@gabek@social.gabekangas.com

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.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

gabek, to random

Day zero of festival pre-parties complete. A great experience, but now onto the actual festival. Hate that feeling when you’re going home and the birds are waking up, but that’ll be my life for a few days.

sue, to random
@sue@glasgow.social avatar

Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol

I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money

gabek,

@sue The internet is a big place, and we’re all allowed to try our own things for our own reasons. Because I choose to write software, and give it away, to enable people to do things with, doesn’t make me a part of some kind of problem, and I’m sorry you see me that way. I can’t do everything for everyone, but I can do this. There are plenty of companies who make money and they’ll happily take you. Turning every free software project into a capitalist, venture-funded, profit-first endeavor isn’t the solution that you think it is.

gabek, to random

I'm heading out to Detroit today for the Movement Electronic Music Festival. Beginning tonight through Monday, it's non-stop dance music, with sleep as a secondary concern. I might die.

andypeters, to random
@andypeters@mastodon.social avatar

May Music.
(I still use and love last.fm)

gabek,

@andypeters I'm still using it too!

evacide, to random
@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar

Threat models matter.

When a platform/service/app tells you they are “private” or “secure” always ask “from whom?”

Criminals, domestic abusers, law enforcement, data brokers, and intelligence agencies are all different attackers with very different capabilities.

gabek,

@evacide Thank you for putting it better than I can.

operationpuppet, to fediverse
@operationpuppet@mastodon.content.town avatar

Happy 4th birthday (first commit) to @owncast! Thank you @gabek and all the contributors for your hard work. You’ve made the web a better place.

gabek,

@operationpuppet That's so very kind of you to say! I really appreciate it!

gabek,

@gcspitfire Thank you!

gabek, to random

Honest question out of curiosity: What's with mushrooms being so popular? Everywhere I turn people are talking about gathering them, or growing them, or cooking with them, etc. Sure, they've always been around, but it's kind of weird. It seems to be a hobby now that other foods aren't.

lindner, to random
@lindner@social.coop avatar

Uncharted Territory: https://1500wordmtu.com/2024/uncharted-territory

gabek,

@lindner Oh man, I’m sorry to hear that. But it sounds like something great is going to come out of this. Let me know if there’s anything I can do.

gabek, to random

I’ve been having a great time with my new @frameworkcomputer laptop. The flexibility is really unique. First I got to build the laptop myself with parts, and now I get it to be what I want it to be with regards to input and ports and such. I’ll probably swap out the screen bezel for a bolder color, though. The purple is not very purple. Worth the 6 month wait!

Framework laptop with keyboard aligned left and rgb macro pad on the right.

gabek,

@martijn @frameworkcomputer It absolutely could be, I never thought of that. I wonder how hard that would be. Maybe I can commission @EposVox.

gabek,

@mattdsteele Oh yeah! That's the same one I have, technically it's not purple. I wish another bezel wasn't $50 though, seems a lot for a piece of plastic with some magnets. But they're a small company, I'll support them.

gabek,

@EposVox Oh, you thought I was joking. I'll try again, do you take physical art commissions like your microphone or your iPad case? :D

gabek,

@codemonkeymike The keyboard feels and looks great!

gabek,

@krakalak Oh that’s so fun! I’ll be looking into it!

gabek,

@blenderfox I’ve never had a fancy looking computer, just Thinkpads and MacBooks. I’m not a gamer, I don’t care about RGB lighting, or making the computer fun. But I thought for this one, since the options are there, I’d go all the way the other direction and make it really fun, just for a change of pace. I’m enjoying different for different sake!

gabek,

@piegames It’s a macropad, so you can program it to be whatever you want it to be. Numpad, arrows, special keys for the computer, whatever. I use it to switch between my window manager desktops.

gabek,

@frigginglorious I can totally see having a dedicated numpad would be useful for that use case. I’ve been using the macropad to perform one key macros to change desktops in my tiling window manager. It’s actually been really convenient, especially when my hands aren’t already on the keys. I just tap a single key, and I’m at my browser.

gabek,

@piegames Framework Computers.

gabek, to music

Most listened to music in the past week:

Iris, Blaqk Audio, The Go! Team, MDFMK, Tiga, Glis and Aesthetic Perfection.

gabek, to random

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

gabek,

@shadowfacts It’s a nil date!

gabek,

@shadowfacts I wonder if it’s a Pleroma bug. It does seem to resolve itself eventually. In that case, ignore the post since it’s technically invalid, and continue parsing the timeline? If it fixes itself on a future fetch, then great, it’s valid? From the end user standpoint, in this case the problem is less that single item and more how the timeline gets stuck until some point in the future because of the error.

misc, to random
@misc@mastodon.social avatar

For a long time I was critical of any would be post-Twitter than didn't federate from the start, because that seemed like the obvious essential way to bootstrap a critical mass.

But now, I'm starting to feel like there is gonna be some strength in the fact that Mastodon + the broader microblogging fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads are going to come together after developing separately.

gabek,

@misc I have a nuanced opinion that they should be burned with fire.

gabek,

@misc Admittedly this topic gets negative, and I'm not feeling like going there right now. I've ranted about this a few times in the past, and I'm sure I'll do it again.

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