Notices by The Embodiment of RED :fire_t: (thraeryn@hackers.town), page 2

@evan

Glad you used "qualified" instead of something like "slightly". ?

In my mind,

• There is no ethical consumption under capitalism when alternative product sources are readily available.

and

• There is no ethical production under capitalism.

and

• There is no ethical production that capitalism will not attempt to destroy.

I decided to stop giving money to Spotify.

I'm putting all my music on my server.

I need a good server application° that can

• play my files over the web
• play my files via Android app
• run as something I can point an nginx reverse proxy at

What do you suggest? Visibility boosts welcome.

°NOT Plex or Funkwhale or NextCloud, I s2fg

@grinseglatze I'm pretty fucking aghast at some of the things he said, myself.

I'm also glad that his respect for friends and other folks in the industry allowed him to keep his ears open to the points they made. There was every indication, publicly and privately, that he listened, and thought, and turned himself around on a lot of things.

Fuck knows I've had to do the same in my own life.

Pardon me — I just thought you should know:

I'm a smooth motherfucker.

Jay Briscoe, recently crowned Ring of Honor Tag Team Champion with his brother Mark, died in an auto accident today. The man was only 38.

He was a redneck who made some very ignorant public comments.
He was a man who listened to his friends, saw his mistakes, and apologized as publicly.
He was a devoted father, and always had time and good humor for his fans.
And he was a damned fine wrestler.

His brother Mark's birthday is tomorrow.

#wrestling

Let me tell you a secret:

"kind" and "angry" aren't antonyms. One doesn't exclude the other.

A lot of folks these days will tell you otherwise. If they can be kind and angry, they open themselves up to an idea that terrifies them: "responsibility".

It's important for you to hold, in your heart and in your head, that "kindness" is a quality, and "anger" is a reaction.

If you're truly a kind person, avoiding anger should be damn near impossible.

So I woke this morning, turned on a media scrum that aired after last night's AEW pay-per-view, and someone asked CM Punk an awkward question that got a really awkward, painful answer as his boss, Tony Khan, sat and listened.

A few minutes later, Punk is talking about something unrelated (borrowing somebody's shoes), and he makes a little joke calling back to a video from a few weeks ago.

And TK looks a bit bewildered for a sec, then starts chuckling.

I swear, it was the chuckle of a man standing barefoot on the street, 0° weather, watching his house burn, . . . who hears popcorn popping in his pantry.

Correction: Nobody asked Punk a damn thing; he came out the gate talking shit

Oh,

with my arrival, hackers.town has a (larger?) vocal #wrestling contingent.

So that's a thing. Gush or filter as your preferences dictate.

cybre.space is closing, after five years. link

thraeryn.net is closing, after five years. (It was much smaller; my reasons are different, but related.)

I worry that we'll see more of our already-precious islands in this FediSea closing their doors soon. It's fun, as a hobbyist, to spin up one's Very! Own! Social! Media! and invite one's friends to come play. There's pride in knowing you runs a reasonably tight ship, respect from every peer that chooses to federate with you.

It seems we're hitting the point where some of our hobbyists are burning out. Whether it's because of too many or too few users, some of us are just worn down from running those ships.

I know I'm about to propose more work, probably unpaid, but our community should strongly consider coming together to create a simple playbook for opening, running, closing, and transferring the administration of instances. Not just Eugen, or the folks that run or contribute to various projects and code bases; all of us, as many as we can get.

It's time to think about codifying how instances are run, at least loosely, so we have a shot at keeping our version of the Fediverse alive. The version run by our friends and peers, not by a slew of BigCorps and opportunistic start-ups. The version that's trying, even if it fails, to be an inclusive community.