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djsundog

@djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

Trying to break things that need breaking, deliberately and after much reflection, make things in a likewise manner, and generally reshape the various worlds I inhabit to be slightly more habitable.

into music, retrocomputing, people, caring, and thinking.

dislike capitalism, cryptocurrency, terfs, nazis, fascists, racists, & edgelords.

Support me: https://liberapay.com/sundog/

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software building types of people often talk about friction in context of something to remove, an impediment to the "smooth" use of the system in question, but that's got me thinking about how useful friction is, a key to building traction and not sliding around all over the place, and how that utility could be leveraged to a computer operator's advantage in a humane and literate environment without turning it into an impediment.

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somewherewhen in the multiverse you sent some person three dollars in an envelope to pay them for their shareware png decoder on your mp/m-running Z28000 processor-based personal area network mesh to make web browsing more performant.

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IT'S DECORATIVE IMPLEMENTS OF DESTRUCTION SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS

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We could have efficient delivery of mail, parcels, and even groceries and sundry goods via sustainably powered high-speed pneumatic tubes as easily as any other buried utility but instead asshats wanna wage wars and mine fake money smdh

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    @Robotron

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    I think we need to scale down, get the basic stuff right, and stop worrying about getting 2 million followers on Instagram. Let’s start with a thousand people who are willing to chip in a couple of bucks and see where that gets us.

    @ernie is talking about journalists, but could just as easily be talking about musicians, or actors, or novelists, or programmers, or just about any of us working class folk.

    https://tedium.co/2023/11/09/digital-media-downsizing-jezebel-vice-tumblr/

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    I wonder if I'll get in trouble if I put a patched version of the morris worm on github

    djsundog,
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    @foone what if the real Pandora's Box was the shit foone made along the way?

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    I do not want a friend link to your Medium blog post.

    I want a Public Universal Friend link to all of your blog posts and everyone else's blog posts too.

    Own your own blog. Let Medium blog on Medium.

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    Good morning fediverse :cofepats:​

    What's your favorite smol multi-core risc-v dev board and why?

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    My wife gets me.

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    new module idea: PAM-floppy-OTP

    djsundog,
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    @foone it's a feature to give one time to reconsider whether or not logging in is right for them.

    trevorflowers, (edited ) to random
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    Oh, hai tiny floppy disk organizer but for micro SD cards.
    edit: I'm printing more for the store: https://store.transmutable.com/l/msdfo

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    @trevorflowers you’re gonna make me start to put tiny labels with inaccurate information on my microSD cards

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    “But what happens to those of us who love and use Bandcamp? As I told an internet friend, “Like reciting ‘memento mori,’ we need to always think about what we do in a world without Bandcamp because that day will come.””

    https://8sided.blog/a-mess-of-headaches/

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    @rasterweb @ajroach42 @mathiasx @fistfulofdave

    the plan is to provide integrations with popular payment platforms and a shopping and digital fulfillment system as well as functionality to support offline fulfillment of physical goods.

    djsundog, to random
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    Now John Patitucci is explaining to Ben Sidran and his radio audience the anatomy of my six string bass and why it rules. Okay, his six string bass, but mine’s the same. Same bass! Same bass!

    stefan, to pizza
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    Happy Sweet Sixteen to None pizza with left beef. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_pizza_with_left_beef

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    @stefan they grow up so quickly

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    Listening to Kareem Abdul Jabbar talking with Ben Sidran from Ben’s NPR show from back in the day, “Talking Jazz”, and it’s wild to realize that Kareem was trying his hardest to start a jazz label in the time leading up to their interview, and he had to tell Ben he’d decided to not do it, because he couldn’t do it justice without leaving basketball, and because he was concerned with making sure the artists got paid, which put him at odds with the industry at large.

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    Ben’s site has the audio up for listening!

    https://bensidran.com/conversation/talking-jazz-kareem-abdul-jabbar

    Highly recommended. Every interview in this collection is gold.

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    The squishy concepts around as it exists in my mind are starting to unwind into structured data and flows and I suspect we’ll have a nice sparse scaffold within the next few days from which to start bolting things together and so forth. Lots of eager assistance has made itself available with a delightfully diverse set of skills and backgrounds and we’re hard at work trying to ungate them and set them on their own paths ASAP.

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    So, as I alluded to yesterday, I've been chatting with folks about the current state of affairs regarding Bandcamp's acquisition and, most recently, massive layoffs. While it's been a good platform for a lot of independent musicians for a number of years, I don't trust the motivations of the new ownership to continue to operate the platform in a way that benefits those same independent musicians, and I don't believe going to yet another corporate-owned-and-operated silo is in anyone's best interests.

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    In order to provide an alternative that respects musicians, reviewers, and fans alike, MountainTown Technology is undertaking the creation of Aural Isle, a server platform that will provide a self-hostable Bandcamp-like interface for artists, labels, curators, and fans.

    Our initial goal is a barest minimum implementation of the functionality needed to get things off the ground, but we have a much longer vision of how a distributed, federated network of Aural Isle servers could work to develop the network effects that are an important part of making sure art finds its way to its audience.

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    We have set up the barest of code repositories to hold this project here:

    https://code.communitymedia.network/MountainTownTechnology/aural_isle

    As you will see, it is simply a README and a LICENSE at this stage. Actual coding begins later today as I scaffold out the basic structure of the repo and project.

    We expect to have something in folks' hands that's useful and usable within the next month. Obviously our longer term goals will go beyond that timeframe, but we're eager to get this out into the world and get people jamming with us on where it could go.

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    djsundog,
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    If you're interested in helping, great! We are definitely looking for collaborators to work with us, and are currently holding discussions about the project in one of our matrix channels - reach out to @ajroach42 via DM if you'd like to get access.

    If you'd like to support us, also great! We'll be setting up an OpenCollective project shortly to ensure transparency and provide a way for us to pay contributors along the way.

    Prior to that, feel free to back @ajroach42 's Patreon if you're insistent in getting financial support sent our way.

    We know there are a number of other projects underway to provide similar functionality, and we welcome the confluence of ideas in this space. We look forward to seeing what the future of music distribution might look like and hope to be working with y'all on it together in the very near future.

    I'm sure Andrew will have more to say about the project and the vision later today, but I'm happy to handle and/or fumble any questions anyone may have.

    Thanks for reading!

    :blobpats:​

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    @bobjonkman I don't believe @funkwhale is oriented towards allowing artists to set up a storefront for selling their music

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    having some fruitful conversations about what an open source bandcamp replacement could look like in the short term and then in the long term - watch this space this time tomorrow-ish

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