you're talking about Mastodon/fediverse specifically, right? because indieweb encompasses a lot more than just that model
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currentWelcome to my Website. Ideally, this spot would have some sort of ‘stats’ about what I've published here recently. But for now, I can only say that iced hibiscius tea with a bit of lemon juice and brown sugar is what I'm probably drinking.
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Here lies the things I've liked, bookmarked or interacted with across the Web (and beyond). Some people call them reactions or replies - I consider them my feedback back to the Web from my site.
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Back when the VRChat debacle took place, I’d rambled quite a lot about the idea of a standards-based truly-distributed VR system. I probably mentioned how back in the day I was designing something like that, and was intending to use XMPP as the actual transport mechanism; in my more recent reevaluation of the idea I was thinking that using WebRTC to stream the actual realtime data (voice, character animation, etc.) would be the way forward.
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Some eight years ago, I stumbled upon an irreparable ’50s radio and turned it into a Pi-powered audio player.
That is, I gave it a fresh coat of paint and a new grill cloth, and built in two small-ish speakers and an equally small “Class D” amp. The thing’s driven by a Raspberry Pi equipped with the cheapest of USB “sound cards.”
The Pi runs MPD, and, alongside it, mpdscribble, a simple audio scrobbling service. Had it push song data to Last.fm—which I hadn’t used in years—for quite a while. And while that was fun, I ultimately decided to pull the plug. (I mean, “Who even cares?”)
Fast-forward to today, or rather, a month or so ago, when I saw all of the year-end Spotify banners fly by, and thought, “Hey, I could totally do this and retain ownership of my data.”
So, I looked at Libre.fm’s source code—Libre.fm being an open-source but somewhat outdated Last.fm alternative—and drew inspiration from it for a WordPress plugin of my own. (Of course, I later on discovered that such a plugin already existed.)
Luckily, mpdscribble’s config file—found at
/etc/mpdscribble.conf—allows setting the Libre.fm endpoint. Pointed it to my site instead, and … it worked!Next up was scrobbling from my Windows computer. I vaguely remember Last.fm’s Audioscrobbler plugins for, e.g., Winamp, but those would obviously have Last.fm’s endpoint hardcoded within (and have updated to the newer scrobbling protocol, while my endpoint only accepts the much older 1.2 version).
Anyhow, long story short: I mostly followed this Reddit post and used a hex editor to replace the default endpoint of a somewhat older foobar2000 plugin with my own! (The rest of the post isn’t super relevant.) Had to shorten my URL a bit to make it all fit, but: this, too, ended up working!
So … the result’s up at /listens. I’m still figuring out how to microformat these; don’t think too many parsers support
listen-of.
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My microblog is where I post quick notes or semi-formed posts. Things that don't quite fit into what I'd consider a blog post but also would need a permalink.
Large amount of notifications causes wingpanel to crash · Issue #123 · elementary/wingpanel-indicator-notifications
I still get this behavior on 6.1. This seems to happen because it shows each notification immediately. Could the panel be a bit more clever and use a timed interval to check whatever the delta in notification are only from the point of inquiry and cap it to about 50 with a cursor to hint at more? That way, even if 2,000 notifications came in, it wouldn't try to display them ALL at once. And some duplication of the notification could occur with hashing of the notification's serialized form versus repeating the same thing (especially if it's the same thing over and over).
This book feels like it'll be what could help shape my ideas on what I'd want the Web to look like and what i'd like to build (or help support) going for. https://bookshop.org/books/chokepoint-capitalism-how-big-tech-and-big-content-captured-creative-labor-markets-and-how-we-ll-win-them-back/9780807007068.
Has anyone set up a Owncast or PeerTube instance that plays back these free culture videos?
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