Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

I figure in 10 years when LTO-9 becomes affordable on the secondhand market I can consolidate my tapes down 7:1.

My data hoarding has reached unprecedented new levels. 100TB of LTO-6 tapes (native) ought to help expand and protect my collection. At $4/TB, I'll never delete a file again in my life.

Just fell to temptation and quoted a Democratic Strategist for Obama and Biden who was doing a misinformation about corporate responsibility while giving a multibillion dollar corporation free PR for a thing they never did.

That post, like everything I post there, will end up deleted as I convince myself again that I want no participation on #BlueSky.

The only time I ever want to post on #BlueSky is to respond to misinformation, and BlueSky has no shortage of that.

I just want to say, the Mastodon community doesn't have this issue. You folks stay grounded for the most part and while I may not post as much as I used to, this might be the only place I can tolerate anymore.

I just try to remember: Bluesky is filled with people who thought Mastodon was too hard, and who mostly didn't leave Twitter until years after the Musk takeover.

I powered up a Windows 10 laptop yesterday for the first time in a while. Updated it and rebooted it first for good measure.

Started a huge file transfer overnight, and what did I find in the morning? That's right, a freshly rebooted computer that interrupted my file transfer to install more updates.

I have no idea how anyone tolerates Windows anymore. This is unheard of for a Mac or Linux user.

I only have three requests of the Democratic Party moving forward:

1. Acknowledge the gravity of the situation without apology. Call Trump a Fascist, call Republicans Nazis. Their promises alone warrant it.

2. Mobilize now to energize voters to vote for you again in the Midterms and beyond, but with something other than Neoliberalism or just "not being Nazis".

3. If you can't do 1 or 2, get out of the way. Not being Trump clearly wasn't enough to for Hillary or Kamala, so put up or shut up.

So Tears for Fears recently released a new album. The album cover is pure AI slop.

I am... disappointed.

Actually, no, this looks like a real effort to come back online. I think I'm just getting different responses from different endpoints on their CDN right now.

Fingers crossed that the collections are coming back today. I have really missed the Archive!

Er, that was short lived. Getting the error page again. At least it's clear that they're trying!

@internetarchive looks like it's bringing its collections back online!

I don't write customer emails with AI because it's easier or better. I do it so that the model they try to replace me with suffers model collapse when trained on my outputs.

#Github is down entirely. That's fun.

We've already had the biggest IT outage ever, and the biggest PII leak ever this year, I guess we're on a roll.

Sitting at a bar and they're playing failarmy in all the TVs. This shit is just "Ow! My Balls!" IRL. Idiocracy was weirdly prophetic about some things.

Behold, an level of #enshittification you never dreamed was possible. A PC Mouse with a subscription fee: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/

My local grocery store sells "Bruno Bananas". I bought some, and had to do a lot of research before I ate one, because I couldn't find any information about the existence of a "Bruno Banana".

I think they are Burro Bananas, but they are huge. Like softball sized bananas...

Amarok on Linux Mobile with Jellyfin integration would be a fantasy scenario. I have no idea if that is realistic though.

I am actually quite excited about the return of @kde's #Amarok media player. It was my media player of choice in the mid-2000's and made it possible for me to sync my iPod up to the music library on my Linux desktop.

I'm currently a #Strawberry user, but I have always missed Amarok.

3.0.1 (beta) is out now. There's definitely work to be done, but I should consider reading up on KDE's Testing/QA process to see if there's anything I can do to help.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/06/02/amarok-3.0.1-released/

I want to make a browser extension that changes the word "slammed" in news headlines to crazy hyperbolic things like "brutally disemboweled" or "roundhouse kicked into low earth orbit".

Would make the current state of news media a little bit more entertaining.

Fond memories of the Windows XP days, running through the PCs at Best Buy, opening Windows Media Player, playing "Like Humans Do" by David Byrne which was included with every copy of Windows, cranking the volume all the way up, and fullscreening the visualizer.

Those were excellent days. It's a shame it was before smartphones, because I would probably have a video of this.