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The Montreal-based advocacy journalist at Canadian Civil who makes videos about cities and urbanism, and co-founder of FediHost, a fully managed fediverse hosting platform, breaks down how independent creators actually get paid and why the Fediverse needs its own answer.

Ads don't fund independent journalism. Patreon does, and it sits in every surveyed creator's top three income sources. But Patreon is closed to ActivityPub, Apple keeps eroding its features, and its 10% cut gets expensive at scale. A working demonstration of how a Ghost + PeerTube + Stripe stack replicates the Patreon feature set, self-hosted, with full ownership of the audience, plus the math showing why larger creators should already be considering the move.

Le journaliste engagé basé à Montréal chez Canadian Civil qui réalise des vidéos sur les villes et l'urbanisme, et co-fondateur de FediHost, une plateforme d'hébergement fediverse entièrement gérée, explique comment les créateurs indépendants se font réellement payer et pourquoi le Fediverse a besoin de sa propre réponse.

La publicité ne finance pas le journalisme indépendant. C'est Patreon qui le fait, et il figure dans les trois principales sources de revenus de chaque créateur sondé. Mais Patreon reste fermé à ActivityPub, Apple grignote ses fonctionnalités, et sa commission de 10 % devient coûteuse à grande échelle. Une démonstration concrète de la façon dont une pile Ghost + PeerTube + Stripe reproduit les fonctionnalités de Patreon, auto-hébergée, avec pleine propriété de l'audience, ainsi que les chiffres qui expliquent pourquoi les créateurs plus établis devraient déjà envisager la migration.

A friend and I wanted to use a Wiimote as a PC remote for movie night. We have tried various existing software, but all had some issues: some were old Xorg-only programs, some didn't have proper IR tracking, and all were abandoned by the developer. But most of all, no software (even modern remappers like InputPlumber) had any support for key combos. So, we set out to write our own.

Some of our requirements were:

• Key combos (the wiimote has only few buttons)
• Proper IR tracking
• The ability to enable or disable the IR with a key combo
• Having no observable latency

We first developed "esperto" a powerful system for describing and detecting key combos, which we implemented in this library. It is generic so it can be used on pretty much anything that needs combo detection. At first, we intended to plug that into InputPlumber, but then decided it would be easier to do everything ourselves.

So, we ported this IR tracking algorithm from Hector Martin to rust, and put it together with our esperto library, and this is the result. It is extremely fast (mostly dominated by the actual latency of evdev's and uinput's UAPI), and it meets all of our requirements. And we already have ideas for future improvements, for example how to add support for wiimote extensions.