@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

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.

roadriverrail, to random
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Giving 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, 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?

    gabek, to random

    The best account on The Fediverse is now officially @1796996923 and there is no room for debate.

    gabek, to random

    Mastodon is not The Fediverse.
    The web is not The Internet.

    Thanks for coming to my Fred Talk.

    gabek, to random

    @shadowfacts How do I Tusker. It doesn’t Tusker the same way it used to Tusker. I’m a user so this is the only detail I’m providing.

    gabek,

    @shadowfacts I have a narrow column (iPad) but I’m not sure how to change the size of it to fill the space or if I’m supposed to do something different.

    gabek,

    @shadowfacts Ohhhhh I think I get it. It adds columns as you dive into conversations. I was either trying to get my main column to fill the width or to add “Notifications” as a column. I was wrong on both.

    deadsuperhero, to fediverse
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    I’m writing a brief guide for how to set up OBS to livestream with and . What questions do y’all have? What do you want to know about?

    gabek,

    @ShredderFeeder @deadsuperhero As far as Owncast goes, while you might publicly see a lot of individuals looking to be seen with it, the most successful use of the software are organizations privately treating it like any other infrastructure. Those who have an existing need to livestream something, so they install a livestreaming server for their conference, or training, or broadcast of some sort. It’s less novelty, and more solving a problem they have, just like an email server or web server would be. But these use cases are rarely public.

    gabek, to random

    HashiCorp getting acquired by IBM was not on my 2024 bingo card.

    gabek, to random

    Sometimes I want to write things down that aren't appropriate for an issue/todo, but there's no obvious place to do so. At once point I stood up a Cryptpad instance, but that was too heavy and nobody wanted to use it and read things that were in there. I keep looking for a middle ground for longer form things like planning documents, but I'm never sure where they should go.

    I thought about just putting markdown files in a repo, but nobody will want to check out the repo and make PRs to edit them.

    GitHub has a wiki, but nobody uses that. I could build my own wiki I suppose, but then it would require people to create accounts and stuff. There's no real good answer.

    zachleat, to random
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    Next.js static export not supporting next/image is wild.

    “Since Next.js supports this static export, it can be deployed and hosted on any web server that can serve HTML/CSS/JS static assets.”

    But not images!!

    https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/deploying/static-exports#unsupported-features

    This is a prime example of customers losing from an unhealthy relationship between framework and hosting provider.

    gabek,

    @zachleat The fewer proprietary components I have to use in Next, the better. I just use the img tag. Next’s static export has worked pretty well for me so far. But I know it won’t last forever and I’ll have to find a replacement at some point.

    gabek, to music

    Most listened to music in the past week:

    Imperative Reaction, Nine Inch Nails, Boy Harsher, ADULT., Aesthetische, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23, Basszilla and Code 64.

    gabek, to random

    The number of words that people self-censor in YouTube videos is out of control. I've more than once watched a video where a sentence was incomprehensible because so many words were removed.

    "Tim <mute> with <mute> because of <mute> and their <mute>. Unfortunately, <mute> <mute>."

    I hope those YouTubers are enjoying their "freedom" of "working for themselves" and "not having to answer to others" when making content they care about.

    docpop, to SanFrancisco
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    are playing at Kilowatt Bar in tonight and tomorrow. Details here: https://kilowattbar.com/events

    gabek,

    @jwz @docpop I had no idea. I wouldn’t have guessed that one. Ugh.

    CenDemTech, to random
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    REGISTER NOW: CDT’s @gabek is joining Lisa Austin, Swati Srivastava, & Jeff Hall for a panel on “Data Access and Social Media Research” for @bkc's “Platforms and the Right to Information” workshop on May 2. Details below: https://cdt.org/event/platforms-and-the-right-to-information/

    gabek,

    @CenDemTech @bkc I have no idea what you're talking about.

    Aphrodite, to Israel
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    I’m getting some informal reports that users in are no longer able to access @signalapp and @matrix.

    Anyone else have any info about this?

    gabek,

    @josh @Aphrodite @matrix Isn't the beauty of Matrix is it's decentralized? There's no way to block every Matrix server, I'm curious what's going on there.

    jimniels, to random
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    One thing about the web is that it requires you relinquish control.

    If you're a government, you can't control the flow of information.

    If you're a designer, you can't control the exact placement of pixels.

    If you're a developer, you can't control how content will flex and bend across devices, inputs, etc.

    If you want to work with the web, give up the idea of control and your expectations will be properly set from the outset (which helps you avoid disappointment and/or disillusionment).

    gabek,

    @jimniels The web, or the internet? Sounds like the internet to me!

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