Had it been published by the GOP state party office, you could make that argument. That it was published by elected officials at the House website under House of Representatives banner and official seal, makes it an official act by duly elected officials. That is ALWAYS NEWS.

That the import of it represents one branch intervening in another, which is clear by their statement, makes this a constitutional matter under separation of powers. And that too MAKES IT NEWS.

Please contact a third party professional in the field and ask. This is undergrad intro to journalism stuff.

Correct. My apologies.

It was posted on the Ohio State House of Representatives official website by elected officials under color of statutory authority.

That makes it NEWS. Not opinion.

I’m not arguing the content of the statement. I’m arguing what news organizations consider to be accepted news sourcing.

A write up has also been posted by the AP now.

I’m actually much more concerned that those running the community do not understand sourcing standards in news. So I worry not about this submission per se, but about future decisions as the audience grows.

The same thing happened at reddit. People who’ve never worked in a newsroom or done any J school run a news aggregation site with millions of subscribers. And the consequence of that is the audience there is poorly served.

The Mod/Admin here removed the submission on the grounds it was political statement by a political party, when in fact it was posted on the Ohio State House of Representatives website under color of official duty by elected officials. That’s a big difference.

That mods/admins here do not understand this distinction and instead focus on the content of the message itself doesn’t bode well for accurate news coverage in that community.

This is a serious issue. It is not personal.

An article did not exist at that time.

The Associated Press:

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-abortion-overthrow-judicial-powers-77a68c1e6ee6fc79462f6aaf4ea1a323

That is the party in power. They hold a majority in both houses and the governorship.

This is an insane decision. On the grounds of preventing bias it is biased. It deprives the audience agency to understand by a canonical source.

You are in fact arguing for editorializing the words of an official public document in the name of unbiased news. That is the very definition of editorial bias. That is, bias in the name of removing bias.

That source stands on its own. Especially given this is link aggregation site.

EDIT Here’s the modlog. Note the Mod/Admin statement, ‘what the GOP says isn’t news’ (paraphrasing) and compare that to the fact that the link went to the official Ohio State House of Representatives website. Not the Ohio Republican Party website. That is not a statement by the GOP, it is an official statement by elected officials acting under state authority. That makes it NEWS, not opinion.

https://ohiohouse.gov/news/republican/deceptive-ohio-issue-1-misled-the-public-but-doesnt-repeal-our-laws-117412

No worries. You got it.

I will be happy to leave BeeHaw if admins wish it. Just ask. Or ban me as you wish. It’s your site.

Thank you. Please read in reverse chronological order. It might help to load in a separate tab for reading.

I will now exit this discussion with you. My objection remains on the record.

Look, I will not change your mind. But I also will not agree with you. And if a policy like this persists, I will not participate.

Removing an official government statement as the admin of a news group is actual censorship. Don’t kid yourself.

May I post the PM thread in public?

⁸The admin in question is telling me an official public statement by the governing party of Ohio, on a state government web site, is biased and therefore not appropriate for the news community at BeeHaw. There is not a single editor or reporter in the free press who would ever make that argument.

I encourage admins here to seriously reconsider this policy. Find yourself a professional journalist or journalism professor outside this dispute and ask them what the standards actually are. Not what you want to to be.

Very good news for free open source solutions!

If Ohio Republicans won’t accept election results here, why expect them to accept any election results they don’t like? In which case, ‘elections no longer have consequences.’ To paraphrase Hillary Clinton in reverse. Further, if Republicans get away with it here, they will subvert elections elsewhere. This is a serious constitutional issue that threatens to undo the constitutional order.

So you’re ok with management and hierarchy?

Organizing labor for large scale projects - what’s called project management - is a valuable and useful skill. Large construction projects, complex machinery, electronics, transportation infrastructure. Labor is only a part of putting together that puzzle.

As an American living in Canada, allow me to second Ramaswamy’s proposal. Especially if his party wins in 2024! Lol

I’ll say, I really like MacOS! I transitioned from Linux to MacOS X back in 10.2 days and kept with it until 2017 or so. Put homebrew on there and fill it up with a bunch of 'nix tools and you get a respectable unix. Plus you get access to a bunch of commercial software unavailable on Linux. I was very happy with this solution for well over a decade.

My problem came with Apple. Their hardware lock downs preventing upgrades and fixing stuff, plus the newer software lockdowns, all this nonsense just made it impossible for me to do my work. Like Microsoft, Apple imposes itself on my workflow. And while Linux doesn’t do stuff I’d like in the commercial realm, one thing it doesn’t do is stick its nose in my workflow. If something breaks I can fix it. I don’t have to deal with it demanding I reboot my machine for an update while the box is in the middle of a two week long render. I don’t have to be forced onto the network to login to a central Microsoft or Apple authentication server just to use my computer. I don’t have to deal with them bugging me to stick my clients’ data on their cloud services I signed an legal NDA promising to protect just because the company wants me to.

My issue is not with the software, even on Windows, it’s with the corporate practices! They get in my way. I bought this computer to make money with, not so they can make money off me and my clients! When you sign legal documents promising to not disclose confidential material related to a pending bid, and your OS vendor spies on you, I mean most people don’t seem to care about that but I sure do. lol

So, one point I’ll make on the hardware assist you discuss is that it’s actually limited to very specific use cases. And the best way to understand this is to read the ffmpeg x264 encoding guide here:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264

The x265 guide is similar, so I won’t repeat. But there are a dizzying range of considerations to make when cutting a deliverable file. Concerns such as:

• target display. Is the display an old style rec709 with 8 bits per color, SDR with of six and a half stops dynamic range, etc? Is it a rec2020, 10 bits per color, about eight stops? Is it a movie projector in a theater, with 12 bits per color and even more dynamic range? When producing deliverables, you choose output settings for encode specific to the target display type.

• quality settings. Typically handled in Constant Rate Factor (CRF) settings. If you’ve burned video files, you’ll know the lower the CRF number the higher the image quality. But the higher the image quality the lower the overall compression. It’s a tradeoff.

• compression. The more computation put to compression the smaller the video file per any CRF setting. But also the longer it takes to complete the computation.

This is only for local playback. Streaming requires a additional tweaks. And it’s only for a deliverable file. In the production pipeline you’d be using totally different files which store each frame separately rather than compress groups of frames, retain far more image data per frame, and are much less compressed or entirely uncompressed overall.

The point of this is to highlight the vast difference in use cases placed on encoding throughout various stages in a project. And to point out for video production you care about system I/O bandwidth most of all.

But hardware encode limits you to very specific output ranges. This is what the preset limitations are all about for say nvidia nvenc hardware assist x264 in ffmpeg. The hardware devs select what they think is the most common use case, say YouTube as an output target (which makes network bandwidth and display type presumptions), and targets their hardware accel for that.

This means most of that marketing talk about hardware assist in M series chips and GPUs etc is actually not relevant for production work. It’s only relevant for cutting final deliverable files under specific use cases like YouTube, or Broadcast (which still wants 10bit ProRes).

If you look at just x264 settings, the hardware accel presets are so limited most times you’d still be cutting with software encode. Hardware encode comes into play with real time, like streaming and live broadcast. The rest of the pipeline? All software.