@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.

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gabek, to ubuntu

This probably isn't possible but I thought I'd throw it out there.

I just happen to have installed from scratch and used . And I have no interest in using Gnome for anything, I don't like it. BUT, the trackpad handling is excellent! Gestures, and the scrolling, it's great. I can't seem to find a way to pull whatever handles the mouse handling out of Gnome and use it within my own Window manager. I probably don't understand the layers of Gnome, and that's fine. But I sure wish I could have just that functionality. For years, I've had janky trackpad handling on Linux because I thought it was as good as it could get.

divya, to random
@divya@sfba.social avatar

Cost of housing pandas in SF Zoo:

'The project comes with an estimated price tag of up to $25 million for housing alone, including the $3 million to $5 million needed to construct a temporary home for the bears while a permanent enclosure is built.'

Why??

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/zoo-pandas-exhibits-19432033.php

gabek,

@divya wtf $3-5 million for a temporary enclosure?

gabek, to random

Fediverse secret: Typing @username and doesn’t actually send a message to somebody or tag a message.

It tells the server software you use (Pleroma, Misskey, Firefish, or even Mastodon) that you want to address a message to a user, or to add a tag, but typing those things aren’t the actual addressing or tagging itself. You can tag a post without typing or address a post to a user without typing @user. And vice versa, you can type those strings without them doing anything special. It’s up to your server software to determine how to convert what you typed into ActivityPub objects that are passed around to other servers.

Example: When an Owncast server goes live, it adds a default “owncast” tag, so you can search for all Owncast streams. But unless the Owncast admin chooses to add that tag themselves, you won’t see it. Seeing the tag isn’t necessary for it to exist.

Just thought some people might think that’s interesting if they didn’t know.

EposVox, to random
@EposVox@glitch.lgbt avatar

Finally finished my iPad keyboard back!

image/jpeg

gabek,

@EposVox I’m feeling very inspired right now. I love this.

gabek, to random

I hate ads. With the fire of a million suns. And I think I hate them more than most people do, because I’m completely self-aware that I’m pretty easily influenced by them. Sure adblockers are great, and I run Pihole and I do everything I can, but these days, with so many different types of services, on so many different types of interfaces (I watch all streaming services on an AppleTV, for example), that doesn’t cut it. So I pay for the ad-free version of everything that I actively consume.

And it saves me money, or at least probably breaks even. Because I’m well aware I’d end up buying a couple of things from those ads at some point.

Ads suck in every possible way. But they also suck in the way they are designed to suck, to take advantage of people and convince them to buy something they don’t actually need. They call that “marketing” but I call it psychological manipulation, and I’m opting out by paying a premium where I have to. It’s the best of a bad situation.

gabek,

@mh I’ve never thought about it that way. But it explains why “I’m too smart for that” isn’t as accurate as I’d like it to be.

gabek, to random

Saw CSS the band tonight, they're great. Much better than the other CSS.

dansup, to fediverse
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

"Social web" is a industry plant, real fediversians know

gabek,

@smallcircles @dansup The irony of talking about a suite of protocols is that it has nothing to do with the web. The web is HTML content, usually limited to a web browser (it's in the name). So those using literally anything else isn't the web. HTML can be rendered elsewhere, but it's pretty rare. The web is more or less owned by Apple and Google. Mostly just Google. So I'm not a fan of the term. It limits things to the corporately owned web browser, and ignores command lines, native mobile apps, hardware devices, literally anything else. The internet is more than the world wide web.

gabek, to music

Most listened to music in the past week:

Iris, Ladytron, Aesthetic Perfection, Caustic, Helix, Icon of Coil, Solar Fake, VNV Nation and !!!.
rock

gabek, to random

I've had to stay off the internet for the past day because I didn't have a chance to watch Eurovision live, and instead had to watch it today. I've now watched it, so I can again come back online.

gabek,

@mattdsteele I don't even know how he got into the finals, but I'm sure glad he did. But tanked pretty hard. But the performance was hilarious.

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)?

gabek,

@shadowfacts I think it's this one? https://sfba.social/@divya/112418470850214053 Installing from TestFlight now.

gabek,

@shadowfacts This build seemed to have fixed it. Though I’m not sure what you did other than add logging :)

gabek,

@shadowfacts No problem bringing it up as just a conversation. I can’t get it to break. I have no explanation. Maybe it was just the restart of the application cleared out some janky cached value that got resolved in the timeline in the meantime?

jeffjarvis, to random
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social avatar

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/

nilesh, to fediverse
@nilesh@fosstodon.org avatar

Has anyone built something like "Login with #Fediverse / #ActivityPub" as social login / oauth identity? #Mastodon perhaps?

gabek,

@nilesh Owncast has an auth feature for chat that's known as "Fediauth", but it's not oauth.

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 🤩

gabek,

@josh Super jealous!

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net avatar

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
@rabble@mastodon.social avatar

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.

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