the_radness

joined 10 months ago
[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Never get into Modular Synthesizers.

[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some email services will let you append arbitrary strings to the end of your email address with a +. Whenever a sales associate asks for my email to sign up for discounts, I give them email+spam@provider.com. I love the looks I get for that.

[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose it depends on your tastes, but I read Pitchfork reviews and check out the artits on Spotify. I do not limit my tastes to one genre, so that makes it more interesting when exploring. I'll also leverage the Related Artists section of an artist's page if I find a new artist that I like.

[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I have been laid off from every job (5 in total) since the pandemic. We are a subhuman commodity. Companies that are hiring now are exploiting the market by offering lower salaries.

Meta and Amazon are in their hiring season and they'll start their layoffs again next spring or summer. And somehow, everyone forgets this fucked up cycle keeps happening in perpetuum.

We need to stop being afraid of mentioning the U word. We need better protection and rights as employees.

[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 109 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Engineering is a skilled trade. We need our own union like every other skilled labor group.

[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a shame that they won't just release macOS as a standalone product, even if it requires specific hardware to run. I would pay for it in a heartbeat.

I was actively into the Hackintosh scene in the early 10s. You could have an insanely powerful build (albeit the parts had to be compatible), and it would still be half the price of a lower end Mac Pro.

[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried VPN?

[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

That's by design. uBlock is blocking ad and spyware network requests. It's common for sites to crash or error because of this. They'll depend on a call to Google or Sentry or DataDog to succeed before continuing with their initialization. As a platform engineer for several web properties, I die a little inside every time I see this happen.

[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

My work blocks all kinds random software, Firefox included. My workaround is using Brave browser and a service like NextDNS either as an app or as the DNS provider for my home network. It's not perfect but it's flexible enough.

[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

My current solution is a deemix cli tool and lidarr for cataloguing only. I match up the directory naming conventions on both so that nothing needs to be touched in Lidarr that might modify the tags. I have a few scripts that help with automating some of this. I might be motivated to put things in a repo if there is interest.