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2019-03-06 / \/ \/ / \
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This past Wednesday I got to see / _/ / /
Deafheaven live again, my third time. I \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_
kinda wasn't feeling it at first, I was in a / \/ \/ / \
mood (when am I not?) and their new album is / _/ /_ _/
not really sitting well with me, I dunno. I /- / _/ /
can't really say I don't like it, I'd just \________/\________/\___/____/
rather listen to anything else they've done
I guess. It took me a while to spin up but then they announced a new song that
would premiere on streaming services later that night, and that this show was
the first time they were playing it live and I got so hype. Dani very kindly
held the LP I bought and I threw myself into the mess in front of the stage,
it was extremely cathartic. Ended up being not too bad a show, some new stuff,
some "hits" - I was telling Danielle, every time I see them live it really
cements Sunbather as my favorite album, it's so perfect.
Aside from that the tilde.tel pilot is now live and pretty lively, some
teething issues and a lot of learning but things are going much better than I
ever could have dreamt. Got around 18 users, excluding me, a working
conference and voicemail, Tildeverse Radio piping to music on hold, all the
good shit. Cobbled together a phone book and FAQ on the website and gopher
space and the #tildetel channel on tilde.chat is pretty lively too, a good
community bolting on some pretty interesting stuff.
Ironing out kinks and squashing bugs aside I'm kinda at a loss where to go
from here, there's a few things I want to try to build but they're big
projects and I dunno if I have the orgone for something like that at the
moment, there's a bunch of other big unfinished things that I should probably
be doing instead.
One thing that was suggested by one of the ~tel users is to open up the
confs, via git or whatever, to users to edit. I probably couldn't do that
with everything because there's some sensitive info in there and even opening
up extensions.conf means I can't easily sneak in anything fun but I was
thinking of maybe allocating a block of extensions that users can just hack
on, and putting that file on git somewhere to just let anyone contribute
whatever silly thing they'd like. Thoughts? Ideas?
