Mopeds are like fat chicks, really fun to ride as long as no one sees you.

A nation that, for most of its existence, did not successfully produce toilet paper.

GNU is the sound a man makes when you force his epiglottis open with a socket wrench.

Would you call Audacity a DAW?

Are they finally shipping them? They announced that phone like 647 years ago.

End users didn’t know how email or the world wide web worked once upon a time. There’s that clip of Katie Couric asking her producer “Can you explain what internet is?”

In the years since, they figured it out.

And as I pointed out recently, people figured out how to play WoW even if you have to pick a server before you can start playing. My understanding is different servers have different modes, like there might be one where PvP is enabled, etc. so there’s a clear reason expressed why you might pick one over the other. I’ve noticed Fediverse instances are really shit at that.

I signed up for Pixelfed recently, and the Join Pixelfed website’s page where you pick an instance had a bunch of tiles that read something like this:

| Pixelfed.de

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| Pixelfed is an image sha…

Fist of all the description for the instance started out trying to explain what Pixelfed as a whole was, and then it was truncated to about a quarter of a tweet with no way to expand it right there.

I’ll take this opportunity to bang on once again about everyone wanting to make general purpose instances with no attempt at finding a niche. I’ve been saying this since joining; every instance decides it needs a c/funny or a c/linux or a c/cats or a c/games and so then there ends up being 40 of each and the one on .world or .ml ends up being the de facto one everyone uses. Then you get a page where you have to pick from lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemm.ee, lemmy.ca each one giving the first fifty characters of the definition of Lemmy as their description, yeah no one’s going to open another browser tab and end up doing something else when confronted with that, huh?

As the name of open source projects go, Lemmy isn’t the biggest dumpster fire I’ve come across. It’s clear how to pronounce it, at least.

I was promoted from the rank of Commander.

If I could say “Here’s 84 billion dollars, we’re fuckin’ doing this…”

We’re doing a Battletech cinematic universe, and it’s gonna be awesome. We’ll start with a trilogy of 100 minute movies based on each of the books in the Grey Death Saga and see what we do from there.

And we’re gonna do it as practically as possible. You know how for Empire Strikes Back they built a life size Millennium Falcon? We’re doing that at least for mechs that aren’t going to move much, for static shots with the actors.

Ardour is a DAW though, isn’t it?

Came on pretty suddenly when I had my appendix out around 20. They put a catheter in for the surgery and there was a little mishap that required some repair. Everything works fine unless there’s too much backpressure. Hasn’t changed much in the past 18 years.

I see a lot of talk about the AIO: Try ditching it in favor of a decent air cooler and see if the problem goes away.

The Twitter format was good for precisely one thing:

Come see our band perform live at the Megadome Thursday at 6:00 PM! Tickets on sale now!

It’s THE worst way to express, like, your opinions, man.

Audacity. How the hell is Audacity free?

Habadacus. Honez!

Okay, give me a couple months. It’s winter and my shop is unheated so I’m in project pause mode, plus I’m going to have a surgery to recover from in February.

Right at this moment: content and performance.

If I start looking around at Peertube, will I find anything I’m interested in watching? There’s a LOT on Youtube right now, what’s on Peertube?

There’s a tendency for alternative platforms to be wretched hives of scum and villainy. LBRY for example felt like the place racist shitheads were banished to when banned from Youtube. The difference between LBRY and Peertube seems to be “something something blockchain.”

I noticed a video from a channel called The Giddy Stitcher titled “How to start a (good) Flosstube channel” which for a second I took to mean Free Libre Open Source Software tuber, as if she was going to give tips on how to run an channel on Peertube. No, apparently “floss” = textile arts/string/whatever and that term is similar to “woodtube” for Paul Sellers et al. She apparently uses Peertube to mirror her Youtube videos, and gets thousands of views per video on Youtube and maybe a dozen views on Peertube.

Anyway, watching this video, it buffered HARD. It got better after awhile but…you remember how, back in the day, you could just pause a video and it would buffer? And how it kinda doesn’t anymore? It was also that. They don’t offer lower qualities below 720p50 which probably doesn’t help; I’ve seen Youtube jump all the way down to 144p to keep the video playing at all.

I know, Peertube is “some people” while Youtube is run by Alphabet. But, maybe we should standardize on lower resolutions and aspire to HD later on, huh?

Google may have shown us a revenue model because of how mouthshit they are. “We’ve demonetized this video for no reason we’re willing to articulate.” Okay, I won’t rely on AdSense then, I’ll monetize my channel by:

• Merchandising. Sell T-shirts with catch phrases on them or things related to my topic at hand. The New Yankee Workshop made its money selling project plans on broadcast TV decades before Youtube was even a thing.

• Patreon or similar. Allow fans to subscribe to the creator out-of-band, and reward higher donations with anything from a name in the credits to early access to content or even patron-only content. Youtube accidentally allows for that kind of thing. Wouldn’t it be funny if Peertube became a good place to put patreon-only videos instead of having them on Youtube at all?

• Independently negotiated ad-reads. When Tom Scott looks to camera and says “This episode is sponsored by NordVPN” Youtube didn’t get a cut of that.

Assuming an audience large enough, this could support the creator, and then perhaps the instance can then bill creators.

I don’t know about technical help, like…Peertube has a P2P aspect to it where if you watch a video, you might help seed that video to other viewers, which helps shoulder the bandwidth load for the instance. If I’m a video creator, can I become a permanent peer for my instance and always seed my videos? I figure that would help more than…not doing that.

Youtube did what Internet Explorer did: It got the general public used to the idea that an entire category of something on the internet is free. IE set the maximum price for a web browser at $0. Youtube did the same for video hosting. Can that be reversed?

Peertube is to Youtube what Lemmy is to Reddit. Individual instances host the content uploaded by that instance’s members, viewers can browse the entire federation. To help with server load, Peertube has a P2P function; if 100 people are watching the same video at the same time, some of them will upload parts of the video they’ve already downloaded to others.

I’m considering starting a channel on Peertube about woodworking. There’s an instance that focuses on makers, arts & crafts, DIY and such, sounds like a damn good home for “Howdy folks, today we’ll be building this cherry coffee table.”

If I make these videos, will you watch them?