Notices by Boosty Collins (ieure@retro.social), page 10

@technomancy It's another one of those things that Just Works on my personal Linux rig, because the EXWM config from when I first set it up like five years ago means zero websites can hijack the bindings I expect. But on a normie computer, it's endless, unfixable pain.

So JS lets you add and remove event listeners, but not list them. To remove one, you have to have a reference to the function that gets fired. Which I can't do without the ability to list them. wtf

Context here is GitHub has a godawful hotkey-ridden comment box, and I like precisely zero (0) of the hotkeys. I would like to remove every single input and keydown, so the system shortcuts work, instead of getting overloaded with garbage I don't want.

I'm going to start doing intermittent @mcc style "What I'm listening to today" type toots. I've really enjoyed her recommendations and writeups, and I want more of that kind of thing.

What I'm listening to today: "Let's Pretend" by Labi Siffree (pronounced "Labby Siff-re").

This is fundamentally a protest song, but it's protesting basically everything. It was released 50 years ago, but still feels pretty relevant today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1MFtzFDLSk

What I'm listening to today: "Do It Good" by Bill Withers.

This is a deep cut that closes out the A side of his first album. I really like the improvised in the studio energy of this track; the jazzy drumming; and the vocal style that's almost edging into rap territory.

And that "Mr. Jones, Booker T." he mentions in the middle? Yep, that's the frontman of Booker T. and the MGs, who produced it & played guitar and keyboards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU7dDtVB7aE

What I'm listening to today: "No Anesthesia" by Stone.

Stone was a successful, short-lived, highly influential Finnish thrash band. This is the title track from their second album, an absolutely epic ten-minute thrash ripper.

None of their albums got significant distribution outside Finland, making them nearly unknown outside their home country, and their music is still difficult to find. They had the chops and timing to ride the same wave that pushed acts like Metallica into the mainstream, but I guess they didn't have the management or label to take advantage.

CW: BDSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBrGpqerxos

What I'm listening to today: "Contaminant PCB" by Contagion.

This album is a thick slab of early 90s EBM by a relatively unknown band, even by the standards of the niche genre. This kind of raw & in your face industrial is definitely my jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtYl4YUgpPY

What I'm listening to today: Rage Against The Machine - First Public Performance Full Concert (HQ)

This is a fixed-camera video of Rage's first concert, in 1991. For a show that happened before the first album was even cut, performed a few months after recording their first demo, everything is remarkably well-formed. These are some of the Rage songs you already know -- even a nascent version of Killing in the Name, which wouldn't get a complete release for five years -- and they absolutely rock. Rage had the chops from day one. What an amazing thing to just wander across these dudes playing at a college, right as they were on the cusp of superstardom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMq-qAn3otE

What I'm listening to today: "Parents" by Budgie.

This is the absolutely incredible song from their third album, Never Turn Your Back on a Friend, which closes the album out and makes up a quarter of its total runtime.

I love the guitar solo on this song so, so much. Just an incredibly sweet guitar tone, great phrasing, really tells a story. Just phenomenal.

Budgie was another of those really influential bands that never made it big.

> Burke Shelley has said that the band's name came from the fact that he, "loved the idea of playing noisy, heavy rock, but calling ourselves after something diametrically opposed to that".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTDLbj64k-c

What I'm listening to today: "Dead Meat" by Bolder Damn.

This is the closing track from this nigh unheard-of underground Ft. Lauderdale heavy psych garage rock band, and it's an absolutely epic banger.

There's not much info about them, and they vanished without a trace. The little info I've found is that this whole album was recorded live in studio, which tracks.

Fortunately, the album has seen two modern-day CD rereleases, so it's not as impossible to find as it could be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1PL8aOeco

What I'm listening to today: "The Feast" by Noorvik.

An absolutely epic instrumental prog metal banger from this German band. Fifteen minutes really lets this thing breathe its hypnotic, heavy, multilayered Thing straight into your brainholes.

I have no idea how this got onto my Bandcamp wishlist, but I'm glad it did.

https://noorvik.bandcamp.com/track/the-feast

What I'm listening to today: "Jams from the 80's: Recreated on Synthesizers"

This is just a delightful, super satisfying video of someone covering 80s synthpop songs on the same models of synths used to originally make them. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJIU9Cmeohw

What I'm listening to today: "Harvey Danger - Wine, Women & Song (Demo)."

Remember Harvey Danger? They did that one song? This is another song, also by them.

This song was originally released on the "Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes)" EP, then rerecorded for the "Little by Little" album. I first heard it while rummaging through a friend's music library in 2006, in an album called "SXSW 2005 Showcasing Artists," a MP3-only promotional release of artists who played that festival.

The album version of the song is okay, but the demo is Great. The performance on the demo is perfect: great emotion, great phrasing, clever lyrics. Without drums, it's driven by the rhythm of the piano and melody of the vocals, not quite ballad, but not really a Rock Song either. The only real Production here is a bit of reverb on the piano. The minimalism really emphasizes the vocal performance, which has great tone and emotion. Just a fantastic take, absolutely nailed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhNoa5XY3LA

What I was listening to last night: "Songs From Under the Floorboard - OFTS Teaser #1 and Much MUCH More"

This is the archived copy of the weekly post-punk/darkwave/synthwave/sometimes edging into industrial show that airs locally here on XRAY FM; it's one of my favorites, and I try to listen every week. They're all good, but last night's was notably great, especially the second half.

https://xray.fm/broadcasts/51585

The Kids Today are unbelievably wrong for saying "left on read" instead of "unread."

Just found this library that adds Common Lisp style error handling to Clojure.

...also goto and return-from, which, as with many other tools that are widely considered Bad Ideas, actually rule.

https://github.com/IGJoshua/farolero

If you've never had the pleasure of using Common Lisp's error handling facilities, it's the best yet devised.

@technomancy I don't disagree, but I do think that "upload a thing and it lives there forever" is a good thing with a lot of usecases. I definitely don't keep stuff in my random web-exposed directories for ever.

Reminder that the Imgur Apocalypse is scheduled for May 15th, when they'll delete any anonymously uploaded & NSFW images. This will absolutely wreck a ton of forums, where that was the normal way to share images for ages.

Save anything you care about now, while there's still time.

Dug up all my old IRC logs (10+ years worth) and pulled all the Imgur URLs out of them, tossed all those into the Archive Team hopper. A bit over 13k URLs total.

Endgame Imgur enshittification. :(