#NewMusicDaily

#NewMusicDaily

August 30, 2024

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You should sit down for this one!

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Grammer is hard

Thanks, Joe, Simon, and Daniel, for proofreading this newsletter all day and night. They ensure I don't let spelling and grammar issues cloud your enjoyment of this fine organ. I sincerely appreciate you all.

Radiant Lock Tee

At FOSDEM last year, I stopped by the Let's Encrypt stand and met Dan, I think. The conversation went like this:

Me: OOh! I use your stuff on all my domains! Thanks!

(brief conversation about how they're funded by donations)

Dan: Would you like to donate?

Me: Duh! Sure!

I got a lovely little branded pin for my laptop bag. Very mindful, very demure.

I recently received a marketing email from them asking for another donation. I momentarily considered it, thought about the Before Times, when we didn't have Let's Encrypt, remembered how many domains and sub-domains I have certs on, and donated. They even sent me a lovely blue T-shirt.

I know times are tough, and we're all struggling, but they could use the support. Please consider donating and optionally receive a gift in return.

IN ADDITION TO THE FREE SSL CERTS YOU DON'T HAVE TO THINK ABOUT ANYMORE.

Sorry, caps stuck.

-[ Create ]-
My personal Zane Lowe bot

I bodged together a Python script using Spotipy (not a typo) to feed me #NewMusicDaily in a Spotify playlist.

No AI/ML, all automated, "fresh" tunes every day. Tunes on the playlist which I enjoy will get automatically preserved in a Keepers playlist, and those I don't like get magically relegated to the Sleepers playlist.

Any tracks older than eleven days are deleted from the main playlist, so I automatically get a constant flow of new stuff.

It's all very straightforward and simple, so I wrote a lengthy blog post about it: Virtual Zane Lowe for Spotify.

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Video Vault

Ken threw this link (also available as a Flatpak) to me and suggested I watch the embedded video to the end. Spolier: It's "AI popey". Nice work on Pied, Mike Sheldon

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A desk with cateracts

This week, the ever-present YouTube "corridor of rotating knives," Mr. Al Gorithm, suggested I might enjoy I Restored this 1978 HP desk Minicomputer, a retro restoration from the Curious Computer channel.

I'd never seen their channel before, but I'm now subscriber 313. As I write this, they're up to 942 subscribers with 9.6K views on the above video, making it their most popular so far.

Good work, Mr. Gorithm. I did like this, so I'm sharing it with you all. Also, well done to Mutz on the well-made, fun, mildly puerile, but self-aware content.

I get immense joy seeing younger people enthusiastic about crusty old computers with "cataracts" (the computer, not the creator).

.. Linux is feature complete

I made it 2 minutes and 19 seconds into this two-hour twenty-epic when I heard Chris utter the immortal line, "For us, Linux, is feature complete." Uh-huh. I actually noped out, knowing the rest of the video would likely grind my gears in an Xkcd 386 kind of way.

You'd think I would have more time to watch this relaxed Linux conversation now that I'm "off podcasts," but no. Maybe you'll have more time for what I can only describe as "Epic mull" or "Nerd Natter" between Chris and Drew as they ponder Debian and Arch Linux experiences. In fact, to inspire you to watch, here is what I imagine they're saying, but in the form of two Haiku, which is mildly ironic, given that they talk about Linux.

    Linux wars long past,
    Arch and Debian divide,
    Now, peace in stillness.

    Updates lost their charm,
    Stable systems, simple life,
    Let old software run.

That covers it.

Definitely, Maybe Not

Please forgive my momentary, uncustomary, mild old-man snark here:

The surly Mancunian siblings, Oasis are getting the band back together, thirty years after their initial popularity, and the "Britpop Battle" of the mid 1990's. Excellent work on keeping that family feud going for three decades to finally shake hands and make up in time for a reunion tour for which the fifty-year-olds with disposable income will auction their remaining kidney to buy tickets.

Remember when Milton Bradley re-launched the 1979 BigTrak in 2010, thirty years after all the kids who owned them had grown up? Or the nerd equivalent, the Mini Amiga, The C64, or in my case, the Spectrum Next. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. I know; I have a loft full of it.

I was always more of a Blur listener. So here are three Blur songs I listened to this week. What a contrarian.

Girls & Boys (1994) - "Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys" - always fun to sing along with and mess up.
Song 2 (1997) - Apparently, "Deeply catchy satire of grunge music." Who knew?
Coffee And TV (1999) - Look at the cute little milk carton!

These were all great additions to my morning commute. Anyway, here's Wonderwall.

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A link or two

I keep referencing things from past issues of the newsletter. I put them down here for safe-keeping, so you don't have to keep scrabbling around in the archives—fun though, that is.

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