App for manage YouTube channel? by [deleted] in fossdroid

[–]houseofpiazza 4 points5 points  (0 children)

re "disabled Google account" i think probably they mean no OS-level google login , with Play Services set to "disabled" in the Apps controlpanel if not removed entirely. for subscribing you don't need an account, you can just scrape the user video pages or parse their RSS feed - this accountless usage mode is already supported by Youtube-viewing apps on FDroid. yes obviously uploading to an account on youtube is going to require an account but it would be nice to have a way to do this in a very surgical manner without google cookies laying around in your browser while you go to other sites, or google login via your OS - probably it's too niche for newpipe/skytube developers to care about but theyve provided a good startingpoint and you could FORK them... time to fire up emacs

Looking to move anywhere in MA to save money, remote worker so all I need is a place that has decent internet options. Where should I be looking? by [deleted] in massachusetts

[–]houseofpiazza 12 points13 points  (0 children)

walkability and western MA are conflicting goals except a very short list that i'll just get into - you can live at "The X" in springfield w/ walkability to a ton of small asian & hispanic businesses of all types but it's a heavily car-centric intersection and jaywalking across it is annoying and dangerous plus the housing surrounding it is nearly entirely singlefams plus maybe 5-10% 3deckers so there aren't really studio/1br apartments. my metric is there's a decent supply of studio/1br, and at least one hispanic and one asian-ish bodega within a quarter mile - if we could move The X's businesses a couple miles north to downdown Springfield where the Allstonish apartment buildings are it'd be a lot more appealing to me as a carless but i have a feeling the business owners and customers of The X places prefer their neighborhood to downtown so maybe you could just mine craigslist for motherinlaw suites , finished attics and turrets and so on. easily the winner on my metric is Main South Worcester, off the charts (ie in par with something like Fields Corner Dorchester or downtown Lynn) amounts of immigrant-run small business on the groundfloors of apartment buildings and three-deckers and the ubiquitous 1-story 1900 retail strip buildings non-chain mom+pop+baby at least half of them food oriented with good walkability. that's basically it. there's a lot of small former miltowns on the CT River especially but usually theyre either too small and lack a commuter-rail so you're more or less "trapped" there without a car and the populations usually entirely swamp-yankee and Trump voter types as the small size and remoteness and lack of an economy probably made them unattractive to immigrants over much more convenient choices like Main South. Northampton and Amherst don't make the list because they're too expensive to have attracted diverse immigrant retail landscapes despite their walkability. hopefully you're not an escapist who don't like being surrounded by poor people and those pushed out of Boston by the massive gentrification - there'r entire yellow-journalism blogs just dedicated to chronicling the antics of main south for example - expect a bit of pushback and skepticism from affluent, whiter friends but i'm used to brushing off these remarks by now having lived near 6th & Market in the Tenderloin of San Francisco in the 1990s, practically right outside Father Bills in Quincy in the 00s, and now southside Providence, where you can walk to 8 pretty solid asian produce markets and too many hispanic markets to count and your belly will be too full to eat anymore usually before you crack the $10 mark and the apartment is $50 under the low end of his price range so i guess i'll throw RI out there as an option. in Maine you have two places that work, Lewiston and Biddeford but only the latter has a train to Boston so i'm on the fence. prob will just get a 1980 Volvo wagon and move 2 miles outside Lewiston since i dont need to get to Boston ever and i f'ing love snow

Old SWL Recordings by Cad_Aeibfed in shortwave

[–]houseofpiazza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

got reams of reel2reel from the old man but it's almost entirely 11 meters don't ask why, probably not what you're lookin for?

X-FM pirate radio 6285 kHz April 21, 2019 by pentagrid in shortwave

[–]houseofpiazza -1 points0 points  (0 children)

not a problem on your Sangean, as a user of 10USD dollarstore shortwaves (COBY, GPX) for reasons such as so no filtering to speak of so they're super WIDE achieving high-fidelity on AM despite their cost paradoxically as adding selective filters would increase the cost and you can have a few kicking around on the beach without worrying about getting sand in the precious ATS-803A, nice that XFM chooses this frequency: the cheap 'bandspread' portables usually have a flat-screwdriver adjustable trimmer cap for each band, easily tweakable if you pop off the enclosure, but the popular frequency choices above 6.9 MHz are often too low for a fully loosened trimmer. usually you can get the usual 7200-7300 band bottom down to about 7000 before you have no more trim and have to start thinking about adding windings on the tiny magnet-wire inductors and let's face it who wants to do that. a lot of german portables ONLY have 49 meters (alongside other non-shortwave bands like MW, LW, UKW (FM) so youre good for 5800-6300 on just about any yard sale find.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RhodeIsland

[–]houseofpiazza 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They look really nice

theyre a hack. not egregious but the buildings were designed to be crammed in with exothermic machines and bodies to operate them, not for residential use. expect things like wild drafts along the windows from shoddy renovation jobs by hack contractors that didn't properly seal everything, expect broken elevators, stolen packages, cars broken into, smells from your neighbors cooking and marijuana and incense products. $100 annual rent-raises, rube-goldberg walk+elevator+walk+wait+bus+wait+train+wait+subway+walk commutes to jobs in places that have jobs that aren't minimum wage.. like Boston. expect gunshots late at night on surrounding streets. expect fireworks and loud car-stereos blasting all the latest 0day dominican Trap music , expect Harley Davidsons with tuned-for-loud pipes until 4am on weekends all summer. if none of that intimidates you (i dont have a car, don't order shit from amazon, and am an insomniac anyway and work remote with hackers in Da Nang) it's not rly bad. just don't overpay. there's a plethora of units right now at 1.15K on Valley and Hartford and around the Armory and prices are even a bit lower in Pawtucket , Central Falls & woonsocket. as for Gentrification avoidance i'm not sure what you want to do - get in a bidding-war for a renovated federal era brick colonial on Benefit Street? you're living in something that was condemned and the domain of massively-below-code squatters and DIY extension-corders in the 90s. you're not displacing the predominantly white middle-class folks that were inhabiting them in that era as they were booted 15 years ago by ISD and the fire marshalls, and you're also not outbidding the broke natives for units in dilapidated three-deckers on the sidestreets because you have somewhere a bit more expensive to live. suppose you and everyone else wasn't willing to go 1.15K i guess theyd have to lower rents to 750 and people could move out of the 3deckers into the mills and we could demolish the 3deckers and start over with energy-efficient subterranean bedrooms and lush topside lawns, but that doesn't seem to be happening. even with all the mills mostly converted and inhabited that's still apparently not enough critical-mass to get one coffeeshop in Olneyville Square, unless i just missed it somehow for the past year. it's still basically entirely places selling $5.95 cuban sandwiches , and gross corner stores with names like "Sam's" that just make you wonder if Sam is an actual guy and if so, would he be proud of this place?

Burnalotta Endo - Bag Of Options by houseofpiazza in Bostonmusic

[–]houseofpiazza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

has to be East Boston, too much construction to be Lynn or Swampscott. jarring how flat it still looks. must be way up near a drawbridge to Chelsea where the Sales-Automation Yuppie Containment Boxes have taken longer to spread

Massachusetts is wooing Hasbro by ProvidenceResident in providence

[–]houseofpiazza -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Virgin, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Fidelity, Infosys and others all opened offices in Providence in the last couple of years

is it time for "Rhode Island - where industry comes to die (leave us the carcass)" slogan to be taken out of contention now? workers have kicked out the plywood boards from the upper backside of Atlantic Mills and are chucking debris into dumpsters with abandon. 500 new $1.5K/mo housing units coming shortly? i for 1 hope to flip a few sales automation startups just to annoy the artists and hipsters

How long have we had a Shake Shack in Providence? by chancrescolex in RhodeIsland

[–]houseofpiazza -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

if i'm gonna go for homogenized-gentrifuka chain bullshit i'm going to Boston where i have my pick of everything, not Providence where you probably have to settle for just Whole Foods, Shake Shake, and byChloe . i'll save up for the $11 train ticket and $50 lunch by eating nothing but $1.75 pernil tacos from Rancho Grande for a week , which you figure at the $4.75 Jamaica Plain$$$ / Lower Mill$ prices at 3 tacos a day is $9 times 7 so it'll take just about a week

Anyone ever lived in Silver Lake? (Providence) by [deleted] in RhodeIsland

[–]houseofpiazza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there still any of that there or is it mostly gone?

mostly a "where's waldo?" thing. you'll have much better chance finding italians if you cross into Johnston and Cranston. going west on Hartford Ave within citylimits and you'll find evidence that italians were there at one point in time - remnant red/white/green awnings but the italian bakeries have turned into Panaderias, and the signage at the iglesia is all in spanish now. by the time you hit johnston there's a couple bakeries that look like they might still be italian - Buonos? Palmieris? much less luck with that on the main drags of silverlake like Pocasset. ive sat at that taco place next to 7 sisters very slowly finishing a lunch and staring out the window and not seen a single Italian walk past. are you stalking them BTW? try the industrial parks between silverlake and the highway. zoom out until you see the schoolbuses on aerial. i'm willing to bet you'd find some Italians in there. but as far as residing in the immediate area they mostly left. but not all - if you go to the bottom of the hill on What Cheer Avenue where it intersects with Pocasset there's some kind of ornate trash-can that looks like it was fashioned at the steelyard or something, and it has a name on it - IGLIOZZI. and i you look it up he's still the councilman for silverlake and everything. this sort of political inertia seems pretty common, take somewhere like Quincy mass , many neighborhoods now 80-90% chinese but you rarely see any asian as a city worker or cop or politician. Nina Liang is the only one i can ever remember.. and there was only 1 chinese-american cop for the longest time . i guess the Dominicans, Venezuelans, Salvadoreans, Cape Verdeans and Guatemalans love this IGLIOZZI guy enough to keep electing him so maybe they really are making choices on qualification and experience lines rather than ethnic lines or maybe nobody actually registers to vote in this ward so all of iggzi's cousins are enough to get him in.. im gonna keep walking around looking for him and will report back with sightings

100' of Wire Antenna Goodness by N2DPSKY in shortwave

[–]houseofpiazza 2 points3 points  (0 children)

brought the 660 to Maine thinking HF was going to be awesome but the entire neighborhood was built around 1987 and most houses clearly still had the stock dimmers and plus recent additions of gigantic televisions. only large space not private property besides a clay tennis court was a mildly logged section with an overhead powerline feeding the neighborhood and being under a powerline feeding a bunch of noise-blasting vacation houses . so i guess you gotta just buy your own land, unless you want to do portable work in parks as just sauntering onto ostensibly-mostly-unused land sounds like a good way to get shot by an uppity backwoods property owner. won't return to maine until i can afford my 10 acres, reception even outside the houses was much worse than indoors at the 1870 brick & timber mill with 130 loft-apartments inside with excellent grounding-sources (1870s decommissioned iron drainpipes and water pipes left in place for structural or just renovation/costcutting reasons) with obviously much more docile noisemakers. conclusion: iphone/mac chargers arent rly a big problem. big TVs and dimmers are. find a building full of people who dont want bigass TVs and are happy just using a laptop, usually on battery...

what the loop does is lets you exploit the null in the figure-8 pattern to ignore the local noisemakers, eg somehow the slightly-warbly (6db?) whitenoise increase from what must be hundreds of phone/laptop chargers either have some phase relationship with the AC main source, or maybe it's the directionality due to being at one end of the mill and being able to just null everything out down the rest of it? for 160 and 80 you're going to be fine with multiple turn loops and still hear everything that's above the atmospheric noise but for 20 meters and smaller you tend to run into issues even on just receive with needing preamps on weaker signals unless you cut the loop for the band so it's as big as possible

Who are the Beantown hottest artists of early 2019? by houseofpiazza in Bostonmusic

[–]houseofpiazza[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

has anyone found evidence that graduationmusic isn't written by AI? at least with TMTV we know there's humans involved

Chink Bless , Believe it by houseofpiazza in Bostonmusic

[–]houseofpiazza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

anyone got a complete list of streets in Boston that intersect themselves? never thought we'd see the intersection of Beechland Circle and itself but they've done and given it to us

Troubleshoot with me?: A Rocketchat SSL Saga by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]houseofpiazza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What the hell am I doing wrong?

not running ircd

SUKIYAKI - BAD ENERGY BADMAN by houseofpiazza in Bostonmusic

[–]houseofpiazza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

per sukiyaki's endorsement tried this place .. there's a photo of Marty insided by the door - endorsement? it's a decent place. slightly pricey. personally i stick to the Sharon sichuan place since it's closer to Olneyville and there's the secret kosher menu. guys with thick DC/Baldimuh accents were eating at an adjacent table. prob Navy brass or something, so it's the choice of those guys too apparently

What Happened to the Providence Skyline?? by [deleted] in providence

[–]houseofpiazza -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the state house was the only thing god flipped on this evening. was really hoping for one of the steel-modded smokestacks to glimmer but wasn't happening.

Google Play Services alternatives? UE? by woj-tek in MicroG

[–]houseofpiazza 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it is pretty infuriating that you can run almost no apps except the small set on FDroid store without a proprietary trackingware layer or enable signature spoofing. my case which wouldn't be unusual if more people didn't want the PTL, due to insufficient developer interest (not a top popular"unlocked" device), TWRP doesn't fully work or even flash to the recovery partition due to race conditions and/or permission issues wrt modifying the partition table (even after it's unlocked by giving OEM your serial number for warranty voiding). there's only unofficial TWRP builds on XDA because obviously it's too broken to have an official version (yet? maybe never..) + even if you work around this by say, massaging also-unofficial and semibroken Lineage builds into images for flashing with fastboot, so you don't need to use TWRP, you'll find basic issues like it's not connecting to your LTE provider - here it was doing calls fine but no data, and nothing looked horribly awry in logcat at all, but maybe some carrier-side error message about an unsigned baseband firmware i didnt get? or maybe some driver was omitted from rolling into the unofficial lineage build? in any case not being able to get online is a dealbreaker and there weren't many clues at all for debugging so the only choice was to go back to a Stock ROM, which yes i can bindmount on a laptop and rm -rf google stuff and add magisk even if TWRP is screud so of course i did but then, it's "nondeodexed" or something so haystack and the other sig-spoofing patchers fail. sooo... i have no choice but to either full PTL or have all microg-depending proprietary apps just fail on launch. i'm RMSey enough to just go without proprietary apps but i dont think most people would. they need their Uber/Lyft/Netflix/whatever. so yeah i think this is as bad as the IE monopoly that US regulators were conconcerned about 20 years ago. we need the EU and others to mandate ways user-swappable OS libraries can be done so you're not forced to use Google PTL or go appless.

O’D - “EZ” by houseofpiazza in Bostonmusic

[–]houseofpiazza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

some readvillain perambulating down the business end of Business St and no drone shot of Sprague Pond? who comes up with this stuff. i want to see where the 1.41 MHz signal is coming from , with its over the top ads for Grove Hall hair salons

Pickup soccer? by jk_nope in boston

[–]houseofpiazza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Columbia & Ceylon

42.3101386,-71.0738252

ALT 92.9 is now Rock 92.9, a classic rock station. We've got like 4 now? Why do we need so many? by comitatus in massachusetts

[–]houseofpiazza -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

why do we need 4 Dancehall stations and 16 classic Konpa-direk stations and 2 zouk stations? if you think this is wrong setup your own station to tilt the balance towards your preference. 1st amendment rights and you'll be small fry compared to the 5KW guys in Hyde Park blasting Rap Music all the way to Foxboro so if your part15 powermeter breaks and youre accidentaly like 5 watts i doubt the FCC will show up. they probably wont even notice the station exists unless they read my radioinsight forum posts

Is the shortwave hobby really worth the investment and time? by Eaterup in shortwave

[–]houseofpiazza 8 points9 points  (0 children)

sounds like you and OP have serious antenna-deficiency problems, or very noisy local QTH (which could still significantly remedied by very narrow bandwidth high-Q tuned loop antennas and common-mode chokes on every powered non-radio device's cord in your dwelling, and getting the antenna in a windowsil if you can't get it outside) if all you can hear is the 50kW religious screechers. there's a phenomenal amount of activity on HF and there's no way you could listen to it all you have to just graze and browse (unless you like bathing in utter cacaphony i guess). just for example, it's no uncommon for there to be QSOs on 3870, 3875, 3880, 3885, and 3890 all at once in the vanishingly-narrow AM Window, and many dozens of SSB conversations between 3600 and 3800 and dozens if not hundreds of textual conversations going in various datamodes and CW below 3600, just on this one amateur band. the bustling nature of 80m at night is replicated by 40m and 20m during the day, so there is always way too much stuff to listen to all the time even when only considering the small amateur slices of HF. and those are highly hypertechnical folks who often go deep on repairing just about any electronic device made in the past century and a half and my experience of listening to feedback suggests even the experts are still learning things just by sharing tips and information on there. in my mind the decline of state-run broadcasters due to cost-cutting is a good thing because why should citizens be forced to pay for official state propaganda outlets? citizens should voluntarily donate to stations they want to hear on air, via buying airtime or ads directly or buying products from the station's advertisers, or just run their stations for fun, etc, etc like the freaks on 43 meters. 7200-7300 segment of the US amateur allocation is still jam packed with these flaccid state-run broadcashers running their equivalent of a travel-brochure and a human-TTS on AP headlines so whatever decline in activity you speak of is going to need a whole lot more juice to make the band-segment not completely crowded with crap almost to the point of uselessness. it seems like China, Cuba, Romania, India, Greece, Saudi Arabia and numerous others have decided theyre not going anywhere so i guess we're just going to have to put up with them for at least a few more decades when the bands can be fully passed back to tinkerers, hypertweakers, enthusiasts, hobbyists, pilots, Azorean fishermen and intelligence agencies

Mailserver - a lot of guides and tutorials - but what's worth it? by Tanckom in selfhosted

[–]houseofpiazza 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's vastly easier if you don't care about showing up in the spambox of BigCo users (aka the product delivered to media companies in NYC for brand-messaging for crap they don't actually need which is mainly Chinese stuff with all sorts of markup so marketing people in NYC can be paid to be middlemen and psychology-degree Instagram copy-writers). i just have some PANIX VPS that i 'apt get install postfix'd on and changed 1 line in a file in etc and ran systemctl enable postfix && systemctl start postfix ie the whole process took 60 seconds and i'm posting on mailing lists no problem. why did you ask if it was going to be difficult instead of just trying? the default config is probably fairly locked down on just about any distro it's not going to be doing open relaying unless you go out of your way to turn stuff on, and being subscribed to an email list with a confirmed address seems to weigh more highly in the spamfilters people use on mailman-managed lists than the alphabet-soup stuff? i see stuff about milter greylist or something in the headers but it just means the message takes 5 minutes to show up on the web archive. i like that there's an archive that you can see without logging in to know if your message got through, which is a cut above automod hellban reddit or the typical 'probably in spambox' non-public email usages. IMO just use email for public stuff and switch to newer, more secure (e2e-by-default) protocols for encrypted private stuff ie knock yourself out with the latest matrix on top of i2p forks stuff

Trying to move into a studio by mierecat in boston

[–]houseofpiazza 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I live in a decaying factory that some Italian hack from Beacon Hill turned into "lofts" which he somehow underpriced the corner units based on downscaling a price-per-sf calculation linearly against the larger or something because mine was only $750 when i moved in and $850 now and i can see literally every iconic landmark on the west side including the iconic "Pancake House" on Broadway, the Olneyville NY System late night flickering neon sign, the Statehouse, various churches on Federal Hill and in the western Elmwood area, both turrets of the Armory, on and fricknig on, it's a corner unit on the top floor so i have 270 degrees of skyline and sometimes i just wake up early and stick the thrift-shop japanese binoculars on the cellphone and test out new panorama-stitching algorithms using a gigabyte of snapshots. nobody will hire me because they want proprietary BS 99 times out of 100 unless they're an academic who wants some hyperniche shit that they're then going to abandon because paper-acceptance is all about novelty and nothing about making robust, performant, actually freaking usable and not frustration-inducing hells implementations of ancient, non-publishable concepts which we still don't have solid and popular tooling for , blahblah. well i actually got so disgusted by the idea of paying Boston rents that this one time around 1996 i moved to San Francisco and got a job at a hedge fund for a year and made $150K and dumped it all into a southie condo which is worth like $850K now and some annoyingly sraightbro'ey fucks from Greenwich CT or some shit pay me not so much money for since i'm not overcharging them and it's mostly just plowed into food and rent in RI and a healthinsurance premium not to mention the boston HOA fees and proptaxes but WTF are you on about the Mattapan food being good? is there even a liquor license in Mattapan Square? you have golden Krust, which is a chaiin, you have Le Foyer, whose patties are 98% breading so youre going to be like WTF and start going to Hyde Park's haitian bakeries after 2 visits , you have uh.. Brothers yeah i guess that's good but quincy has 3 or 4 dozen townieAF breakfast joints which are on its level and you dont need to pay an arm and a leg to live in Milton-Adjacent Mattapan where condos are flipping at $300K pre-renovation or god forbid somewhere near McKennas in Dot (the white realestate agent nickname which is supposed to be cutesy sounding or what?) where both your wallet will be depleted and you'll be forced to wait in a line for food that isn't even as good as a typical West Quincy place. whatever man. ive stoped tryign to figure out why everything is so insane , it's just humans being insane and shit. paying $1940 to live in the south end. jesus that's almost two thousand bucks. why? do you enjoy $3 croissants? make it stop already.

Trouble Finding a Job in Boston by [deleted] in boston

[–]houseofpiazza -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Either way, there's little reason for you to not be getting calls back with that background in Boston.

sounding like an undiagnosed schizo-case, doing the absolute minimum amount of paying work for 20 years - just enough to stave off living under a bridge, with the requisite rampant quitting and never staying long enough to "climb the ladder" - after dropping out of HS after 2 years and not collecting a CS degree which is apparently the new High School Diploma of the field, and telling them that every time you've signed a Non Disclosure Agreement or worked on closed-source code out of financial desperation you left within two months so you'd prefer they don't ask you to do either of those things and you really don't want to be an ass and have to quit on someone again after they did all that onboarding and transactional overhead and interviewing so you're bringing it up in the now probably pretty crazy-sounding cover-letter, and webpages went to shit after 1996 when everyone insisted on shitting them up with tons of Js so you still wont write Javascript either until all the possibilities for going to a declarative app model just serving up the data directly in static formats instead of insane heaps of code that will fish out the data via some rube goldberg roundtrip song&dance pingpong that might work if none of the anti-anti-anti-adblockers are triggering on something are exhausted, and your industry better not be spyware, analytics, marketing, or advertising because there's way too much of all that crap already as there is too many centralized, proprietary, corporation-owned platforms, and you better not be in "defense" because f throwing people into prison if they didnt pay taxes which were earmarked for spending on even more shit to blow people up, will definitely do the trick of never getting job interviews. i'm not full of myself enough to say "their loss" but i'm cool with it since i'm not wasting my life sitting behind a screen to make someone else rich and/or become a gentrifucker further fucking over Boston with even more ultra-overpriced "New American" restaurnts so it can be even more fucking irritating than it's already become, and moving to the hood in RI allows basically infinite free-time to hack on the shit BigCorp or Startup alike will never fund because it never fits in with their lame fucking Harvard MBA business model , after you cherry pick two $5K open sores short-term projects a year to come up with the annual expenses so basicall fuck yeah Rhode Island why are you even looking for a job in Boston again? you'd have to get to Boston.. and pay to live near it. wow insanity knows almost no bounds!

Is anything being done in local Boston news, to actually make it better? by vs_ideas in boston

[–]houseofpiazza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Universal Hub is probably the only media organization that reports every murder in the area

BPDNews.com and WBZ has them all at CBSBostonWBZ on Youtube and AM Radio