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  • Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you

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  • I mostly see telemetry requests getting blocked in my firewall. Is there anything else I've missed?

  • Sacrilege rule

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  • Yeah. And even when I'm deeply in the all digital FLAC camp over here, I truly understand the frustration people had with digital audio. The biggest reason for that was the radio wars of the 90's, where every station wanted to be louder than the others to get better reviews and more listeners. And this pushed the studios to use all the headroom and compress their productions so even the CDs were already as loud as possible. This trend took over a decade, and kind of made music lovers think that vinyl sounds better than any digital audio. The early D/A converters were also kind of bad, so the early sound of a CD was not as good as vinyl was.

    Nowadays we have the streaming services already normalizing all the tracks, so the mastering doesn't have to be loud anymore. Actually even these 90's and early 2000's masters sound really bad when you normalize the audio. And whatever sound card you have in your phone or computer has a pretty good D/A converter, so today digital definitely can and will sound better than the vinyl. Of course vinyl has better aesthetics with the beautiful cover art, so it is nice to own if you have space.

    Edit: for analog, reel-to-reel tape sounds absolutely amazing. Too bad it's really hard to source any albums in this format.

  • Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you

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  • I'm using mull fork of Firefox which doesn't even have these settings, the tracking features are completely removed from the browser.

  • Sacrilege rule

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  • Wasn't there even an "all analog" label in the US that claimed to use a fully analog pipeline in their process. People were saying it sounds so much better than the digital garbage we have, until somebody found out they were secretly using digital sources in their process and now the company got sued.

    For all the recording nerds out there I highly recommend the book "Perfecting Sound Forever" by Greg Milner, which offers really good insights from both sides of the analog/digital debacle.

  • Storm Linux 2000, 1999

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  • I think even Samsung was funding it for a while. They took a long time building libraries supporting rendering on X11 what I remember. I used the 0.16.x version with my 1GHz Athlon years ago, it was very cool.

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    The Berklee Sessions, by Scanner & Neil Leonard (jazz, ambient)

    scanner.bandcamp.com /album/the-berklee-sessions
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    Ice, by KASHIWA Daisuke (post rock)

    virginbabylonrecords.bandcamp.com /album/ice
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    Faded Caprice, by E.R.P. (elektro)

    apnearec.bandcamp.com /album/faded-caprice
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    OATH, by MONO (post rock)

    monoofjapan.bandcamp.com /album/oath
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    II, by Kiasmos (electronic, minimal, idm)

    kiasmos.bandcamp.com /album/ii
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    Keep The Outside Open, by Apifera (electronic, jazz)

    apifera.bandcamp.com /album/keep-the-outside-open
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  • It was good. I don't know how similar these are but have you seen Portrait of a Lady on Fire or Girlhood?

  • Cans of forgotten dreams

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  • The fourth can is the one where he packed Kinski's tongue after he died.

  • Stop use docker

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  • It creates a set of symlinks so every program sees exactly the dependencies it needs.

    https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/09-automatic-runtime-dependencies#automatic-runtime-dependencies

    You can also create a container:

    https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers

    Or you can create reproducible docker containers with nix:

    https://dev.to/anurag_vishwakarma/a-better-way-to-build-reproducible-docker-images-with-nix-2k59

    The secret sauce with nix is reproducibility. If it builds once, it will continue building exactly like that forever. Bit by bit.

  • Stop use docker

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  • Nix can build you a bit-to-bit exact environment for your app. It is a superior environment, but is hard to use in the beginning and users can feel snobby sometimes. It is awesome, but YMMV.

  • Stop use docker

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  • Nix user arrives to the room.

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    Vortex of the Worlds, by Labyrinthus Stellarum (black metal)

    labyrinthusstellarum.bandcamp.com /album/vortex-of-the-worlds
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    Agartha, by Wata Igarashi (ambient, techno)

    wataigarashi.bandcamp.com /album/agartha
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    Disco Club, by Black Devil Disco Club (disco)

    lorecordings.bandcamp.com /album/disco-club-lo127
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    Bcciv, by Black Country Communion (hard rock)

    bccommunion.bandcamp.com /album/bcciv
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    Active Agents and House Boys, by British Murder Boys (techno)

    british-murder-boys.bandcamp.com /album/active-agents-and-house-boys

  • KDE Plasma 6.1 released

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  • It was just merged to NixOS. Should be on unstable in a few days...

  • “The pinnacle of dad rock”: This survey claims to have identified the ultimate dad rock band [Nickelback] – but there was some surprising competition

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  • No Steely Dan wtf

  • What is your favourite type of pizza? 🍕

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  • Marinara Starita in a restaurant called Starita in the city of Naples. Sourdough crust and amazing tomato sauce. After that New York style pepperoni pizza and detroit style vodka sauce deep dish.

  • water...

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  • Well... I'm still in the US, and on this trip I mostly just get a Budweiser or Modelo when I want a beer. I feel like I don't need to make a scene about the beer I drink, because a beer is a beer... I also enjoyed Coors Banquet a lot.

    Wines are a different matter. In the Oregon vineyards I've had some of the best pinots I've ever tasted, much better than the pinots I've had in France. One of the best things on this trip was our day of tastings in the different wineries.

  • water...

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  • It is a good shitpost though. Fry holding a German lager on Jimmy Fallon, and a joke about American beer with a typo.

  • water...

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  • Augustiner :3

  • water...

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  • It is very hard to brew a good lager, like the good Helles style famously brewed in Bavaria. I've been on a mission every time I come to the US to find good Helles, and I found two places that get very close:

    This place in Seattle: https://maps.app.goo.gl/czPMtm4xkunkopEc8

    And this in Weaverville: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wuNS33EcQ1qC9zfb9

    But quite often even if they advertise the beer as German style Helles, it has some quality that makes it very different. Usually it's sweet or even hoppy. I think for an american a special beer should have a special taste, but a good Helles is just very fresh and crisp beer.

    Edit: and Becks is one of the worst beers in Germany in my opinion... At least nobody tries to sell overpriced Sternburg here.

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  • A classic Monty Python joke from Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Definitely some truth in this... I live in Germany with some of the best lagers in the world, and having a Miller Light for the first time was a really weird experience.

    Now when I've visited the US quite a few times, I can say I dislike the expensive craft beers way more compared to the classic american lagers... They are way too hoppy, but the worst thing is how much more expensive they are! Like a pale ale can be over ten dollars, but a pint of PBR is 3.50. Beer should be cheap, and I don't really like how this craft beer culture made the prices go so high.

  • All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why?

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  • It is actually quite nice. You sudo something in the terminal and can just swipe your finger to the reader without needing to type your password.