Notices by egregious philbin (ieure@retro.social), page 3

Hate that I'm even asking this, but: what is the least horrible modern Python packaging thing?

(Please do not suggest Poetry)

Reminded again that Clojure uses Jira for its official issue tracker and lol, lmao

If you're inclined, I'd love to see a recipe or two for a dinner meal you enjoy. I've been stretching my cooking skills a bit, and would like to have some more dishes in the mix.

No dietary restrictions, I'm an omnivore, though I've started making more vegetarian/vegan stuff lately, and those are probably my weakest; so recs along those lines would be greatly appreciated.

The main thing I look for in a dinner is a good effort-to-delicious ratio. I want maximum deliciousness for the effort; anything that takes significantly longer than an hour to make is a tough sell. Somewhat flexible on this, depending, but that's my general benchmark.

Since Tumblr now has an explicit setting to feed all your data into LLMs, it's easier than ever before to create a large number of tumblrs which allow the data to be sold, then put up millions and millions of posts containing nonsense, bad LLM output, lies, and other unhelpful data to completely wreck the model.

Do not use any software that requires a network connection to its creator for any functionality.

Do not use any software which can be controlled by its creator after you buy it.

Do not buy any hardware which embeds software that does either of these things.

Do not buy hardware that doesn't let you replace the software it comes with.

@craigmaloney Best wishes for you to get a more fun vacation soon!

I enjoy going to the discount grocery and seeing what obviously horrible product ideas have been rightfully rejected by the public.

Having a difficult time articulating why this is hilarious

What I'm listening to today: "The Panacea - Mortal Sin."

This is a fantastic drum & bass song. Takes a bit to get going, then cranks the intensity to the max.

This is a pretty rare track from Panacea, I first heard it on the Ad Noiseam label sampler/retrospective. I miss that label, they put out a ton of great stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u57ZIzg0vDs

What I'm listening to today: "Bloodywood - Rakshak."

This is a pretty bangin Indian folk-nu-metal crossover album. I'm really enjoying hearing some new takes on the genre as metal expands and mutates and becomes a more diverse & inclusive genre in the 21st century; this has a lot of that goodness.

https://bloodywood.bandcamp.com/album/rakshak

What I'm listening to today: "The D.O.C. - Return of da Livin' Dead."

The D.O.C. was a very promising Texas rapper, who nearly died in a car crash six months after his first album. The crash crushed his larynx and severely damaged his voice, but he went ahead and released two more albums. This is off the first, which is a pretty odd artifact. It's uneven and has some very weird stuff, but this song is amazing. It's experimental and grimy and hits super hard. His voice is an evil rasp that works perfectly in this context, and the lyricism and flow are astonishing, even before you realize how hard he must have worked to do it. It's a completely unique sound, and I love it.

https://hip-hopthegoldenera.bandcamp.com/track/return-of-da-livin-dead

"What I'm listening today" posts to resume shortly.

Since February is Black History Month, I'm going to endeavor to share a song by a Black musician I love, every weekday, for the entire month.

What I'm listening to today: "Depeche Mode 1982-03-30 Rainbow Club, Oberkorn, Luxembourg (HQ video)."

The quality of this short live set from 1982 set has to be seen to be believed. It's a pro level recording, with multiple angles and audio right off the soundboard. It looks and sounds *incredible*, and captures a strange and important transitional era of the band. Vince Clarke had left, and the band was in the process of recording their second album (A Broken Frame) as a trio. And even though Alan Wilder was in the band (and performing with them here), he didn't participate on ABF, even though it wouldn't be released until the end of the year.

ABF is a terrific gem, one of my favorites, and this is a rare, uncommonly clear look into its era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBBIs7Bmb4E

What I'm listening to today: "Martha and the Vandellas - Heat Wave."

An absolute classic, this song is an early example of the popular Motown sound and helped catapult the band -- and the label -- to fame. Heat Wave was an enormous hit, reaching #1 on the Billboard R&B charts and staying there for over a month.

It's far from a deep cut, but it's one of my very favorite Motown songs, and its feel-good vibe feels perfect for a Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0GDQrK2jo

What I'm listening to today: "Cybotron - Cosmic Cars."

This is the second single from Cybotron. Along with their first single, Alleys of your Mind, the duo of Juan Atkins and Richard Davis created and defined the early techno sound. Techno music is pretty white these days, but... it came from Detroit in the late 70s and early 80s, of course it was created by Black artists. They were both influenced heavily by Kraftwerk and Parliament-Funkadelic, and both are readily apparent.

One can trace back a lot of the decline of Detroit directly to racism. Extensive redlining meant that 80% of all home deeds had restrictive covenants preventing their sale to non-whites by 1940. In the postwar era, this meant that returning white veterans could use the G.I. Bill to buy new homes, but Black veterans could not. The structural inequality and white flight decimated the tax base and set the city up for failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpHtVWqY4dI

@technomancy Yeah, Guile's stack traces and error messages are some of the worst. The probability of seeing a file you changed or have control over in a stack trace is about one in five. Most of them do not mention the code which caused the problem at all, instead having a mix of stuff from stdlib and "ice-9."

There are a bajillion references to various "ice-9" modules because someone in 1998 thought it would be a good idea to name important parts of Guile after an oblique reference to a Kurt Vonnegut story, which, even if someone knew the reference, would absolutely not be able to intuit the rationale behind.

I am not making this up. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2010-07/msg00046.html

@technomancy I've never done anything substantial in Scheme before, not super loving it, honestly. Like you can tell they really tried to strip Common Lisp down and make it cleaner, then you find stuff like car and cdr held over.

And stuff like call-with-port is IMO worse then CL's with-open-file.

...and that's before you get into the mess of "Oh, I need this thing time to figure out what random SRFI I have to use" and 98% of Guile code being in a module named "ice-9" because someone thought that was a cute name, once.

@technomancy Right, it's a macro ("syntax"), not a function ("procedure"). It is nice to drop the argument somewhere else in the arglist than the end, but the name is the about the worst imaginable.

lol, Scheme's function for partial application is called.. cut? what the hell. why

@technomancy [Lego Movie tune] everything is awful