Local moth fairy loves lämp, more at 11 @elfi@pixie.town

Fedi, who do you know who's the vintage MP3 player expert?

I'm asking Fedi because I have certain expectations and requirements that only Fedi can fill. I'm looking specifically to hear from That One MP3 Player Person, here.

There's definitely an era of Peak MP3 Player, the same way e-ink ereaders peaked in 2007-2008 in the Just Before Touchscreens Ruined Everything era - there's definitely an aluminium-body clicky-buttoned MP3 player that Just Plays MP3s and is tactiley perfect and beautiful in every way and probably unobtainum except with eBay and patience, and I want to know about it from The MP3 Player Expert.

I want the person with a display shelf full of MP3 players to infodump at me about when the buttons disappeared and everything carcinized into a phone and made them sad. I expect this person will tell me to look for something in the late aughts to early teens and know the part number for a replacement battery. If this is you, please give me a link to your website, and feel free to show me your socks as well because I expect they're cool as hell.

No need to tell me you use your phone for music or tell me the MP3 player that you already own is good, I don't care. I want to find The Vintage MP3 Player Person With Heavily Considered Opinions, and ask them questions that only they will be able to answer. I need the MP3 Player Librarian. I feel in my heart that this person is here on the Fediverse somewhere.

UPDATE: it's only been 5 minutes haha, alright here's what I want:
* no apple or apple-wannabe
* plug it in and it shows up as a USB drive, I won't install software
* takes SD or MicroSD
* just plays MP3s
* no touchscreen
* no capacitive controls
* preference: steel or aluminium

UPDATE: ipods are apple, I specifically don't want apple, I already know about ipods thx

UPDATE UPDATE: editing the question to make it more obvious that I'm looking for a person not a thing here, I don't want to know about your MP3 player, I want to know where the Vintage MP3 Player Wizard dwells

UPDATE 4: looking into Sony players around the tail end of the minidisc era, also this wee lad looks like a decent "modern" equivalent: https://binarydigit.city/a-simple-digital-audio-player/

Knock on my front door.
"Hi, I'm Mayor Bryan Paterson, and I'm campaigning for the conservative party of-"
"That's unfortunate"
He stopped and apologised.
I reminded him his party accepts bigots, he apologised again and left.

Elite Dangerous recently rolled out a new mechanic: Player System Colonisation! Players can now go to a system and stake their own claims! They can build a space station, and they get a cut of transactions from owning it! Some player decided "hey, I like Pulsars, they look pretty, I'm going to build a space station around a Pulsar." the problem is, when you do that, the game tries to lock the orbit of the station to the rotation speed of the star.
soooo.....

https://old.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/1j6x1m7/do_not_dock_at_lantern_light/

You don’t need to be Jewish to apply.

$10,000 interest-free loan for folks who need to relocate because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence.

https://www.keshetonline.org/movetothrive/

Mushroom Forager. Illustration for September’s patreon postcard. #deer #furryart #furry

Greenhouse. Illustration for March's Patreon Postcard

#deer #furry #furryart #digitalart

So chat, you know how last stream we worked on Jen and they weren't even moving yet? Well here's where they are now. Yeah, I've done A LOT of off stream work this week.

They're not finished, but they are fully rigged! Just missing toggles. What a cutie!

I added textures in the missing areas, made the expression toggles, set up the physics, and hammered out errors all in a couple of days!

#vtuber #blender #3dmodel #3dart #vgen

There’s more to #Ottawa than manicured lawns and pretty petals.

Thanks to multiple grassroots efforts, Ottawa’s bountiful greenery is getting more sustainable as #rewilding efforts are on the rise. Here are four projects that deserve attention and support.

#urbanrewilding #cities #seeds

https://www.rewildingmag.com/4-ways-ottawa-is-rewilding-and-your-city-can-too/

Good morning! ☕

Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳

The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.

(Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615)

(Via @rolle)

uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites (1000+) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with @ublockorigin or uBlacklist. Also works on mobile (iOS, iPadOS, Android) via uBlacklist, as well as pihole/adguard.

✋ https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist?tab=readme-ov-file#ublockorigin--ublacklist-huge-ai-blocklist

#blocklist #ublockorigin #noai #web #ai #websec #online #privacy #onlinesafety #android #ios #ipados #firefox #browser

I AM GONNA YELL WHAT THE FUUUUUCK

Kazakhstan’s health ministry rejects claims of ‘LGBT propaganda’ influencing teens

"According to the report, the LGBT movement does not push teenagers to change their sexual orientation. On the contrary, it helps them combat depression and bullying."

https://kz.kursiv.media/en/2025-03-12/engk-yeri-kazakhstans-health-ministry-rejects-claims-of-lgbt-propaganda-influencing-teens/

UPD: the article was taken down, suspecting an attempt to silence them. they still have it available at their IG page: kursiv.media, as far as i know.

truth will prevail.

Coding games really forces you to not take things for granted, like for example, you have to tell enemies to stop chasing the players after they die. Although having corpses inexorably slide towards you is a whole other level of horror.

Honestly, there should just be a tax on disposable packaging. Watch how quickly reusable packaging and refill setups become "cost-competitive".

this shit works. the left consistently underestimates the childishness of humanity.

RE: https://mastodon.online/users/danirabbit/statuses/114138804365501757

just a reminder yall, you don't have to be a gunner to be a fighter. every soldier has someone who feeds them. someone who heals their wounds. someone who helps with organization and communications. someone who finances their cause and gathers resources and information. someone who inspires others to join them, with art and propaganda.

we all can help each other, even those who aren't bruisers and brawlers.

Update: now a blog post which I will update instead! https://nevillepark.ca/2025/03/13/branching-out-some-github-gitlab-com-alternatives/

Gitea is 1) commercial and 2) based in the US, which I know many people are looking to avoid.

@Codeberg (https://codeberg.org) is a public server running Forgejo, which began as a Gitea fork: https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/ It's where I have most of my stuff.

A few more public Forgejo servers: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/delightful-forgejo#public-instances Shout-out to @besties' https://git.gay.

There's also the venerable Sourcehut, whose UI makes me break into hives: https://sourcehut.org/

Want to self-host? @yunohost is dead easy to set up and has Gogs, Gitea, Forgejo, and GitLab apps: https://apps.yunohost.org/catalog?search=git&category=dev

OK with Gitea/GitLab servers outside the US? @Framasoft has a public GitLab server: https://framagit.org So do @autonomic: https://git.autonomic.zone and https://git.coopcloud.tech, plus they'll do paid hosting (price scales with budget).

For cheap independent hosting, PikaPods has Gitea: https://www.pikapods.com/

There are SO many options if you are willing to give up the "everyone on the planet uses the same public Git server" model.

#git #github #gitlab #selfhosting #forgejo