This is the answer. Everyone assumes your user Crontab works just like you. It doesn’t. You have to be explicit as possible, because it’s basically like another person attempting to run your stuff, but not having any of your environment variables.

So you’re telling it to CD, but calling the script name then tells it to look in it’s path, which it won’t have that. T

he ./ says ‘run from right where I am right now’ while ‘<scriptname>’ says run an executable where ever it is which then immediately checks $PATH, bit not local.

So ‘./<script name>’ says run my script and it’s right HERE in the place you’re in right now.

It’s more of a statement on how his followers justify these types of things. Not him. I know he’s a wanna be dictator.

I’m also not being serious.

$600 I’d go for it… $900 in the US… :-( can’t justify it. I’ll keep watching closely though. I so want one of these. As well as a Framework laptop, in the future.

I thought we disliked communism here? Oh right, when orange man does it, it OK. Unga munga.

You have to lick it to get it to stick to the laser.

YUP! We talked about Cory Doctorow’s Deep Crack! Well it’s not his, he’s just borrowing the deep crack. :-D I’m a child. It’s this and it’s SUPER cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker

Cory Doctorow is fantastic. I spoke with him on Fireside Fedi and he’s just brilliant and has seen some amazing tech. We even talked about his deep crack. That and lots of other interviews with Fedi folks for anyone interested: https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/huevh4L6r1yMYXqcQMi8gR

Thank YOu!

Talking with Ben Pate today at 1500 Eastern. Robert is tomorrow at 1100

No harm in that. To each their own. :-) Everyone gets to decide at least.

Good plan. Keep locking down your big tech platforms, and we’ll all be over here letting folks know where they can find freedom.

Actually going to be talking with Robert W. Gehl tomorrow on Fireside Fedi! I just found out about him, a few weeks ago, and he’s written extensively on social media. I’ve unfortunately not been able to acquire any of his books to prepare, but they seem to all be incredibly interestingly titled.

https://stream.firesidefedi.live/ if folks wanna watch live and ask questions.

https://video.firesidefedi.live/ if you wanna watch the show afterwards.

I have a friend that also brought up discoverability as an issue, so she stayed on Twitch. Twitch also has a massive discoverability problem and they have numerous tools, but there’s so much noise it’s impossible to rise above it.

With Owncast discoverability is organic atm. It’s a tiny, but growing pond. Like anything else anymore, if you want to be discovered you have to do the leg work.

But it’s definitely NOT Twitch and you won’t get famous or make tons of money.

What you can do though is control your platform, stream what you want, etc.

I personally LOVE Owncast. It’s how I’ve met numerous folks and built a community. I use my own for games and tech, https://stream.ozoned.net/ . I’ve even done some testing to see how much overhead it needs, https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/1itGRqF41XeTfrismnsesL , and how many opens streams you can have.

I also use Owncast to livestream my Fireside Fedi episodes, https://stream.firesidefedi.live/ . I even spoke with Gabe Kangas on the show in the past https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/nyM8V7WzVb1f2GehjAdSTX

I’ve spoken to numerous folks that flat out tell me it can’t work. With THOUSANDS of people you’d probably hit bandwidth limitations, but there’s S3 buckets and CDNs. Whether they’ll let you push livestreams to those for the long term is yet to be seen.

I’m very biases though as I love Owncast, I love controlling MY platform, and I love Fedi. Also I run the unofficial owncast community.

https://directory.owncast.online/

Fediverse has quite alot of indie musicians. Check out LABR http://labr.online/ or the indie beat https://theindiebeat.fm/ and try some new music and support creatives directly.

US has done it before. Stem cell research has been held back in the US even before it could PROVE that it was effective. Here, mRNA PROVED it worked and we’re undoing it. This is worse than ignorance. It’s down right maliciously negligent. Once again all because of their beliefs that science is wrong.

<me looks around>. All good over here!

Asking the tough questions.