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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.

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sue, to random
@sue@glasgow.social avatar

Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol

I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money

gabek,

@sue The internet is a big place, and we’re all allowed to try our own things for our own reasons. Because I choose to write software, and give it away, to enable people to do things with, doesn’t make me a part of some kind of problem, and I’m sorry you see me that way. I can’t do everything for everyone, but I can do this. There are plenty of companies who make money and they’ll happily take you. Turning every free software project into a capitalist, venture-funded, profit-first endeavor isn’t the solution that you think it is.

gabek, to music

Most listened to music in the past week:

Iris, Blaqk Audio, The Go! Team, MDFMK, Tiga, Glis and Aesthetic Perfection.

gabek, to random

I’ve been having a great time with my new @frameworkcomputer laptop. The flexibility is really unique. First I got to build the laptop myself with parts, and now I get it to be what I want it to be with regards to input and ports and such. I’ll probably swap out the screen bezel for a bolder color, though. The purple is not very purple. Worth the 6 month wait!

Framework laptop with keyboard aligned left and rgb macro pad on the right.

gabek,

@martijn @frameworkcomputer It absolutely could be, I never thought of that. I wonder how hard that would be. Maybe I can commission @EposVox.

gabek,

@mattdsteele Oh yeah! That's the same one I have, technically it's not purple. I wish another bezel wasn't $50 though, seems a lot for a piece of plastic with some magnets. But they're a small company, I'll support them.

gabek,

@EposVox Oh, you thought I was joking. I'll try again, do you take physical art commissions like your microphone or your iPad case? :D

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.

gabek,

@evacide Thank you for putting it better than I can.

misc, to random
@misc@mastodon.social avatar

For a long time I was critical of any would be post-Twitter than didn't federate from the start, because that seemed like the obvious essential way to bootstrap a critical mass.

But now, I'm starting to feel like there is gonna be some strength in the fact that Mastodon + the broader microblogging fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads are going to come together after developing separately.

gabek,

@misc I feel like I missed something. Is Bluesky moving to ActivityPub?

gabek,

@misc Ack bridges.

gabek,

@misc I have a nuanced opinion that they should be burned with fire.

gabek,

@misc Admittedly this topic gets negative, and I'm not feeling like going there right now. I've ranted about this a few times in the past, and I'm sure I'll do it again.

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 #tag 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 #tag 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 !!!.
#music #electronic #ebm #hard rock #futurepop #synthpop #industrial #indie

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 It’s a nil date!

gabek,

@shadowfacts I wonder if it’s a Pleroma bug. It does seem to resolve itself eventually. In that case, ignore the post since it’s technically invalid, and continue parsing the timeline? If it fixes itself on a future fetch, then great, it’s valid? From the end user standpoint, in this case the problem is less that single item and more how the timeline gets stuck until some point in the future because of the error.

nilesh, to fediverse
@nilesh@fosstodon.org avatar

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

gabek,

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

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