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I stood Stalwart up recently and it's going well so far. I opted to use an SMTP relay instead of delivering from the VPS directly.

This decision is consistent with the community Codeberg has attracted of late. It's smaller, independent and takes stances that are not in line with competitors like GitHub. If you want something less reliable, at larger scale and filled with AI projects that GitHub is clearly encouraging, you should use GitHub.

Everything after $5 million is taxed at 100%, no exceptions and used to fund education, healthcare and infrastructure (this would be before I go after the military budget with a hatchet).

Perhaps mountains of frustration punctuated by relief that soon vanishes?

I’d cap income at $5 million a year and strip the tax code down to something devoid of exceptions, but I’m in no position to do that.

I'd love to decouple insurance form employment and I'd also love to do away with the private insurance system in the US. I've always had insurance and the experience has been as uniformly poor, regardless of provider, as it is continuous. Any positive interactions and outcomes have felt like happy accidents, not the system working.

Remove the private actors, the adversarial billing, the friction with providers. It, at its best, ranges from bad to outright awful.

(I'd also love to do away with tax prep — the government knows what is owed, so why make folks prepare their own count and hope it matches?)

I love that Aesop Rock remains in the lead.

I'd love that — didn't CDBaby used to do that? Hopefully something'll crop up if the popularity keeps increasing.

Shipping on vinyl is rough — even shirts from anywhere outside of the US have tipped towards being hard to justify with shipping and all. I'll usually go for Bandcamp in that case (or buy something licensed in the US in the hopes that the license fee is at least something).

I have a ton of shirts, but have been sticking to buy limited edition ones or from bands at shows lately. I live in SoCal (north of LA) and end up suffering in the heat. Nothing did some non-black ones for their new album at least https://bandofnothing.shop/collections/apparel/products/esse...

Buy CDs, buy vinyl, buy merch, go see shows — support artists instead of platforms and middlemen wherever you can. This is a welcome trend.

As someone with a tattoo of a clickwheel iPod, I can't help but endorse this.

All of my favorite recommendations and artists have come from friends I know in real life, online or both. Zines, blogs and other music communities are all wonderful sources as well. last.fm's trove of recommendations are still accurate and I hope it holds on.

I have different friends who I ask for recommendations from different genres and then end up in exploring further once they've opened the door.

Everything I listen to is from MP3s streamed through Navidrome living in an S3 bucket. My larger library is in another bucket and mirrored elsewhere. I collect some records but opt for the convenience of listening digitally and that listening consists of whole albums, never playlists (and never anything AI generated).

An AI company making money off of the work of others. Par for the course.

Great. Another thing listening in on your conversations.

What's really surprising is that it's the LAPD, of all agencies, that are making this decision while violating civil rights concerns. https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd-settlements/

> The top three payout categories totaled $345 million. Civil rights violations, police shootings, excessive use of force, and illegal searches collectively accounted for $183 million, almost half of the claim amounts.

Plenty of civil rights violations, but Flock is too much even for them.

The city doesn't run around accusing private citizens of being terrorists like Flock's CEO does.

I'd trust a municipality I have a vote in more than a private company.

Great. More surveillance, slow browsing and turnstile-style false positives to blanket the web.

It must have some sort of value if OpenAI went through the trouble to get access to it.

Thanks. Updated to clarify.

Good. We have the benefit of enough hindsight to know that these platforms have had a net negative impact on everything and everyone they touch.

Apparently they're fast tracking gas fired power plant approvals, so we can expect production to increase and the climate crisis to worsen. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/donald-trump-ep...

It could definitely take over coming up with hilariously bad takes for him.

Until or, better yet, if.

How much is a 5% stake in a money pit really worth?

Unplug the data centers instead.

Ah, so the specter of Biden doing it was bad, but this administration putting into practice is great.

Nothing this technology offers is, to me, worth the noise pollution or increase in water and electricity rates.

> The A.I. company’s advisers are pushing its chief executive, Sam Altman, to move slowly after SpaceX’s stock has been volatile and as the start-up grapples with financial challenges.

SpaceX's stock volatile? It's a shame nobody saw that coming.

They’re building a future only they want by burrowing into everything like ticks.

I'd sooner remove the panels from my roof.