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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.

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

owncast, to fediverse
@owncast@fosstodon.org avatar

Today marks four years of ! Can you believe it? For fun, let's take a short look back at what that looked like.

https://gabekangas.com/blog/2024/05/today-marks-four-years-of-owncast/

zachleat, to 11ty
@zachleat@zachleat.com avatar

A blog post about what is likely the biggest @eleventy news in our project’s history — and we need your help!

https://www.zachleat.com/web/independent-sustainable-11ty/

radiofreefedi, to random
@radiofreefedi@musician.social avatar

Our pop-up channel for the FediVision 2024 voting period is live.

It's an alternative way you can hear the entrants if a linear format. It's on our main site below our regular channels.

Keep an eye on @announce and for info, fun and light hearted lobbying.

To kickoff the voting period we'll have chat on for a bit as we are simulcasting our pop-up to the video/chat channel. The community will announce more hangouts fo the week.

https://party.radiofreefedi.net

https://fedivision.party/vote

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.

netbsd, to random
@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

Gammitin, to random
@Gammitin@mastodon.social avatar

Windows Entertainment Pack [1990 - 1992]

dnalounge, to random
@dnalounge@sfba.social avatar

Something got unplugged, which means that this afternoon the DNA Lounge webcast is all colorbars, and I gotta say, I'm really proud of this video. Commitment to the bit. Especially the soundtrack. See if you can last ten minutes. https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/

jwz, to random
@jwz@mastodon.social avatar

My Dinner With Andreessen.

I haven't spoken to the guy since he was a mere hardscrabble multi-millionaire, but this story 100% tracks.

Rick Perlstein:

My first impression of them came of their response to my small-talk description of my delightful...
https://jwz.org/b/ykPg

scottjenson, to random
@scottjenson@social.coop avatar

Dear I'd like to create a interactive prototype, nothing complicated, just a simple slider than when I move it, animates a range of simulated LEDs (about 100 of them). My first through was Processing but I'm open to other suggestions.

My issue with any choice is the start up cost, it's usually quite tedious to get started before I can get to the fun part. Any suggestions?

MostlyHarmless, to random
@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social avatar
carnage4life, to random
@carnage4life@mas.to avatar

The typical VC podcast

mc_frontalot, to random
@mc_frontalot@mastodon.cloud avatar

OK, is anyone good at Lua scripting and want to help me implement a couple simple things for my Reaper workflow?

omt_conf, to random
@omt_conf@mastodon.social avatar

We’re excited to bring the Apple developer community back together in person this year for ! @omt_conf is inspired in large part by the conferences we know and love from 2019 and earlier: AltWWDC, AltConf, and Layers.

jaimeohm, to random
@jaimeohm@mastodon.social avatar

BIG ANNOUNCMENT:
Conference during WWDC Week 2024 by @omt_conf

RSVP today to join us for One More Thing Conf, a gathering of Apple developers in Cupertino, CA for June 10-14.

hrefna, to random
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

"I think it's great that people are realizing if their social media app isn't talking to the fedi they needn't bother making it."

This is a bad take and you should feel bad for making it.

Snark aside: there's nothing magical about the "fediverse" and there's a lot to improve. Some of the ways that the fediverse has traditionally improved involved people going off and doing their own thing and finding ways to make it fit later.

hrefna,
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

To "talk to the fedi" as most people think of it today involves talking to mastodon.

So what you get is something along the lines of:

  • Implementing an outdated version of HTTP signatures
  • Implementing several things I've been told are "bugs" by members of SWICG.
  • Being unable to implement a large part of the spec in order to interoperate.
  • Holding your breath that nothing breaks on basically every release.

But wait, there's more.

AP itself is controlled by W3 and, uh.

gabek, to random

Somebody put a number for Owncast’s monthly active users on Wikipedia. There’s literally no way to know that number. I don’t even know how you’d define a user.

carpetbomberz,
@carpetbomberz@mastodon.online avatar

@gabek You heard it here first folks!
From the creator.
How did they do that?

caseynewton, to random
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Now that Bluesky is open to the public, I hope developers and publishers give it a second look. It has a lot of good ideas about the future of social networking: https://www.platformer.news/bluesky-public-opening-jay-graber/

docpop,
@docpop@mastodon.social avatar

@CatherineFlick @caseynewton agreed. So far, Bluesky sounds just like Twitter did in 2007. It's nice of them to open their API so developers can grow their platform for them, but what happens when Bluesky inevitably decides to shut off access to the API 5 years?

We really should have learned our lesson by now. https://cybercultural.com/p/twitter-in-2007-the-open-platform/

aral, to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Folks promoting Bluesky on the fediverse is like the three little pigs doing public relations for the big bad wolf.

But, hey, clearly some folks still haven’t gotten the message that VC and billionaires are bad and that non-corporate spaces have to be protected from corporate ones.

I guess something has to keep the folks who write “what went wrong/if only we’d known” articles in business.

🤷‍♂️

Jeremiah, to random
@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold avatar

Every time you join a Discord server for an open source project, Brewster Kahle permanently deletes a kitten GIF from the Internet Archive.

KydiaMusic, to random
@KydiaMusic@mastodon.social avatar

“I never thought the robots would take MY job,” sobs the techbro who worked for the Robots Taking People’s Jobs Corporation.

256, to random
@256@mastodon.social avatar

LindowsOS 2.1 (2002)

screenshot of LindowsOS 2.1 - the desktop

profcarroll, to random
@profcarroll@federate.social avatar

Found an ad on Reddit just now and wow WTAF

kyle, to streaming

On the wall
Hung a tall mirror
Distorted view
See through baby blue
He dug it

--Syd Barrett, "Arnold Layne"

https://stream.kylebronsdon.com/

LaurensHof, to fediverse
@LaurensHof@fediversereport.com avatar

Owncast releases app for iOS and tvOS

Gabe Kangas, creator of the fediverse-connected streaming software Owncast, has announced the release of an iOS and tvOS app for Owncast. This comes some months after Kangas said that the development of the app had been halted due to Apple’s App Store policies. Getting the app approved has been a challenge, and Kangas details the wide variety of ‘reasons’ that Apple has given to reject the app. It took help of a legal firm and persistence from Kangas to get the app in the App Store.

The fact that Owncast did manage to publish an app to the App Store is good news for PeerTube, who are in a process of their own to create their own mobile apps for PeerTube. In PeerTube’s roadmap Framasoft said that publishing a PeerTube app might be tricky, citing Owncast’s experiences.

In the blog Kangas also talks about the identity of the platform, coming right out of the gate by reiterating that Owncast is simply server software to run ‘independent, decentralized, completely standalone video streams’. Building social features such as chat, helping with discovery with the Owncast Directory and now building an app, all help with the awareness of the project. But in the end, Kangas sees Owncast as ‘server software. That’s it’.

https://fediversereport.com/owncast-releases-app-for-ios-and-tvos/

jalcine, to random
@jalcine@todon.eu avatar

Google isn't the Internet.

Pass it along and break that marketing narrative in 2024.

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