Notices by Strypey (Quitter.se refugee) (strypey)

@cwebber @clacke @sean every time I try to do video editing on a #GNU #Linux system, it's the audio that let's me down. It's incredibly frustrating. Windows and MacOS have managed to sort this out, why can't we?

@nutomic thanks, I'll have a look.

@scanlime come for the coffee, stay for the abuse ;-)

@jkb I know the plural of anecdote is not data and all that. But this is the very consistent pattern that's emerged from my observations of my own drug use, and all the people I've seen use a lot of different drugs over a lot of years (I'm over 40 now), plus the stories I've heard from people about their observations. Also from the reading I've done as a drug law reform activist, including Nutt et al:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4

@jcbrand
> but there's more room for cooperation and IMO space for both.

Totally agree. Let a million flowers bloom :-)

@jcbrand
> Depends on what "the job" is.

I don't have the technical knowledge to assess the pros and cons of the specs, or the protocols, formats etc they depend on. All I've noticed is that I've been enthusiastically promoting XMPP for any IM-like feature for years, but I've found it much easier to get the devs I interact with excited about newer tech like AP and WebTorrent. Maybe there's technical reasons for that, or maybe it's just people following trends. Who knows?

@nutomic really? What are the big sticking points? I mean, there's been #FreeCode software for streaming media since #Icecast. I'm guessing it has something to do with making the livestreaming work with #WebTorrent? It's a shame the #BitTorrent company never released the code for BitTorrent Live.

@jkb I'm sorry to hear about your cousin's death. It's those kinds of experiences that make it clear than the dangers of opioids are not just prohibitionist propaganda. In fact, it's arguable that one of the ulterior motives for starting the War on (Some) Drugs was to demonize less dangerous drugs that were already in common use for pain relief etc (see the doco ), so as to create a market for opioids. See the #Druglawed documentaries:
http://druglawed.vhx.tv/

@jkb I think it's pretty clear that *anything* can be psychologically habit-forming, and that some substances are highly addictive (eg opioids, nicotine, alcohol, tranquilizers, most amphetamines), some are moderately addictive (eg caffein), some are not addictive (eg cannabis, MDMA), and some are anti-addictive (eg entheogens like LSD, psilocybin, mescaline)
https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org/2018/06/can-psychedelics-help-abas-conquer-drug-addictions/

@jkb exactly!

@ohyran yup ;-)

#CreativeCommons founder #LawrenceLessig just appeared on the #JoeRogan podcast (don't read the comment stream *shudder*):
https://invidio.us/watch?v=Igc_1TPfK9Y

I'm just watching a music video on YT with a live chat box beside it. Is this something we could do with #PeerTube, or a #LiveStream clone forked from it?

@xj9 remember that the whole idea of Git-based web forges is that nobody *has* to use them. If you are confident doing everything with the Git CLI, you can. AFAIK that's already true in GitLab, everything (not just code repos but issues trackers, wikis, etc) can be used directly through Git, with the appropriate permissions on the instance. As Drew quite rightly says, Git is already federated. What ForgeFed does is federate the web UI
https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed/wiki/User-stories
@BartG95 @Wolf480pl @alcinnz

@jcbrand
> having a healthy XMPP ecosystem is still important even without mass adoption.

Replace "XMPP" with "federated" and we are in total agreement. I'm just not convinced that the particular set of tech standardized by XMPP is the best tech for the job, and the growth of other federation standards seems to suggest it isn't, at least for some use cases. I've seen it described as a "heavy stack".

@Wolf480pl @alcinnz ... and if I don't own my own computer? If I'm a working class person in a developing country, trying to learn to code to lift myself out of poverty? Having it all work in a browser, under a single set of login credentials, could be the difference between whether that learning is available to me or not.

@Wolf480pl @alcinnz Fair enough, I agree that simpler is often better. Here are the user stories that have been assembled so far by the #ForgeFed team:
https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed/wiki/User-stories

@Wolf480pl @alcinnz
But ok, let's look at another situation. You're considering giving commit access to someone, or even handing over maintainership to them. Having a quick way to review someone's history of contributions is one way to reduce the likelihood of handing over commit access to someone who then uses it to insert malware, as discussed here:
https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-2-thanksgiving-npm-and-malware-in-free-software.html

@Wolf480pl doesn't that depend how complicated it is to review? What if you spends hours poring through the code, only to realize you're being trolled? This is much more likely in a federated environment than a silo, and one of the reasons some people mutter darkly about the wisdom of federating code forges at all.
@alcinnz

@Zuph if not, I guess that UX is still a work in progress ;-P Moving on to the publishing side of things, when you say video embedding, for example, do you mean uploading video on Tumblr, then embedding it, or embedding it from a third-party host like YT?