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Well that was ... middling. Seems the the Vanilla forum software isn't really supported any more, and installing the newer community released versions doesn't seem to work. Fortunately I got it rolled back and working again, but on the old version s…
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Going to do a pile of updates on the server over the next few hours, so things might be up and down and changing a bit.
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Less nature, more ... transit
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Mrs Davis. I haven't finished the first season yet and I don't fully understand what's going on, but I don't care because it's always a ridiculously funny and enjoyable romp.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66334524 Randy Meisner from The Eagles, at 77.
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Just a heads up that those of you on gmail may be missing notification emails. Gmail seems to have tightened up their incoming spam checking and I've noticed it rejecting some mails. However I'm preparing to go on holiday to NZ in a few days time so…(Quote) You've reminded me that I have a section of my bookshelf I should revisit.
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Clbuttic!There is a fork of Audacity called Tenacity that was created due to those controversies: https://tenacityaudio.org/ I'm not sure of the state of it, just that it exists.
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And just now I got a notification that Ayreon/Lucasson is performing live again next year: https://www.arjenlucassen.com/live/ should you be in the area.
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Also check out his side projects, there's a few of them, the only one that comes to mind right now is Star One. Northern Europe prog metal is a pretty deep rabbit hole indeed. I'm also fond of Anathema (British), and mostly the …(Quote)
ooh, seen him live a couple of times. Excellent shows.
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I can see that. Similarly, I described his style as "sorta factual, but opinionated" to someone.
Did I get this recommendation from here or elsewhere? Doesn't matter, I'm only a chapter in and enjoying it.
Ok, that didn't work as well as I hoped from my phone. "How music works", David Byrne(Quote) Funny, I remember quite enjoying Quadrophenia when I saw it, though that was a few years ago. It might make some difference that I've spend a couple of months living and working in Brighton and so had some idea of the local history and land…Just discovered KMFDM has a whole new album out:This has some pretty good, punchy tracks on it.I still have tickets to their Amsterdam show which has been postponed by over three years s…(Quote)Oh interesting, I've just recently started dabbling with https://supercollider.github.io/ which lets you make this sort of stuff. But still getting my way throug…(Quote)Oh no! Where in NL are you? Give me a shout if you need something, I'm Amsterdam based but we have pretty good trains here. Or if you just feel like a beer or similar when you have your freedom again.…https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2022/0526/1301437-andy-fletcher-of-depeche-mode-has-died/
UK band Depeche Mode have …So I was sorting through some music I have from emusic years ago, and noticed an incomplete album. Went to emusic thinking I could re-download it. Apparently not, all I get is this:I forgot to include this classic announcement when it was released: https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/Apple-releases-iPod "No wireless. Less spac…https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the-music-lives-on/ the iPod is dead.No worries, the emails are looking better now, thanks for testing
Oh yeah, I noticed that too. It looks like they've broken how they do unicode in the emails and because I have the name set with the o̶r̶g̶net bit it gets confused. I'll turn that off which should tidy things up a bit.Not exactly news, but from a news site, so it must count
This is an interesting article about pop s…
