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• Post #4509352

  If you're looking for #chillout, #psybient, #psychill, #ambient and the like, Fluid Dynamic does very cool DJ sets in all those categories. She's live right now: https://hearthis.at/fluiddynamic/ I prefer Hearthis because it often has track lists, but she's also on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/FluidDynamic/ She used to post on here as well but I guess Bluesky had more of the intended audience. Music feels pretty underrepresented in the fediverse sometimes. That&am...

• Post #4509351

  I maintain that Alcest's Spiritual Instinct is probably their best album, lots of banger songs like Protection https://alcest.bandcamp.com/track/protection If you like #shoegaze you already know them. If you don't, give them a try. Warning: Contains despaired wailing banshee cries.

• Post #4509350

  This #synthwave hidden gem is more than a decade old now. Short, simple, dreamlike but I find it super-satisfying. And nobody knows it! https://soundcloud.com/sonicflux/midnight-run The artist hasn't released much after this, or at least has dropped off SoundCloud. Thanks to lewrker for helping me re-find this, I only had the file, with very incomplete metadata.

• Post #4509349

  The maintainer of the lib.rs curated crate repository on weathering the slopstorm: "I could try to fight AI with AI, except that performing AI code reviews of all the crates is going to boil an ocean and cost so much money that the x.com edgelord will be able to afford to build a second Mars from finely crushed orphans." Yes, the fight against slop is a real problem, for all package repos, but especially for curated ones. No, I don't have answers, I'm as power...

• Post #4509348

  Another brilliant piece of #FOSS i'm very thankful for: SilverBullet. Everyone is all "omg i keep my brain in obsidian" but I keep mine in just some Markdown that gets slurped through a web interface and that can run Lua. Check this: https://silverbullet.md/ I evaluated this as a Logseq replacement a year or two ago and it wasn't quite ready yet, but now it's extremely polished. Logseq recently switched from plain folders of Markdown files to sqlite a...

• Post #4509347

  Sad #synthwave can be good synthwave as well. https://deadlife.bandcamp.com/track/never-forget

• Post #4509346

  I know Bandcamp Friday is a little bit over already. I usually have a big wishlist in my quiver so I can fire off some long-delayed purchases without spending too much time sampling tracks. This time I got some Kaminanda (downtempo/psychill): https://kaminanda.bandcamp.com Caught up with the hype of 70s prog-tinged progressive death metal ambient weirdness Blood Incantation: https://bloodincantation.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-elsewhere And grabbed a bunch of albums by Lab's Cloud (ps...

• Post #3226730

  @thomasfuchs I dug up my old VCR recently that'd been stored since 1998 or so with the tape still inside. And hey, it all still works. The tape played fine, it was a TV taping of a Therion concert from Poland that they showed on VIVA once. The fact that VHS works at all with that high-speed diagonal head-spinning wizardry is already mind-blowing but after 25 years in storage, wow. (That said, all my Zip drives and disks sitll work too, so maybe not all that surprising for magnetic med...

• Post #3226729

  After the nvim-treesitter disaster I thought I'd give plain old vim a try again. I'm surprised that with https://github.com/yegappan/lsp , even LSP configuration is pleasant now. That, fzf, vim-surround, some filetype plugins and I'm almost as happy now as I used to be with a 800 line init.lua on NeoVim (shhh, don't mention modularization). It's not quite zero plugins, but as close to it as I'm feeling comfortable right now.