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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 05:00:01 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    It's been three weeks now since I've blocked YouTube on my home network. As much as I hate YouTube, I'd find myself watching stupid videos on it because of the algorithm for much longer than I anticipated.

    So I was just done with the wasted time, and I was done with it making me feel like it was taking that control away from me. So I blocked it at the PiHole layer.

    Here are some things I've discovered in the past three weeks.

    - The most obvious is like cutting off anything cold turkey if you realize how much of a habit it is. I'll just open it on my AppleTV and put something random on just to let it play. And I kept opening it even after I blocked it without thinking, only to be greeted to a "you're offline" message.

    - There are not an insignificant number of things I would learn about for the first time from a YouTube video being surfaced to me because the algorithm is so tuned into me. I didn't even know my favorite band released a new song until somebody told me directly. Without those CNN clips, or music news or whatever I went blind because I didn't replace it with anything else. I didn't know I had to. I didn't realize I was doing that.

    - You don't notice how many web pages are littered with YouTube embeds until you block them all and they show up as errors instead.

    - I get sent a ton of YouTube links from people. So for each one, individually, I'll disable my PiHole for a couple of minutes. Long enough to watch that single video because somebody sent it.

    I realize what I really want is to be able to only watch a small group of accounts, treating YouTube like a video podcast. When a new video goes live I can download it and watch it. No recommendations, no "other videos by this creator", nothing. Just one video at a time, allowing me to watch 5 videos a week or something that I care about. I'm going to look around to see if there's a system already built around this. Otherwise I might write some small shell scripts with youtube-dl or something. Though I don't know if there's API access to a user's video list.

    Any recommendations?
    In conversation about 3 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 16:28:15 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan
    @aral I've had to turn down opportunities for the same reason.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 15:48:10 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • internetarchive
    • Brewster Kahle
    @brewsterkahle @internetarchive I hate that we've centralized the entire internet behind Cloudflare. And I hate that we HAVE to centralize the entire internet behind Cloudflare.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:22:36 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    The Owncast Fediverse account is currently in a migration to a new server and has been stuck for quite a while. I wonder if it'll complete.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 09:34:53 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • Paul Cantrell
    @inthehands Glue and duct tape is fun until you're sick of putting the glue and duct tape back together.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 21:07:21 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • Evan Prodromou
    • DNA Lounge
    @evan @dnalounge It's always a special day when we get asked to pose for the photo. I've done it twice!
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 05:36:01 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    I can just tell I'm conversing with an LLM via a Github issue and it's driving me up the wall.
    In conversation about 7 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 17:29:51 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan
    • Karl Heinz Häsliprinz
    • Svenja
    @aral @KarlHeinzHasliP @svenja I can't speak if you, or anybody else, will find Owncast adequate for their needs with screen reader support or anything else. I can tell you we've made handfuls of updates in the past to improve screen reader support, and will continue to improve accessibility with feedback, contributions, and the needs of people who use the software. I do know people who navigate only with a screen reader have used Owncast in the past, but I can't speak for their experience. I hope you find Owncast useful and will share your experience to help improve the project. Let me know if you have any questions!
    In conversation about 7 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 09:23:41 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    • Owncast
    • Kit Rhett Aultman
    Another fantastic @owncast newsletter from @roadriverrail. They do such a great job sharing what's going on in the greater ecosystem. If you haven't subscribed, it's one email every month or two and it's a really worthwhile read. I'm deeply thankful this resource exists for all of us. https://owncast.ghost.io/owncast-newsletter-january-2025/
    In conversation about 9 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink

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      Owncast Newsletter January 2025
      In This Issue * A Longer Note From The Editor * Technical Updates * Owncast 0.2.x Series Released * New Features for Roku Owncasts * Features * JNKTN Holiday Season Stream * A Heartfelt Farewell to Radio Free Fedi * Closing Remarks A Longer Note From The Editor A gracious hello from my daybed, which is
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 20:35:08 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    • DNA Lounge
    A reminder that there are good guys out there. @dnalounge, a nightclub in San Francisco, shows this to its attendees every 15 seconds or so.
    In conversation about 10 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink

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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 22:24:45 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • Zach Leatherman :11ty:
    @zachleat I know it's not popular around here, but I'll bite. I think it's more like if you already use React, you'd use the React component. If you don't, you wouldn't set up an entire React environment for a single component. You'd do something else.
    In conversation about 11 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 22:24:41 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • Zach Leatherman :11ty:
    @zachleat A common sense response about React. You're supposed to shame everyone who's ever even looked at it, or keep your mouth shut.
    In conversation about 11 months ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 00:13:00 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    It's come to the point where I don't feel comfortable sharing Owncast streams on the Owncast Fediverse account anymore because it has enough followers where the Mastodon DDoS (hug of death) creates problems. If you think it's a problem for not real-time content like blogs, it's a critical problem with real-time video. I've been trying to improve it over time, but I think I'm going to have to really start locking things down.

    https://github.com/owncast/owncast/issues/4020
    In conversation about a year ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink

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      Brainstorm improvements to even better handle the Mastodon DDoS · Issue #4020 · owncast/owncast
      Share your bug report, feature request, or comment. The Mastodon Hug of Death, where sharing a link to an Owncast server on the Fediverse will then get accessed all at the same time in a DDoS is a ...
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 18:10:29 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan
    • Renaud Chaput
    • goetz 🚲
    @renchap @aral @goetz What is it they say about nazi bars? SWF is a club, that you voluntarily joined. That club embraces having Facebook as a member. And you still want to be in that club? Say what you want about “partnerships” or “relationships” to make yourself feel better. But, you’re hanging out at a nazi bar now, and you don’t see a problem with it. Oof.
    In conversation about a year ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 18:03:52 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    • dansup
    @dansup
    > You might hate Meta, but you have to admit their presence here will likely lead to improvements in privacy and safety across implementations either directly or indirectly

    There is absolutely, positively, 100% no way that Facebook's presence anywhere will lead to improvements in privacy. That's complete crazy talk.

    You're not stupid. I know that you know better. I don't understand why you would say this.
    In conversation about a year ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 02:00:16 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    • John Regan
    @jprjr I noticed Game That Tune went off the air. Is everything alright?
    In conversation about a year ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 08:59:21 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    A week from now, I'll be at Black Rock City for my first Burning Man. I think I'm prepared, but I can't help but think I've missed something important, and I'm going to die out there.
    In conversation about a year ago from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 06:43:25 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    • Framework :fedora: :ubuntu:
    I’ve been having a great time with my new @frameworkcomputer laptop. The flexibility is really unique. First I got to build the laptop myself with parts, and now I get it to be what I want it to be with regards to input and ports and such. I’ll probably swap out the screen bezel for a bolder color, though. The purple is not very purple. Worth the 6 month wait!
    In conversation Sunday, 19-May-2024 06:43:25 JST from social.gabekangas.com permalink

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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 20:04:16 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • jwz
    • Julian Fietkau
    @jwz @julian At this point I’m more interested in hearing what that proposed fix is, as well. This should be public discourse. Mastodon is not the only Fediverse microblogging software that exists, so even if Mastodon were to put in a change, there’s a ton of other services out there that aren’t Mastodon that will still be doing what they’re doing now. Everyone needs to be in on this conversation, and get on the same page if the problem is to go away.
    In conversation Thursday, 02-May-2024 20:04:16 JST from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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    Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 13:56:46 JST Gabe Kangas Gabe Kangas
    in reply to
    • Kit Rhett Aultman
    @roadriverrail It seems like many people like the Matrix bridge workflow for Discord, Slack, etc. I briefly tried to get it to work, but didn't get very far.
    In conversation Wednesday, 01-May-2024 13:56:46 JST from social.gabekangas.com permalink
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