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zalasur

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I play strategy games, write software, and stream on Peertube (not necessarily in that order). Also, sock monkeys! Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.

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Mrfunkedude, (edited ) to random
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🔴### ATTENTION PEERTUBE FOLLOWERS!!! ###🔴

I've moved all of my Videos from Diode to a new instance. The problem is, I'VE LOST ALL OF MY FOLLOWERS!!!!

So, if you were following me before, PLEASE follow me again at @mrfunkedude !!!

The new URL for those who want to bookmark it is https://davbot.media/a/mrfunkedude

I have 4 channels. A cooking channel. A media channel. A short form video channel. And lastly, my main channel.

Come check them out!

Here's a video for you!

https://davbot.media/w/cz4KYpGXesHGzZvi3Ejtfi

zalasur,
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@Mrfunkedude @mrfunkedude You have been followed!

fasterthanlime, to random
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The fact that this tool shows you not just the hour, but the day the task will finish on, is... ominous.

zalasur,
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@fasterthanlime When Alan Turing proved that the Halting Problem was unsolvable, was this what he had in mind?

zalasur, to streaming
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I've been a little less active on the front so I haven't had to delete my old VODs in a while but I'm starting to push 500 GB with my storage provider again so it's spring cleaning time.

I do download and archive my streams to long term storage. Maybe when I win the lottery I'll re-upload all of them for good but for now my funds are finite.

At least it's better than twitch or YouTube which have a much shorter retention period for their live streaming VODs. I keep mine for 3 months

zalasur,
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On a semi-related note I'll do a status update post on my vlog channel to discuss the progress on my web site that I'm refactoring. The good news is that I'm getting pretty close to finishing phase 1 which is to replace the existing site at http://blog.surazal.net

I plan on copying over all my old blog posts over. There are only 17 of them, but I had image attachments on them so I also have to re-upload those as well. I moved my storage location from New York to Chicago too.

zalasur,
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The partial site is at http://surazal.net (note that some links are broken and portions of it are completely blank). Things I have to finish are completion of the blog pages and images (mainly my fractal library). Once that's done I'll "flip the switch" and have the old site redirect to the new one.

I'm post with some more detail soon once I record the video tonight.

zalasur,
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Oof, I recorded 36 videos just for the month of January. I was apparently really bored this winter. 😅

zalasur,
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After I download and archive my January videos I'll post a vlog update where I will talk about the recent downsizing of diode.zone, touch upon my own hosting costs, and give a status update on my website/blog and what my plans for it are. Fun times!

zalasur, to fediverse
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I'm going to try to expand the list of #peertube instances I follow from my server. I've noticed the servers I'm currently federating with tend to lean towards being highly technical. It's not that this is a bad thing since that also reflects my personal interests, but a little variety doesn't hurt.

zalasur,
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@DavBot Yup, I already follow https://diode.zone 🙂

zalasur,
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@DavBot I just checked though and it seems like they are scaling down. It's there another instance named diode you're referring to?

zalasur,
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@DavBot Oh, I got what you meant. By "spread" you meant dispersing. I took it to mean they were spreading out as in attracting new creators, which was the opposite of what you meant. 😅

zalasur,
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@DavBot That was one of the factors behind my decision to self-host. Yes, it costs me a bit every month to keep my videos online but I'm not dumping a bunch of my content on someone else. I'm in control, and it's worth every penny.

zalasur, to Rabbits
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A for your troubles

zalasur,
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Slightly closer view of the

selfsame, to random
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processed foods in the US all have back stories like 'Gerald Ghrumbacher invented Wheaties in 1878 as a way to deter children from thinking of adventures'

zalasur,
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@selfsame Wait 'till you hear the one about Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

zalasur, to random
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So I just learned about the Cara dot app site today since it became the new hotness especially with the creative crowd, and... hmm.

It always baffles me when people leave a proprietary platform, loudly complaining about its proprietariness, only to join another proprietary platform.

The fediverse has its warts and all, and since it's still in early adoption phase it doesn't have the instant gratification you get from those centralized services, but I'll take it any day over another IG clone.

zalasur,
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So as it turns out this post which I found earlier but didn't read all the way through makes these exact same points much more eloquently than I did. Worth a read:

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1032/a-critique-of-caraapp-the-no-ai-instagram-and-artstation-copycat-child

zalasur, to random
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The electric company finally moved the cable going from the electric pole to the house today. Power went out for a bit. For some weird reason my MacBook decided to reboot. I didn't lose any work but I did end up having to pick up where I left off in my project and I suddenly stopped being motivated though I want to get this done this week. 😅

zalasur, to random
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We don't need AI "clones" in virtual meetings on Zoom or anywhere else. All you need to do is pretend you're paying attention while getting actual work done like we've been doing for years. You're looking at the computer monitor anyways.

Talk about a solution looking for a problem to solve. 😆

zalasur, to random
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We had a teacher who taught French in high school. Her last name was "Voss". We, being the emotionally immature teenage boys that we were, called her Madame Vache once.

Once.

zalasur, to random
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I'm back to working on my work project and I'm already missing my personal project. I'm absolutely going to put together a presentation on the importance of keeping the sheer number of dependencies and build times under control.

zalasur, to random
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I refactored the build process for the web page to remove the rollup HTML plugin. Apparently it was linked to a lightningcss recompiled plug-in that kept erroring out on the ARMv7 architecture (something about not being able to allocate a TLS block which seemed kinda fishy to me).

I decided the only thing I really needed a rollup process for was to compile the JavaScript to make sure it was a little bit backwards compatible. I also disabled minification because it wasn't needed.

zalasur, to random
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The web page is coming along nicely. I have settled down on the architecture which lets me plunk in and move around entire sections of the site as needed. I'm already thinking of next steps.

I think I'll do the blog part next. Most of the infrastructure is in place and I can copy the rest from the old site.

After that, images. I have the S3 object storage part done already, but the frontend needs to know how to display that data. Again, not a big lift. I just need to Git 'R Done.

zalasur, to random
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Yeah it didn't take long for the "shit-on-everyone's-parade" commentators to show up.

FFS, let people have some fun for 5 seconds.

zalasur, to random
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This is the most fun I've seen the fediverse have in months 😂

zalasur, to random
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The Impossible Challenge: developing a web component library for use within your application without using the word "widgets" anywhere.

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