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If you’re in the Bay Area the day after Thanksgiving, I’ll be performing a hybrid live DJ set at Underground SF in San Francisco for the Leftover Beats party. Watch me squeal and squelch some synths and lay down some drums while playing songs at you.

Sure, you've been able to follow an #Owncast server forever. But your Owncast server has never been able to follow before.

Certainly rough around the edges, but a few tweaks make watching #PeerTube work great on my TV now.

I don't know how much money PBS spends on building apps and managing their website. But I wonder what it would look like if instead of them building custom interfaces for every platform, they embraced IPTV standards and took advantage of existing applications and interfaces. People don't love PBS because of their engineering team and their apps. Unpopular opinion, I'm sure. But something to think about.

Trying to think of a plan B for the Owncast community chat if RocketChat deletes our account. I'm aware that I'll be ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MURDERED* if I don't use Matrix. But ughh. I might be a hypocrite because I say when people join the Fediverse it's no big deal that you need to learn about picking a server. But you're choosing to join the Fediverse, and it's on your own terms. If you're joining a support chat, it's usually not on your own terms, you're not joining because it's fun, and you're probably already pissed off. The last thing you want to tell somebody who just wants some help is "First, select a home server! Now select a client! Feel free to just use Element. What is Element? You use Element to use Matrix." I'm not saying it's hard. I'm just saying in this particular context I'm trying to be sensitive about the use case. *Seriously disemboweled.

I wrote a bit of a blog post around about @npub1fqxf...5mj3 @ 5yrs and some details around the new #Owncast merch store.

Gabe Kangas

Five Years of Owncast

It’s been a year since I’ve written a blog post. So that must mean it’s an Owncast anniversary! But this time, it’s a bigger one. Five year...

All this talk about war plans and my initial thought was: I'm impressed they used Signal. I would think these assholes would be using Facebook Messenger or something.

Big Tech is so fucked. I was looking for some information about turntable stuff, and it brought me to Reddit. A search result brought me to a relevant post. I read a couple of others. Then my feed showed a "Here's my listening room, my wife hates it, but I love it" post. I read it. That led to a "My setup after a divorce" post. And in my algorithmic feed I started getting some similar, still turntable related, but also slightly more in the direction of these guys having a hard time because of a wife, or ex-wife, or a girlfriend or whatever. I read a couple that actually seemed to be about the topic at hand. But quickly... straight up woman hate posts from groups not at all related to vinyl. It's like Reddit was just waiting for the chance to get me on the path of women hate, and it found a way there. Now I understand how men online can get indoctrinated so easily. You can go from reading about turntable slip mats to hating women in less than an hour. But each step is small enough where you get pushed along, you can justify it because of all these one-sided rants you've just read about how awful women have been. I'm assuming the same thing happens with politics or other very divisive topics. We're in a horrible place. I know a lot of you think Reddit is the one exception to "all big tech is bad", but let me tell you, I'm seeing that it's not.