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New comment by frereubu in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

frereubu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:11:30 +0000

> You never knew in advance if it'd be a quality recording or total garbage.

I once bought a VHS recording of a Lemonheads gig after seeing them at the Glastonbury festival, guess it must have been around 1993, and in visual terms it was absolutely unwatchable - the camera wasn't still for a second - but probably pretty representative of what it was like to be there.

New comment by frereubu in "DIY Soft Drinks"

frereubu — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:44:56 +0000

Parent comment said their hometown had 300 people, which I can't imagine would support more than one or, at most, two grocery stores.

New comment by frereubu in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

frereubu — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:52:59 +0000

"Not a simple problem to solve" feels like a bit of an understatement.

New comment by frereubu in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

frereubu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:42:23 +0000

"Alleged embezzlement of soft fruit"

New comment by frereubu in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

frereubu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:40:48 +0000

Ah, gotcha - I misread.

New comment by frereubu in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

frereubu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:21:03 +0000

But you've not cited any sources either, so don't pretend that you're some paragon of statistical analysis. You've just said things like "I wish I didn't grow up in an area where I know that to be true," which is pure anecdote. Others in this comments thread have provided sources. Why haven't you?

New comment by frereubu in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

frereubu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:18:25 +0000

In London? Where was this?

New comment by frereubu in "Music for Programming"

frereubu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:18:43 +0000

It's unsurprising to find lots of ambient / electronica here, and generally I'm the same, but I do occasionally like really loud punk or rock if I need some motivation, like the album Feel The Darkness by Poison Idea, or as I said in another comment, I Am A Tower by Swans on a loop. Generally I get my best work done when I can lock into a single track and have it on repeat.

New comment by frereubu in "Music for Programming"

frereubu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:16:40 +0000

I occasionally have I Am A Tower on a loop when I really need to break through some kind of mental / coding block.

New comment by frereubu in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

frereubu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:07:12 +0000

So you can read replies etc. without having to be logged in to X: https://xcancel.com/exQUIZitely/status/2040777977521398151

New comment by frereubu in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

frereubu — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:20:15 +0000

These people are almost unimaginably wealthy to the point where they're effectively unchallenged if they're not directly challenging the state (and even then they win quite a few rounds). "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

New comment by frereubu in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

frereubu — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:16:43 +0000

The penultimate sentence of this fantastic 1997 interview with Trump has stayed with me since I read it: "Trump, who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/05/19/trump-solo

New comment by frereubu in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

frereubu — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:35:11 +0000

That's not a good distinction. If I see an advert for Microsoft 365 in the Start menu on Windows they're both from Microsoft but it's still an advert.

New comment by frereubu in "Stripe Is Down"

frereubu — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:33:27 +0000

https://status.stripe.com/

New comment by frereubu in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

frereubu — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:51:39 +0000

Calling it a "tip" is definitely just a semantic trick to make it slightly less easy to frame a negative response and galvanise opinion against the practise. Reminds me a bit of confirmation shaming (which, now I think about it, I haven't seen in a while) where you're made to click a button that says something like "No, I don't want an amazing 15% off my next order by signing up to your email list".

New comment by frereubu in "Apple Just Lost Me"

frereubu — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:06:56 +0000

I'm in my fifties, have been involved in computing since I was a kid and I like Apple's stance on this because the threat landscape has changed, particularly for non-tech-savvy people. If you want that freedom there are various *nix flavours to choose from, you're not compelled to use Apple.

New comment by frereubu in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

frereubu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:59:48 +0000

I've seen those too. I was going to say that I've seen people put the bowl to their mouth and shovel food in with chopsticks, but now that I come to think about it that might well actually be from the series Tokyo Diner and Takeshi Kitano films, and may be deliberately uncouth characterisations...

New comment by frereubu in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

frereubu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:53:45 +0000

Yeah, could be - that's kind of what I mean in terms of being lost in translation. It feels like there's missing information / context in quite a few of them.

Edit: In fact I think you're completely right - "picking out" something near the bottom of the dish does suggest that.

New comment by frereubu in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

frereubu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:51:01 +0000

> こじ箸 Kojibashi (also known as ほじり箸 hojiribashi)

> To use the chopsticks to pick something out from near the bottom of the dish.

I think there must be some bits that are lost in translation for some of these. This makes it sound like you can't eat all of the food in a bowl with your chopsticks.

New comment by frereubu in "Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines"

frereubu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:30:45 +0000

This has been going on for at least three years, although perhaps they left more popular sites like The Verge alone. My wife's business rebranded three years ago and they kept the old brand as part of the title, presumably because there were lots of links pointing to it with the old title.