Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭

@citizen428@chaos.social
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Your friendly neighborhood anarcho-cynicalist.

I do things with computers and occasionally succeed. Co-organizer of RubyConf Thailand, formerly also PyCon Thailand. 🇦🇹 in 🇹🇭 since 2013. Fan of 1990s pop culture.

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Show threadMichael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭15h ago

The puzzle is also present on the album’s website:

https://loopgarden.io/noiris/

Noiris

SPOTIFY APPLE MUSIC DEEZER YOUTUBE

Loop Garden
Show threadMichael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭15h ago

That’s easy to decode, it says “The songs whisper nine secrets. Hear them and find the way forward. loopgarden.io/xxxxxxxxx.zip”

There are 8 songs on the album. Several have Morse code at the end.

Unfortunately it’s almost 1am here and I should go to bed.

Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭15h ago

Today I had a song by “loopgarden” in my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist. I liked it, so I went to check the artist page and the only description is a bunch of hex encoded ASCII text.

54 68 65 20 73 6F 6E 67 73 20 77 68 69 73 70 65 72 20 6E 69 6E 65 20
73 65 63 72 65 74 73 2E 20 48 65 61 72 20 74 68 65 6D 20 61 6E 64 20
66 69 6E 64 20 74 68 65 20 77 61 79 20 66 6F 72 77 61 72 64 2E 20 6C
6F 6F 70 67 61 72 64 65 6E 2E 69 6F 2F 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 2E
7A 69 70

Insta nerd snipe.

Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭1d ago

I completely missed that volume 12 of Saga was released. Only the 3rd TPB in the last 7 years, makes it somewhat hard to stay invested in the story. Fiona Staples' art is as gorgeous as ever though. Anyway, my favorite #comic in recent years and one of my all-time favorites too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_(comics)

Saga (comics) - Wikipedia

Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭2d ago

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.

You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

Zero Party Data
Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭2d ago

Stupidest. Possible. Timeline.

“Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs to commission into Army reserve, form ‘Detachment 201’”

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/06/anduril-meta-openai-execs-to-commission-into-army-reserve-form-detachment-201/

Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs to commission into Army reserve, form ‘Detachment 201’

“There’s an urgency to change and transform the Army and these guys [are] going to help,” said Col Dave Butler.

Breaking Defense
Show threadMichael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭2d ago
@matthegap Moonscrolling.
Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭3d ago

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system

Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭Jun 1
Show threadErik Uden 🍑May 28

My feedback to the EU regarding the newly proposed law forcing all websites to plaintext store everything users do or write for law enforcement.

This may be the dumbest law the EU has proposed as of yet, and it already attempted chat control and article 13 / 11, so this says a lot!

Not only have providers complained for decades about the cost of storing so much user data, of which 99.99999% won't ever be used, but also does law enforcement rarely need this kind of data, and by the time they've legally gained access to it, it won't be stored anymore.

It's a horrid invasion of our privacy, but the perfect tool for fascist regimes, for whom we are paving the way with this!

If you only invite corporate spyware lobbyist orgs to draft a law, this is the result. Peter Thiel couldn't have written a better proposal.

Stop this law if you wish for any citizen of this continent to respect you as an institution!

Show threadMichael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭May 31
@matthegap Der "Platz der Wiener Großartigkeit" ist in Hernals 🖤🤍
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Deniz OpalMay 15
I think we should tell Gen Z that Head Cleaner's "Play Both Sides" was the 🔥 album of 1986
Show threadPaul Chambers🚧May 15
@selzero 😂
Show threadGeorge SaichMay 15
@selzero
Early Industrial.
Show threadspangheroMay 15
@selzero Sublime sounds.
Show threadGeorge SaichMay 15
@selzero
There is a really good track on there called "Q-tip and Rubbing Alcohol."
Show threadArapallaMay 15

@selzero

As I remember, it was a short song.

Even We Will Rock You was longer.

Show threadwroongMay 15
@selzero I have it on vinyl 🫠
Show thread64 Islands Aroha CooperativeMay 15
@selzero so many alcohol soaked parties, full of dirty head. what a legend!
Show threadArapallaMay 15

@airshipper @selzero

How did we...

Survive

Not get arrested

😳

Show thread@stevewfoldsMay 15
@Arapalla @airshipper @selzero Busted in ‘70, VW Bus. Bailed 4 hours later for $30.
Show threadArapallaMay 15

@stevewfolds @airshipper @selzero

How cool was that? 😎

Show thread@stevewfoldsMay 15
@Arapalla @airshipper @selzero We were trying to to smoke an ounce of weed and had a case of beer
Show threadArapallaMay 15

@stevewfolds @airshipper @selzero

Nice.

Beer bongs rule 🤣🤣🤣

Show threadDragon-sided DMay 16

@stevewfolds @Arapalla @airshipper @selzero

Oh man I feel this so deep, so many memories, this is our culture, my Brethren in Weed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBIZHRoipQ

Blue Öyster Cult – Then Came the Last Days of May (Lyric video)

YouTube
Show threadAlerta! Alerta!May 15

@selzero Oh! And I always thought the song was "Headcleaner" by the avantgarde-band "play both sides"

And Einstürzende Neubauten then covered that in 1996...

https://youtu.be/cbzwXINOTMk

Einstürzende Neubauten - Headcleaner (full version)

YouTube
Show threadxinit ☕May 15

@heiglandreas Came here to mention this from arguably the best era of Neubauten.

@selzero

Show threadmazzooMay 15
@xinit @heiglandreas @selzero came here to say this, too.
Show threadÀlex AnderMay 15
@heiglandreas @selzero Although "Head Cleaner" sounds like an awesome name for a band. The sort of new wave band that opened the act for "Talking Heads".
Show threadAttractive NuisanceMay 15
@heiglandreas @selzero This is my favourite Beatles cover.
Show threadBishop Joey (he/him)May 15
@heiglandreas @selzero And I came here to mention that classic cover. It's really all you need.
Show threadUrban HermitMay 15

@heiglandreas @selzero this is it, right here.

The band "Head Cleaner" is pro hard drugs and their gritty hit "Play Both Sides" is about cops and doing jail time..

While the band "Play Both Sides" is a World Music Hippy Band, and their hit "Head Cleaner" is about enlightenment and things that make you flip the paradigm.

Show threadMartin VogelMay 18
@heiglandreas
In Germany the band performed under the name "Reinigungsband".
@selzero
Show threadyrlaNorMay 18

@heiglandreas
absolutely right, but it was 1993 (tabula rasa) ;)

unforgettable concert in düsseldorf. some idiot shouted at the band "you've become so boring!" and mark chung slowly approached a mic and calmly replied: "art." brilliant.
@selzero

Show threadAlerta! Alerta!May 18

@yrlaNor @selzero where did I get the 1996 from.... 🤔

Might have been a transfer-error 🙈

Thanks for setting that straight!

Show threadNoortje Van LeeuwenMay 15

@selzero but it was....

I mean their number one song is still

"Squeeck, squeeck, rattle, grind, click."

Show threadÀlex AnderMay 15
@selzero Inspiration source for Phil Collins' "Both Sides" album.
Show threadbencourticeMay 15
@selzero some guys I knew at highschool had a crust/grind band called Head Cleaner. They were quite fun.
Show threadDoesn't Exist.May 15

@selzero

And in a rare event, Einsturzende Neubauten's cover was even better than the original.

https://youtu.be/rd-SpXJ3ops?si=An1cuNj6cKNcwK7C

Einsturzende Neubauten - Headcleaner

YouTube
Show threadH4Heights 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦May 15
@selzero Cruel. 😂
Show threadHeinzensteinMay 15
@selzero
#EinstürzendeNeubauten
#Headcleaner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbzwXINOTMk
Einstürzende Neubauten - Headcleaner (full version)

YouTube
Show threadCameron NeylonMay 15
@selzero But the b side was better...just less popular
Show threadBen ToddMay 15

@selzero

I always preferred the b-side. The sound was really clear on that.

Show threadJessica StewartMay 15
@selzero we put on a cassette storybook for our kids back in 2005 or so passed on to us by neighbors. After a while they wandered away and when we asked them, they said it’s broken. We turned it over and their eyes🤣🤣🤣
Show threadTxo!?May 15
@selzero Wasn't it the OST for the film Eraser Head? 😏 😬 😅
Show threadBeanface42May 20
@txo_elurmaluta @selzero 😆😆😆 excellent!
Show threadMark ReidMay 15
@selzero @cstross “You know, I’ve heard that there was a vinyl reissue in the early 2000s that’s a very rare collectors item now. Make sure you ask whether they have a copy at your local record stores.”
Show threadaksMay 15
@selzero there was also a german band from around that time called Bandsalat and everyone hated it
Show threadVerkehrshindernisMay 15
@selzero These Album was the "finisher" of every party 😉
Show threadFrantic 🇬🇧 + 🇪🇺May 15
@selzero I had the special yellow edition of this 😊.
Show threadVerkehrshindernisMay 15
@selzero I've the Vinyl "No tribute to...". It is a very calm album 😉🤷‍♂️
Show threadfatuusMay 15
@selzero 😂
Show threadNic WiseMay 15

@selzero i prefer Atmos - Head Cleaner

😎

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ58u4oipM4

Atmos ‎- Headcleaner [FULL ALBUM]

YouTube
Show threadAndrogenes 🏴‍☠️🫂🔞May 15
@selzero It sounded better than the Showaddywaddy tape my auntie bought me for my birthday in 1977.
Show threadOrdzoMay 15
Where is the pencil?
Show threadEragonMay 15
@selzero I'm younger than that sound but It was really good
Show threadElias MårtensonMay 15
@selzero Would gen Z even know what a cassette is? 🙂
Show threadLauraMay 16
@loke @selzero Yes! At least I do. But uh, seeing this post in isolation, I thought "Head Cleaner" was an actual band and they just had a very strange/humorous album name until I read the comments.
Show threadewanm89May 15
@selzero With popular re-releases every year in that era :D
Show threadPhil Thane ✅May 15
@selzero
I had the CD version, 'This side up'.
Show threadSuperMoosieMay 15
@pthane
Lens cleaner was a different band altogether. However they did both share the same drummer A Brush.
@selzero
Show threadDec.tar.gzMay 15
@pthane @selzero
I have a compilation on CD-R from a record label that used to release all their CD-R promos with "BLUE SIDE DOWN" printed on the disc.
Show threadMik3yMay 15
@selzero I am Gen z and that is bs
Show threadDeniz OpalMay 15
@Mik3y 🤣
Show threadbjb  May 15
@Mik3y @selzero
Well we can tell it to AI too : -)
Show threadMikko KarvonenMay 15

@selzero @magdalenahai

Tbh, that would be a solid name for an actual album.

Show threadSeraphina MarloweMay 15
@selzero Darling, I wouldn't know a "Head Cleaner" from a brainwashing apparatus, which, incidentally, is what most of these so-called albums are.
Show threadBarry RowlingsonMay 15

@selzero I was a big fan of the so-called "blue dot" album by PlatterMatter.

https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/649947224-original-platter-matter-turntable-mat-inside-sleeve/

Show threadMarc Robinson May 15
@selzero And “Be Kind, Rewind” was the number one movie that summer.
Show threadHeathen 🐈May 15
@marcintosh @selzero
I watched so many rentals growing up that my family just bought a tape rewinder. Good times!
Show threadKellic Tiger May 17
@marcintosh @selzero I worked at blockbuster as a kid. YES.
Show threadJhooperMay 15
@selzero much like my most played game on my Xbox One was "Network Troubleshooter"