@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

Back when I was working on a Fediverse client, one of its features was it would update your profile with the currently playing track you're listening to. I always thought that was cool, so I finally brought it back for myself. I'm not sure how real-time account profile federation is among servers, but even if it's not completely real-time, it's still neat.

gabek, to music

Most listened to music in the past week:

Nine Inch Nails, Ferry Corsten, !!!, BT, Kanga, Venus Hum, VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berzerk and Icon of Coil.
-hop

richjensen, to random
@richjensen@social.coop avatar

What's up Fedis?

Been a minute since I've been in these fields. Warped in here by @gabek 's diligent work with @owncast . Might finally be time for me to try setting up for the tuesday night sessions. Will post here as progress is made.

gabek,

@richjensen Hey Rich, long time no chat! Good to see you around these parts!

gabek, to random

My favorite band in the entire world is Nine Inch Nails. Years ago, they broke up and @andypeters, and I traveled hours to see them for the last time. I was devastated they were over. But luckily, they came back.

Every once in a while over the years, Trent Reznor would make a remark about NIN maybe being over and my reaction was always "NOOO!"

But I've been watching the music landscape change so rapidly over the years. And I hate it. I get saddened when I think about NIN trying to play that game. A version of this band that only releases singles to try to get on top of Spotify playlists and make it big on TikTok would kill me. If Trent Reznor had to update his "IG OMG" every day to please the algorithm, I'd probably literally vomit. Not figuratively. Literally. And because of that, if they were to quietly walk away at this point, I think I'd finally be ok with it. This version of the music world is completely awful, and I don't want them to have to be a part of it if they don't want to be. They've given me so much already.

I know the music industry is an industry, and the marketing business is a business, and maybe I'm just used to what I'm used to. But I can't imagine this is it. It's the worst of the music world and the internet in one.

gabek,

@exkclamation Unlimited streaming music honestly killed my love for music for years. I still loved music, but I stopped listening to it with a purpose. I still go to tons of live shows, but I never sit down and listen to music any more because of streaming. The past month I've been changing that, and buying full albums again, and it's a night and day difference how much more music I listen to, and how much more I enjoy it.

gabek,

@exkclamation I've set up a system that is working really well for me as far as acquiring and consuming music now. I'd like to write a blog post about it sometime soon, since the convenience of this system is half of what makes this work for me. It has to be nearly as convenient as streaming, or I probably would find myself not going through the effort of acquiring, downloading, importing, etc.

Jeremiah, to random
@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold avatar

Interesting! @Techmeme is running ads to support @Mastodon today. I hope it was a donation from Techmeme.

I appreciate the phrasing “the open-source software powering the social web” instead of “federated social network” or “fediverse”.

gabek,

@Jeremiah @Techmeme @Mastodon Pedantic Gabe here to rain on everyone’s parade.

It implies Mastodon is single-handedly powering… everything? That we took our lives back from Zuck and handed them over to another? It is not THE software powering anything. It is one of so, so, so many. That’s how the internet works.

“Social web” is such a bad phrase, as there is more to the internet than the web. I’m not using the web right now to post this. I’m using a native app. In fact, I use native apps almost all the time.

I don’t mean to be a downer, but words matter. The internet is wide, and vast, with lots of fantastic projects and protocols inside and outside the web, and inside and outside of Mastodon.

docpop, to random
@docpop@mastodon.social avatar

Digging through some old files and I found this kitchen-jam on my guitar with a Korg Montotribe.

This song was eventually released as "Flytrap" on my Quarantined Beats and Inside Voices album: https://docpop.bandcamp.com/album/quarantined-beats-and-inside-voices

Me playing guitar in my kitchen. There are succulents in the background and Korg Monotribe in on the table beside me, which is playing a bass line and drums.

gabek,

@docpop I was just listening to Quarantined Beats again the other day.

gabek, to random

While the 10.0 score of the xz backdoor may be accurate, let's not forget that every other CVE score is pretty much bullshit. A broken clock is correct twice a day.

gabek, to random

I'm so used to products not working as advertised, that when they do, I just assume I'm gaslighting myself into believing it's working.

martijn, to random
@martijn@ieji.de avatar

Today is my birthday 🎉. I don't really celebrate it. If you want to, please take this day to make sure to take the time to turn someone's frown in to a smile.

gabek,

@martijn Happy birthday!

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.

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

Me: Hmm, maybe I should look into Bun again and see how its Node.js compatibility is coming along.

Also me: I wonder who makes Bun…

Me, yet again: Ah, it’s a venture-capital funded startup called Oven (see what they did there?)

Finally, me: rm -rf ~/.bun

(Remember, kids: Venture capital is the fart that precedes enshittification. It’s best not to linger once you’ve caught a whiff of it.)

gabek,

@martijn @aral I think Deno is heavily VC backed as well.

gabek, to random

I had a dream last night I was the xz guy, but it was Owncast, and people were yelling at me that I wasn't moving fast enough. So I did the same thing that happened in real life.

And to answer your question, yes, I have a therapist.

gabek,

@rick Thank you!

gabek, to random

I just went to Thinkgeek to see what their April Fools goofs are, and they did quite a big one this year. They redirected to some video game store. Good one!

gabek, to random

I just learned there was a speedrun competition of open source software installation the other day. I would have loved to watch that. Sounds super fun. I hope to catch it next time something like that happens. https://coopcloud.tech/blog/selfhosted-infrastructure-any/

gabek,

@mattdsteele hahaha! I need to watch these.

gabek,

@mattdsteele I did indeed watch some of these last night! Entertaining!

gabek, to random

When I hear douchebag industry terms being used in everyday conversation, I just wonder... maybe we let the planet burn up after all?

Anyway, please don't call things "activations".

gabek, to random

I have a DigitalOcean droplet that's been running the same workload for a few years now, and according to my monitoring, the performance has been getting worse over time. I don't think there's much I can do about that other than give them more money, unfortunately. This feels wrong, though.

gabek,

@stefan Mine is CPU performance.

gabek,

@H4ndy That makes senses. I have all the Owncast stuff on DigitalOcean now, and it would be a project to move it elsewhere unfortunately. So I feel a bit stuck.

gabek, to random

Saw there's a poll for "How often do you use Owncast?" In my mind, it's like asking, "How often do you use a concrete mixer?" Most people here would say "Never". But the people who need to build stuff really need a concrete mixer. If you compared a concrete mixer's popularity to an iPhone or a laptop, you'd say concrete mixers are a failure and nobody uses them. When, clearly, people use them every day to do important work.

That's how I feel when people try to gauge the "popularity" of Owncast.

gabek,

@martijn https://botsin.space/@pollbot/112185920651023310

mc_frontalot, to random
@mc_frontalot@mastodon.cloud avatar

Song Fight, where I cut my teeth making songs for internet almost 25 years ago, has just posted the contenders for its 1000th title, "A Grand Parade." There are nearly a hundred songs! One of them's mine.

https://songfight.org/

gabek,

@mc_frontalot I like when you record yourself rapping, so I can listen to it.

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