Steve Streza @stevestreza@mastodon.social

Just a reminder, please don't ask me about my employer, about any of the news around them, or about any of the decisions they made, as I will not answer them.

If you harass me over decisions that they made because I work for them, I will instantly block and report for harassment.

If you don't know where I work, I won't be talking about it. If you find out through other sites or sources, please re-read this toot.

Thanks for understanding!

God I fucking love Eurovision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjo8s3fKUM

Here is The Thing working. A fully remote VTuber setup, where the person behind the screen is two states away, the VTuber locally has no streaming artifacts or anything like that, and the latency is so low that chatting is possible. I'm stunned at how well this works in practice.

re #introduction #introductions

- I'm an iOS engineer on Microsoft Teams, previously Tumblr and Pocket
- I live in the Seattle area with my wife (https://twitter.com/abby_starling), a comic illustrator for Aggretsuko et al, and our cat
- I play a lot of video games, esp. Final Fantasy XIV (Faerie)
- I watch a lot of Seattle Sounders soccer
- I'm trying to move away from Corporate Tech towards open source community-driven tools, and learning GTK4 to build Linux apps
- I'm pansexual with he/they pronouns 🏳️‍🌈

The downside of any exodus from hell site is the influx of people who are loudly upset that Mastodon doesn't behave exactly like hell site, or start shouting about getting their hell site apps bolted onto here. Please respect the ecosystem.

After a few days of figuring out WebRTC, I have Built A Thing for it. This weekend, my partner is going to be at a convention in San Jose. Remotely, as a VTuber. She's going to remain here at home in Seattle.

To do this, I've got an Electron app running Node.js code to forward the face-tracking data and mic audio over WebRTC to a laptop at the convention running VTube Studio. The app forwards back a webcam audio/video feed.

Real-time chat with a VTuber in perfect quality and very low latency.

I am quickly becoming a "forget the rest of the game, I am now a crafting god" player in Final Fantasy XIV. #ffxiv

Also, maybe this is just me talking but please don't set up a Twitter-to-Mastodon cross posting script. What ends up happening is people set it up, then stop coming back, but their bot keeps posting away while people have no actual presence here.

There are official Mastodon apps for iOS and Android... But also, this isn't a silo, you can download 3rd party apps too, that's ok here. I use Tusky on Android and Mast on iOS, but there's a bunch out there.

Wow timeline sure is hoppin' today huh

internet high art will never beat this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Gn8jt55LQ

(cw generally unsettling)

WebRTC is fucking absurdly cool and I wish I had more use cases for it.

I've had a filament 3D printer for a year and a half and it still feels like some Jetsons shit to make a model and then a few hours later it's a real physical thing.

Docker is great, except for once every 13 months it completely ruins my night.

Steam Deck + 3D printed stand + front facing speakers + Jellyfin. Very nice setup.

One thing that is deeply annoying about Electron apps that is probably only a problem for like 10 people is that they use Chrome which defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS which bypasses local DNS so any stuff you change at my router doesn't get picked up so internal routes don't work in Electron apps and I hate the sequence of things that went wrong to make this problem known to me