Silas

25 Year old tech guy from Germany. Go Podcasting! Systemelectronics Engineer. C++ (not anymore 😭), php and typescript guy. Maker of the dogsh*t listening webapp bouncepad.live .
Neither really left or right wing.

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2026-04-17 18:01:52 UTC

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@nprofile…dffe @nprofile…7epg @nprofile…td70 me if i get the new Bouncepad in a state where i want to release it before podcast show
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2026-04-03 19:34:23 UTC

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@nprofile…dffe i wasnt saying you need to host the podcasts. i was trying to say i didn't think this was the "fault" of truefans. Using Fountain to try and stream or boost shows not hosted on truefans.
probably should not have included not using truefans anymore in the original post.

2026-04-03 19:22:19 UTC

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@nprofile…dffe well no i was using fountain for this. and neither podcasting 2.0 or podnews are hosted on truefans right.
i tried listening live to 2.0 on truefans but i realised i didnt have sats on it anymore. but i couldnt charge sats onto it. so i tried boosting with fountain.

2026-04-03 19:16:25 UTC

This weeks “how dead does boosting/streaming feel”.
Idunno. Didn’t fully work for podcasting 2.0.
What’s weirder though is on podnews it’s showing 40 splits. And every address is in it like 8 times.
That’s better than last week where it refused to stream sats to pwr entirely.
Yes my attempt at using TrueFans as daily driver podcast app has also failed.
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2026-03-28 09:53:32 UTC

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@nprofile…7epg @nprofile…2rrg through Claude code? The terminal app? Or again with copy and paste?
ChatGPT annoyingly is better at code than Claude. Claude is better at design.
Claude is not incapable of doing good code but it’s just drunk. Friendly and does its best but just forgets stuff and confuses itself.

2026-03-27 18:01:11 UTC

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@nprofile…7epg @nprofile…2rrg claude has a 20, 100 and a 200 usd plan. you get 20x the value with the 200 usd plan. so actually its subsidised by the cheaper tiers and you get way more. Anthropic sucks though. opencode used to have a oauth integration with claude so you could use your claude max sub inside of open code. but they got threatened and turned that off in opencode. even though it says you are allowed to use for stuff, just not for business reasons.openai explicitly allow using your sub in opencode

2026-03-02 17:54:25 UTC

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@nprofile…cyex wow really you did it?
Bunnycdn is nice. More should use it. I’m both surprised and not surprised at that number

2026-02-03 10:52:58 UTC

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@nprofile…cyex no one using bunny cdn and too many using cloudfront

2026-01-08 11:42:46 UTC

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@nprofile…vq5k good. Thank you.

2025-11-08 10:08:36 UTC

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@nprofile…ge5x full because of what though? Do you know

2025-10-24 19:02:00 UTC

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@nprofile…pnt8 why though if you have infinite money from idiots

2025-10-20 17:55:53 UTC

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@nprofile…amf2 to pc2.0. It actually looks like it happened for 2 desperate boosts entirely. Only I think 3/4 went to you?? From their ui at least. Oh good it happened with the episode before that too apparently.

2025-10-20 17:52:14 UTC

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@nprofile…9ap7 let's not server 2/3 of the whole Web from aws

2025-10-20 17:51:34 UTC

The pattern of you try sending a boost on fountain.
It takes forever and then says error that it didn't send. Press the button again. And a third time and then error out of sats and you go back into your wallet and it looks like it did send it twice. Even though both times it took like 30 seconds and insisted that nothing was sent.

2025-10-11 18:52:22 UTC

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@nprofile…pvn3 @nprofile…2d4u I can confirm that I just put my nostr private key into fountain today. Finally. And then sent a boost to 2.0. Just like half an hour ago or so

2025-05-22 13:12:19 UTC

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@nprofile…5pjr nothing of value changed or added I assume?

2025-05-19 10:07:22 UTC

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@nprofile…3ram someone’s text line on the podcast show app

2025-05-19 09:25:20 UTC

New least favorite combination of words I ever read.
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2025-05-15 19:54:41 UTC

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@nprofile…ywdy dont show me things that piss me off

2025-04-23 13:31:31 UTC

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@nprofile…ywdy that's good for the 7 minutes that feature is going to be around.

2025-04-22 15:46:47 UTC

I hope next board meeting is going to talk about spain screwing with the Internet

2025-03-28 17:08:12 UTC

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@nprofile…3ram France and Poland are doing things too, and one of the scandinavian ones at least. i dont remember

2025-03-27 07:06:46 UTC

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@nprofile…mg8l 😭

2025-03-27 07:06:30 UTC

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@nprofile…mg8l I am aware and have used it before. Probably will keep using it too. Either that or laravel forge. Probably coolify because it just does other things too not just Laravel.

2025-03-25 17:01:36 UTC

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@nprofile…mg8l i pretty much only want to use hetzner to run icecast servers and nothing else.
The general code is gonna live on scaleway or ionos. Maybe DigitalOcean but probably not.
I'm working on 2 things, kind of 3, at the moment. And I want to provide live audio as easily and cheaply as I can.

2025-03-24 20:29:12 UTC

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Tested from another more powerful VPS running that test script, in the same datacenter.
I also tried with batche sizes of 100, 200 and 500 at once before too but that was too slow and the traffic with +1000 at once seemed working fine.
I also forgot to take a screenshot from the mp3 so there. new test.
It is not 1to1 with how many more listeners it can handle, but it does have a limit with what it can trasmit in terms of data. less data = more listeners.
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2025-03-24 20:24:45 UTC

I have now done better icecast-kh testing.
With a 2 Core Ampere VPS from Hetzner for 3,79€ A month, i can get the foillowing max listener numbers consistently:
12000 at MP3/160kbps
25000 at OPUS/64kbps
30000 at OPUS/32kbps
and that 30k only got hit because i forgot that was what my icecast config was.
Tested with a script i have made where it spins up a new wrk command with 1000 connections, and then an additional single one to see if data is sent or not.
So, it is like what i expected.
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2025-03-22 12:25:44 UTC

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@nprofile…n7gm what i didnt like about that was it didnt even get close to filling up ram or cpu time. it just stops working and doesnt send more data to new connections

2025-03-22 12:24:05 UTC

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@nprofile…n7gm I am going to run more test still. but so far with 112kbps mp3 in stereo it seems like it breaks around 1000 listeners connected. tested on a 2core 2gb ram vps.

2025-03-22 09:07:15 UTC

Let me advocate for something that won't happen anyway.
i think we should use opus instead of mp3. especially for live audio.
its way better.
less data to transmit, so its better for the listeners, better for hosting companies bills. if they have a live server and better for podcasters.
from my testing at least, the higher the amount of data is an icecast server needs to push out, the less listeners at once it can handle.
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2024-12-20 12:36:11 UTC

While in the process of making a schedule/timetable view to show what liveItems would happen in a day or week i believe to have run into a limitation. So now i wrote a proposal.
Neither updateFrequency nor liveItem itself can do something that i think we should have.
Please let me know your thoughts. I wrote what for now seems like a okay solution but maybe people smarter than me know a better one.
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/683

2024-12-05 14:24:15 UTC

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@nprofile…3ram well I turned off the Internet connection and opened it and it just shows the truefans logo and nothing else. For like 2 minutes and the I turned Internet on again and it loaded normally.
Same thing as last 2 weeks I think when I tried using it on walks.
No pressure or negative feelings from my side.

2024-12-05 14:20:21 UTC

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@nprofile…3ram I can't even get it to open without internet

2024-12-05 13:28:00 UTC

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@nprofile…3ram I need to learn about PWAs I guess. Is truefans supposed to work without Internet? Maybe Thats a dumb question. I don't know yet if or how like a webapp can be stored on the device itself.
Most of the time when listening to podcasts I'm in a random forest or the edge of town with no or super slow Internet and whenever I tried using truefans it didn't load or didn't work well. Presumably because of the Internet connection

2024-12-05 13:19:01 UTC

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@nprofile…3ram I did disagree but now I get it. There's another boost for you to respond to next episode.
I will see what I am gonna do. For my actual project I need to make a player page anyways. So getting some general overview or library view, following shows and notifications set up maybe payments set up.. Yes that's a lot of work. But almost it's a logical thing to do anyways.

2024-12-05 07:02:33 UTC

Had a very busy week and wrote almost no code at all this week so far. 😠
I changed my plans again though I think. Because of @nprofile…3ram telling me to do a podcast player myself.
My current project already is one feature split off from another project. And I realised I can make a player webapp myself by again splitting out and modifying a feature from the thing I am working on now.

2024-11-27 14:01:40 UTC

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@nprofile…j90y wow OK. But I mean, if you are a broke student or something, being able to afford to move around is better than getting pissed for cheap.

2024-11-27 13:05:37 UTC

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@nprofile…j90y James on open public transport
Why is that so cheap. That is great. Where I live you have like one bus every 30 minutes and just one way costs 2.20€. Also most lines shut down by like 7pm

2024-11-19 16:34:15 UTC

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@nprofile…ayy4 yea I did read it. It was 550k sats on chain balance. Which I don't have now.

2024-11-19 16:31:00 UTC

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@nprofile…ayy4 I don't even know if I want to run my own node due to the liquidity for opening channels.
That is really crap user experience.

2024-11-19 07:06:22 UTC

Oh no. I just realised I need to explain to my non techy friend that alby is closing and that he needs to do something

2024-11-18 12:01:08 UTC

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@nprofile…j90y oh. Yea okay. So it's a local Obscurity joke.

2024-11-18 11:56:19 UTC

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@nprofile…j90y what do mean not a real metro why

2024-09-24 07:12:48 UTC

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@npub10fp…qqev I actually have not kept track with what you have been doing. You modify feeds?

2024-09-24 07:05:02 UTC

I remember there being a thing where you put just embedded youtube videos into a podcast feed. Was that in the alternate enclosure?
Some player supported that I think. At least one. Naturally I have to think it was @npub10fp…qqev
or am I misremembering

2024-06-05 10:09:29 UTC

Ipfs podcasting still doesn't just have a Mode to automatically favourite all ipfs split enabled feeds.

2024-01-11 18:56:52 UTC

So i have the rodecaster duo back now and it works. but idunno. i don't know if i am as happy as i want to be. Not with the recording side but the playback side. the headphone outputs of this are really noisy. its nicer than in the NT USB, but it has to me annoyingly loud background hissing noises coming from the Duo's headphone out.

2023-11-15 06:34:03 UTC

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@npub17d6…v8qz I don't know how this would work because you can download the whole file and reupload it couldn't you? But then I think it would have to be the same file so you can't change the splits or anything only where it is hosted. I think. But that's just actually guessing.

2023-11-15 06:22:27 UTC

This is for people smarter than me. I don't think this exists yet and maybe it's not possible.
But what if we had a standard for signing xml files? So you sign it with some cryptographic magic and then the listening app can display if that is the actual artists feed or artists remote item or not. Would that be possible?

2023-11-07 21:06:53 UTC

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@npub17d6…v8qz lol. I still dont actually really believe you that you watched it.

2023-11-07 21:05:21 UTC

I made a pretty shitty video yesterday, of how I actually produce the fairly fun show. I only really made that for the radio show telegram group.
But now I am wondering if i should just also put the link on here. For anyone who can stand the actual unprofessionalism, especially the first minutes.

2023-10-28 20:42:57 UTC

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@npub1dwu…hc2f I mean, not really though. Because real bitcoin is only what happens on the blockchain. Lightning transactions do not happen on the chain until a channel is closed. So for as long as the channel is not closed, those transactions are not "real".
but thats not a good argument.

2023-10-27 07:13:16 UTC

I tried explaining to someone how value4value works. He got really mad because how dare you use content that you did not pay for. And how the lightning network is not real bitcoin. OK sure lightning is kinda fake bitcoin I agree with that. I don't think that matters though.
And his thoughts on the other tags of the podcast namespace he just said this is pointless and that podcasting has worked fine since forever. And it doesn't need to change. Lol OK.

2023-08-31 16:40:04 UTC

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@npub1ln5…xyw6 yes. There are many bad ideas around e-mail though.

2023-08-16 19:21:37 UTC

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@npub1df6…ns3a idunno. i am starting to get annoyed with Umbrel. at least a bit. because now, the machine itself was running completely fine. but anything relating to umbrel was not running when i tried looking at my node, or ipfs podcasting. or anything. I am gonna see if i can fix that but idunno.

2023-08-15 19:44:38 UTC

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@npub1df6…ns3a it is very likely that I will just give up, backup the unbrel folder and just install Leap on it. I haven't used Ubuntu a lot in a while and never before pure debian. Only suse things. And Debian is less fun to me than I thought it would be to try out. If it also crashes on this different system.

2023-08-15 19:40:56 UTC

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@npub1df6…ns3a it's a second generation core i5 chip with 14 gigs of ram. Running Debian 12 on a sata ssd. Very snappy actually. Would be usable for random every day tasks. And while running it seems to do a good job. Snappy.
Although literally right now in in the process of trying to boot it on my old fx8350 cpu with 32 gigs of ram. Overkill but idunno. More horsepower is good.

2023-08-15 19:27:54 UTC

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@npub1df6…ns3a I believe that. But I am having unrelated issues I believe. That machine just locks up after about 20 hours I believe. It just stops. Not responding to ssh, pings, keyboard or mouse input directly either.

2023-08-15 11:52:35 UTC

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@npub1df6…ns3a I have umbrel set up and running. It has helipad on it already. That's what you opened the channel to. I just don't trust that system itself yet.

2023-08-14 21:51:43 UTC

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@npub1df6…ns3a how did you do this btw? Just manually or is there a tool for this.

2023-08-11 16:43:08 UTC

So how do we actually prove that a song is original? If I just take something i got from Spotify and put it on the podcastindex as a song, bad things will happen. Same with cover music. wont it?

2023-08-11 13:06:13 UTC

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@npub1df6…ns3a I am already looking into something like a rode caster duo tho. I have been wanting another mic for a long time. I quickly realised this condenser nt USB mic picks up every single thing ever. I don't like it because of that reason.

2023-08-11 13:04:45 UTC

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@npub1df6…ns3a yes splitkit is pretty good once you figure it out.
But I think one can probably take the cue file that dj software makes and read that, and then automatically create time splits from that. Doesn't actually seem too hard to do. Maybe I could try doing that... maybe.

2023-08-10 09:57:26 UTC

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@npub1zyl…mw3t I did the beta programme on the play store and got really annoyed when it said you can't switch manually and have to wait for the next regular update.

2023-08-10 09:56:12 UTC

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@npub1zyl…mw3t @npub1df6…ns3a can it be installed alongside the release version ? I want to check it out but also keep the one I know works.

2023-08-10 05:44:11 UTC

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@npub1ln5…xyw6 6567390
It seems like mostly working now though. name is there, episode, splits, category missing and the description of the episode isnt fully updated yet. but just changed that right now.

2023-08-09 23:01:31 UTC

So it probably takes a bit longer to get episodes and everything to show up on the index after it has been added..
I am like losing my mind because my negative brain thinks i screwed up.