pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. husband. FOSDEM organizer. Tennis lover. Amateur musician.

If it ain't fun, you're not doing it right.

@jpmens
That said, there are also a few states where no job needs to be dispatched and things happen out of band. In the 'preview' state, progress will stay at 'waiting' until a human reviews the video; in the 'publishing' state, progress remains at 'waiting' until the video is visible on at least one of our mirrors.

There is no 'waiting' state, but hopefully this answers your question ๐Ÿ˜‰

@jpmens
There are two states, the 'state' and the 'progress'.

The state defines what needs to happen to the talk: transcoding, uploading, generating previews, etc.

The progress defines what is happening within the state. 'waiting' means it is waiting for a dispatcher to pick it up, 'scheduled' means it was dispatched but is waiting for the script to start running, 'running' and 'done' are self-explanatory.

I don't know who was first: the person who invented the word 'Chai' (as in the tea) or the person who invented the word 'Chia' (as in the seeds), but I do hope that whomever wasn't was appropriately punished for all the auto-correction madness they inflicted upon us.

@SmartmanApps
The only exception where that makes sense is if its sole purpose is to be like ThatThing. But then you phrase it differently.

"ThisThing, a free software alternative of the proprietary ThatThing, is now available!"

Other than that, yeah, I agree.
@mr_daemon @retrotechshop

@mirabilos
Must've been a temporary misconfiguration, it seems fine now?

My medical aid (South African term for medical insurance) sent me a Spotify-style "your year in review" message on WhatsApp.

I don't even want that from Spotify, I certainly don't want that from them.

Then they went"'oh looks like we must have done something wrong due to technical issues because you didn't open it, here it is again"

Well yes you did something wrong, but it's not what you think, tyvm.

The lady who does my nails said something I've been thinking about all weekend

She said something along the lines of "Artists have so much power to move people politically. Its why they want to take our power by telling us AI can 'make art,' but AI can't move people."

She is a great artist imo

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Great expression that should be used more.

From Twitter

"My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitising evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good."

@individual8
The link that I posted previously was the first result of a duck duck go search for 'Tesla door handles fire'. There are literally dozens of articles from different publications saying the same thing. You believing Tesla's lies that the door handles are safe doesn't make it so.
@randahl

@individual8
The point isn't that they're electronic or mechanic, it's that real-life experiences have shown that flush door handles are death traps.

Yes the design is done in such a way that the handles should come out when the car is involved in an accident. The key word here is 'should'. When (not if) it doesn't, you die.
@randahl

@individual8
There is reliable data out there that people have been burned alive in multiple incidents in Teslas because the car was on fire, and the door handles were recessed so people couldn't get them out.

e.g., https://www.autoblog.com/electric/report-at-least-15-fatalities-linked-to-tesla-doors-failing-to-open-in-fires

Sure they're pretty, but they're also a death trap.
@randahl

@maarten
The FOSDEM server team runs mirrorbrainz on video.fosdem.org, I don't know how that decides that the video is available on at least one mirror, but what causes the spikes in availability of videos must be in there somewhere.
@fosdem

@maarten
The dispatcher does a HEAD request for a single file of every talk that is in the publishing state, then inspects the returned data. If that indicates that the video is public, it moves to the next state.

Exact code at https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/sreview/-/blob/main/scripts/sreview-dispatch?ref_type=heads#L182-219
@fosdem

@maarten
Welcome! I can't take all the credit though, it's a team effort

@joostvb
You're welcome!

Combination of crowdsourcing the bits that can't be automated and automating everything else means things do go fast ๐Ÿ˜‰
@fosdem

@cfgmgmtcamp
Pity. My colleague sighed up for that and is wondering if there is space in another workshop that he could still attend instead?

@fosdem On a side note, if your favourite talk is still listed as "preview" on https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview, please reach out to the speaker or devroom manager. They can review the talk and release it for viewing.

Right now, on the morning after #FOSDEM, if you started watching now and wanted to see all the currently available videos of talks that were held at the @fosdem that just finished, you have nearly 4 days ahead of you.

See https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview and https://dashboard.fosdem.org (the 'SReview stats' dashboard) to follow along at home.

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