Notices by Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)

@ChrisFerguson @tgpo Yeah, that can be tough sledding for sure.

I've heard of people running it off a Raspberry Pi, so maybe you have one laying around in a drawer or know someone who does. ;)

@ChrisFerguson @tgpo I hope you're able to do so! I honestly need to get *back* to streaming. I've been DJing live more and it's left less time for streaming shows.

FWIW, since you mention costs, some people self-host their Owncast out of their houses, which makes the cost pretty low. I don't, but my hosting provider (dreamhost) lets me scale the server up and down as needed, so I leave it on minimum specs until it's time to stream.

@wjmaggos @tgpo When you go to the details page of a channel there should be an "add favorites" option there

@jalefkowit Gonna go down the Morgellon's Disease rabbit hole today?

I'm very happy to announce the v1.1 update of the #Owncast #Roku client. This new release supports curating your own personal list of favorite streams as well as badging to show which are live. Huge thanks to @tgpo for pushing us over that final yard to get it published!

@KatS What's also absolutely batshit is that, at least here in the US, it's also still morally scandalous when you *don't* alter your name at appropriate times. My partner shocked my family when, at our wedding, she was announced at the reception under her own surname rather than my surname. She finds the idea a marital name repulsive, and I support that, but we had to make up a story about how it would confuse her publication history to change names to calm people down.

@KatS We, at one point, picked up a cultural idea that all things in this world have some discernible "purpose" intrinsic to them and go outside of it is to "violate its nature", and it gets projected onto all wild manner of things, including something as simple as changing your name.

At a legal level, some amount of friction makes sense; changing your identity can be a tool to evade a contract or debt. But there's even a cultural "how dare you be so vain" attached to changing one's name.

@KatS For me, I have a new name but didn't get rid of my old one. It's now a name that's for my partners and old friends to have, as a token of our intimacy and past. The new name is for new people.

And I consider all my names part of my legal signature. I put my new name in quotes to show it's not present on my legal ID but is still part of my name and what I should be called.

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@KatS One of the more confusing things in my study of tea ceremony is that the past masters of my tradition had so many names. Names of childhood, names of adulthood, tea names, Zen names, artistic names, names only known to their mothers...

Makes me realize how weird it is that our culture insists on having only one with little mutability to it.

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@JosephMenn Friend, may the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson protect you the rest of your days.

@Cattail @tgpo I'm happy to have gotten the ball rolling; @tgpo has some truly amazing rewriting done so we can start to actually work on the features. Great to actually have some real expertise on this now.

@RnDanger @ana indeed, Zappfe's insistence that "messiahs" are practically fated to be destroyed is itself an expression of the outward violence used to maintain a brittle inner peace.

@raeaw I think that's an interesting idea, but if other coders are like me, then I suspect the elitism comes from developing an incredibly specific skill set, a lack of useful rivals at it while young, and being told repeatedly through childhood by adults that "You might be a nerd now, but you'll show them all when you're a rich coder when you grow up."

"To a pessimist, there are weeds in your gutters; to an optimist, you've got hanging gardens." --Patrick Boyle

@ana You might enjoy the entire essay.

I will note that Zapffe does use some gender essentialist (and slightly misogynistic) language, as he was a philosopher dude writing in 1933, but I still love "The Last Messiah" and consider it one of the great lost existentialist deep cuts.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah

@ana "Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness." --Peter Wessel Zapffe, "The Last Messiah"

@luna

@clacke I will definitely say that at nearly 4 hours it takes some endurance to finish, but it works hard for its run time. I also love that its quality directly scales with the size of the screen you watch it on.

@clacke I am so happy to meet someone else who's bothered by excessive run times, too. My rule is all moves get 100 minutes gratis. Beyond that, for ever 10 minutes you take, you've got to do something with it or you're just making things worse. Generally, it's better to make the film shorter than longer. Trim it down to what matters most. Kill your beloved ideas, directors!

Oh, also, I nominate Lawrence Of Arabia in the "deserved to be over 2h" list.

@heliumlake I use a LineageOS phone. It works fine. You just have to roll your own email and calendar stuff. FairEmail is a fine email client, and you can set up NextCloud in like 30 minutes.

The mapping and navigation apps are hit-and-miss, but I could otherwise live on it.