stn 🇺🇦 @shoeberto@straylight.expectnomore.net

† TOO BORING TO LIVE †
† TOO STUPID TO DIE †
† EXPECTNOMORE.NET EST 2004 †

The universe is packed full with all manner of hoodwinks and ne'er-do-wells. Enjoy either a good conversation or good meal whenever you can. Hard to tell when the next one will show up.

Uploading this here so I always know where to find it. #thankslori

Most of the heavy lifting is in docker-compose. The custom glue software is Python with websockets.

I'd like to do a proper write up about the whole gory process of getting to here, but if I haven't started it by now, who knows when I'll actually get around to it 🤷‍♂️

Technical bits: It's Mopidy, hooked up to my personal Funkwhale instance, with some custom software to automatically enqueue tracks, which can be balanced based on arbitrary profiles that I define (artists/albums/playlists).

It also injects random interstitial clips that are just random funny things that me and my friends like.

For people with access to the mopidy backend, they can also add arbitrary youtube videos and control playback. I have plans to make this more open but it's early WIP.

Been wanting to do a proper write up of this, but here's a project I've been banging on for the past months: https://coolz.one/

Coolzone (CZ) is a collaborative dynamic radio stream, though the collaborative bit is still pretty locked down.

This is the Maloja instance I'm using, if you want to see if the mix is your thing: https://coolz.one/maloja

Icecast stream is directly accessible here: https://coolz.one/listen

Feeling better today.

Hoo boy though. Was feeling pretty deep in depression there for a while. Seems to be clearing up a bit.

Sense of smell seems to be going away 😩😩😩

I have never slept as much in a single day as I have today, holy shit.

I was able to get a paxlovid script at the ER yesterday, and started it today, so maybe tomorrow will be better. But if this is covid while triple vaxxed? God damn, no wonder so many people died.

How did you get a script for it? We found out our whole house is sick last night. It's a sunday so it's obviously tricky to get a hold of any offices, but we're getting a lot of "well you can try urgent care but they're stingy with scripts".

I'm willing to wait for my PCP office to open tomorrow but this seems harder to navigate than what they've been selling in the messaging (surprise surprise)

also the fact that Satanic Verses was ever taken as an attempt at blasphemy rather than just relatively benign allegory is one of the more fucked up things in modern history.

Salman Rushdie being attacked is really fucking with me. I'm not a big reader of his work (only attempted Satanic Verses and honestly never finished it), but he seems like such a lovely human being if you ever watch him speak.

I can't believe the dems are actually doing things. Biden is doing things. I have not seen them have a single major accomplishment since the time I hit puberty (other than Obamacare which was still a shitty watered down compromise). I want to feel hope?

Deus Ex was a documentary sent to us from the future, the graphics and gameplay only feel archaic because our un-evolved brains can't perceive the futuristic hyper-reality encoded within.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akeexk/hacker-finds-kill-switch-for-submachine-gun-wielding-robot-dog

Lotta folks been working their asses off on this, so I'm stoked to see it finally announced publicly!
"More Privacy and Transparency for DuckDuckGo Web Tracking Protections"
https://spreadprivacy.com/more-privacy-and-transparency/

(telling people I have adhd without telling them I have adhd)

I need to do everything, right now.