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Aaron Parecki

  • 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Apr 18
    Yeah I still don’t buy it’s a processor thing.
    Aaron Parecki
    Ok you're right, at least on the TV 4K, because Plex can play VP9 videos on it. They must have bundled a software decoder into Plex to do that without hardware acceleration.
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  • 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Apr 18
    Great article. Too bad it doesn’t say WHEN. Arghgh
    Aaron Parecki
    It's Apple, nobody knows when 🤷‍♂️
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  • Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron   •   Apr 18

    @aaronpk I'm not saying this is necessary to do here. There's a number of region-specific Mastodon servers for which this issue will never exist.

    Aaron Parecki
    Yeah it is only relevant to the huge global instances, which look much more like a traditional web app than anything decentralized.
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  • Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron   •   Apr 18

    So I'm just wondering... With static assets like images, adding an edge CDN is relatively simple. But with anything dynamic like API responses, not so much. There must be ways of dealing with that. Because, let's say my servers are in Germany, and you are in Australia. Any API response for you takes up to 800ms longer than for me.

    #devops

    Aaron Parecki
    The solution is not trivial. API servers distributed in multiple data centers, and eventually you'll end up needing databases in multiple regions too. That'll lead you down to the multi-primary database problem.

    Ironically this is the thing ActivityPub promised to solve by having people use a large number of smaller servers where the replication of data is the ActivityPub protocol.
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  • Mihaela MJ https://twitter.com/civeljahim   •   Apr 18
    AV1. Quting from iMore:
    "AV1 is the next, next-generation video codec. It's open and royalty-free, like Google's VP series, and Google has bought-in to the extent they've shelved VP10 for AV1, which is about as bought in and bought in can be."
    https://www.imore.com/why-you-still-cant-watch-4k-youtube-apple-devices
    Aaron Parecki
    That's an excellent writeup, thanks!
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  • 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Apr 18
    Yeah. It’s not a hardware power thing. My 2017 iPhone X plays VP9 just fine.
    Aaron Parecki
    iPhone X is the A11 processor. The Apple TV is A8, Apple TV 4K is the A10, so it'll be a while before a new chip makes it to an updated Apple TV!
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  • 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Apr 18
    One problem — YouTube app on Apple TV 4K doesn’t play 4K or HDR (doesn’t use VP9/VP9.2 codec). This is such a stupid pissing contest between Apple and Google. It’s truly wonderful when multi-billion dollar companies can’t cooperate for the benefit of the customers who made them.
    Aaron Parecki
    But also this is a perfect example of why an external box is better than a smart TV. Once your TV has hardware decoders, good luck upgrading that when better video codecs are released in a few years. At least with the Apple TV you can replace that part and keep the same panel.
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  • 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Apr 18
    One problem — YouTube app on Apple TV 4K doesn’t play 4K or HDR (doesn’t use VP9/VP9.2 codec). This is such a stupid pissing contest between Apple and Google. It’s truly wonderful when multi-billion dollar companies can’t cooperate for the benefit of the customers who made them.
    Aaron Parecki
    Is this a VP9 vs HEVC thing? I assume the Apple TV is too low power to implement software decoding and needs hardware support, but that means a new Apple TV to get VP9, if Apple will even add that since they're all in on HEVC? What a mess.
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  • alexlindsay https://twitter.com/alexlindsay   •   Apr 18
    The TVs are actively gathering data by design and proven security breaches if they have a mic or camera. I’m not a tin foil hat person... I use Zoom, a credit card, and even a Safeway member number. But no way would I connect my TV to the internet. AppleTV is the firewall.
    Aaron Parecki
    💯 hard same.

    I bought a "commercial display" because it's almost impossible to find a not-smart TV these days.

    Just give me a panel and I'll add the smarts I trust (Apple TV) externally.
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  • Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Apr 16
    I’m using the first party expensive hdmi port dongle to check.
    Aaron Parecki
    Do you have another brand of USB-C to HDMI dongle? I've had mixed luck with the Apple one depending on what I'm plugging it into. I've started carrying three different brand dongles when I travel cause I can never be sure it'll work with arbitrary AV systems.
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  • Apr 14

    GitHub dropped the word “open source” from its free tier. We might see more of this over the coming years as the honesty around their role in the F/LOSS spaces.

    Aaron Parecki
    I thought that was because the free tier now includes private repos with unlimited collaborators. Is that bad?
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  • Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Apr 14
    Got my very first MacBook Air. I've wanted one of these things since back in the day with the envelope commercials.

    I think we're living in a crazy upside down world that I'm considering using an iPad as my main editing rig and a MacBook as my light travel typing computer.
    Aaron Parecki
    my bet is you'll be returning it within a week
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  • Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Apr 14
    Got my very first MacBook Air. I've wanted one of these things since back in the day with the envelope commercials.

    I think we're living in a crazy upside down world that I'm considering using an iPad as my main editing rig and a MacBook as my light travel typing computer.
    Aaron Parecki
    oof I'm curious to hear how FCPX goes for you on that. From what I hear that is not a powerful machine. Which I'd happily tolerate if it were the size of the old 11" Air, but the 13" Air is the same size as the 13" Pro, so might as well go with the Pro at that point.
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  • benhalpern https://github.com/benhalpern   •   Apr 13

    I have been somewhat non-committal mostly because I haven't quite wrapped my head around how exactly it might go down....

    But since we agree in principal with big time all this I'm going to mark this as ready for dev and maybe we can start taking baby steps in getting this all properly integrated.

    Aaron Parecki
    I took a stab at outlining how this might work. Here's the writeup, including details on the (minimal) markup additions needed to Dev.to comment pages:

    https://indieweb.org/Webmention-brainstorming#receiving_webmentions_for_syndicated_copies
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  • Heather Downing https://twitter.com/quorralyne   •   Apr 14
    I honestly miss just walking through crowded airports, hearing different flights and destinations being called, knowing that I'm a traveler among many, and loving being right in the middle of all of it.
    Aaron Parecki
    Someone needs to make this but for airports https://imisstheoffice.eu
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  • Heather Downing https://twitter.com/quorralyne   •   Apr 14
    I honestly miss just walking through crowded airports, hearing different flights and destinations being called, knowing that I'm a traveler among many, and loving being right in the middle of all of it.
    Aaron Parecki
    saaaaame! This is the longest I've not been in an airport in years!
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  • Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Apr 13
    Has anyone else’s WFH setup turned rampant on them yet?

    I started off with my work laptop and a monitor.

    Now I’ve got:

    Two computers
    Keyboard
    Mouse
    PS4
    3 HDMI switcher
    Two sets of headphones
    Key light for web calls
    Notebook
    Two phone chargers
    Partridge in a pear tree 😬
    Aaron Parecki
    I mean my WFH setup turned into building out a whole second studio in the garage so... 🤷‍♂️
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  • Annika Backstrom https://xoxo.zone/@annika   •   Apr 13

    Monterey Bay Aquarium are doing a virtual tour of the #ACNH Museum *right now* on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/montereyaq

    Aaron Parecki
    This is such a good idea for a livestream / podcast!
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  • Annika Backstrom https://xoxo.zone/@annika   •   Apr 13

    Monterey Bay Aquarium are doing a virtual tour of the #ACNH Museum *right now* on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/montereyaq

    Aaron Parecki
    wait what am I watching!
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  • kfdm https://social.tsun.co/@kfdm   •   Apr 13

    @aaronpk I thought Nintendo only supported Facebook and Twitter. Did you have to do something special to post to other services, or are you pulling from one of those ?

    Aaron Parecki
    I made a separate Twitter account and am pulling the photos from there!
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