Bios updates are fun

Just realised the part of computers I hate. Building them 😂 One power cord 🔌 and it would start but not start correctly. Seems when you switch PSU you need to use the PSU cable that comes with it can’t reuse the old one. Never had that be an issue before.

@dave @alecksgates @adam am not understanding the need for this “verify” podcast/feed. Sounds so over engineered when you have the verify tag which can do a 6 digit code. The proxy feed like feedburner would pull that code into their feed as well. Which then you go “oh all these feed URLs belong […]

@dave @adam why not use the verify tag as source of truth, because you could take the verified timestamp and say that is the correct feed.

Fun am now waiting for Google to approve our new creator feature. Failed the verification because privacy policy is worded as privacy on our website and their bot can’t find the missing word policy.

Last night we released a github repo to help developers integrate PodToo Cloud into their ecosystem. if you are wondering how to utilise PodToo Cloud to store files please view the github at https://github.com/podtoo/cloud-examples

I don’t normally make political statements. But this shooting today in Bondi, Sydney is a reason we need to allow everyone access to social media. This is away that alerts are served to people in real time. By not having social media teens could had walked towards the shooting instead of running […]

Joys of coding, today marks a huge day for SongRotate, we are adding the ability for stations to request sweepers, guest mix and interviews for each campaign. Artist will be able to turn each of these features on and off per campaign.

Well we have switched from DuckDB to Clickhouse as the engine to DataFlow for PodToo Cloud. I’ve also removed the Redis server that was caching the results from DuckDB. From what I can tell it’s now made it faster. But only time will tell. Fingers crossed. Oh and clickhouse was horrible to […]

Ok I am going to pat myself on the back. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@podtoo/cloud We just rolled out a lot of API endpoints for PodToo Cloud, which includes consumption data, user agents, IP Locations etc etc. It's not finished yet, but I am bloody impressed with what we have done.

@dansup Just wondering about #loops and #pixelfed. Do they support any S3 compatible storage engine? As PodToo Cloud would love to be added as a storage option for users who need storage and CDN. Cheers Russell

Does anyone use #Peertube. PodToo Cloud now supports vhost. Which means you can now link your Peertube to your PodToo Cloud account.

PodToo Cloud just just finished our integration to work with WHM. So developers who use cpanel + WHM can now use PodToo Cloud to backup their servers. It also means that we are now VHOST compatible

[Advice wanted so please comment.] Well I’ve been doing the maths and the next year financial projections. We’re in a really good position. But it’s time to grow the team. So what’s your advice to make sure you don’t hire the wrong team members? Note that I am looking at hiring in South […]

Day 1 of Dreamstate SoCal done and in the bag, so many great DJs mixing it up. Who will be taking the stage tomorrow. Only one place to find out download the Insomniac Radio app on iOS and Android today. iOS link: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/insomniac-radio/id6739225590

Well it’s started another festival recording underway, and it sounds banging. This is an internal monitor script we have which allows us to switch stages left to right and fade between the stages. It’s helpful for radio stations who want control over […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

I have identified a small issue with NGINX which we have now fixed. It’s caused an outage on our Australian server. We have removed the .so that was causing the error it was a NGINX plugin that we do not use.

[Am not dying 😂] But any suggestions to get rid of a cold/cough please.

So Cloudflare says it was there not management system that caused the outage.

it must be really bad if the last 3 messages say this can anyone lend a hand to #cloudflare

@dave are you going to talk about moving away from #cloudflare on this weeks episode of Podcasting 2.0 I think it maybe time someone leads the we are removing cloudflare from our system.

So Cloudflare has had 7 major outages this year totalling 727minutes or over 12 hours. I have to ask is it time that op3 and hosting companies move away from #cloudflare?

Do you operate an online / FM /AM / Digital radio station. Join SongRotate today and get access to unreleased music before it hits Spotify for your station. Visit: https://player.SongRotate.com Let the music be heard.

@dave have you ever used Parquet for storing large noSQL. Am trying to get my head around it. Ive been a mongodb guy for far too long.

Bloody icecast. Since when has it auto changed a source username back to source. It was working fine yesterday 😡

Well back in Perth, after a week off spending time with family. Now it’s time to finish the year on a high, and hit the targets I know we can. Sometimes you need to time everything out. So you can see why you do what you do.

Gee what happened to the sunny ☀️ Brisbane. Has to be one of the heaviest rainfalls I’ve seen in a few months. // @james your power back on?

Designing and coding a step, blended and fixed billing system is one of the most challenging tasks I have done today. Fixed is easy. But calculating stepped and blended pricing far out is that a lot of mathematical formulas.

Wow this is crazy. Sites having to block countries because a country makes crazy laws. From: @neil https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115291645256397338

So the boss says you devs have to use "AI" now? I have a question: who gets the blame when something doesn't work? Do you think "The AI did it" is gonna fly?

@russell asked ChatGPT for details of a podcasting rating tag and it hallucinted saying Podverse and Fountain already support this tag? /cc @dave @james But maybe this is something we do actually need for Podcasting 2.0 - should we just support the […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

@merryoscar does video work on iOS version of fountain, because I keep getting this error

The Creature in the Donut

Question for any blind people who are on Bluesky: What's the most accessible way to access Bluesky on Windows? The official web app, or is there a good third-party client? Just curious at this point. I don't want to argue Bluesky versus fediverse. I just think it's good to know what the options […]

Life goes by so fast, that we often forget to stop and pat ourselves on the back. Today I truely got to see how far I have come in 6 years. From that guy that was beds ridden who wanted to hide from the world I lost 10 years but the last 6 years wow what a ride it is. Yes today I put my […]

When you work in teams you need the space to collaborate and bring your ideas to life. PodToo Drive brings a new meaning to team work. Stop getting your team members spending their money on a Dropbox service that gets full when you share a file with them […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

I just completed our first test of tracking radio station listenership numbers, for syndicated shows on PodToo. This is a huge step forward for the radio industry due to up until now, no one has been able to verify how many listeners an online radio station had for a syndicated radio show, and […]

Ok I know no one asked for this. But can we please give a round of applause to everyone involved in Podcasting Index and the name space. People like: @nathan @dave @adam @samsethi @StevenB @steven @james @merryoscar just to name a few. The community has truely achieved some ground breaking […]

I really dislike Apple's M4A standard with embedded chapters and images inside the media file it makes them slower when fetching from the backend for the first time.

We just rolled out our LA cache server, which is our biggest server yet, it will replace the HIL server which only had around 450GB, the LA server has room for up to 4TB of storage. The advantage of our LA server is it will also have our longest cache […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

Well yesterday’s outside broadcast went off without one technical drama. See the pictures here https://pixelfed.social/p/russellharrower/801736715813904043 Podcast episodes dropping soon.

If you’re on #pixelfed follow me please so I can follow you back. https://pixelfed.social/p/russellharrower/801622579294430130

@dansup i love @pixelfed only thing i noticed is i cant see who ❤️ my pictures and they been getting hearts. Anyway to see that data on iOS app?

@james and @samsethi thanks for talking about the 429 idea. It would be nice if players supported that. Also it’s not a cost factor for us atm. As we use our own caching servers which then connect to Google. Our bill is floating around the $290AUD with Google cloud and our internal server costs […]

[Don’t click if you can’t handle the truth!] 🚀 PodToo February Stats 🚀 In February, we transferred 21TB of data! At $0.12 per GB, that would’ve cost $2,520—but thanks to our own cache servers, we reduced our data bill by 89%! 💾⚡ Optimized for creators, built for scale. But we still need […]

Here some hard truths. We asked our creators who use PodToo and 98% of them said they only don’t care if we block podcast apps who mass download, if it means that they don’t get billed a bandwidth cost. They also said they promote Apple and Spotify as that’s where their listeners are. 67% of […]

Jelly beans are packed and ready for this weekend. Love doing outside broadcasts. Make sure you tune in at https://DRN1.com.au

If anyone has a contact with Playapod app developers please ask them to reach out to me, Until further notice they are the first app that we have banned from accessing any PodToo content, due to their app download policy. We mostly all agree "A download is not a listener" and PodToo will take […]

Ok let me have it, tell me why this is such a bad idea. It lowers the costs for everyone including the creators who end up picking up a bandwidth excessive bill. https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/692 //CC @samsethi @merryoscar @dave

Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Castro support HTTP 429 with a retry option (per our tests when fetching MP3)—whether intentionally or not. That lets us recommend these players to users blocked by apps lacking 429 support. We only recommend apps that support HTTP 429 so creators get accurate […]