I’m a big fan of tig for visualizing the graph and looking over history (then I don’t need to leave the terminal, and it’s snappier, in my experience, than most full-GUI programs like Sourcetree), but for actual Git commands, I like the CLI

They’re making a reference to the Canadian characters of South Park

Agreed. Straightforward, but classy

This song and album were pretty formative in my metal journey. I remember that opening riff exploding out the gate, with its off-kilter bounce, and thinking I had never heard anything so cool and technical.

Well, this has piqued my interest. I’m glad it’s more substantial than a straight remake/remaster

I totally respect this being potentially a big ask, but does anyone have a TL;DR of what caused or was the fix for the federation issue(s)? I don’t have capacity at this moment to look through Github Issues and PRs, but I’m curious

the people on Lemmy are worth talking to, period

no u

Because the “Reddit API changes” are a big epoch in Lemmy’s history (and these graphs show it), I’m really curious to see if/when there will be another mass exodus or another “big Lemmy/federation moment”.

I’m putting a small amount of money on “Lemmy gets mentioned in a viral news article” ;)

Gotta give a shoutout to the End of Year lists from Angry Metal Guy blog. They have a pretty good balance of popular and underground metal from a bunch of different writers with different genre preferences.

They introduced me to Warcrab and Xoth this year, at least.

A link for the lazy: https://www.angrymetalguy.com/one-list-to-debase-them-all-angrymetal-guy-coms-aggregated-top-20-of-2023/

It reminds me of Last Week Tonight when the last elections were coming up.

You can tell Cody is both wanting to make a comedy show and also scream into a pillow. I think what they’re doing is good, but I imagine the research and writing process is agonizing.

I have a personal run of thumb. It’s got a thousand and one exceptions, but seems to work a good amount of the time, for what it’s worth.

Hard rock songs tend to have guitar-lite verses. As in, the verse seems to often feature just the bass and drums as instrumentation, or the guitar doing minimal legwork (read: a start-stop non-riff, or sometimes acoustic noodling), before exploding into existence for a powerful (pre-)chorus.

On the other hand, metal tends to be guitar-forward most of the time. The verse/chorus divide is usually heralded by switching riffs, or, in the case of symphonic and folk subgenres, the introduction of other instruments besides guitar.

I remember a book I read in elementary school (in the Cam Jansen series, IIRC) where the main conflict was a mean older brother put a password on the new family computer (a huge deal in the early 90s), and the younger hires the kid detective to find the password. The password is “hot dog”, ultimately determined because the desktop BG was a picture of ketchup and mustard.

I recall being not super satisfied with that ending.

Yeah, I’ve implemented OTP before, and I can think of no way this could be a surveillance move. If they required you use their app because they use a custom solution, sure, maybe, but they’re OTP is currently entirely standard, so you can use a plethora of app (or roll your own in about 14 lines of Python)

There is one thing I’ve never been clear with unions. Is there a minimum company size (perceived or real) that defines their usefulness? Like, as an extreme example, if 3 people made a company in their garage, I feel a union is overkill (tell me I’m wrong), but if that company grew to 10 people…is it suddenly realistic? What about 15? 20? 100?

Like, I work for a small startup and don’t feel a union is a pressing need, but I’ve always wondered if that’s the propaganda working or something more intrinsic to how a union is defined/finds purpose

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Mastodon - Leviathan Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

Cynic - Traced in Air

Symphony X - Paradise Lost

Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

That which you fall in love as a teenager, innit?

I haven’t played it - and the “social anxiety as horror”-slant feels more metaphorical than literal in its marketing - but this makes me think of the game “Homebody” a bit

In my opinion, probably their most pop-forward record. The first 3 tracks, IMO, relatively weak/weird, but the rest is pretty good to excellent (with the exception of Feelings). 3/5

It’s not the biggest or best, but I’ve always found the effect on “Always” by blink-182 to be pretty effective