Just this week, we have been supporting James Braddell aka Funki Porcini in preparation for the long anticipated arrival of Laserium Extravaganza at Limehouse Town Hall later this month. Not only will the incredible Laserium be on show, but a group of friends and performers will also contribute two days of sonic and illumination excitement.
Please check the event post for up to the moment details and get your tickets soon, as it’s set to be a busy and popular couple of days…
Greenman is a social software advocate and developer based at Limehouse Town Hall. As well as playing a key role in the long term utilisation of the building over 20 years, he sustains a healthy range of diverse interests and activities from his lab there. We often find a time for a chat when attending the Yoshi Stack on Wednesdays.
It was a little before the seasonal break that he introduced TAMS which is being developed by the BBC research. They have taken a fresh approach to bulk video production management by offering a AWS cloud based hosting of media as shards or vectors that are designed for distributed production, providing streaming service access to live and stored media resources.
These active developments bode well for future use in support of AMP and desire to make legacy activist media resources available to Undercover Police Inquiry, to help pick out Spy Cops embedded within direct action groups and even co-ordinating demonstrations ! A mountain of social engagement video tape filmed by the public has yet to be digitised let alone reviewed, before adding to collections at MayDay Rooms, LCVA, EngageMedia, National Archives and SAM.
The task then, is to refactor these opensource softwares for use in more locally hosted media systems, rather than corporate cloud providers, which he has begun work on and will soon be ready to demonstrate.
This all sounds somewhat akin to the legacy research as conducted by the late, great Alexei Blinov and YT back in 2015 where we envisaged ‘a sludge of 1Satoshi torrent shards‘ that would reconstitute media resources on demand, a satoshi sidechain hustle, oh well!
SPC has more recently been nurturing development research threads of our own throughout 2025. Dermot Finn has been leading with very hands on development of software tools for RTF not least with our sponsor EXN’s interests in mind.
He has been finding a way through the maze of bum code steers and entangled logic that the current AI bloom has generated. This progress has staggered from pillar to post in a supreme effort to explore data retrieval and augmentation options as they present themselves, whilst not straying too far off the path!
EXN are a Deptford based network technology and high redundancy, co-location, data hosting provider. If that’s too much a mouthful, then a visit to any of their expertly constructed, maintained and serviced racks in London’s Dockland datacentres will surely blow your mind.
They already operate an array of ; customer facing, logistical management and secure private network infrastructure, with monitoring systems of such high redundancy and integrity, the likes of Rightmove didn’t hesitate to enlist them in the hosting of their intensive property marketing service.
Any software enhancement of their operation should not expose them to unanticipated risks. We hope that outcomes from our research, will inform on just how innovative data modelling, intent interpretation and reasoning is practical for their tight team.
In the dash to track the breakneck progression of AI prospecting, it would be all too easy to lose track of longer term interest and appreciation of alternatives for application and data hosting. SPC has continued with deployment of DIY hosting platforms for NAS, CMS and micro publishing.
Of those, Yunohost has recently helped us get going with a dockerised Peertube at https://mov.spc.org and Immich at https://img.spc.org. We also established a capable Ollama server for investigation into ‘offline AI’ where all the retrieved and augmented data sources are insulated from robot co-option and scrutiny.
Options for citizen media and community networks are needed more urgently than ever. Transnational corporate muscle is being flexed in all corners of the world, where those that seek to dominate and oppress must find us well dug-in and independently able to resist!
