Back to listening to a few of my old playlists on Spotify and I'm reminded that I need to migrate my old playlists off Spotify
Random shower thought: “Killing Game” by Skinny Puppy as a slow-dance song at prom
Also, today I learned he’s shouting “¡qué!” in the chorus of Ministry’s “So What?” 🤯 (I always just thought it was “hey!”)
@thegibson @c0debabe @socketwench oh hey, I think I hear my song! (i.e. the hollow-bamboo sound of my own dry bones suddenly collapsing into a pile)
@tac0shell I'm kind of up in the air? Lately it's been a mix of my own files on a Plex server, some DJs on Mixcloud & Twitch, and a few streaming radio stations. Kind of want to bring all the playlists onto that Plex server maybe?
Occurs to me the first time I logged into a Linux system was around 1995. Some guy on campus on college ran an IRC server out of his room and gave accounts to a handful of local dorks. Much drama ensued.
First time I installed one of my own was around 1997. Stack of Slackware floppies on a PC made from scrap parts pressed into service as a router in front of a cable modem for an apartment of nerds. Much bandwidth was used.
Time's weird.
I think between dial-up BBSes and that Linux server in some guy's dorm room, I learned a lot about how weird it is for folks to think that socializing via somebody else's computer somehow entitles them to ownership of that computer.
So much drama when the actual owner between chair and keyboard kicks folks off or just powers the thing down.
@jpf I totally do! it's weird
@vkc This is a thing I keep running into and I feel dumb because it surprises me every time: folks who either have no idea that self-hosting is possible or, even weirder, somehow think that self-hosting anything is ILLEGAL. Like, DIY anything on the internet is an impossibility beyond reach.
And I forget that I grew up with dial-up BBSes run on personal computers in bedrooms. And web servers on hardware we assembled with domain names we bought. Even as cloud came around, internet services running under our own accounts.
Seems like all of that is not even a memory to a lot of folks today, because they've never seen it in action in their lifetimes.
@benbrown Web components are pretty great! I've also been learning the ways of "html web components" - e.g. wrap normal HTML stuff in your stuff and your stuff reaches in and does stuff to the contents.
So like <caution-border><img ... /></caution-border>
Or like here where I'm redoing my blog template, I've got a component that wraps an SVG image and rotates a tagline inside. It's really hacky & dumb
https://github.com/lmorchard/blog.lmorchard.com/blob/design-2024/templates/layoutPage.js#L87-L95
@benbrown Yeah, slots & templates can get pretty handy too!
us politics; skibidi toilet; is this anything?
your toilet exists in the context of all that has skibidi'd before
@vetehinen Lots of communities are built in tenuous places, despite the unstable foundations. Like, in a rented conference hall or the food court at a mall. Twitter is kind of like those places.
But, just because you spent a lot of time & effort in a place doesn't grant a claim to the venue. If you want community to persist, you have to mind the ground below. Either be ready to move or invest in real estate.
Kristin Kowalski (Front 242) - Animal
Weird, I've never seen this video or heard this mix of this song before! Seems like a very early-90s video and mixed a bit funkier than Front 242's more mechanical industrial mix on 05:22:09:12 Off