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  1. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

  2. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    That's interesting. I use Porkbun for all my domains and the propagation actually feels surprisingly fast to me. At least far faster than it ever has in the past, including a couple of recent...

    That's interesting. I use Porkbun for all my domains and the propagation actually feels surprisingly fast to me. At least far faster than it ever has in the past, including a couple of recent changes I made.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Cloudflare down again in ~tech

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    It happened less than three weeks ago (mid-november), so it probably feels perceptibly more frequent even just due to it happening so soon after the last one

    It happened less than three weeks ago (mid-november), so it probably feels perceptibly more frequent even just due to it happening so soon after the last one

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Cloudflare down again in ~tech

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    I am aware, I was not using downdetector to actually check the status of Cloudflare. It was just a source of amusement that it was down

    I am aware, I was not using downdetector to actually check the status of Cloudflare. It was just a source of amusement that it was down

    14 votes

  5. Comment on Cloudflare down again in ~tech

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    Noticed this when I couldn't pay my internet bill, and also could not browse a tea site I normally do. Amusingly, this means https://downdetector.com/ is down Even more amusingly, the detector of...

    Noticed this when I couldn't pay my internet bill, and also could not browse a tea site I normally do.

    Amusingly, this means https://downdetector.com/ is down

    Even more amusingly, the detector of the detector is not detecting, and thinks it is up https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/

    And EVEN MORE amusingly, https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is detecting that the detector-detector-detector is down, which is also true

    and while centralized, all-eggs-in-one-basket thinking are one reason why i hate the current internet in some ways, these amusing sites are why i still love it, in some ways. got a good hell of a laugh out of all this :)

    much love, and coffee, and tough friday empathy for any of you that have to deal with this now, or soon, at your given place of work

    32 votes

  6. Comment on Your favorite deeply unpopular music in ~music

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    I suppose I'll add some additional stuff here, given that this topic has made the rounds again, and I found it more difficult to answer last time. When it comes to either obscure (as in no one...

    I suppose I'll add some additional stuff here, given that this topic has made the rounds again, and I found it more difficult to answer last time.

    When it comes to either obscure (as in no one knows about it) or niche (relatively few listeners compared to the average person's music tastes), there are a number of things I like, and have found over the years.

    More niche listener base (though "popular" within that base):

    • Harsh noise / power electronics (Goatworshipper, etc- Merzbow being a "popular" artist in that realm)
    • Death industrial / harsher sides of industrial, like URANIUM and Author & Punisher (the latter being a more "popular" one)
    • Very extreme metal, punk, and adjacent (black metal, industrial black metal, grindcore, powerviolence, avant-garde/dissonant stuff)- though even the most extremes of metal in these realms these days are pretty "normal" for us metalheads- nothing way out there and even are in some sense "popular"- and like black metal- have huge storied histories and a big "place" in the metal scene. However, plenty of very obscure artists though- lo-fi/raw one-person black metal projects are all over the place :). In general the metal and punk underground is alive and well. It's all been around long enough at this point that there's always some popular form of it being done, but I'm glad to see the underground still thrive
    • I would say there are even some projects that have risen in popularity but maintain quite a bit of inaccessibility to anyone outside of the small sphere that love the stuff- like wild stuff like Esoctrilhium's absolutely bonkers take on black metal

    Obscure stuff tends to fall into a few categories:

    • Bands from various nations that just have, on the whole, a lot less output that makes it across the world, or at least, not on a scale where they're well known (Ugra Karma, death metal from Nepal, for instance- warning: some gory album covers so do not search unless you're okay with that, Hungarian punk like this, etc)
    • Lots of projects on bandcamp and other similar platforms that just have yet to be discovered widely, and this ranges across any and every genre, from bedroom pop, to raw black metal, to anything and everything, and I love when I find those. Like some local shoegaze band from who knows where, just making the coolest shit ever
    2 votes

  7. Comment on How did you choose your podcast app and would you switch to a different one? in ~tech

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    Had no idea about the units tests, etc. That certainly all seems to make my experiences make a bit more sense. Around the same time the big changes were made to overhaul Overcast's codebase, it...

    Had no idea about the units tests, etc. That certainly all seems to make my experiences make a bit more sense. Around the same time the big changes were made to overhaul Overcast's codebase, it never worked properly again for me, even the most basic things were broken, basic enough things that the app was unusable

    Also had no idea they dropped the web player. Another reason I'll be sticking with Pocket Casts, then.

  8. Comment on How did you choose your podcast app and would you switch to a different one? in ~tech

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    Automattic (owner of WordPress) owns Pocket Casts. Not speaking for the parent comment- but there was a whole debacle involving WP and Automattic's CEO, and historically, at least speaking for...

    Automattic (owner of WordPress) owns Pocket Casts. Not speaking for the parent comment- but there was a whole debacle involving WP and Automattic's CEO, and historically, at least speaking for myself individually, IMO he's been a rather unsavory character, so I personally hate that fact about Pocket Casts, despite otherwise it being my go-to podcasts app, and I keep forgetting that it was acquired by Automattic.

    If any other app worked for my needs as well as Pocket Cast does, I'd abandon it, but so far have not found a solid replacement. I might start looking around again, though.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on How did you choose your podcast app and would you switch to a different one? in ~tech

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    In the early days of podcasts and smartphones I found Pocket Casts, probably recommended by some tech person I was following at the time and I enjoyed it. I was grandfathered into Pocket Casts...

    In the early days of podcasts and smartphones I found Pocket Casts, probably recommended by some tech person I was following at the time and I enjoyed it. I was grandfathered into Pocket Casts Plus by being an early user that paid their inexpensive one-time fee at one point. So, mostly I've stayed with them. However, I have tried other things (though specifically on iOS, FWIW), such as Overcast.

    I enjoyed Overcast for a while and even preferred it to Pocket Casts, especially when subscribing to "patreon-locked feeds" for particular podcasts that I supported- Pocket Casts didn't handle those well originally, so I looked for alternatives. It was really simple, small-footprint, responsive, and did everything I needed.

    However, Overcast in recent months/years became wholly unreliable for me, to the point where new episodes would never show up as "unlistened" or new- the app would just mark them as if I had listened to them, or feeds wouldn't update properly. This was never solved. I would think that my favorite podcasts had stopped releasing episodes, only to find out it was Overcast that was the problem. Even after uninstalling/reinstalling, removing and readding all my casts, and everything.

    I tried a few others and either didn't like the UI, or felt like they were missing something in the workflow that frustrated me. So, I jumped back to Pocket Casts, and it finally handled those special patreon feeds fine when I still had them (though I don't anymore), and it's been consistently reliable ever since. Even on iOS, there is nothing else I'd rather use than Pocket Casts at this point. Even if Overcast fixes itself, I'll probably never go back- it burned me too hard and for too long.

    I don't have a big need for features- but I am very picky about specific things. Streaming episodes, ease of filtering them, reliable skipping/pausing/etc, reliable queueing, and a UI that feels good to use. I don't need cross platform- though I do appreciate Pocket Casts having a web player if I need it in a pinch.

    Edit:
    Also, a couple of podcasts I'll recommend:
    Doughboys
    Stop Podcasting Yourself

    Some others I've stopped listening to (either due to time or otherwise) that I still recommend (if they're around):
    Jordan Jesse, Go!

    I used to listen to so many more podcasts, though I've abandoned a lot of them for one reason or another. Used to be big into the tech and tech-adjacent podcast sphere (TWiT, Revision3, 5by5 Network, Merlin Mann and adjacent characters' stuff), but very little, if any, of that remains in my rotation, and not any I'd feel 100% comfortable recommending.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Cloud hosting in EU in ~comp

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    I don't use it anymore (just no longer needed it for my use case), but I've never had a problem with Hetzner myself. Was a good experience. +1

    I don't use it anymore (just no longer needed it for my use case), but I've never had a problem with Hetzner myself. Was a good experience. +1

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Shopify's Black Friday/Cyber Monday site showcase in ~tech

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    Yeah, seeing the "orders per minute" and other stats is certainly having the opposite effect on me than what they intended

    Yeah, seeing the "orders per minute" and other stats is certainly having the opposite effect on me than what they intended

    7 votes

  12. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    Yeah I've tried to see if I can land on something easy to ship + uncommon/useful, etc. Like, for instance, some kind of replacement part that perfectly fits/snaps in somewhere in some type of...

    Yeah I've tried to see if I can land on something easy to ship + uncommon/useful, etc.

    Like, for instance, some kind of replacement part that perfectly fits/snaps in somewhere in some type of appliance / electronic / etc. Like gears, clips, covers, spacers, etc. but specifically made to fit certain models/makes of products.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Suggestions for uses of old computer hardware? in ~comp

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    Could consider power limiting / restricting it in the BIOS so it uses less power if its performance is overkill for whatever use case you decide on. While nowhere near as efficient as a Pi or...

    Could consider power limiting / restricting it in the BIOS so it uses less power if its performance is overkill for whatever use case you decide on. While nowhere near as efficient as a Pi or whatever, it's at least an option if you still want to use the hardware but make it run more lightly

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite in ~games

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    While I have had a good experience on Linux with Nvidia, I am curious if the frame-time consistency and 1%/0.1% lows issues are things I have ever encountered, because they are very apparent in...

    While I have had a good experience on Linux with Nvidia, I am curious if the frame-time consistency and 1%/0.1% lows issues are things I have ever encountered, because they are very apparent in these results. That said I am not on Bazzite or a similar Arch/etc base

    As GN admits, the ecosystem is so complex and rapidly changing on Linux that it's possible some users may never have the same experience as the benchmark results show, because of the interwoven complexity between the OS, drivers, kernels, hardware, etc

    4 votes

  15. Comment on Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite in ~games

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    Yeah while I understand not everyone will want to make the same choices, and it was easier for me since most of my multiplayer days are behind me, but I decided that making the tradeoff of missing...

    Yeah while I understand not everyone will want to make the same choices, and it was easier for me since most of my multiplayer days are behind me, but I decided that making the tradeoff of missing out on some games, even potentially ones I would have some level of interest in, was worth it to abandon Windows, and I have never regretted the decision. Turns out most of the games that don't work are games I would never want to play anyway for any number of reasons, whether it be deep anti-cheat PC access or otherwise and nearly everything I have tried and wanted to play has worked out of the box or with slight tweaking

    5 votes

  16. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    This is super cool. Gotta toss this on my Anbernic and play around

    This is super cool. Gotta toss this on my Anbernic and play around

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Weathering software winter (2022) in ~tech

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    Love this (and really, all of Devine and Rek's work tbh). "A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand" was absolutely beautiful, as are their discussions of Permacomputing, etc. They (and their site,...

    Love this (and really, all of Devine and Rek's work tbh). "A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand" was absolutely beautiful, as are their discussions of Permacomputing, etc.

    They (and their site, etc) are a huge inspiration in a number of ways and have been for me for a while.

    6 votes

  18. Comment on Swedish death metal band Arch Enemy has parted ways with its lead vocalist Alissa White-Gluz – announces upcoming release of her solo album in ~music

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    Have not really been a fan since Anthems of Rebellion, and a lot of that is probably fumes of nostalgia. I do still find their earlier days much more listenable than anything current/recent,...

    Have not really been a fan since Anthems of Rebellion, and a lot of that is probably fumes of nostalgia. I do still find their earlier days much more listenable than anything current/recent, though. They're a very watered down modern copy of what they used to be (just like other melodeath that has fallen off a cliff, like In Flames).

    I know that their prior vocalist, from what I consider their better era, Angela still manages the band, and would almost hope for her to return, but probably unlikely.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on How to brew solar powered coffee in ~food

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    Truth. While I have a few brewers, the basic V60 is my daily driver and it's popular for a reason and very accessible. I love that even today it has remained very inexpensive. Have made some...

    Truth. While I have a few brewers, the basic V60 is my daily driver and it's popular for a reason and very accessible. I love that even today it has remained very inexpensive. Have made some incredible coffee with it.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    Making a list of all the things I can think of that I want to either design or download and 3D print. Brainstorming a lot on this front. Realized Milwuakee's shop vacs hose attachment ends are...

    Making a list of all the things I can think of that I want to either design or download and 3D print. Brainstorming a lot on this front.

    Realized Milwuakee's shop vacs hose attachment ends are sized oddly (proprietary?) and don't fit attachments that have a supposed compatible size. So an attachment I bought does not work, but is close. So I am inclined to see if I can find or design a proper 3D printed adapter to do it for me

    Update: already found multiple prints to fix this on Thingiverse. I love the 3D printing community. I do wish I could make it into some kind of business but that's tough when the market is already saturated and selling prints of others' designs is typically not how people license their prints

    Update update: tried the entire nozzle replacement that screws on the end of the shop vac hose, and the replacement printed in works perfect. my third-party attachments now can fit on the end of the shop vac nozzle with no problem. hack your stuff, it's awesome!

    2 votes