On the 17th anniversary of the stabbing rampage Akihabara, one police officer recalls how it led him to support the victims. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/08/japan/crime-legal/japan-akihabara-rampage-17-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #mpd #akihabara #stabbing
Police officer recounts fatal rampage in Akihabara 17 years on

After the incident, Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department established the first task force dedicated to supporting the survivors and bereaved families of crime victims.

The Japan Times

@jloc0 @dobbie003

Oh man mpc is powerful! Just added my whole database to the queue. I can do a lot with it in scripts for sure. #mpd #mpc #music 🎵

@jloc0 @dobbie003 I now have a working local CLI mpd in slackware64-current!

Next is to see if I can get it working over the network. Shouldn't be too difficult.

After that, I might build a gtk3dialog (a program in my slackbuilds) frontend for mpc/mpd. Not a big fan of Ymuse. It's ok but dependencies suck! gtk3dialog is a gtk interface more or less to shell scripts - with the correct GUI description!

Then get slack on my RPI 4 (8GB) and _THAT_ can be the server for all my music 😈

Fuck itunes! #mpd #slack #music #linux

@raksodiano ok I just adjusted the yt-dlp command to my needs so I created this alias
`alias yt-download-mp3="yt-dlp -f bestaudio -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -t sleep --embed-thumbnail --embed-metadata -o \"%(title)s.%(ext)s\" --file-access-retries 10"
`
Also I like to add `2> errors.txt` since sometimes #youtube is a bitch and some videos needs more work, actually this usually happens with youtube music
#mpd #music #foss #floss
MCMC: Mobile Phone Data Collection Strictly For Statistical Use, Not Personal Tracking

The MCMC has issued a clarification following recent reports on the collection of mobile phone data from telcos.

Lowyat.NET
it seems #youtube is starting to be rude with the ads blocker but days ago @raksodiano shared a script that used yt-dlp and I started to read the manual in my console, so I download all my playlists of youtube music use #picard to get the correct metadata, and use #mpd to play them. I'm happy
ncmpcpp cheat sheet

rmpc [1] - Rusty Music Player (Daemon) Client #MPD #rmpc

- build in file manager in ranger fm style
- familiar-ish keybinds
- album art over sixel/kitty/etc

Packaging for now is meh, refer to docs on the website.

[1]: https://mierak.github.io/rmpc

Rusty Music Player Client

A beautiful and configurable TUI client for MPD

rmpc

Five years after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a cracker murderpig named Derek Chauvin, it's easy to look at police murder and use of force statistics, as well as a white nationalist Trump regime, and conclude the 2020 uprising failed; which is precisely what a pro-cop liberal "reformist" chatterati is doing. The reality is however that "a system cannot fail those it was never designed to protect" and the lack of legislative progress to protect our civil rights from police abuses falls on the elected reformers not advocates and abolitionists in the streets. The 2020 Uprising taught us to band together because we are all targets in for the carceral state in the right circumstances; and just in time too, because Donald Trump is dead serious about transforming law enforcement into his own fascist army.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/30/the-widening-maw-of-racialized-police-violence/

The Widening Maw of Racialized Police Violence

"The reality is that Downmarket Mussolini has only been back in the White House for four and a half months, and these police killing statistics go back years into a Biden administration that was elected in part, to specifically stop racialized police violence in response to the protests; the city where George Floyd was slowly murdered on camera by a sociopathic cop is in a Democratic-controlled State, run by one of the most progressive Governors in America. For a larger liberal establishment in the United States that had no answer for Trump at the ballot box to point at the Kelpto Kaiser’s racist authoritarian regime and declare the movement against police violence and white supremacist policing has failed, is one part deflection, and one part scapegoating. It is ultimately reductive to argue that the 2020 George Floyd protests were by themselves responsible for the broader fascist “white-lash” driving Trump’s second rise to power in an already white supremacist America, and disempowering to believe organized resistance against that white supremacy accomplished nothing merely because a state that was never designed to protect racialized people, or the labor class in general, refused to take meaningful action against police violence. Those hard-fought hours in the streets opened a broad swathe of society’s eyes to the racist and violent nature of American policing, taught communities across the globe how to organize in the face of state-sanctioned repression, and helped make so many young people “woke” that the fascist Trump regime is trying to make “wokeness” illegal. We cannot un-see what we have observed, or unknow what we learned during the uprising, and the affliction of knowing cannot be cured with rubber bullets and tear gas."

Note: I literally had to take yesterday off just to edit this one and find all the source links. It's a bit longer, and this content has never appeared outside NIDC.

#Fascism #Police #PoliceState #Abolition #USPol #Trump #JusticeDepartment #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor #MPD #LMPD #WhiteNationalism #Racism #2020Uprising #PoliceViolence #PoliceKillings #USPol #Activism #Reformers #BLM #Essay

The Widening Maw of Racialized Police Violence | on NIDC

On the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's murder, our struggle against violent murderpigs rages across even more frontiers as the second Trump era unfolds.

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

All I need is a server for Linux which will allow me to stream #music for my and my fiance phones.

So I setup #mpd and stream music to #MALP application on android.

Aaaaannndd it's bad. There is huge lag. Configuration of it is quite easy but if you never worked with deamons on Linux it's better to leave it.

If any of you know better alternatives send help. Streaming through HTTP is not an option as I have 10 sec delay on each server input...

#linux #audio #pulseaudio #deamons #help