#PulseAudio on #Linux seems to be able to filter out #noise on the fly. This is great for #recording #audio or (probably) for video & audio chats with others.
Basically, make sure pulseaudio-utils is installed and run:
pactl load-module module-echo-cancel aec_method=webrtc
...and then switch to the new input.
(via https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2yqfqp/just_found_that_pulseaudio_have_noise/ )
Mastodon costs and sustainability https://medium.com/@lim_nick/mastodon-systemic-sustainability-afe172699cb2 #mastodon #service #cost #bandwidth
@louiswu @federicomena It even has a Wikipedia article and name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_vibration_syndrome :)
"Will Mastodon make any money?" scream the journalists, who have forgotten the joy of building sandcastles on the beach
PSA: If you are in the web view of a remote instance of some user or toot, you cannot directly reply/boost/fav.
But you can copypaste the URL into your local Mastodon server's "Search" field, then it allows you to interact!
Wasn't obvious to me, so maybe boost this if it helped you. :)
technical note about this tech as I see some confusion/misconceptions:
Admins of your instance have complete control over your account. Really, we can read all the posts (including DMs) and we can even impersonate/hack your account with ease.
Make sure you trust your admins.
Here on toot.cat we have a CoC that applies to both admins and non admins. Admins are expected to abide by the CoC and not oppress users as well.
Hey, this is interesting - someone's built an attacknet looking for badly secured IoTrash and attempting to brick it.
INTRO TO FEDERATION:
1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. There's a lot of servers that run it & u can follow ppl on other servers.
2. When u follow someone from another server, your server receives their toots.
3. The federated TL is all public toots that the server receives, ie all of the toots from everyone that ppl on your server follow.
4. ERGO: if u want to see more toots in the fed TL, follow + get other ppl on your server to follow ppl from other servers!
hypothesis: if too many early users sign up on mastodon.social instead of other instances, federation will end up becoming a second-class feature. (imagine what email today would look like if gmail had existed in the 90s.)
other instances need to be able to compete with mastodon.social for growth, or https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 should be implemented.
Mastodon's federation introduces UX challenges.
One that worries me a lot is about message forgery. Anyone can forge a twoot, even cross-server.
Whereas Twitter Inc might be trustworthy enough to not forge transcripts. Anyone can run a Mastodon server and might want to abuse it to influence people (see Russian troll campaigns).
Should Mastodon "home servers" cryptographically sign updates? Should there be end-to-end signatures? Anyone has thoughts on this?
I would love it if every "little universe" project I participate in would have its own Mastodon. Then I could toot from each as would be topically appropriate, and people would be able to select their own subset of my obsessions.