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freebliss

@freebliss@post.lurk.org

Code, media, and systems with a focus on ethics, simplicity and sustainability. Occasional libre graphics steward in vienna. Illustration scholar. Nightclub pianist without nightclub. he/him.

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freebliss, (edited ) to random
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Random shortcut I just discovered: Right-click on the opacity input opens a context menu for going straight to 0/25/50/75/100% opacity. Definitely beats my previous "click on -/+ and wait" workflow, felt wrong every single time haha. Also: Right-click on - to go to 0%, right-click on + to go to 100%, middle-click for 10% steps. Love these details. \o/

freebliss, (edited ) to random
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If any of you are using my recodesync.py script [*]: I just updated it because I noticed that at least opus > mp3 conversion did not carry over the metadata for some reason. Now it does! :)

[*] "recodesync.py is an rsync-like CLI tool to synchronize your music library from your storage device (where you keep state-of-the-art encoded audio files) to your playback device (which only supports older formats), while automatically transcoding files for playback compatibility as part of the syncing process." – https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/recodesync

freebliss, (edited ) to random
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This week I'm officially beginning my work on #faircamp in the scope of the Faircamp 1.0 grant through #NGI0 Entrust @NGIZero, financed by @EC_NGI, which will span the next months throughout summer and early fall 2024 at least.

Working together with the people at NLnet foundation to set everything up has been a blast so far and I'm very grateful to be given this opportunity. <3 Everyone of you who use, support, contribute to, and spread the news about faircamp have made this possible as well, so thank you all!

First developments this week are the introduction of complicance with FSFE's https://reuse.software/ in the codebase, yesterday's release of a stable/version-locked AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/faircamp), setting up a dedicated "Feature suggestions" thread in the issue tracker (https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/issues/90 - please read the fine print ;)), and some bugfixing work with support from @lislegaard which will go right into the next release. Excited to be back in the lab! \o/

gavcloud, to music
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after much configuration and long build times, I have managed to upload the 130+ albums from my :bandcamp: Bandcamp page to Faircamp, the amazing site generator by @freebliss for music catalogs by artists and/or labels.

https://faircamp.gavart.ist/

#faircamp #music #indieweb #gavcloud #opensource #musician #data #autonomy

freebliss,
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@gavcloud generally speaking any changes made that do not alter the streaming or download formats requested (so for instance changes of description texts, site theme, etc.) should build within mere seconds. Asides for future updates of faircamp that might mandate retranscoding, you should not face any long transcoding times for a while now (if you're happy with your audio formats and don't want to change them for the time being of course!). If you observe anything counter to what I'm describing let me know, then it's a bug. ;) @keefmarshall

freebliss,
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@gavcloud this is amazing, I think this must be the largest faircamp site in existence (at least that I'm aware of). Well done and let me know if there's any observations on what would (have) made the process easier for you. I'm happy to improve things for handling such large sites!

freebliss, to random
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The https://mirlo.space/ (@mirlo) kickstarter for a sustainable cooperative model of empowerment for musicians and labels on the web is now almost 80% funded! \o/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

I'd be very very happy to see them succeed, because not only are they building something fantastic, but they're also bringing invaluable experience from past endeavours in the field to the table, which is, I believe, essential in making the right choices to sustain an ambitious project like this in the long run. If you can support them, go for it. ＼ʕ◕ᴥ◕＼ʔ

freebliss, to random
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I bow to all of you who submitted to #fedivision - what a musical ride <3 thanks everyone, also to the organizers! I'd love to drop some individual notes on all these magical tracks but going through my shortlist from last weekend again (which wasn't all that short haha) and making up my mind on what to vote for took the last of my time & energy for today unfortunately. x) Cheers for a great finale tomorrow, and everyone who didn't listen in or vote yet, here's your chance: https://fedivision.party

freebliss, to random
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State of video on the web, May 2024 (according to caniuse.com data):

H.264: Safe bet, works everywhere

VP9: Now supported in all browsers (!) since this march. It's royalty-free and significantly more efficient than H.264, therefore as soon as unsupported Safari browsers drop away this could be another safe bet around 2025 possibly.

HEVC/H.265: Not royalty-free, not well supported, pragmatically speaking this one might remain a footnote in web video history because ...

AV1: Already great support everywhere, except, you guessed it, Safari. Also royalty-free and again significantly more efficient than everything that came before (including VP9 and HEVC/H.265). If Apple decides to add software decoding in Safari anytime soon, this might find ubiquituous support everywhere in the next years.

freebliss, to random German
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Wirtschaftskammer Wien erfragt in ihrer aktuellen Unternehmerumfrage: "Sind Sie für oder gegen den Bau des Lobautunnels?". Hm, wo genau liegt nochmal die Relevanz und Kompetenz in dieser Frage bei der WKW? Braucht man jetzt wieder wirtschaftliche Laienmeinungen zur Verkehrsplanung weil einem die wissenschaftlichen Verkehrs- und Umweltgutachten nicht schmecken? Seufz.

freebliss,
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@computersandblues Genau das, wobei ichs nochmal lustiger/trauriger find dass der Einzelhandel dabei in der Regel nicht mal seine kapitalistischen Interessen sinnvoll vertritt, sondern aus Ignoranz heraus eine Lose/Lose Situation für alle verfolgt. Wenns nach den Wirtschaftstreibenden gegangen wäre, wäre z.b. die Mariahilferstraße in Wien nach wie vor eine laute, schirche, zugeparkte Straße - dass die Verkehrsberuhigung nicht nur die Lebensqualität an der Straße, sondern auch den Umsatz der Geschäfte signifikant erhöhen würde, wollte keiner glauben. Jetzt ist die Straße nicht nur eine angenehme Flaniermeile geworden, sondern auch an Einkaufstagen so voll mit einkaufswütigen Leuten, das würde sich platzmäßig nicht mal ansatzweise ausgehen wenn da noch Autos fahren würden. Man würde meinen die Wirtschaftstreibenden lernen aus sowas, aber natürlich ist es bei anderen Verkehrsberuhigungrojekten wieder genau dasselbe: "Bitte bitte nehmt uns nicht den Beton und die Autos und die Parkplätze weg jammer jammer ..." 🤡

gwil, to random
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The Willow Sideloading protocol is a new protocol for securely delivering Willow data by whatever means possible. USB keys, email attachments, torrents, and other ad-hoc means make a “sidenet” we can use to deliver eventually consistent data using the infrastructure users already have.

https://willowprotocol.org/specs/sideloading

freebliss,
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@gwil willow sounds really cool (and now even more so)! I read through some of the documentation previously and am tentatively pondering to build something on top of it in the future :)

whiteVHS, to random
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new song is out (only on my page)

https://music.whitevhs.xyz/1000-blessings/index.html

some mariokart DS sample, drum and bass madting

freebliss,
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@whiteVHS rad stuff, love it!

freebliss, to random
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Words of reason from the ICC. May they ring loud above the rash cries coming out of international politics right now.

"Let us today be clear on one core issue: if we do not demonstrate our willingness to apply the law equally, if it is seen as being applied selectively, we will be creating the conditions for its collapse. In doing so, we will be loosening the remaining bonds that hold us together, the stabilising connections between all communities and individuals, the safety net to which all victims look in times of suffering. This is the true risk we face in this moment.

Now, more than ever, we must collectively demonstrate that international humanitarian law, the foundational baseline for human conduct during conflict, applies to all individuals and applies equally across the situations addressed by my Office and the Court. This is how we will prove, tangibly, that the lives of all human beings have equal value."

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

sknob, to random
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AND WE’RE OFF

songs have gone live on https://fedivision.party!

You have until Sunday, May 26th, 19:00 UTC to listen and vote for up to 3 of the 72 entries 😅.

Each song has a 4 letter code, and you can vote by sending “vote XXXX YYYY ZZZZ” to the @vote bot account.

And should you want to VOTE FOR ME 😇, vote RUGG (for “rugged scrublands”, that’s right).

freebliss,
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@sknob accidentally read that as "and you should want to vote for me" hahaha :unwanted_ok:

lislegaard, to random
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today i am among other things thinking about how much i am looking forward to trying out the hyper 8 video system!

https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/

@freebliss

freebliss,
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@lislegaard !! yayyy \o/ working hard on it! :)

poiseunderchaos, to random
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Video and 3D post-production folks:

If someone wanted to make or purchase a video workstation for post-production work (video effects in particular, possibly 3D work as part of that general workflow) on Linux, is that still a viable thing at present? It seems like it's iffy, but entirely because of OS and driver support problems.

cc: @freebliss

freebliss,
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@poiseunderchaos I'm not really up to speed on any of this, but I suppose these days it should be relatively painless to put something well supported together? Not buying nvidia probably gets one there 80% of the way haha.

freebliss,
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@poiseunderchaos Afaik they're opensourcing their drivers these days? Maybe they're still bad, but at least there's leverage for improvement haha. ;)

poemproducer, to random
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extrem liebevolles portrait meiner Arbeit in deutsch 😭 von Karl Ludwig im Sommer 2023 aufgenommen und produziert... coole trackauswahl auch spannt mehr also 20 Jahre <3

AGF - "Hören, nochmal Hören" - Die Vokal- und Wortkomponistin Antye Greie-Ripatti

https://www.hr2.de/programm/klassik-oper/neue-musik--hoeren-nochmal-hoeren---antye-greie-ripatti-,epg-neue-musik-432.html

freebliss,
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@poemproducer "Damn was kann die mit ihren händen machen!" :D Feines Portrait in der Tat, war spannend zu hören!

freebliss, to random
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Introducing ...

The Hyper 8 Video System.

https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/teaser/

Yaaaaaayyyyyyy ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

freebliss,
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I began versioning today so release procedures for the upcoming beta can be put in place. If you're on Debian or Ubuntu, a first alpha release package (0.12.0) is available now at https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/docs/installation.html

Before you go wild with it, mind the alpha version fine print: "Hyper 8's browser interface performs destructive file operations on your behalf and pending wider testing the program should be handled with caution, on a well back-upped system." With that in mind, have fun! :)

freebliss,
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And now there's a hyper8 arch/aur package as well \o/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hyper8

freebliss,
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Last log entry before the first big milestone: Hyper 8 (https://simonrepp.com/hyper8) is probably going beta on wednesday. ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

In this first official release, no singled out part will be a big deal by itself - not yet - but I think the whole package is going to prove a critical point:

Video on the web can be done a) without depence on big tech (Youtube etc.) b) without dependence on financially and/or socially volatile community infrastructure (Peertube etc.) c) without much technical know-how at all, d) practically maintenance-free forever (as long as the web still stands) and e) with a user experience (talking audience here) pretty much on par with contemporary alternatives.

I think for everyone who's not blissfully happy with their big tech solution (probably has an expiry date), blessed with reliable community infrastructure (also might have an expiry date) or technically privileged to depend on neither of the two, Hyper 8 is going to be big news in the long run. Can you tell? I'm super excited about this! :)

freebliss,
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@lislegaard yaay i hope so too \o/ :)

freebliss,
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@silmathoron Possibly yes! I have a memo in my todo list to look into PeerTube's P2P load balancing approach for video and see if and how it could be integrated at some point. That said, priority-wise this is for me still very far away, as there's a ton to do on many other fronts first. :D Related to this, I'm fairly certain that I want to support torrent-based downloads eventually (could be used to serve lower-quality streaming formats online, but offer higher-quality formats with distributed download for offline to ease server load). In either case, usecase wise I'm also going for smaller producer/audience situations first. Folks who do only, or primarily, video, including with large audiences, will probably anyway be on multiple platforms, potentially using professional paid services and/or have other requirements hyper8 does not cater to - livestreaming, livechats, live analytics, etc.

As for @dried re. S3 + CDN - no dedicated ideas on that front yet, I'm first and foremost getting the generic deployment options ready (rsync is implemented already with some caveats, ftp is my next target right now). I also suspect that folks who wrangle S3 and CDNs and so on will anyhow bring the expertise to set up their custom deployment for these things (as seen with faircamp \o/)

Hope that clarifies some parts! :)

freebliss,
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@dried my pleasure, appreciate all the input too!

freebliss,
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Folks, it is my great pleasure to announce that today, the Hyper 8 Video System officially entered Beta!! \o/

I'll keep it short for this announcement, so if you're curious what this is all about follow the thread back in time (especially the most recent toot explains it really well I think!).

Special shout-out to austrian federal ministry BMKÖS for making this possible with a project grant for digital cultural heritage and my lovely project collaborators at dérive society for urban research in vienna - things wouldn't have worked out nearly as well without their initiative!

With this I'm raising a glass in celebration and starting a few days of vacation ;), cheers and thanks for your support everyone, I'll be back in the workshop in a few days. <3

https://simonrepp.com/hyper8

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