#indieweb 2022-08-03

2022-08-03 UTC
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[tantek] similar to Loqi's until service, but for Twitter: https://twitter.com/RemindMe_OfThis
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[tantek] do we have a page for such countdown/alarm bots?
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[tantek] what is an alarm?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "alarm" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "alarm is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] aaronpk, just noticed your photo https://aaronparecki.com/2022/07/31/10/blumbridge is syndicated as a short video on Twitter!
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Loqi [Aaron Parecki] Stopped by the opening party of the new pedestrian/cycling #BlumBridge this morning for a quick photo! @PBOTinfo @bonbpdx https://aaronparecki.com/img/1240x0/2022/07/31/10/photo.jpg
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aaronpk yeah, that was my comment about wanting a better way to post videos to my site the other day 😂
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aaronpk i posted the video manually on twitter, and added the syndication link to the post on my site later
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[tantek] ahhh
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[tantek] yes, posting videos was such a pain that despite having posted a few of them, I haven't done one in a while
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aaronpk i'm thinking for now my best bet is going to be making a faster way to pull back a tweet onto my website (PESOS)
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[tantek] is that really the video quality you want?
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[tantek] ironically, you're the first example at https://indieweb.org/video#Aaron_Parecki
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[tantek] is that referring to the "old" p3k that let you record & post video?
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aaronpk i can still post videos on my site i just don't have a good interface for doing it
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aaronpk also i think that one in particular was PESOS from instagram
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[tantek] the description claims you used p3k to record & post it
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[tantek] and looks like all my videos are broken because IG media URLs are not a CDN 🙃
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aaronpk it's possible I did and then manually POSSE'd it to twitter
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aaronpk er, instagram
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aaronpk the way that works now, regardless of whether it's created first on the site or imported from instagram/twitter, means it's all native video on the site
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[tantek] well I moved the examples from me, [benatwork], and [kylewm] down to Past Examples because all of those are broken in one way or another so don't want casual browsers of that page to try clicking and get disappointed
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aaronpk oops
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[tantek] all to say, video is hard
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aaronpk weirdly it's all way simpler now compared to 5+ years ago, at the end of the day it's just putting a file at a URL and linking to it with an HTML tag, just like an image
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aaronpk but the file sizes are still just a bit too large to upload with a simple HTML form unless you're on a super fast connection
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aaronpk and as soon as you want to do a video longer than a minute or two, then you really should go with the HLS chunked hosting option instead of a single mp4 file, and that is a bit more complicated to do
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[tantek] solving videos <1min is plenty for typical use-cases today IG, reels, TikTok, previously Vine etc.
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[tantek] for longer than a minute, Internet Archive is your friend
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aaronpk i did notice twitter does the HLS playlist thing even for that short video
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[snarfed] ah memories of https://snarfed.org/2015-01-22_pesos-for-bridgy-publish . it may not be ideal, but extending "silos as plumbing" to using their clients too, along w/PESOS, can definitely be useful as a stopgap here and there!
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[tantek] I miss 2015
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[schmarty] i defy the claim that it is easier now as the latest iOS fights tooth and nail to use HEVC even for sub-2-second live video and that is garbo for posting directly to the web.
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[schmarty] rather: it was briefly easy and has since become complicated for bad reasons :zany_face:
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aaronpk Oh true
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[schmarty] https://martymcgui.re/2021/11/21/saving-the-caturday-with-a-video-proxy/
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