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🥳🎊 Today I turned 40 years old. I always told myself since I was a kid that by the time I turned 40 I would be my own boss. And then I spent decades struggling to find my purpose, and of course busy with raising a family, and failed to reach that goal. But👇

@ELDENRING No email or anything, just a random tweet at 5 in the morning. Sad.

@ELDENRING I think it's pretty lame to announce the additional network test to make up for the one that was messed up yesterday an hour before the test is supposed to happen, at 6 AM here in NA. I couldn't possibly have seen the announcement, and didn't learn of it until it was over.

Nightfarers, the third #ELDENRING #NIGHTREIGN Network Test session will begin at 20:10 JST | 12:10 CET for Asia & Europe, and at 03:00 PT for North America. Thank you for your support and passion.

@ELDENRING I've been trying for two hours to even get into a game with no success. Constantly booted back to the title screen, or can't even log in. Will you extend the windows of time people can play?

Nightfarers, The #NIGHTREIGN PlayStation servers are currently under maintenance. Work is ongoing to restore server functionality. Further updates will be provided. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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@PhysicalMedia_ *at least 29 chumps

29 chumps bought this HDMI cable 😭💀

@PhysicalMedia_ People charging those kinds of prices are out of touch, and at least in my experience don't reflect the actual tattoo culture.

Hot Take: Tattoo prices and tattoo culture in 2024 fucking suck No I’m not paying you $400 an hour for a traditional piece 🙄

@dwiskus Fair enough! Thank you for clarifying.

@mxtp_kos Yeah, this escaped its intended audience of video creators whose frustrations are with YouTube, and for whom alternatives are very welcomed. For an indie musician, Spotify IS the evil empire. I get that, and I don’t love how my comment reads from that perspective.

@PhysicalMedia_ Finally!

Bloodborne on PS5/PC is reportedly being announced at state of Play later today

@ImanEurope Revolution?

the real question is this: who are we voting for? because i can’t support someone who is complicit in a genocide, and i can’t support someone who plans to put project 2025 in place. so what we doing?

@pastelETH It is sad, but the truth is the crypto space is full of predatory assholes, same as the music biz. It's why I never put a lot of faith in some of these web3 "solutions" to paying artists. Most are rugs I would wager. I'm working on a place for artists that I hope will help!

1st time in a veryyyyy long time i’m contemplating scaling back my contribution to “crypto” artists keeeeeep getting taken advantage of & undervalued. we thought this was a fix for the traditional industry but the same exact things are happening here where tf can we go?

Artists have been beaten down by the narrative of the last however many decades of corruption and corporate influence. But now, today, there are so many more tools at an artist's disposal for creating, releasing, and getting their music into the hands of their audience. There's no excuse NOT to be DIY, unless you really are after that label contract. It's time to take the power away from the people who have NO involvement in the creation of the music, and put that power back into the hands of the artists. Let's prioritize building tools and communities to reinforce and strengthen this idea, and let's NOT fall victim to the same trap of greed and predatory behaviors. Let's build up artists and empower them to make the best art they can.

@pastelETH I'm not the most educated about the situation, but I think this article is a good timeline and summary: aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/28…

is anyone paying attention to the situation in Rafah & willing to explain to me what’s happening ?

@Don2nd3 It's a struggle to keep my kids informed of this fact. When you're inside, I think it's easy to believe these things WILL help you, and it's not all useless trivia. But that feeling is wrong, sadly.

The American school system really isn’t doing a good job, I feel like I’ve learned more about life since after I graduated..

@AmarMonroe This is the conversation I'm here for. I would love to see more indie musicians come together to disrupt the music biz. I know they're divisive examples, but look at what Psychopathic Records and Strange Music have accomplished by uniting under an independent label.

Every 6 months we argue about loops and music theory…but can we have a discussion about how we as indie artists have the power to take over the industry? 🤘🏼⚡️

@UMAW_ @MassiveAttackUK Too often artists are forced to choose between their morals and a paycheck. While I'm sad that trend continues, good on them for standing up for what is right.

“Our music is for sale, but our humanity and morality is not.” @MassiveAttackUK is one of 120 acts that pulled out of the Great Escape festival in solidarity with Palestine. Scroll to find more immediate, urgent actions everyone can take (via BDS). Free Palestine 🍉

hey elon, can i have my check mark back

@dan_djfnd ChatGPT is fine for certain things, but I've found the Github Copilot to be way more helpful as a pair programmer, I think MS has one available as well but I haven't tried it. Good on you for learning and building something!

I started writing a blog, but then decided that i cba. So just gonna do this in a longer twitter post instead. About 6 weeks ago I decided that the "music industry" isn't for me any more. There’s only so long that you can keep repeating the same stuff about witnessing a slow moving car crash before you realise that you yourself are the fool for even giving the whole thing your attention. One of our early conclusions within JUICE is that there is basically no market for intelligence in the music industry; the Goldman Sachs report does that the job that everyone needs, paints a picture of up and to the right to justify everyone keeping their jobs, while Private Equity rolls through and cash cows the market (and one by one makes their jobs redundant). There is not really any space for an alternative view, and even if there was then what does it matter anyway. So I decided to teach myself to code from scratch. This started by first literally googling "learn how to code". I then reached out to a few friends, such as @0xTranqui, who I knew had been on a similar journey., Found Free Code Camp, and this super helpful guide roadmap.sh/full-stack . And then started the grind. First week I covered the basics of HTML, CSS, and then got stuck into Javascript. Node & React followed, along with actually understanding Git. All in all about 2 weeks of wall-to-wall learning. Note, I didn't touch ChatGPT once, my theory being that this would paper over cracks that would be self-defeating in the long run. At this point I decided to start mapping out the app that we wanted to build, because that was the point of this whole thing. A React app built on Farcaster rails. So I cloned the example-farcaster-app from Neynar and then started to adapt it. All good. But then I quickly learned that my knowledge of APIs wasn't sufficient, so went down an Express & Axios hole to understand servers & end-points. Within just over 4 weeks from starting the project I had a functioning app running on my local server! And then the Vercel fun began. It took literally two days to realise that I just had to rename "server.ts" to "index.ts" and put it in a folder called"API". Lol. So I deployed the app and did some initial testing. And then some dude called Manu in Bangladesh hacked it and taught me a very useful lesson in locking down end-point access from your front ends (he did it while logged into his farcaster account, which was nice, as I had a name for my nemesis). 2 more days of rewriting the entire logic and I redeployed. Manu tried again, but to no avail, hurrah. A bit more testing and now I'm pretty confident that the app is working as intended. If you have a farcaster account then feel free to have a play - lemon-juice.vercel.app Why have I written this all out? Well, I'm quite proud of the achievement. But also I want to show that it's possible. Man, the state of online learning now, compared to when I was uni a few years ago, for example, is just a different game. ChatGPT was absolutely essential to move at the speed I did, but it needs to be used in the right way. You use it to error check and to test logic, as you would an old sage sat on your shoulder. It won't make something from scratch for you, or at least anything useful. Once you know the question, it will help with an answer (although there are probably other answers, I had a lovely moment yesterday when I just ignored it and my method worked better than its suggestion.

@tom__kell Agreed, music player UI is so boring everywhere right now. I had crazy Winamp skins back in the day.

Music player UI should actually look like this