Aaron Parecki

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Josh Shephard https://twitter.com/TheJoshShephard • Nov 29
@aaronpk with regards to the YouTube Chat Overlay plugin. Is there any possible way to get greater customization?

I was hoping to potentially mod the animation, style and graphics at a future date potentially.

Like being able to use After Effects with some HTML, CSS, and JS

I'm not planning on adding a UI to customize things that much, but the whole thing is open source and you can dig into the CSS yourself! There's instructions here for how to load your copy of it outside the Chrome store.

https://github.com/aaronpk/live-chat-overlay

Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F

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Mon, Nov 28, 2022 5:26pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 27
I will also likely regret wading in on this, but:

1: Using robots.txt requires also fetching robots.txt first, so that only marginally reduces the total number of requests.

2: Caching and CDNs are already a well-established pattern on the web, and necessary for a lot of things that have nothing to do with Mastodon/fediverse. Solving that problem other ways will likely create new problems, so at least that falls back on existing solutions that are known to work.

but also, I'm reading back up this thread... come on everyone, be nice! We are all on the same side!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F

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Sun, Nov 27, 2022 9:19pm -08:00
Scott Hanselman :verified:👸🏽🐝🌮 https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman • Nov 28
@gme @crschmidt @tw @cshabsin @jefftk I will likely regret wading in here but this is a rather bizarre thread. Spec or not, it’s poor design. It’s irresponsible. It’s messy. It’s resource intensive. To say “put a CDN on it” doesn’t change the waste - it hides the bug/implementation and shifts the responsibility. @jwz and friends are correct to bring attention to it. Don’t bury it. Fix it. @Gargron

I will also likely regret wading in on this, but:

1: Using robots.txt requires also fetching robots.txt first, so that only marginally reduces the total number of requests.

2: Caching and CDNs are already a well-established pattern on the web, and necessary for a lot of things that have nothing to do with Mastodon/fediverse. Solving that problem other ways will likely create new problems, so at least that falls back on existing solutions that are known to work.

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Sun, Nov 27, 2022 9:18pm -08:00
Scott Hanselman :verified:👸🏽🐝🌮 https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman • Nov 27
Getting a plane to Europe tomorrow. I have full seasons of a half-dozen shows, a Retroid with retro games, a Nintendo Switch, and work and email to do. I will likely do none of it and simply fall asleep. I do this EVERY time and I NEVER learn.

haha same 😅 I have done this so many times

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Sun, Nov 27, 2022 6:35am -08:00
sonicrocketman https://pine.blog/u/sonicrocketman • Nov 27
Just searched the App Store for my own app by name and the app appeared nowhere in the results. Thanks Apple.

I keep telling people about the apps "Shoot" and "LiveApp" which are basically impossible to search for in the app store 😅

Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F

Sun, Nov 27, 2022 6:34am -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 24
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Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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Fri, Nov 25, 2022 8:07am -08:00
Gabe Kangas https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek • Nov 25
@aaronpk Oh I don't mean the specifics of the spec, just that the concept of it never took off and I've never heard of anybody really having a problem with how things are now.

Yeah I guess I just mean that part of the spec didn't offer Mastodon any real benefits over what it already had, whereas the S2S part offered the ability to do private/friends-only accounts which OStatus never had a good solution for. At this point it might make more sense to try to formalize the Mastodon API as a standard.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F

Fri, Nov 25, 2022 7:49am -08:00
Gabe Kangas https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek • Nov 24
It was a mistake that ActivityPub Client-to-Server never took off and I think we'll pay for it one day.

Right now one person calls the shots for the client APIs of multiple projects because all the projects want to be compatible with the biggest server implementation. This feels wrong, but I don't know what the solution is at this point.

Frankly I don't think that part of the spec was well thought out, and I also disagree with the fundamentals of how it works. I suspect it didn't take off because other people feel the same.

The fact that Mastodon dictates the default posting API isn't good, but also isn't surprising, and it's definitely something I would like to see change! I'm pretty sure the reason that happened was because people were already writing Mastodon clients before Mastodon adopted ActivityPub in the first place.

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

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Thu, Nov 24, 2022 4:52pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 23
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Thu, Nov 24, 2022 11:13am -08:00
Basil https://sarcasm.stream/@basil • Nov 24
@aaronpk it's a bit of an oddity in England. There are *very* few places you are allowed to fly, and you aren't allowed to fly in public spaces at all without a license. So to build up your practice hours to get a license is an exercise in law breaking 😅

Interesting, that's not what I read last month when I went to London. I was able to take the test online to get my Operator ID, then it was just a matter of finding an area that didn't have local restrictions (some parks, central London, etc)

https://www.caa.co.uk/consumers/remotely-piloted-aircraft/drones-flying-in-the-open-category/

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Thu, Nov 24, 2022 10:48am -08:00
https://bsd.network/@ariel/109396817984248959

Oh yeah, a classic 💯

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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 10:22pm -08:00
Clifton B 💉💉💉🪀🎮 https://twitter.com/CliftonB • Nov 24
What's dangerous is that I've been thinking about finishing up my video rig, combined with the fact that I can technically afford to right now. I just know that I can't justify the cost without some more projects planned, or at least a gig or two.

gotta spend money to make money, right? 😇

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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 7:40pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 23
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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 7:38pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 23
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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 7:33pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 23
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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 7:20pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 23
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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 6:54pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 23
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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 6:38pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 23
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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 6:36pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 23
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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 6:33pm -08:00
tim cappasskey https://twitter.com/timcappalli • Nov 24
It's not terrible, but it's not great either.

there's just no point in repeating all the same mistakes of social media and centralized services again. there's no reason it will be different this time.

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Wed, Nov 23, 2022 6:24pm -08:00

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