An update, an update, my gods there's been an update

Sooo I'm really trying to get myself back into the creative mood. It's hard but if I don't do it, then I'm not going to do it and that will cause frustrations because I'm not doing it.Understood?Well if you do, could you explain it to me?Anyway, here's a snapshot of me playing with DaVinci Resolve and three videos comparing the basic video/sound from my Canon 80D, my Pixel 5 and my Kaiser Baas x400 “Action Camera”.I'll probably upload it tomorrow.<img class="image_resized" style="width:75%;" src="/uploads/Screenshot_20230304_203156_6109afe788.png" alt="Screenshot_20230304_203156.png" srcset="/uploads/thumbnail_Screenshot_20230304_203156_6109afe788.png 245w,/uploads/small_Screenshot_20230304_203156_6109afe788.png 500w,/uploads/medium_Screenshot_20230304_203156_6109afe788.png 750w,/uploads/large_Screenshot_20230304_203156_6109afe788.png 1000w," sizes="100vw">

Playing with Video foo

2022 was the 10 Year Anniversary of Purser Explores The World

So I just noticed that last year marked the 10th anniversary of my first non linux based podcast Purser Explores The World.Purser Explores The World was a semi regular podcast that I did from 2012 until 2015. The format was pretty simple, find a topic that I wanted to know more about and then talk to people who were involved and record the conversations, edit out as many umms and ahhs as I possibly could and then post the results.I enjoyed making each episode, and talking to people who's passions ranged from <a href="https://angrybeanie.com/podcasts/shows/petw/episodes/Farming_The_City">Urban Bee Keeping</a> to the <a href="https://angrybeanie.com/podcasts/shows/petw/episodes/Numbats_in_Space">Australian Space community</a>. I had chats about <a href="https://angrybeanie.com/podcasts/shows/petw/episodes/Communicating_Science">Communicating Science</a> and <a href="https://angrybeanie.com/podcasts/shows/petw/episodes/Crowd_Funding_the_Mighty_Maggot">Mighty Maggots</a> that have led to friendships that last until today.Anyway that's it for the moment. Just a personal anniversary, something that I did that I actually kind of proud of.

Belated 10 year anniversary for PETW

RSS and Flight simming, what more could a growing boy need?

<h2>RSS Updates</h2>So this site has at current count, about 4 different RSS feeds running/available for consumption.There's the RSS feed for all blog posts/articles posted to Angry Beanie: <a href="https://www.angrybeanie.com/feed/Angry-Beanie-feed.xml">https://www.angrybeanie.com/feed/Angry-Beanie-feed.xml</a>Then there's the RSS feed for the Tech and Disability posts, which I setup to keep a clean feed for people who don't want this sort of thing showing up: <a href="https://www.angrybeanie.com/feed/tech-and-disability-feed.xml">https://www.angrybeanie.com/feed/tech-and-disability-feed.xml</a>And of course we have the podcast RSS feeds, more for historical reasons but they're there:<ul><li>Women In STEMM: <a href="https://www.angrybeanie.com/feed/wistemm.xml">https://www.angrybeanie.com/feed/wistemm.xml</a></li><li>Purser Explores The World: <a href="https://www.angrybeanie.com/feed/petw.xml">https://www.angrybeanie.com/feed/petw.xml</a></li></ul>I'm still trying to work out what I'm going to be doing with my photography and this site, but one of the things I'm pondering is an Image of the Day/Week type RSS feed as well.<h2>Flight Simming</h2>I love flying. I love the sensation of being in the air. Even if it means being trapped in economy for 14 hours I still can't hate the experience BECAUSE I'm flying. I've never gone for my pilots license (though there was a period when I should have, but that was an “Interesting” time in my life) and looking at the cost now AND the fact that I'm an incomplete paraplegic, I tend to look to solutions closer to home.So, thanks to a gift from my sister and an upgraded PC, I've started getting into flight simming. It's not quite the actual sensation of flying (that feeling when you first leave the ground or when you start a turn and feel yourself move) but it's a pretty good approximation.I've downloaded MS Flight Sim and I have X-Plane 11 (the graphics on the newest MS Flight Sim are by far and away the better) and I'm looking at how close I can make it to the real thing, so that I can pretend that I'm learning at least the procedures as realistically as possible.I'll probably post a bit more about it, and might even stream some of the flying that I'm doing just for shits and giggles.

RSS updates and Flight Simming

What happens when someone stomps right through your community?

Sooo if you haven't been living under a rock for the past month or so, you would probably have seen the flaming dumpster fire that is Twitter at the moment.Thanks to a certain persons management style, there has been a steady flow of people leaving Twitter (or at least starting to look towards leaving) for alternative services like Facebook and I think the biggest winner, Mastodon.&nbsp;As with all event driven migrations, this has meant the breaking of communities. Twitter, for all its faults (and there is probably a tele-novella in listing all of its faults) allowed people to form communities within the greater community. We have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Twitter">Black Twitter</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/queer">Queer Twitter</a> and the focus this post, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/disability">Disability Twitter</a>Each of these communities has grown over the 16 years that Twitter has been in operation. People found each other, found a space to discuss issues important to them, and yes found a space to advocate for themselves to a wider world. I mean the fight against Robotdebt started and was organised on twitter by people such as Asher Wolf. We have the Disability Royal Commission in Australia being live tweeted by dedicated people like <a href="https://twitter.com/bluntshovels">El Gibbs</a> and organisations like <a href="https://twitter.com/PWDAustralia">People With Disabilities Australia.</a>Even just a space to say “Well this sucks” and have someone else recognise exactly what you're talking about.Now, it's all under threat. As I said, people are leaving for other services. I setup a masto account ages ago and I find myself there more and more. I stay on twitter mostly to keep up to date with the news, and honestly to stay in contact with the disabled community there (there's a whole other post about me getting to the point where I need to do that).I've spoken to people who are tired. They don't have the energy to pick up and move their virtual lives to an unfamiliar system. Masto is great, however it's NOT Twitter, it doesn't have the same organic search and there are a whole lot of issues with how the federation works. There are people who aren't tired per se, but the learning curve for another system combined with community inertia means they're not going anywhere fast.&nbsp;So you end up with a split community. You end up with people missing out or having to spend twice the amount of energy to keep up with both communities.And that's not even throwing in the mental energy and burn out as an emboldened far right targets minority communities.Sigh.It's all perfectly terrible and I don't know the answer. I'll be on Masto AND Twitter for the foreseeable future, but really who knows what that's going to bring.

The Twitter Fracas and the Disabled Community

A person is not dead while their name is still spoken

In the Terry Pratchett novel Going Postal Pratchett pays homage to the early internet in the form of the Clacks. It's essentially a in world equivalent to the telegraph system, however instead of copper and dots and dashes, it uses semaphore towers with huge sets of shutters so that it can include not only the messages being sent, but the metadata around those messages.Going Postal introduces a header on the clack message system called GNU.<ul><li>G: send the message on</li><li>N: do not log the message</li><li>U: turn the message around at the end of the line and send it back again</li></ul>This is a header that's not in the official books or system logs, it's a header that's been added by the Clacks operators themselves to help keep alive the memory of people who have died working on the Clacks.“A person is not dead while their name is still spoken” (slightly paraphrased)Pratchett knew what he was doing when he wrote this, he knew how the internet worked. Soon afterwards people began adopting those headers in their own infrastructure to keep some part of the memory of people they have lost alive.&nbsp;It's very simple, there's even a site to tell you how to <a href="http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/#servers">set it up</a> on the web server of your choice.To this end I've added GNU headers for people I have lost to the setup for this site. It's my own personal little thing but it works for me I guess.

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