@werdahias so the bad news is I seem to have already switched to pipewire but it is only the PA interface causing issues. If I can get my normal desktop stuff (Firefox etc) to use pipewire api (or even alsa) I could turn off the PA API
@nowster that doesn’t bode well!
Started diagnosing the audio issues I have with recording on Linux. As soon as I disabled the pipewire/pulsaudio service, it all worked swimmingly. Need to dig deeper. I wonder if I can live without the pulse audio layer at all now
I’m *very slowly* setting up a new VM. It at least has a name now https://luv.redmars.org/
Huh. I was hoping to look at (ab)using HTTP compression for crawler mitigation, but are CRIME/BREACH exploits still requiring us to not compress HTTPS?
@jzb yeah same. FB proved the only way I learned about a friend’s suicide, and kept in touch with his family. I loathe it, but there was that.
@alxd @the_lemonaut I really didn’t enjoy Ministry ( and I love his other work). The block chain bit will really date it imho. I’ll give your review a read. Thanks!
@ygor ok! I didn’t realise you were limited to 4 options (I’ve seen longer polls)
@ygor @pluralistic amazed “blogs” didn’t merit inclusion
@cstross @the_lemonaut @qlaras there’s significant overlap but it’s not 100%, IMHO. I don’t think mundane sf insisted on forward-looking, utopian ideals.
@the_lemonaut does Kim Stanley Robinson’s work fit under Solarpunk? I’ve always loved his positive, utopian work
A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️
Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉
Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts




@cks apropos, I recently started investigating migrating away from procmail, and my initial investigation left me disappointed