Ell @cincodenada@cybre.space

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank @chr and @nightpool for their effective and thoughtful moderation and communication, and for creating this lovely space that was my first true home on Mastodon, and for being so graceful and generous in sunsetting it.

cybre.space has been a wonderful and reliable place to reside the last three and half years, and will always be my first home. Thank you for the gift of this community, and for giving us all ample space to find new homes. This is what the fediverse is about and y'all are the best

Here's to #ｃｙｂｒｅ

I guess the redirect solves this, but I popped back in for a minute in case any followers didn't get migrated: this account is now at @c9a - see you over there!

One of these days I'll learn that whenever the body of a commit message starts with "Also" that is a pretty surefire sign that it should actually be two commits.

On a related note, I should see about getting my `git split` script merged upstream.

Also, an addendum that "automatically" is key here - I am already aware of Universal Scrobbler and have used it extensively, and just found VinylScrobbler which also seems good, but both require me to a) think about scrobbling and b) do a whole-ass context switch from putting the album on, which means my manual scrobbling is...inconsistent.

Barcoding would probably help a little in reducing the friction there, but that's a whole other project that requires maintenance, and is not nearly as shiny to boot 😄

Complicating factor I have confirmed after attempting to use PanoScrobbler's integration with Auto Shazam: my turntable is a bit dodgy and is not, uh, exactly on point on the RPM, so like, I should fix that sure, but I don't know what the margin of error on fingerprinting is even if I do get it better tuned.

I actually do have a half-finished attempt at calculating my own fingerprints from my personal library (since most of my vinyl albums I also have in MP3 as well), which might be more amenable to adjustments to make it more tolerant to droopy turntables, but I don't think it's working for un-wobbly music at the moment, and I've got other things to do tonight, so, the problem lives another day.

That moment when you find a GitHub repo doing what you want to do that hasn't been updated in over a decade, so you check out the forks to see if anyone has updated it, only to find that literally the only fork with any changes is the one *you* made...eleven years ago 😑

So yeah...if anyone has a good solution for automatically #scrobbling vinyl (e.g. picking it up on a microphone and running it through a fingerprinter), let me know 😅

#lastfm #vinyl

Today in gender: filing three separate support tickets with my company's HR platform about ways in which their efforts to handle gender and pronouns fall short

Update on how my relationship with inanimate objects is going: I just said "Ya know, you're really yucking my yum" out loud to a cable management loop on a monitor stand.