| pronouns | they/them/she/her |
| cohost (rest in peace) | https://cohost.org/fractalpraxis |
| last.fm | https://last.fm/user/novedevo |
| old alt | @[email protected] |
| letterboxd | https://letterboxd.com/novedevo/ |
| twitter (rest in piss) | x.com/fraxstal |
Great Nix Flake Check is out!
youtuber clickbait voice I Tried Evaluating EVERY Nix Flake And Here Is What I Found
(ok but seriously, I found a bunch of cool stuff and wrote it down, go check it out!)
As of this morning, I have been let go from my current position. 3 years of experience with #Typescript / #ReactJS & #Golang , effectively a lot more with #Rust due to all the hobby projects. Looking for something with any of those, pretty good at learning on-the-job too, either Remote, in NYC, or on United States' east coast. Resume available upon request.
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
So last year I listened to the new clipping. album. one of the songs, Dodger, had a specific sample that i recognized, but couldn’t pinpoint. later I was listening to a Jamie xx single (Idontknow) and realized this was where I knew the sample from. I then heard it again in Attachment Style by KAVARI, at which point I put the three songs into a playlist and pored through online discussions and sample databases to figure out where it came from to no avail. I asked some friends with no luck, figured I was condemned to a life of slight annoyance and mostly gave up.
Over the next six months I continued to hear that sample in more and more songs (pic related). Every once in a while I would listen to the playlist and try to find the sample. Eventually I realized that while I thought it was a single vocal/drum hit, the sample actually contained an entire break. This immediately led me to a forum thread that revealed the source. This song has one famous break in it that’s been sampled heavily in rap music, but it has a lesser-known second break that’s common in UK bass and breakcore / electronic scenes. It was this break that is present in all the songs from the grid.
Can you guess the song? The next post in this thread reveals the answer if you click through the link.
In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under @Mer__edith's stewardship.
In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?
The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory.
It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager.
California has a lot to fucking answer for.
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/
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Anarchist Quotes
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