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Also: We're making something happen, and we really hope to see you there!
Do check out the fantastic location. It will look so great with all you nerds in it ❤


Like the idea of actively using my friendica account, really hate investing actual research time into figuring out how to make this experience feel like 2022 UX should feel like.


Cheers Elon for boosting the fediverse :)

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Would love to produce a game OST/sound design again


More specifically: a scifi-ish Shmup. Think Einhaender, Philosoma, Chaos Field, R-Type. Maybe for any game that screams for an Arcade-ish Techno soundtrack and sound design.

Platform doesn't really matter, as long as halfway decent sample playback is possible.

If you know someone who knows someone, hit me up!

Kthxltr,
rp`farbrausch



Finally: AI put to good use


infiniteconversation.com

An infinite conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Zizek

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Important reminder! :)


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update incoming


hi people of the abraum. i will update the system to 2022.06 soon, one of the changes should be that more mastodon-compatible apps will work with social.abraum.de

i will test a few and get back here with my findings soon!



I held a strange seminar about DJing last year...


...and how it's finally available on YouTube. What took me so long?

I gave it for 50 people I knew in the realm of a Demoparty. I'm offering an unfamilar perspective to the topic. I've certainly been opinionated at times.

Honestly, I shied away from publishing for several reasons:

  • [
]The sound quality is subpar[]The audience knew me and my DJ sets[]I wish I went deeper into certain topics, deliver more context and so on[]I called those who benefit from selling products to people to help them cheat time selfish idiots.Which is a polarizing thing to say. And it's not how I wish to appear. At the same time, I stand what I said there.

Still receiving positive feedback for having shifted some of the attendees' perspectives, made me want to publish it anyway. So, here it is:



Initial Commit


Okay then, just settling in at abraum.
Let's see how this is going :)


Hello world, again.
It's been a few busy, exciting, exhausting, depressing and very emotional months - and though the ride never fully stopped to let us smell the flowers, we're still here. Breathing.

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UC12 Invitation demo released


At Revision we have released our Invitation demo for Underground Conference 12. It's a story demo that hopefully a lot of people can relate to.

youtu.be/PIPRDoF3DeI
pouet.net/prod.php?which=91375
uc12.party



unsocial media


the level of weird hate on the monolithic socials is insane these days. it feels like a lot of users have completely lost any kind of kindness and empathy. phew.


page update on post


!Friendica Support do other people also experience that on writing a post and sharing it, the post appears above the other posts, hidden, so you have to manually scroll the page down to see it? that is so confusing. am i doing something wrong, or is that expected behaviour? :)

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in reply to felix b. ohmann

it feels like a software error, i had that question from at least 25% of the new users on my instance. they create a post, share it, and it is not to be seen, making them think it did not get posted. is that really by design? or would that be an improvement to be made?
in reply to felix b. ohmann

This isn't by design, it's rather a side-effect of a general behavior. To scroll the post into view we would have to add some exception specific to this case, so it would be an improvement to be made.


freenas/truenas scale linux


service announcement: truenas will release a new version of their storage system based on linux tomorrow. i have set up a new nas for my homelab using their release candidates over the last few weeks, using a hp proliant dl380 with 2 12core-xeons and 128gb ecc ram, it is now packed with hdd and ssd to the brim, and it is working well. being linux based, it now supports virtual machines running on kvm, and docker and whatnot, so it is very flexible once you wrap your head around zfs. i basically built a server that now houses 18 storage drives, has tons of ram, cpu and dual 10/40gbe uplinks at a fraction of the cost of a similarly specced synology system. yay!


https://www.mojeek.com/ - a Google search alternative


It's been giving me some valuable results during the last days. Noticeably less than Google, but also way less seo-splaining bollocks. Recommended!

mojeek.com/




friendica 2021.06 to 2022.02 db structure?


@Friendica Support due to me not being a git person, i updated from 2021.06 straight to 2022.02, do you know if i missed some db restructuring that will haunt me down the line due to that?

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also, i guess at least some people using git to install friendica might fall over the update instructions. maybe they could be appended by the neccessary steps... since i was still on 2021.06, i should have done

git fetch --all --tags
git checkout tags/2021.09 -b 2021.09-branch
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/stable 2021.09-branch

and then pull 2021.09 but the 2022.02 post just references "if you are below 2021.09, update to that version first" with a link to the original 2021.09 press release, which just asks the users to pull "stable", which will update to whatever is the latest version (in my case 2022.02). i know i should learn git properly, but i use is so sparsely that stuff like this gets me every time. :)

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Ah, I see what you mean about installing gradually. I'm not sure why we need admins to upgrade to 2021.09 first.
in reply to felix b. ohmann

maybe writing the blog release posts in a way to explicitly switch to the tag they are about could help git beginners not run into this if they come from older versions. good that it worked. :)


arcs of 8


i have been living on this farm between 2 overland hv power lines for almost 8 years, and the sounds emanating from them vary from just electric field hum to outright arching sounds. i have walked below these monsters many many times during the day and during the night, sometimes wondering if the audible arching can be seen with long exposure photography. finally, tonight, when walking the dog it was visible even from 50 meters away. it sounded more rough than usual, and it is beautiful!


First mix of the year - and it's a very different one.


Recorded a set of fave songs from the Beach Boys to Timber Timbre for the Breakfast of Champions podcast. Enjoy :)

soundcloud.com/brfoc/brfocast-…




Happy belated St. Nichols' Day - have this mix as my appreciation 🙂 It's supposed to be good for jogging. But I guess also for loosing your mind/raving in your armchair/banging your head against the wall (please don't):

soundcloud.com/ronnypries/mix-…



maintenance


good day, fellow people on social.abraum.de!

there will be some maintenance work, upgrading the friendica installation, the site might be down for a bit during the process!

cheers,
f



onlinebank?


falls nochmal jemand nach einer online-bank fragt: bunq.nl ist toll, n26 scheinbar immer noch nicht, siehe heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-L…


anguckbefehl. 90 minuten blanker horror. ist mir nicht alles neu, aber die dimensionen sind unfassbar. arte.tv/de/videos/095178-000-A…
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ja, amazon muss weg, grosskonzerne müssen weg, korruption muss weg, facebook muss weg, … usw usw usw. vieleicht ist es aber auch schon zu spät.


Searching


service announcement for my friends: i was today years old when i learned about qwant.com, a european search engine that is not google, values privacy etc etc etc.
go check it out if you dont want to feed the google shit machine more data!
in reply to felix b. ohmann

also, yeah, not being very active on socials right now. too much stuff to do in the real world!


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was für ein horror. scholz will ich nicht, laschet schon garnicht. baerbock würde ich gerne sehen, aber das ist ja scheinbar raus. hilfe.
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Ich wünschte nur die grünen würden konsequent auch grüne politik machen und nicht eher ne schwarz-grüne mischung sein



bye bye Spotify


This month I'll cancel my Spotify account because they keep exploiting artists more and more. About time.


https://anytype.io/


I stumbled upon this yesterday and registered for the alpha - sounds like a very promising idea.