Archie8

@Archie8@mastodonapp.uk

You might call it trash but I might call it treasure

Interested in the Environment, green technology, recycling and upcycling (especially scrap electronics), vintage hi fi, old walkmans and music. Lots and lots of music!
#Cassettes
#CassetteTapes
#VintageHifi
#maker
#Electronics
#DIY
#electronicmusic

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GrrlScientist, to climate
@GrrlScientist@mstdn.science avatar

i'll say it AGAIN: is NOT the answer to our problems!

is expensive to build, underwritten by , profits go to , cost blowouts paid by taxpayers

can go on your roof, OWNED BY YOU

Archie8,

@GrrlScientist Do solar panels work at night?

Archie8,

@simon_brooke @GrrlScientist You must be very wealthy to own a house large enough to store multiple batteries and panels.

Archie8, to techno

What would you play first?

It'd have to be Kernkraft 400 by Zombie Nation for me

Oh yes 😀


rolle, to internet
@rolle@mementomori.social avatar

We have talked a lot about the positive sides of the Fediverse, but not as much about the downsides. For me the top negative things of this free and healthier social web are:

  1. People are patronizing. This happens a lot more than in other places. I mostly mean the unsolicited advice: Alt text, don’t post this or that, avoid commercialism, other social medias and use content warnings for everything. While many mean good, it has been often very aggressive. This happened a lot in 2022. For a while it made the bar to post much higher because I was afraid to make a mistake. Today I don’t care as much.

  2. Nitpicking. Comments are nice, but not when people are overly criticising about what you do or concentrating in irrelevancies. Whataboutism is the worst side effect.

  3. Everyone has their own rules and they are often contradicting each other. Some are extreme and block every other instance, some more allowing. You might accidentally break many rules around the Fediverse without even noticing it (some servers don’t allow posts about meat or alcohol for example).

  4. Politically too left. It seems it is not allowed to be very conservative here. People are anti-commercialism, anti-capitalist, anti-anything.

While saying this, I do not stumble upon these downsides very often since I am quite a chill guy and have my own server. I feel like I can post whatever the fuck I want.

However, I do wonder if these things are the ones that make the Fediverse less approachable by new users. On the other hand I believe the new open social web will transform the way we see the social media in general and soon it does not matter, we don’t have to think what is ”here” when the big players like Threads and Tumblr adapt ActivityPub.

Archie8,

@rolle I agree about the Alt Text. It's my choice if i caption something and if anyone demands it I now assume they're an arse

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Airlock: As a door, I’m often open to new things.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3LKqsNHyeQ

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dgarmusic/airlock/

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/au/album/airlock-single/1725622588

Tidal: https://tidal.com/track/339881620

Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/QBFLmPCNfMx2xM249

Qobuz: https://open.qobuz.com/track/247740812?sw=1

Songwhip: https://songwhip.com/dgar/airlock

Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com.au/albums/B0CS9TMD3C

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5ThhKPZPArGkU2shGLb4Ul?si=a0e5f233eda74708

Archie8,

@dgar Sweet!

gnitro, to vinyl
@gnitro@urusai.social avatar

#NowPlaying: Daydream Review - Leisure

https://songwhip.com/daydreamreview/leisure

#vinyl #pop #DreamPop #DaydreamReview

@vinylrecords

Archie8,

@gnitro @vinylrecords Wow that's a pretty record 😍

Archie8,

@gnitro I love all these new colours and designs. Why oh why were 99.99999% of records just boring black vinyl when they didn't need to be 🤷‍♂️

wild1145, to random

I think it's time for a little nightcap now, I'm back to the day job tomorrow and while this week wasn't quite what I had planned it to be, it was productive at least.

Archie8,

@wild1145 Slàinte mhath!

Archie8, to random

Mastodon has changed!

The cats will be annoyed 😬

Archie8,

@wild1145 Thanks. I don't think i ever used that bit 🤔

Archie8, to random

OK so how many of you out there are ai bots?

What if I'm the only real person on here!

It would explain a lot of the replies I get 🤔

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67872693

sharongascoigne, to random

After a couple of less stressful (for me) months because it's too muddy to perform jumps on his mountain bike , my son now has purchased himself a BMX.
He's just left to bomb it around our local skate park. Marvellous.

Archie8,

@sharongascoigne Are they trendy again?

Archie8, to random

Sweet 😍

Archie8, to random

For those interested in running a totally private instance which doesn't interact with anyone else apart from the people on that instance

Try email 🤨

Archie8, to random

Oh that's interesting

You don't have to moan on and on about Threads or Fediverse development or try and dictate what everyone else sees because you don't want to see it yourself

You can be the master of your own destiny and just block the whole instance yourself

Simples 🙂

mosseri, to random

Fediverse update thread 🔔🧵

For those of you who don't know, @Threads is being built on the ActivityPub protocol, which means that it will be interoperable with other apps/servers like Mastodon over time. This week we took a small, but important, step by allowing people in the Fediverse, who don't use Threads or even have an Instagram account, to follow my Threads account as well as a few others. Content is starting to flow from Threads to the Fediverse.

Archie8,

@mosseri So can people on Threads and Mastodon see this reply to you?

Archie8,

@wild1145 @mosseri It'll be interesting to see how it all develops

fuzzyface, to random

@wild1145 Assume that you're all over it, but just to let you know I fully support the defederation of anything Meta/FB related. 🙂

Archie8,

@wild1145 @fuzzyface I'm sure people on threads will move over once they see how much more functionality they can get on Masto.

aral, to Israel
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Let’s never forget the almost 3,000 people killed during 9/11 – the deadliest terrorist attack in history.

Now double that number. And imagine they’re all children.

That’s how many Palestinian children Israel has murdered in the last two months.

Let it really sink in: Israel has just murdered more than twice the number of Palestinian children as people killed by terrorists on 9/11.

Now ask yourself, what does that make Israel?

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/07/words-are-no-good-to-my-sister-whose-home-in-gaza-has-been-destroyed/

Archie8,

@aral I just know you're an American 😂

elijax, to nature Italian
@elijax@mas.to avatar

from made with and

and

-data #u-he

@electronicmusic

https://elijax.bandcamp.com/album/ex-machina

Archie8,

@elijax @electronicmusic Sweet!

Archie8, to random

Spotted this in the window of my favourite charity shop at lunchtime 😍

The Yamaha PSR 340 with floppy disc drive to record sequences!

A classic 👌

Archie8, to dance

Picked these two up in a charity shop for 10p each yesterday! 1997

Pet Shop Boys and the double CD maxi singles of 'Somewhere'

Some glorious mid 90s House here with great mixes and dubs

I'll share one which is almost pure early House sequencing and I'm sure I can hear the legendary Roland 808 in there 🤔


Archie8,

@ArtBear Rare to find matching pairs together as well!

ArtBear, (edited ) to music

A year ago I started a little personal #Fedi project to every week share #newRelease music + a variety of other tracks from all sorts of eras & genres too.

I called it #BearTracks for my own humour & just to sort of see what I was doing.

It's over 500 tracks now. Lots of good music, quite a bit you might not have heard.

I keep a playlist too, which can be found here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSjf2LsBixj_y6Q7vRz9rG_m0PILEpuW&si=voyLNyCcwHFXyjg4
&:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Cfnw4ZRUGfr86nPRbdJX5?si=553859025f374d23

I hope you might find something new to enjoy.

#Music #Playlist #BearTracks

Archie8,

@ArtBear Sweet beats @Skeewiff 😀

Archie8, to vinyl

'Misty-eyed, he recalls snapping up a bounty of 24,000 records from 1983 to 1993 – gathering dust in a garage in Chelmsford. He paid £10,000 in 2015 after just half an hour of flicking through its rare contents. He quickly sold the records on for £150,000'

20 years earlier they were worthless. This reminds me of a skip I saw in the late 90's full of vinyl albums soaking in the rain. Nobody was interested in them. Not even me!
I was 100% digital in those days

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/18/uk-vinyl-hotel-vinyl-pimp-hackney-london

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