Notices by DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology), page 6

@silverwizard old school IDE baybee, the good stuffs

ok, the ipod was cool, but I still think the archos jukebox 20 was cooler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos_Jukebox_series

was it less convenient to carry? yes

did the software suck? also yes

but it got an open-source replacement os that fixed the software, and I tend to have large pockets.

Although discontinued, the Jukebox Recorder with USB 2.0 interface remains in some demand because of the enhanced speed of the USB 2.0 connection (in contrast to USB 1.1), the capability of the device to be flashed with the free and open source Rockbox firmware, the device's recording feature, easy to replace AA-sized NiMH batteries, and its use of easily upgradeable 2.5" standard laptop hard drives.

like, you have my attention in 2024 with those specs tbqh

@ajroach42 (and the dang thing doesn't even have a DNS client stack lmao)

@mediaarchaeologylab we need so many more things like this

"we can't expose all the complexity to the user! they'll be overwhelmed!"

stares at hundreds of millions of people who learned to interact with the telephone switching networking using star codes and 10-10- prefixes without any issue

I've got a few snapcast nodes spread around the house as "points of listening" for my web-based interface to mpd via mopidy and iris, and while it's got a number of things I'd change none of them are consequential enough for me to put the effort into changing them

except one node that would just not hold a consistent connection to the source node

until I went in and deleted the wpa_supplicant config so it would stop connecting over both wifi and ethernet and choosing the worse of the two to use as its route

so now, now it's pretty good (modulo above mentioned things)

I try to give music library interacting softwares a lot of latitude for "working well" because I'm bringing them ginormous libraries that are well outside the norm.

I've yet to find a library management/playback front end that works well with a ten terabyte music library of flac. I've found lots that are horrible and a few that are less horrible.

Someday...

web scale? you mean ~/public_html?

just noticed something about this list that pissed me off even more than I generally am these days.

take a gander and ask yourself how many of those things you have seen your government bend over backwards to provide for a corporation to get them to do business within your borders. then seethe.

"We'll build you a campus!"

"Of course you can divert that river!"

"Please come take over entire departments of our public university!"

"A nuclear power plant for your datacenter? But of course!"

"We invite you to blot out the night sky in order to be able to charge people money to talk to each other."

"Your entire industry is on the verge of being extinct under the current economic system, but we are bailing you out because we care."

This should all sound farcical! It does!! And yet this is our fucking reality. Shit has to stop.

I'm so goddamn tired of being fucking irate about this shit.

The best time for a revolution was four hundred years ago.

The second best time is today.

are we ready to have the "corporations that provide services are not actually infrastructure upon which life should depend" conversation yet

if your nation-state cannot provide your residents with:

• shelter
• potable water
• food
• electricity
• communications
• medical care

without qualification then you have no business being a nation-state.

RE LB: (https://bfs.llc/@PowerOutageUS/113215527492123070 )

That's 3.7 million customers out of 151.9 million customers the site tracks, which comes out to almost 2.5% of all customers they have data on nationwide

and it sounds like it's going to be weeks before some of those folks have power (and other utilities!) again, if then.

now to watch and compare the response to this and the money we spend to fix it with absolutely any piece of foreign interference we invest in.

"The Mastodon trending hashtag algorithm is not well suited for multi-day events"

:goose_honk: WHAT IS IT WELL SUITED FOR

Steam's got a deep discount on the Mass Effect trilogy along with all the various DLC for US$9 right now, if those are games that might interest you for under ten bucks rather than the usual US$60 they charge for it.

Promo ends a week from today on Sept. 26th.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328670/Mass_Effect_Legendary_Edition/

my vm underprovisioning brings all the OOM killers to my yard