Alrighty then. Deezer subscription cancelled. Radio, resonate, funkwhale, boomkat, bleep and bandcamp, here we go.
If you want to export your Loved tracks out of Deezer, you have to do it via the API.
You need to:
– create an app (https://developers.deezer.com/myapps)
– go through the oauth dance (https://developers.deezer.com/api/oauth)
– find the id of your ‘Loved tracks’ playlist (https://developers.deezer.com/api/explorer -> user -> playlists)
– get the tracks for that playlist (https://developers.deezer.com/api/explorer -> playlist)
"the format of your email address is not valid"
I haven’t finished typing it yet you nob
Hand-curation should be cherished too. Knowing another human being has listened, thought about and combined these tracks is a beautiful thing. The only recommender algorithm I ever liked was last.fm, which really got the social aspect of music.
Coool.. just came across RadioDroid on f-droid, it’s an app for discovering and playing internet radio streams.
Now I’m listening to hibernate on Resonance Extra and it’s awesome. https://extra.resonance.fm/
I was thinking about how to approach music discovery since ditching Deezer (which was pretty terrible for it anyway). I think back to radio is the way to go (I mean duh, pretty obviously really).
Summary: "Maintenance lacks the glamour of innovation—and is harder to measure"
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Just had way more fun on TuxPaint than I probably should
Great piece by Cory Doctorow on the importance of repair.
"This is the golden age of repairs, a moment made for a renaissance of shade-tree mechanics, electronics tinkerers, jackleg fixit shops, and mom-and-pop service depots. It has to be: our planet, our pocketbooks, and our neighborhoods all benefit when our property lasts longer, works better and does more."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/its-repair-day-no-one-should-be-punished-contempt-business-model
I should have shouted – "coordination and organisation can occur without hierarchical authority.. and don’t call me Shirley"
I was at a discussion about anarchism yesterday. A few questions about the need for leaders. One was "what about if there was a serial killer.. surely you’d need a leader to take control, surely?" Fair question about how does macro organisation occur, but the repetition several times of ‘surely’ was really interesting. Like capitalist realism, but for hierarchy. Seemed ingrained that a need for hierarchy is self-evident, that there is no alternative. Spanish Civil War was the end of history.
So far Pride and Prejudice is full of posh nobs chatting on about women’s appearance and comparing men based on their earnings.
Is it all an elaborate satire? Or is it just shit? Fingers crossed the former.
Anyway one great thing about installing Lineage – my Android security patch level has gone from February 2017 to September 2018.
I figured it as around 100 critical security flaws I was potentially vulnerable to, thanks to Samsung stopping support for a barely 4 year old device.
Not sure I get the permissions in Nougat… a bunch of the apps I installed need network access, but when installing it listed no special permissions needed. Is network access not considered a special permission anymore, it’s just a given? So far Ultrasonic has been the only one to prompt for any extra permissions, and it was for read/write the SD card.
Ultrasonic so I can stream my music from funkwhale.
I’ll stick with Trebuchet as the launcher for now as it seems alright, and OpenLauncher, although I like it, hasn’t been updated for a while.
Going to try DuckDuckGo browser for web browser rather than Firefox for now.
Next up AnySoftKeyboard because I’m struggling a little with this AOSP one, and AnySoft’s keyboard splitter thingy is really handy on a tablet.
Next up tusky so I can reply to people on mastodon.
Next app: indigenous for android to do me #indieweb posting. Probably won’t post that much from the tablet, but good to have it available. Its not on fdroid but swentel publishes the apks on github.
(posting this from indigenous on lineage!)
Not going to install GApps with Lineage, going to keep it google services free.
First app to install then: f-droid
Finally got Lineage installed on my old tablet. It wasn’t that straightforward, but huge kudos to the whole community of peeps (developers, forum posters, documentors) that make it possible at all.
I know corvids are smart, and I respect them for that, I really do, but they’re also really fucking noisy
Summary: "Repair is one of the secret keys to a better life. Repairs keep our gadgets in use longer (saving our pocketbooks) and divert e-waste from landfills or toxic recycling processes (saving our planet). Repair is an engine of community prosperity: when you get your phone screen fixed at your corner..."
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tfw your meditation app repeatedly gets stuck on the loading screen
I finished Perdido Street Station. It was fantastically written and a genuine page turner. Also relentlessly, unremittingly grim.
Now I’m reading Pride and Prejudice so I don’t fall into a depression.
Summary: "From the New Orleans school desegregation crisis (1960), when white schoolchildren went on strike to protest the federal government’s order to desegregate New Orleans elementary schools. by the Symbiosis Research Collective
The Five Star Movement in Italy has been campaigning on a platform of d..."
Current music plan: once I’ve exported my list of favourite tracks, close down Deezer account. Was costing me £9.99 a month. (When I first signed up someone told me it paid better to artists than Spotify, but I don’t know how true that is anymore and even if so, it’s probably still negligible amount.)
Host the tracks I own on personal streaming server (currently funkwhale on digitalocean, ~£4 month.) Buy tracks direct from bandcamp where possible, max £4 a month. £2 a month to resonate.