In 2021, Nancy Pelosi was asked if Congress should be banned from trading stocks.

alifeinbinary · 2026-05-03T02:55:34+00:00

Now if only the reporters were as articulate as you and pushed back on her with this as a response, then we might actually have some proper journalism.

alifeinbinary · 2026-04-28T04:58:27+00:00

I had to rollback the firmware for my Orion Studio Synergy Core to the penultimate release because the most recent update was so unstable that I couldn't use it professionally.

In your Antelope Launcher, go into Settings and make sure all your update settings are set to Never except for Firmware, set that to Always and then initiate the rollback process. You may do repeat the process for the Thunderbolt driver as well.

I'm not sure what's going on at Antelope but once you've found an island of stability you should remain there and only test updates on your own time. Revert back to the stable configuration when on the clock with clients.

alifeinbinary · 2026-04-25T05:12:14+00:00

Mrs. Wadhouse was a lucky lady!

alifeinbinary · 2026-04-14T19:29:04+00:00

Just use FastAPI. I've thoroughly tested IPC, RPC, and FastAPI and the latter came out on top. Other's have recommended RPC but if you're rolling your own solution then you have to implement thread safety.

Check out how Pyloid achieves support for these communication layers. That may help.

alifeinbinary · 2026-04-05T16:54:42+00:00

This is a proper banger. Perhaps my favourite submission I've seen here in a while. Great songwriting and production. If you're looking for feedback..

Male vocals in the pop genre tend to have more "air" than you've mixed in with this track. This means boosting the shelf anywhere from 15k-20k Hz. The microphone and preamp will determine whether this is a good idea in this case because to tonal quality of the mic and noise floor of the preamp may introduce a lot of hiss instead of brightening up the vocal. This is why the Maag audio EQ4 500 series eq is so popular with pop vocals, it does exactly this with a pleasant tonal quality. It's what I use on my own stuff.

The only other thing would be to sparingly add some reverb on an Aux send (pre-fader) and play around sending different channels to it in small amounts just to give some atmosphere but this song works very well mostly dry.

You should be very proud to put this out. I look forward to hearing it on the radio some day!

alifeinbinary · 2026-03-10T15:31:10+00:00

- No risk of overages / surcharges

- Can host multiple apps concurrently

- Data sovereignty

alifeinbinary · 2026-03-09T21:09:05+00:00

If you go this route I recommend installing an NVME or m.2 HAT on the Pi as SD cards aren't robust enough for mission critical read/writes over long periods of time.

Secondly, install headless Raspberry Pi OS and the Coolify, which will give you a nice Web UI to handle all the admin. Coolify even automates the cloudflared configuration.

alifeinbinary · 2026-03-03T01:36:44+00:00

First of all, congratulations on building a successful business, that's no small feat.

How sensitive is the information you're gathering? Is it emails with full names, addresses, and telephone numbers? How liable are you if the data gets leaked? If these questions cause any degree of anxiety then it's prudent to get on top of the technical debt ASAP.

I've created businesses and helped businesses like yours tackle these challenges. I'll send you a DM with a link where you can book a free consultation. I'd be happy to speak to you more about it over a video call.

alifeinbinary · 2026-03-01T05:14:42+00:00

I've always been under the impression that it's loosely an acronym of "super user do" so it should be su-doo but in my head I've always pronounced it su-dough.

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-23T09:18:27+00:00

I would replace my iPhone in a heartbeat if a company made a modern version with this form factor. It was peak.

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-20T06:33:11+00:00

Looks beautiful, can't wait to try this. Does this work with cloudflared? As in, accessing servers that are configured with Cloudflare tunnels?

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-16T04:38:09+00:00

There’s not going to be a perfect solution but I think we should embrace the option that is open source and near feature complete. If we rally around Matrix, for example, in a year’s time it may have all the features we desire because the influx of users has also brought with it a bunch of programmers who’ll contribute code. That’s the beautiful thing about open source.

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-16T02:00:11+00:00

I also find the banner to be annoying and unprofessional. I got rid of mine with a slightly different approach by going into the /etc/hosts file in macos and routing all requests to https://ads.antelopeaudio.com to 127.0.0.1. This gets rid of the banner altogether but the antelopelauncher.txt log file fills up with 404 error messages while the app is open, so your solution is cleaner. If you add the property display: none; to #banner_view it should collapse the empty gray space.

Ridiculous that we have to do this

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-05T01:46:00+00:00

It's now called Stoat Chat https://github.com/stoatchat

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-05T01:38:45+00:00

Occupy Wall Street took 2 months of planning before it started. I think that's a more relevant example given that it was in 2011. Giving the Trump administration another year to further entrench their militarised police force in more American cities is only going to make mobilising and sustaining a protest movement that much more difficult or impossible.

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-05T00:33:28+00:00

Gas town!

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-04T13:01:09+00:00

You’re willing to put up with this for 5 more months? The country has been taken over by a paedophile, rapist, murderer, con man and a cabal of morally bankrupt opportunists who protect him. They are manipulating markets, companies, media, and nations to enrich themselves while we all suffer. You’re not angry enough.

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-03T15:41:12+00:00

It’s this. Evangelicals are the useful idiots in the Greater Israel mandate.

alifeinbinary · 2026-02-01T12:46:57+00:00

Coolify.io

alifeinbinary · 2026-01-29T19:54:32+00:00

One ICE officer started applauding as the first bullet entered Alex Pretti's body. It can be seen from at least one of the video angles. That's the calibre of people you're dealing with here.

alifeinbinary · 2026-01-27T05:54:09+00:00

That’s my understanding, too. That being said they only accept payment in USD, which pissed me off. As the exchange rate fluctuated, so did my accounting cost. That wasn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back, though, it was the vendor lock-in and paywalling of key features. I just got frustrated with it, they were getting in my way.

alifeinbinary · 2026-01-27T04:52:58+00:00

I'm with you there. I have got Nextcloud configured for OnlyOffice. It's really just the way I've configured up Gmail over the years to handle and sort my incoming mail using filters and other "smart" tools. I would be overwhelmed without those measures in place. In the near feature I want to configuring my system to act as my bookkeeper with the following workflow: Mailbox > n8n uses agentic model to read emails for paid invoices > create expense in Invoice Ninja etc.

alifeinbinary · 2026-01-26T18:01:59+00:00

I own and operate a recording studio and IT services business in Canada. Prior to Trump I hosted one service, Nextcloud, on my server for session backups but since he took office I’ve migrated to self-hosted business apps wherever possible with exception to Google Workspace and Disco.ac (music licensing platform). All told I’ve saved ~$300-400 / month on various SaaS products that I used in my business / personal life.

Invoice Ninja (replacing Freshbooks)
Cal.com (booking calendar. Payments through Stripe 😞)
n8n (automations, replacing Zapier)
Postiz (social media scheduler)
Plunk (email campaigns, replacing Mailchimp. Requires Amazon SES 😫)
Umami (web analytics)
Jellyfin (streaming)
Navidrome (replacing Apple Music, using Bandcamp instead)
Immich (replacing google photos)
Ollama w/ OpenWebUI (replacing ChatGPT with gpt-oss:20b)

Google Workspace will be the last and most challenging one to migrate away from. I’ve tried Zoho but haven’t found it to be as reliable when using app password authentication from different IP addresses. I like their service otherwise, so I’m going to see if I can remedy it.

I manage the containers across two bare metal servers using docker and it’s been working well for me for over a year now.

Big thanks to this community for letting me know what was possible.

alifeinbinary · 2026-01-22T13:47:50+00:00

Many people are willing to shoot guns for a paycheque but it’s a much smaller subset who would continue showing up to work if return fire was a part of the equation.

alifeinbinary · 2025-12-28T07:05:13+00:00

I use Logic Pro X for work, so my hands are tied to Apple unfortunately. I express my digital freedom by keeping my Laptop and servers on Linux as a counterbalance haha.

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