bulwark @ bulwark @lemmy.world

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Hey, I just wanted to say this was a pretty great read, even if it was depressing as hell. You've got a knack for painting a picture with words.

I've been arrested, held up at gun point, and spent a few weeks in a Texas jail in the 90s because I like smoking weed. Now I have 3 weed stores within 2 miles of me, and it's as mundane as buying a loaf of bread. So that's a positive in my book.

I'll just leave this here.

Dude Navidrome is so great. I hooked my my decades worth of music collection up to it and now I can stream b-side tracks and indie bands that weren't on Spotify. Plus when I hit random I know it's actually random and not some algo to sell the newest slop that Spotify is pushing.

I once had an Excedrin get stuck in my throat sideways. That was a pretty uncomfortable several hours of my life.

Code on into the great beyond

I think comic sans would do a lot for their brand image, honestly.

So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I'm still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste...

Yup, I worked there in the late 90s and this was my experience. Also, at the end of the night the managers would lock the doors and make us clock out and clean the store. I didn't know about wage theft back then, but I did know what they were doing was wrong.

Thats pretty sweet, it reminds me of the Soviet era cyanide fake tooth pills. Which would actually be kinda handy for an emergency Excedrin like after a night of drinking.

THIS. IS. MY. LAST. RESORT.

Yeah, I got a phone warning before the last earthquake I experienced in Washington. It's pretty cool, but I got the notification probably 15 seconds before I felt it. Maybe I could have planned better if I had longer, but it was like a 4.5 so it didn't matter. Japan has a really good advanced warning system, the notification sound is pretty eerie.

Well stop being so friendly and people won't think you're a robot. Jk/

The author of that article seems real and makes a decent point. Reddit is infested with that shit nowadays.

There's tells I've noticed that if something seems to friendly, or formal, and the tone seems too verbose it might be generated. Formatting gives it away as well

Hey thanks for that. I do like hackernews and ars technica. And I already selfhost a bunch of other stuff. So I guess I found what I'm going to setup next. In the past whenever I've looked into RSS I've found some sites go out of their way to try to stop it.

For example here's a site I'd like to get the feed for featured reviews: https://rateyourmusic.com/

Short of scraping it with python beautiful soup I don't see an easy way to get the feed.

Any good feeds you recommend?

The face of James Earl Jones! Jk, that is a fun fact I'm stealing for next time I watch a clockwork orange

Uncle Sam keeps his ECM frequencies under a pretty tight lock and key, speaking as someone who's had to service ALQ-99 pods.

Absolutely. This is the true "kill switch". Turning off support for most US made weapons means killing them.