xylem

@xylem@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great, and it doesn’t have to be as complicated to get started. Here’s my setup -

  • navidrome running in docker on my server (a NUC in the basement, with a copy of the library)
  • tailscale to access the server from outside my home network (I run headscale, a self-hosted coordination server on a VPS, but the free company hosted default would be fine)
  • Ultrasonic on my phone (I like the ability to “pin” songs or albums to keep offline)
  • local copy of the library on my desktop which I listen to with Quod Libet

  I cancelled my Spotify membership back in April and have been buying on average an album a month, either Bandcamp or directly from artists if possible. Bandcamp is also decent for discovering new artists, and I’ve also gone old-school and sought out music critic websites that cover the genres I like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I started my GoToSocial instance in the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for another addition to my RSS reader! Lots of good posts on this site

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Physical anti-tamper, while important for this type of device, wouldn’t have helped for this particular attack. It’s an electromagnetic side channel, so they don’t even have to be touching the the thing to collect data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 4th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing the new Solium Infernum with a friend - the first playthrough I did not particularly enjoy (partially my fault for not playing the tutorial first) but once I learned the mechanics my second game was more fun. The UI is not very smooth to use and there are some mechanics I don’t like, but overall pretty good.

  I also picked up Mindustry again last night - it’s an open source Factorio + Tower Defense + RTS that is rather addicting… The new campaign they added a couple years ago is better than the original too.