Notices by aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@baconandcoconut I'd pursue every one of my interests. I'd learn how to make dresses, I'd learn how to make analog synthesizers, I'd learn languages, I'd learn how to play more instruments, I'd get better at the instruments I know how to play, I'd build this cool house out of memories that has doors that open up in several major cities across the world, I'd see my friends more often, I'd work on my game ideas, I'd throw LAN parties, oh and I'd get to sleep on my own schedule for the first time

browsers letting webpages "reinvent" copy/paste was a mistake 🤬

a gamedev thought experiment I've been pondering every now and then: design a worthwhile multiplayer game that's only practical to play as a lan party game that isn't just wasting bandwidth for its own sake.

I think the hypothetical game client would have to be sending roughly 2 KB per millisecond at minimum to saturate my high end internet connection's paltry upload speed, so if a game client needed to do that continuously for some reason it would only work as a lan party game for many people.

@cwebber don't think of it as a tedious last ditch effort to save your dead open hardware laptops from the dead open hardware laptop collection, think of it is as "brb doing hot girl shit"

there's so much linux in here it hurts

I was thinking I should take another crack at figuring out how to live stream audio over the internet on linux in advance of hanging out with friends on a call video call tonight

but it's so insanely hot in here today honestly just being awake is kind of exhausting maybe I shouldn't bother

"sorry ladies, it looks like 2025 isn't going to be the year of linux on the desktop either 😔"

if anyone knows a way to live broadcast an audio stream over the internet to ~4 listeners I'm all ears though. My requirements are simple though:

- must be relatively straight forward to set up even if you have a headache and you're tired

- works on wayland

- easy to explain to the listeners how to tune in

- doesn't involve twitch

- doesn't require giving a company my phone number (eg youtube)

- doesn't require a hacked discord client

- preferably doesn't involve obs

we used to have "internet radio" is that still a thing? like can I just run a program, point it to an alsa device, open a port on my router and send my friends a "hyper link" and ask them to open it in winamp or whatever?

I just want to play my drum machine badly for my wife and two half-interested friends. We don't need to generate Value for Shareholders, it's not Content you know?

I'm reliably informed that I want to set up an "ice cast". excelsior

alright I've got one of my cervicogenic headaches in full bloom. time to figure out how to set up "ice cast"

off to a great start. sudo kate slaps me on the wrist for daring to run a program as root. wont somebody think of the security?! it says to start it normally and assures me it will just ask for an elevated permission

when i do that it just says it can't open the file lol.

thankfully emacs does not care about security,

also i like that the icecast documentation doesn't actually say where to find icecast.xml. thankfully I was born with this information, and do not need to be told, but I just think that's really funny.

"client-timeout
This does not seem to be used."

I appreciate their honesty

"It is not recommended to use this setting, unless you have very good reasons and know what you are doing." 😌

rude. the service refuses to start if I change the listen port away from 8000 >:(

like if I change it to a normal alternate http port like 8008 it'll just refuse to bind the port. I tested a bunch of different ports and it only accepts 8000 for some reason :/

ok it was some selinux policy nonsense. I wonder if the linux people make a sport out of seeing who can push out the most baffling policy in the name of "security"

is it *really* the security best practice these days to force well known default ports for things?!

cool i got it working >:3

anyone know how to bring the latency down under 10 seconds?

sometimes i envy the people who don't know how copyright works and talk about licenses like they're magic protection wards written by wizards in an incomprehensible alien language. i feel like they get a lot more out of open source licenses than i do.

@hipsterelectron @ireneista honestly I'm thankful moral rights aren't really a thing here in the US or half the open source projects would probably have a "no queers" clause in their licenses and like visa or something would bully chrome into having a clause prohibiting sex workers from using the internet or something insane like that