Wise words

My sincere condolences. As you wrote, you can’t prepare for this and it will take a long time to process. IMO it’s best to let people help out if possible and focus on the rest of your family.

Works (again?) for me.

I used to love playing Netstorm and Darwinia.

Picard uses audio fingerprinting and the musicbrainz DB to match the items. If the items are in the DB, then it will find them. If they aren’t, then they can be added.

There are other similar tools (although they might not have graphical UIs) which also use additional metadata backends and allow complex manipulation of audio files. I personally use beets which can be configured to use Musicbrainz, Spotify, Deezer, Discogs and Bandcamp for metadata (it will also help with file manipulation, audio normalization, fetch cover art and many other things). It seems that there is a plugin called ‘ytimport’ which integrates with SoundCloud and YouTube. That might help with your specific question, though I did not test it.

Beware that the latest release of beets (2.5.x at the time of writing) is quite fresh and might break some plugins. I personally will stick with 2.4.x for a while.

• Tales from Beyond the Firmament from The Freak Folk of Mangrovia
• Temple of the Second Moon from The Freak Folk of Mangrovia

On the other side, if you don’t want to sell it, then gathering private data can theoretically be seen as theft, which in turn could protect your privacy. Generally, it would be nicer if ownership of such data would not be transferable.

Actually, things seem to get better with age, just not as they seemed to be before:

Whereas happiness was once considered to follow a U-shape – with a relatively carefree youth, a tougher middle age and a more comfortable later life – the experts in wellbeing say our satisfaction now rises steadily with age instead.

I’m quite sure that limiting access to information and communication is supposed to reduce and prevent any form of organized protest. That’s why the Russian government is doing it in the first place.

Why do you think that helping the Russian government to enforce censorship is a good idea?

It’s never too late. “Back then”, when I started using Signal (called TextSecure), only one other single friend used it. Nowadays, almost all my personal contacts use it. Every additional Signal user adds a contact in someone other’s address book as a potential Signal contact. It just takes time. Good luck!

The making of Savage Sinusoid is also very interesting. It’s what convinced me to to listen to more from Igorrr.

Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence is the first book of a very dark trilogy.

I will also add this, even if it doesn’t match the request, but because it’s so weird and funny: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. It’s about a quite absurd society where people’s social status is determined by their ability to perceive colors. And they are not allowed to manufacture spoons. Sci-fiish

I doubt that I’ll ever get that far. I used to play games on “hard” difficulty and explore/find everything. Today I’m just glad if I find the time to play, have fun and enjoy the games, even if I need to play on “easy” difficulty. All the completionist aspirations are gone.

Thanks for the unintentional recommendation.

One important thing the centralized sites like Bandcamp enable, is discovery of new music and artists. I’m afraid that this is such a big deal that Faircamp won’t be able to take off until that problem is addressed and solved somehow.

Install some software on your server […]

I’m afraid that this is a big no-go for most artists, which just want to make music and don’t want to be server administrators.

Aim for a more open solution, like a Tolino or Kobo.

Pocketbook runs Linux, IIRC.

That’s not how the Covid vaccines work. It’s all a game of probabilities and you can still get sick. They may also help you get more easily through the sickness, but it’s not a guarantee. Previously having additional health issues and age are also factors to take into account.

So maybe his concerns aren’t completely without base.

I don’t think that washing will be enough to remove all traces of pesticides. I assume that some of the pesticides are embedded in the peel by the time the fruit is harvested. But don’t take my word for it.

It might be better to just pick untreated fruit from the beginning, if possible.