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| Posted on 10-21-18 08:46:27 PM, in XMPP |
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I think it would be possible -- I have an acquaintance who has looked a bit into forum integration for something like this. I could hit him up later, since I've forgotten what he went with in the end.
It's fairly lightweight and simple, there are multiple methods of encrypted communication using it (with patchy support for OMEMO sadly, though maybe that'll get better after a bit longer), and it's just...nice not to have your ability to talk to your friends tied to anyone else's hosting. |
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| Bracingly cold here -- going outside feels restorative instead of exhausting now. |
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Originally posted by Jamie
The colours remind me of the Mega Drive lol. Looks nice tho but a little big.
Maybe it's just my massive hands, but I think it's fine. Here's a shot with a bit more perspective.
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| Posted on 10-22-18 10:53:00 PM, in XMPP |
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The hosting burden is a lot higher, but Matrix is okay... What do you mean by modern exactly, though?
I do think I prefer XMPP by a pretty wide margin atm -- hosting is easy, it's not browser-based in really any regard, there's plenty of mature client and server software to meet different people's requirements... But any move away from centralized services makes me happy, honestly. |
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| Posted on 10-26-18 10:10:19 PM, in XMPP |
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IMO "one tool for one job" is a good thing, yes. It lowers the burden on individual maintainers or groups of maintainers, limits the damage if something self-destructs or peters out... etc.
Another thing I like about XMPP is the huge battery of clients to choose from -- any one of profanity, mcabber, gaim, bitlbee, conversations, etc. meets the needs of someone who would be more frustrated with the other options. A pretty good proportion of these are light years away from the electron/JS mess everything else is running headlong into. Of course, some of the sideline features like file transfer sometimes suck between different clients. I should see if I can get past that one of these days. |
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Old GBAs are indeed very pretty. I still have mine; I need to clean it up and bring it back into use.
I love the GBA's library to death honestly -- was a large part of what I played growing up. Drill Dozer is a particularly interesting less-known GBA game -- gamefreak-developed platformer that revolved around a drill mech with a shifting system. You got first, second and third gears as the level progressed and could do things like reversing to recoil out of blocks you were drilling into, using the drill to bounce over enemies, putting a propeller on your drill and using it to travel through water, etc. Lots of creative puzzles with things like threaded pipes, fragile timed blocks, ziplines, catapults... The music and art are stellar too, and there are tons of optional levels and treasure to connect where the puzzle difficulty rises pretty sharply.
Other than that, the obvious suspects like Minish Cap, Golden Sun, Metroid Zero Mission the Final Fantasy ports, etc. were great fun. It was just an all-around great console IMO. |
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| Realize I'm checking this pretty far after the fact, but I read Left Hand of Darkness, Lathe of Heaven, and World is the Word for Forest earlier this year. LeGuin was a pretty good writer. I think I need to re-read LHoD though -- the last part of the book felt incongruous to me in a way I'm not sure it was supposed to. I'll probably finish Dispossessed, but it grated on me in a way the others didn't on first read. I guess literary depictions of childhood tend to bother me -- they feel so... arm's length and dishonest I guess. Maybe it's accurate for most people and I'm just weird, though. |
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Big pile of stuff to throw in here, though I'm too lazy to link everything...
Organ Tapes - Lost Half, which...is probably the very last decent OT song I haven't looped 300 times.
Ssaliva - Believer. This artist collabed with Organ Tapes a time or two, but their music is pretty different.
Lyra Valenza - Scan, Deliver came out on Opal Tapes recently, and while all the jungle breaks and balearic pop influences on Reality Blizz especially are pretty uncharacteristic of the lable, I love the way it soars.
Other than that, tons of plays of two Kim Cascone albums, neither of which are properly on Youtube. The first is The Crystalline Address, which is a collab with Scanner -- tense, cold drone that paired well with the section of Children of the Sea I was reading a couple days back. All the howling rain and wind and the time underwater, the huge tanks, etc... The other was Book of Standard Equinoxes, which is longer, and both harsher and more...serene, maybe? Phenomenal either way -- some of the best drone I can think of, honestly.
Edit nov 06: Lots of Underworld -- I turned up my nose at them for a while, but spent most of today with Born Slippy or parts of Second Toughest in the Infants playing. Somehow Dirty Epic feels like something from the early 2000s instead of 93...
Oophoi - Mare Tranqullitatus is another one -- mostly while I finished off Children of the Sea. Ybris is probably the biggest standout, and I would link it, but the only upload is a region-locked, autogenerated nightmare. Oh well.
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| I have the opposite issue, honestly -- I hate control schemes that are unresponsive, e.g. SM64's on-ground momentum, or games that lock you into a jump trajectory once you leave the ground. The first Sly game's an examples of how to do controls correctly, imo -- I think it's the most responsive game I've ever played. |
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| Happy birthday! Hope it's a good one. |
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| Even though I wasn't a part of this place the first time, it's kind of reassuring to see older faces filtering back in. Welcome! |
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| Thinkpads are nice. I think I've seen you around Mastodon too -- welcome! |
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Trackpoints are wonderful -- there's also the keyboard, the fact that servicing the thing yourself isn't painful, the magnesium cage/CFRP base, the fact that they can be had pretty cheaply now...
I wish they'd make something entirely CFRP again, though. And indeed, everything outside of the p series seems to have fallen off pretty hard...
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Going to echo most of the "attraction to guys"/"masculine stereotypes" sentiments up there. Sadly wasn't blessed with with that body type though -- if I was willing to make a few sacrifices I could be an awful hulking thing pretty easily (I'm 6'3"). Not really "dysphoria" as such, but I wish that wasn't the reality... Would be a billion times worse if it was actual gender dysphoria probably; not sure I could ever even get close. I often feel like a corpse -- like most of my life is inevitably just going to be spent decaying.
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Old Man Gloom - Seminar III: Zozobra.
Pretty great sludge metal with Aaron Turner on vocals when Isis was still just getting its start. Heavier use of samples -- this album is just a single, long track and it works wonderfully.
Also Ryo Murakami - Spectrum is some nice, vaguely dub techno derived stuff. The Porter Ricks remix at the end is great, especially with the spatial separation my ER4s give.
Also Reign, which is very hard-charging rave-influenced techno -- not crazy about the use of the Steve Reich sample, which has shown up in a ton of disparate tracks I've already heard (MF Doom, Maximillian Colby ... ), but the track itself is good enough I don't care. In general though, I'd throw that on the pile of things never to be sampled again with that "The only bad part about flying" sample from Streetwise and "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore"... |
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Since my train of thought is going this way from a post in another thread... Are there any lyrics in music you like that stand out or have special significance of some kind to you?
For me, let's see what comes to mind right now...
-Pretty much everything in Moss Icon - Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly, but "A cross of swords and a wreath of dead buildings in a pit archive" is a nice line by itself.
-ATDI - Invalid Litter Dept: "And the paramedics had fallen into the wound, like a rehired scab in a barehanded plan, an anesthetic penance beneath the hail of contraband". There are many, many other ATDI lyrics I could put here, but Invalid Litter Dept. is probably the best.
-Rapoon - Tin of Drum has some of the best use of speech samples I've ever heard. "Cirrocumulus, cirrostratus..." (obviously quite a bit more going on here than the lyrics themselves, so probably not strictly something I should include here)
-I'm pretty into most of the first part of Born Slippy .NUXX.
-Codeine - Jr: "Dumb at twelve, with a delinquent mind... The sky turned yellow-blue, like a week-old bruise/ These days things loom above me; my head is empty, my tongue and lips are swollen"
-Baby Ford - Poem for Wigan. Strange inclusion, maybe, but "I think there's something wrong with the world, really..." finds its way back into my head pretty often.
There are a lot more I'm forgetting, and a lot more I'd be more into on another day. Slovenly in particular probably has quite a few -- oh well.. I have some phantom memory of bringing this up before too, so apologies if there's a thread or reply buried somewhere already.
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These edits neo_petal/703 has been doing are pretty okay stuff.
Roland Kayn - Tektra -- cold, beautiful machine-generated drone from the early 80s. Khyra is a particular favorite. Bit more about it here. |
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Seems like virtually every one of these proprietary platforms does something egregiously stupid and hostile eventually...
If only they weren't content silos and people could just move freely. |
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| Since I don't think I mentioned it here, I got a TinyFPGA! Probably not a necessary purchase, but a fun one. The "bootloader" system is a bit clever, even if it doesn't retain configuration through power cycles like the ice40 HX8K evaluation board I already have. Headers and parts for an analog project soon to follow... |
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| Similar to above, these feelings took a sharp nosedive recently. I'm going to be on blockers in a matter of weeks and in the lovely, lovely position of hiding it from multiple sets of people. This will be nothing if not interesting, I guess. |
