For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.
Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):
@mcc this genre is "EDM my local top-40 format station (Power 92) used to occasionally play in the front half of the 90s between Toni Braxton and Nirvana."
@mcc I once paid 1.50 CAD for a used book that accrued 50 CAD in tariffs, taxes, and brokerage fees.
In theory you can show up in person and do the brokerage yourself but here it boils down to "you can drive out of town to the CBSA office at the Edmonton Intl Airport strictly on business days between 1 and 2 pm" or something.
Tidal has updated me to its "FLAC" quality level without charging me any additional money.
This makes me happy because (1) it is very good quality and (2) it's cool they're giving it at the low pay tier.
I am also VERY CONFUSED about whether the label "FLAC" actually means "FLAC" or "some other high-quality compression algorithm we think is good", because they've been misleading about this before!
(Editing this post bc ppl keep boosting it despite it being corrected downthread.)
@AlSweigart reminds me of the Clown discourse. People familiar with the history of clowning have mentioned that a combination of bad clowning and changing the conception of it from something for adults into something for kids really deeply damaged the reputation of that performance art.
I always make sure to spell my coworkers' names correctly because I think it's an important, if tiny, part of respect at the workplace, which is why I'm going to FORMALLY change my name to a Wingding so no one ever misspells it again, since having it in my email address and signature are not enough checksum for it
seriously, webminidisc.com is a masterpiece of engineering and UI design.
i dragged an album from my music library onto the page, and it automatically converted it to ATRAC format, uploaded it, and wrote it to my md player connected via usb.
Launching apps via voice is often quicker than navigating to the app on the home view (especially because you can’t arrange apps on the home view). But:
@gruber it feels like something PlayStation solved about 10 years ago when they let developers define the phonetic pronunciation of their game to launch via voice command as a piece of metadata.
this rather infamous hotel recently went up for sale after closing as a bar/hotel in 2017, and unsuccessfully relaunching as a bbq restaurant.
i have exactly two memories of this place:
Saturday nights were "Gerbil Race" nights. I wish I had a photo to prove it - but for over a decade in the 90s and early 2000s you could build a gerbil racing team and race your rodent against other teams, and bet on the winners, chocobo-style. performance-enhancing mimett greens not allowed.
(CW: barf) I lived in an apartment one-half block away from "The Transit" in the late 2000s. i learned to keep a wide berth from it, because there were always sketchy people loitering around the entrance. one time I was forced to walk along its south-facing sidewalk, and while I looked up, a man slid open a third-storey window, and vomited a massive pile of instant noodles onto the sidewalk, 25 feet below and about ten feet in front of me. i never walked past that side of the building ever again.
please: let some kind, filthy rich soul buy this place and bring back our beloved gerbil races so i might finally breed my gold rodent and learn knights of the round 🙏