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gabek

@gabek@social.gabekangas.com

My name is Gabe and I'm here to say, I'm rockin' on the mic every two or three days.

I'm the maintainer and primary developer of #Owncast. I'm generally always happy to talk to you about the project, it means a lot to me.

I'm not on Mastodon, I'm on the Fediverse. So are you.

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gabek, to random

@shadowfacts Where would you prefer support style feedback takes place for Tusker?

gabek,

@shadowfacts Ok! I believe this post is causing this error. It might not be this post, but given the last post that Tusker was able to render before this error, I'm making an educated guess.

https://lemmy.world/post/15250765

A screenshot of a post from ozoned on a Lemmy forum stating that he's playing dark souls for the first time.

gabek,

@shadowfacts Done! Turns out it's a bad/unsupported date string.

gabek,

@shadowfacts Preceding meaning by date (older than post), or 12th preceding meaning visually in the timeline when scrolling from the top (newer than post)?

jeffjarvis, to random
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New fast food restaurant from founder of Chipotle is charging for ketchup as a sauce.
https://www.eatkernel.com/order/315-park-ave-south

gabek,

@mwyman @jeffjarvis Just please be careful during checkout. If you don’t pay attention, they’ll sign you up for a ketchup subscription that you’ll probably forget to cancel.

gabek, to random

Cool blog post about how to make sure nobody ever uses your open source software. https://codeengineered.com/blog/2024/open-source-not-builds/

It's literally the complete opposite of the blog post I wrote. https://gabekangas.com/blog/2022/06/ship-software-not-code/

gabek, to random

Instant Band Night in Oakland is really one of my favorite things that I look forward to. It's so much fun. https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/19/oakland-instant-band-night-east-bay-community-space/

josh, to Eurovision

It's all happening! We attended the jury show of the first Eurovision semi-final. We'd been waiting for nearly a decade for ESC to rotate back through Sweden. Dream come true 🤩

#Eurovision #ESC

gabek,

@josh Super jealous!

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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#WhereIsMySurprisedFace

Facebook/Meta starts talking about the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish as predicted:

"“You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — of saying like, ‘I want to support micropayments,’ or … like, ‘hey, feel free to show me ads, if that supports you.’ Kind of like a way for you to self-label or self-opt-in. That would be great,”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/

gabek,

@Chocobozzz @thelinuxEXP @fabio @Techaltar @dansup @jwildeboer This. Monetization shouldn't be a part of the protocol. Like Chocobozzz pointed out with how PeerTube does it, platforms should allow people to monetize themselves, but to build it into a protocol is a huge mistake. Who makes the decision of how payments are processed? Or is it going to be a crypto grift? These are not discussions the protocol standards body should be having. @thelinuxEXP might want YouTube style built-in, tightly integrated "subscriptions", but this isn't YouTube. We should not be centralizing payments or taking choice away from people. I might want KoFi, you might want to use PayPal, somebody else wants to process through Stripe, another only wants to accept ScamCoin. If you want to accept payments, then accept them, stop thinking in the way big tech wants you to think.

rabble, to random
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Is it true that if two people reply to my this post from different servers they won’t see each others reply?

Doesn’t that make user and community discovery really hard? How do you have emergent conversations with new people?

gabek,

@rabble I don't know why you spend so much time on the Fediverse talking about how much you dislike the Fediverse. We know what you prefer instead. Please go use that and you'll be so much happier.

gabek, to random

I’ll reiterate that I’m not team AI, but I’ll always give it credit where credit is due, since when things find a use, that’s great.

It’s not uncommon for people to request something very specific they want to do with Owncast, and I’ll always say that’s something you can do yourself with CSS and JavaScript.

Often the response is “I’m not a coder I can’t do that”. But a few times now the response has been “I asked ChatGPT and pasted it in and it worked”.

These people clearly have no interest in learning how any of these things work, and would normally be completely dismissive because they’re “not a coder” (like it’s something you’re born with). But now they can accomplish what they want and move on with their lives. Still not knowing anything about how it works, but they wouldn’t have anyway.

I don’t think it’s fun or productive long term to not learn things along the way of life, but hey, to each their own. They get more out of Owncast and I guess that’s something.

gabek, to random

Web people previously: “I know web browsers are just for documents, but if we add a rediculous amount of crazy JavaScript on top of it, we can make it do things it’s not meant to do, and treat it like a real application platform!”

Same web people now: “Who added all this crazy JavaScript on top of the web? It’s doing things it’s not meant to do. This is ridiculous.”

gamingonlinux, (edited ) to random
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I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: all done, you can stop sharing now lol

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/

gabek,

@jwz @julian At this point I’m more interested in hearing what that proposed fix is, as well. This should be public discourse. Mastodon is not the only Fediverse microblogging software that exists, so even if Mastodon were to put in a change, there’s a ton of other services out there that aren’t Mastodon that will still be doing what they’re doing now. Everyone needs to be in on this conversation, and get on the same page if the problem is to go away.

gabek, to random

I put in a pre-order for a @frameworkcomputer laptop in November, and sometime between today and Friday the order will finally go through. Then for the first time, I have to recreate my Linux desktop environment on another machine. I’ve yet to decide what to do. I use AwesomeWM right now on a Debian-based distro. Framework suggests best hardware support with Ubuntu or Fedora. Do I try Wayland? If so, then what window manager would I be happy with? Or do I just clone my existing drive and restore it? These are not real problems.

gabek,

@martijn I thought about just using the exact setup, but I figure I should listen to the hardware manufacturer, especially for a laptop, when they make a recommendation for compatibility. It probably saves a lot of headaches just to use what works from day one so I’m not spending a week trying to get WiFi working.

gabek,

@martijn I am excited! The experimentation is part of the fun!

roadriverrail, to random

Giving #LineageOS a shot on my old Pixel 4. Hoping to see how much of my life I can replicate on FOSS software. There will be work-related stuff that won't move over, but so far, I've got the basics covered.

gabek,

@roadriverrail Report back!

gabek,

@roadriverrail Not too shabby indeed.

gabek,

@roadriverrail It seems like many people like the Matrix bridge workflow for Discord, Slack, etc. I briefly tried to get it to work, but didn't get very far.

gabek, to random

For years many, if not the majority, looked at big tech as a savior. Jumping on every new service, excited about all the fantastic things the future is bringing us, without a single thought of the possibility there could be some serious downsides. It was just staying in touch with high school classmates, or meeting new people, or networking. It was years of so many of us flying blind.

We’ve taken our licks, we’ve learned our lessons, and discovered it is extremely healthy to look at those who are the market leaders, or the larger players, or who has disproportionate control, with intense scrutiny. It might not be fair, and maybe they don’t necessarily deserve it. But it’s important to do so anyway. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. You have to keep one eye on them at all times, because they don’t often realize what they’re doing is harmful. But we do. We know what it looks like now.

Not all organizations that scale to a certain influence become bad, but in general, only organizations that scale to a certain influence become bad. And not everyone needs to look at these organizations with a critical eye. But it’s important that some people do.

gabek, to random

The Owncast directory has been hit with bandwidth overages, so I tried to put it behind Fastly only to unfortunately discover that DigitalOcean's app platform already puts your application behind Fastly, but without the control you'd have if you did it yourself. And you can't opt out of it.

yonabee, to random
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it really doesn't matter what eugen thinks or does, mastodon is open source and we can take the ball, the whole field, all of the goalposts and the players, and go wherever we like

tbqh it's us who need to stop treating eugen like some tech CEO who must be deferred to, and .social as 'too big to defederate'

.social would be a pretty terrible social network all on its own, so it's actually us who give them legitimacy, and not the other way around

gabek,

@yonabee Yes. Double yes. It's time to stop thinking of the Fediverse as being "Mastodon compatible" and instead treat Mastodon as needing to be "Fediverse compatible". They can take it or leave it, there's more of us than there are of them, and that will only grow over time.

gabek, to random

On the topic of Owncast, and some discussion about donations and open source budgets:

Owncast has always been lucky to have fantastic donors to help us pay our monthly overhead. It took me a long while to feel comfortable using that money to reimburse myself for things I was used to paying for the project, but it's worked out for a couple of years now, and I've been so appreciative.

However, the project is in the midsts of this year's second unexpected legal cost (you probably saw me asking questions a couple of weeks ago, I'll explain more later), and it's clear that we're not in the place to be able to handle more of these bigger-ticket items going forward. So as of now, I'm going to stop reimbursing myself the reoccurring project costs from the Owncast budget, and instead start putting money into the budget to make sure the project can handle unexpected things that come up in the future. Any bigger items that come up can then be paid for, and reimbursed, and tracked through OpenCollective. It might sound dumb to put money in just to take it out at some point down the road again, but it allows for transparency.

gabek, to fediverse

Super excited that with a handful of minor maintenance releases behind us, #owncast can start looking towards big features again. Lots of preparation work is going on now for all of that. Check out the roadmap, and say hi if you'd like to be involved! https://owncast.online/roadmap/

divya, to random
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    gabek,

    @divya Where is that being held at?

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