Notices by Thomas "Vax/Boost/Mask" Fuchs (thomasfuchs@mastodon.social), page 2

@Gargron @zeitschlag yeeeessssss

Any #astrodon peeps wanting to invest into an anti-drone warfare fund? No specific reason…

Just so you know, in this "pandemic is over" times my wife just got admitted to the hospital (pain management after broken leg surgery) and it took hours to get a room.

Because rooms are all full.

Because Covid.

Looking forward to some gaming soon with my upgraded GPU

@Gargron @paul @selea Then they don't use (e.g. Mastodon client for iOS, uploads the whole video and then shows an error message from the server).

@Gargron please add support for 4K videos (could be downscaled on client or on server end), its frustrating to wait for it to upload and only after a few minutes being shown an error message

@paul @Gargron @selea That arguments makes no sense, any modern computer or phone uses hardware to play back videos, and this hardware is extremely efficient. E.g. Phones can easily play back 20 hours of video these days on single battery charge.

Anyway, this should be a client thing and settings in the client to allow or disallow playback or autoplay of videos, with size limits and probably other options, like don't autoplay on cellular connections.

@paul @Gargron @selea The obvious solution is to create different versions of the video server-side.

This is a major advantage that proprietary social networks have over Mastodon—and I think a big deal in holding up adoption.

Unfortunately I don't know how to solve this issue without overloading small instances and servers with work. Only idea I have is to outsource transcoding to volunteers, and do it on their devices/computers and write back transcoded media to original server.

@paul @Gargron @selea Sure but Mastodon server operators are already bound to whatever the source code has as limits (apparently hardcoded) and that went from 8MB to 40MB in a few years. It should be configurable and also communicated to clients so clients don't push data over the network only to have it denied by the sever. (source code: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/models/media_attachment.rb)

Sunset

I caught some more photons before they crashed into my driveway for a total exposure time of 23⅔ hours.

@Gargron basic tax fraud 1x1: overbill another company (that’s friends with yours), write off “losses” that you don’t have to pay in taxes when they don’t pay