Nikola Plejić @nikola@mi.pede.rs
computers, code, music, science, politics, stuff. bilinguality is my thing / bilingualnost je moja furka. dada everything. ☭.
Don't use your phone in bed tonight.
Decentralize your world.
There is of course #mastodon as federated social media.
There is good old #email as federated postbox (as long as not everyone uses GMail).
There is #peertube as a federated video platform.
There is #Riot / Matrix.org as federated group messaging.
There is #XMPP for federated 1on1 messaging.
And there is #nextcloud as federated cloud storage.
In theory most services are already federated. We only miss more users :)
‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.”>>
http://www.interlude.hk/front/philip-glass-composer-taxi-driver/
<< the pioneer of minimalist music Philip Glass supported himself by working as a plumber, furniture mover and taxi driver. >>
<<Even after Glass achieved fame and notoriety with his opera Einstein on the Beach in 1976, he still continued to ply his blue-collar trades. Called upon to install a dishwasher, “I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief.
Try an old school crossword, find-a-word, or sudoku.
2018 is still young and all, but it'll be hard to top Slugdge's new record as the metal album of the year.
Everything here is marvelous. The concept, the humor, the punny track titles, the music (oh, the music), the production... Limo vincit omnia!
Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes the Witches Brew
It's difficult to say what kind of music this is. Yeah, it's "black metal", but it's also what zeuhl could have been if it was made 20-30 years later. It's what an extreme metal band founded by Captain Beefheart might have sounded like.
Whatever it is, it's wonderfully composed, paced and played, and it's also freaking impressive because it's been played by two people. Very much recommended.
Hey, kids/young adults who love standing in front of their amps & PA systems during performances:
PLEASE pay attention to the killjoys who tell you to get decent hardwearing earplugs / disposable classic foam plugs while playing.
Because living with tinnitus will start to ruin your life in a big way, and if tinnitus gets beyond tinnitus...well...yeah it's awful.
At the end of the day, you don't wanna be like me with 30% hearing in their left ear in my mid-20s just cuz teen me was ignorant af.
Sunwatcher's album "II" is punk music for 2018. It's politically charged (look at that album cover! look at them liner notes!), beautifully composed and brilliantly executed.
"Music is the healing force of the universe", indeed.
"Syrian Metal Is War" is a documentary about the metal scene and its survival in war-torn Syria. It's not an easy thing to watch, but you most certainly need to do it.
Wow, I thought we had it bad, this isn't a positive read...
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/amp/SF-tourist-industry-struggles-to-explain-street-12534954.php
That said, if you have a decent offline music collection, a good DAC, and a Raspberry Pi laying around, you should definitely try Volumio (or mOode et al.).
They provide a well-configured ALSA / MPD stack with an optional web UI, and make sure your music is reproduced as well as possible.
I've recently installed Volumio (https://volumio.org/) on a Raspberry Pi, and at some point, my playback UI just broke...
Turns out the last version in Volumio's repos is subtly broken, and it constatly restarts the playback UI.
The update should be in the repos shortly. In the meantime, you can manually get the ZIP file from this commit, and it works well: https://github.com/Saiyato/volumio-lastfm-plugin/commit/1c3a8df18892ad4a91c9ae06f392ec9f032a6325
I find it amusing that all of the cool hip tech workers tout remote work as the best thing since the invention of sliced bread, yet regularly insist they have to use (usually proprietary, closed) IM services in order to "retain their sanity" and "feel close to their fellow humans".
The 21st century is a legit shitshow.
Björk's NTS Live mix is a glorious, beautifully curated overview of what's happening in music, and a great reminder of the shoulders of giants Utopia stands on.
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/bjork-12th-january-2018
In December of 2016 a voicemail number was set up to receive calls from anyone who felt like leaving a new years eve message for friends or family or the whole world. This song is the result of that.
https://rainbowkitten.bandcamp.com/track/auld-lang-syne
I really proud of how this came out. It's a time capsule from a year ago. 2016 was pretty bad. Everyone was so desperate for things to improve. There's a strange heaviness about it all. A lot of that is still relevant. Enjoy some feels with me! :)