Milkdrop is still one of the best 2D visualisers in my opinion. The version running on the site is a port to JS called butterchurn, but has much better resolution and FPS than the original
The overall feel is halfway between good & great: Push the output to a CRT & it feels like something that would've been on a well-crafted BBS back in the 90s.
Font size needs to be made adjustable though, IMO. Each character's taking up too much space for my own liking.
I mean you have to be able to do history manipulation if you want to have history to any meaningful changes you do via JS on a page (and you should make sure to adjust the URL as well so people can go back to that information).
But I agree, it should not be possible to prevent users from leaving back from the site.
You can easily spam the browser history using a redirect slide, effectively preventing users from leaving the page. No need for any JS, works even with active ad blockers. It’s relatively common on malicious sites.
Many media do this these days, it's become an industry standard.
And to be fair I do get the point why they are doing that, good journalism has to be financed somehow lest you end up with a situation like in Austria where corruption scandals involving government-paid ads wrecking the entire political establishment and media elites of the country [1].
another bug report:
in chat, after somebody changes their nickname and you try to use tab completion on their name, it will use the original nickname for completion
agree this is a huge need. I stream a few hours a week and it's so much more _fun_ with good music. If anyone has a source for good, safe instrumental background music to use on-stream, I'm all ears.
I'd never heard Orson Welles' radio play "War of the Worlds" [1] before.
Just spent the last 40 minutes or so listening to the whole thing on this website. Only at the intermission does it become obvious that this is a radio drama.
That was really good, and I can only imagine it was incredible back in 1938.
edit: I just went back to the site and it appears to be gone!
edit 2: It's on YouTube, but Rekt's radio dropped me right into the action (~16:30). It felt much more real without the backstory or scene setting. A good way to experience it.
If you want to stick with Cloudflare, you can ease the pain by going into your zone -> Security -> Settings. Disabling Browser Integrity Check and adjusting "Security Level" down to "Essentially Off" should help.
Why not? Most of the complaints people have with Cloudflare regarding CAPTCHAs and user-hostile behavior are opt-in features that are not enabled by default. A website behind Cloudflare needs to enable extra protection to opt into the CAPTCHAs.
If your issue is more generally with a single provider becoming a global MITM for 10% of the internet, then that's a more understandable argument, albeit a meaninglessly existential one.
Cloudflare has made demonstrable efforts to accommodate Tor users, and I've personally noticed a reduction in the number of CAPTCHAs I encounter while browsing Cloudflare sites with Tor. They were definitely not required to do this, especially considering that sites like Google give Tor users unsolvable CAPTCHAs or block them altogether. And yet they did, which I took as a gesture of good faith.
Some sites are still annoying to browse with Tor, but it's only those that opted into the strictest security settings with their Cloudflare plan. In my experience, the default Cloudflare behavior is not any more unfriendly to Tor than it is to any VPN (which is not too unfriendly, for the most part).
I do agree with you that the global MITM is a huge problem for privacy and access to information. I'm just pointing out that Cloudflare has made some good-faith effort to reduce the friction encountered by Tor users. If I had to choose an operator of such a global MITM, Cloudflare might be the least bad choice.
Yeah, as annoying as the CAPTCHAs are, at least Cloudflare is aware of and acknowledges the problem, and is actively working on solutions like Privacy Pass. Much more than can be said for many other services that block Tor.
I'm locked out of so many sites, I loathe it. Cost of rolling in an everything blocker Firefox.
At least it helps me find good old-fashioned text based websites.
Never encountered it once in thirteen years of using CloudFlare. If it did happen to me eventually as a one-off freak occurrence, that's a temporary fringe event.
If it is happening to the commenter continually throughout CF's network then I'd say that's probably their problem. Frequent or consistent? Well, it's probably the user.
I have this problem, happens for perplexity.ai too for example... I never had issue until two months ago, and now I'm locked out of some quite interesting websites
Note that this behavior is not enabled by default. Websites behind Cloudflare need to opt into it, and they can choose which security level they use (with higher levels necessitating more CAPTCHAs).
Also, as someone who browses 100% of the time with a VPN, I hardly ever encounter Cloudflare CAPTCHAs. I've also been encountering less of them when using Tor; it seems Cloudflare has made progress in their efforts to reduce friction for Tor users. On the other hand, Google search frequently doesn't work at all - it refuses to serve me search results and doesn't even offer me the chance to solve a CATPCHA.
Oh man, would be a no-go for rekt I think. Perhaps with Nightride.FM
Bluetooth comms should work with any smartphone though, but definitely works easier on androids
someone mentioned nightride.fm the other day (yesterday?) on another thread as a comment and now this pops up. sometimes I wonder if bots read HN and submit related stories/topics.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 222 ms ] threadThanks for the trip down memory lane with a shiny new paint job.
Font size needs to be made adjustable though, IMO. Each character's taking up too much space for my own liking.
But I agree, it should not be possible to prevent users from leaving back from the site.
And to be fair I do get the point why they are doing that, good journalism has to be financed somehow lest you end up with a situation like in Austria where corruption scandals involving government-paid ads wrecking the entire political establishment and media elites of the country [1].
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96VP-Korruptionsaff%C3%A4r...
lol
I do agree though, on a more general level: it does take money to produce those articles, authors gotta get paid.
However, IMHO, not at any cost.
Rekt is some versions behind the nightride.fm version of the site
New York station mixes live police radio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAY_Radio
For anyone else wondering what slay radio is.
Hopefully it doesn't hoard CPU as lofi.cafe did.
I wonder what the relationship is. Rekt has all identifying, and social relations removed. Although it exists for longer than the other.
Edit: further investigation reveals that they use the same resources in the background, same radio, same songs at the same time. I really wonder why.
Edit: There's also the free-with-ads, or paid subscription option, of digitally imported (Di.FM)
[0] https://radio.garden
Fun fact: I found SomaFM through Kali Linux. Of all things!
Just spent the last 40 minutes or so listening to the whole thing on this website. Only at the intermission does it become obvious that this is a radio drama.
That was really good, and I can only imagine it was incredible back in 1938.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_ra...
edit: I just went back to the site and it appears to be gone!
edit 2: It's on YouTube, but Rekt's radio dropped me right into the action (~16:30). It felt much more real without the backstory or scene setting. A good way to experience it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g
If your issue is more generally with a single provider becoming a global MITM for 10% of the internet, then that's a more understandable argument, albeit a meaninglessly existential one.
But, importantly, Cloudflare is also very hostile to Tor. A number of people in the world rely on it for their security and safety.
Some sites are still annoying to browse with Tor, but it's only those that opted into the strictest security settings with their Cloudflare plan. In my experience, the default Cloudflare behavior is not any more unfriendly to Tor than it is to any VPN (which is not too unfriendly, for the most part).
I do agree with you that the global MITM is a huge problem for privacy and access to information. I'm just pointing out that Cloudflare has made some good-faith effort to reduce the friction encountered by Tor users. If I had to choose an operator of such a global MITM, Cloudflare might be the least bad choice.
What they did is too little and, especially, too late. They could have very easily disabled the blocking and yet they are still doing it.
Besides, you claim that it's done in good faith without backing that claim with evidence.
> If I had to choose an operator of such a global MITM, Cloudflare might be the least bad choice.
"could be worse" does not make something acceptable.
Everyone is a fringe case eventually. Even you.
If it is happening to the commenter continually throughout CF's network then I'd say that's probably their problem. Frequent or consistent? Well, it's probably the user.
Defending Firefox and adblock as a fringe case worthy of dismissal is a sad reflection of the current state of the internet.
VPN usage seems to be a common one as it's often shared with people who abuse it to attack others.
Also, as someone who browses 100% of the time with a VPN, I hardly ever encounter Cloudflare CAPTCHAs. I've also been encountering less of them when using Tor; it seems Cloudflare has made progress in their efforts to reduce friction for Tor users. On the other hand, Google search frequently doesn't work at all - it refuses to serve me search results and doesn't even offer me the chance to solve a CATPCHA.
https://www.youtube.com/@rektnews
and music too:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Iv22H82gHx5Uyfb9tnlCp?si=3df...
I had nightride open for month and then the flickering crashed my Dell Monitor :joy:
I rebooted it via hard reset and opened nightride again, but I made sure to stop the flickering. :joy: