I am just a human with an opinion. However I also host a music radio show. I know if a song is good or not, independent of which genre it is.
Of course, I also have my own taste. I.e. I'm not interested in anything trying to cling on mainstream, anything where polish ("production quality") is higher than substance (to be honest, production quality is the last thing that matters to me).
So this is a list which meets this criteria. A lot of good tracks are already left out, because others I did find even better. Maybe, if I would have time to listen again in a reversed order, I may have favored another track then and when.
I'm sorry if you feel you should be included here. You probably are, and I'm to blame. I mean it!
Anyway – this list really deals with a lot of different Genres and is meant as a help for anyone who doesn't have time to listen to all tracks, to anyone who knows how unfair that is (because lots of artists are left out) and to anyone having an "off mainstream" taste.
[RUGG] Grandios Roy Orbison country including a real banjo, if my ears don't deceive me. Rich composition, lots of structure (much more than just an ABAB scheme), text mentions "die nmi!" - my real musician handle (right? RIGHT?) - how couldn't I just love it (!!) ?
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#RUGG
• Artist: @sknob
[UDIL] High production standards (multiband compression to the max, arrrrgh) which makes me skeptical (also Euro Dance style. Really? In 2024?) But damn, there is substance and boy, it grooves. Pretty sure the female singer is a sample, as it always repeats. I was once criticized for using such a sample instead of something original back in the 90s in a competition and that's why I wont complain here. I just... mention this :)
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#UDIL
• Artist link(s): @yours_truly
[MOUL] YEAHhhhh!! Dirty electric Cyber tech(no) with a french vibe. Totally a candidate for my Radio Irrtum! Show! A candidate I said. Nothing is decided yet, but I don't claim this without reason. Moule by the way did also a fantastic review session of a lot of tracks very early on at his fediverse account! Thank you, Moule, you crazy horse (or whatever that animal is)!
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#MOUL
• Artist link(s): @MOULE
[Side note:]
When I am looking forward to find out who the female singer of a track is, and then find out it's just an #AI. Then nope. Totally nope. Especially when you are a male musician: Don't abuse my remaining male hormones like this! I hear a beautiful woman, I expect a beautiful woman, not a filthy male with his AI. Screw all this!
[ELAN] That surf bass ❤️. And suddenly. All different! Who needs New Order or OMD now?! Should be rewarded for the most surprising turn during the song.So good! Bernard Sumner isn't around? Just ask for Nick Jennings!
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#ELAN
• Artist link(s): @slvrbckt
[THRO] - I usually run away screaming from kitsch medival "feel good" folk. This one is different. Turns out. This isn't really kitsch. Just those guitar lines are gold. The composition itself. Sooo good! Plus: With singers with a nice sounding voice who know how to sing. Underestimated thing that can make all the difference. Vikings would have profited from this.
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#THRO
• Artist link(s): @brindy
[CEPH] This code alone makes a lot of sense (in an IT environment full of Linux) but umm... this track has nothing to do with that: It's a bone dry rock track with rapped words as if Run DMC meet the early Beastie Boys again. Well done!
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#CEPH
• Artist link(s): @Lioh
[BLAH] - Chiptune with modern FX + synths/samples (personally I try to avoid that and leave em dry). Anyway: This track is totally on FIRE!!! I'm drop dead serious! FIRE! Also gender changing substances for all! Can't not luv it!!
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#BLAH
• Artist link(s): @fabi
[EATW]: Very sad but kinda rocky track with a female singer. Strong. Moving. Good!
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#EATW
• Artist link(s): @whoosh
Side Note
Good Harsh Noise Tracks are abstract and still have a structure. Applying distortion to an average track isn't enough for Sonar fans like me ;)
[RAIL] Disclaimer. I'm on good terms with Stephan and respect him as a human, his music, and his role in the CC movement a lot. However that doesn't cloud my opinion. If I don't like the music of a friend, I'm brutally honest about it. Already lost friends because of this habit. Now about the track:
Super well executed super rich material (what a unbelievable composition this is, what a huge arrangement). It's Schall und Stille and friends. Didn't expect anything less... but still. I'm super moved by this huge positive impact this has on me. I mean, there is a CELLO in it! Just because of that (but there is soooo much more): Instant luv!! By far, I mean it, by far the best track in all departments in the whole competition (well, DEEZ comes close). Which is perhaps the problem with that track. It sounds just too damn well (because it is). Congrats, Stephan, MyLoFy and Tobias.
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#RAIL
• Artist link(s): @stephan, @MyLoFy
The difficulty in troubleshooting issues with the #Ceph radosgw S3 API is often the question of whether for a particular call radosgw has an implementation bug, or S3 as implemented in AWS is really stupidly counterintuitive.
The votes are open for this year's Fedivision Song Contest and I would be delighted if you could vote for my contribution: https://fedivision.party/#CEPH
This post is really a small collection of thoughts about Proxmox when used in a home lab situation and home labs in general. I was originally going to post this to Mastodon only but it didn't fit in a single post.
A lot of people (at least what I see on reddit) build Proxmox systems with shared file systems like ceph, even for home lab use.
Got incus-deploy to a state where it can now reliably deploy #Ceph, #OVN and #Incus in just a few minutes, taking care of all the clustering bits and resulting in a fully functional environment! https://asciinema.org/a/654385
Codeberg's performance is currently degraded. We are working on a fix.
We performed an experiment with our storage settings (testing Ceph's resiliency) and did not expect that undoing the action takes x100 the time to do the change.
Finally got #Ceph RBD reliably working in #Rancher#Harvester VMs. Volumes, snapshots, backups, migrations, etc. are all working now against an external Ceph cluster alongside the native Longhorn.
One of my control plane/storage nodes kept freezing at approx 00:10 every day. Just removed it from the cluster, moved the 2 #ceph OSDs it was hosting to a former worker, and reprovisioned the worker as a control plane/storage node. All with no downtime 😅
Just realized it isn't S3 storage what I potentially need for the #Peertube instance I might want to host but that other service thingy for improved bandwidth. 🙃