It’s a website where you can buy music. I prefer having music in OGG or Opus format, and most of the time you can only get MP3. Bandcamp gives you the option to download your music in several formats, and one of them is OGG.

That’s starting to change, because I can find more file-sharers who are using FLAC as storage becomes cheaper. Then I can convert FLAC to Opus. However, Bandcamp also gives you the option to stream music from their app, and it’s nice to have access to so much music on my phone.

It was 10 days, but, yeah, not a lot of time, especially for one guy. (That one guy was Brendan Eich, by the way.)

Yes. I find them on Bandcamp.

Doing things the hard way doesn’t make you smarter.

Yeah, same, but I always set my editor to insert spaces instead when I hit Tab, so that the spacing won’t be different in other environments.

There is absolutely nothing I do in an IDE frequently enough to memorize a bunch of arcane commands, especially in 3 days. Regex solves any mass-operations.

Yeah, don’t memorize a bunch of arcane commands. Use regex instead!

I refuse to see how vim and emacs is worth learning.

Interesting choice of words. You aren’t unable to see…you refuse to. Why would you refuse knowledge?

This happens much more often than the other one.

I always think about stuff like this whenever libertarians talk about how much more efficient corporations are than government. I’m like, “Have you ever worked for a corporation?” Organizations are just huge dumpster fires in general, because they’re all run by humans.

That should be elementary computer literacy: if you don’t know what the file does, then don’t delete it.

I knew somebody would have the relevant xkcd.

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Using the term “piracy”, instead of “filesharing”, was always pro-corporate framing. In his 2010 essay “Ending the War on Sharing”, Richard Stallman wrote:

When record companies make a fuss about the danger of “piracy”, they’re not talking about violent attacks on shipping. What they complain about is the sharing of copies of music, an activity in which millions of people participate in a spirit of cooperation. The term “piracy” is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.

I did. Isn’t the link working?

Naw, they wanted the metaphorical length. Computers are great at metaphors.

Near was a target of KiwiFarms, a messageboard focused on harassing people for fun. There’s a pretty good article about it here.

If you join a small instance, the chances are higher that it will a) be poorly maintained and b) fold quicker, forcing you to find another instance to join and re-subscribe to all your communities.

Ares was developed by Near (rip).

I’ll never quit being angry that the most brilliant mind in emulation was driven to suicide by organized cyberbullying.

Hackerman

You’re always going to see people with problems in support forums. If your Linux system is running well, you’re less likely to post about it than if you’re having problems.