Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 41

It's becoming more and more common that I can't search-fetch a post. Reposting it from another place brings it here and then I can search and find it.

I'm guessing this is because more sites are enabling authorized fetch and Friendica hasn't yet implemented it ... for search specifically? Otherwise I shouldn't get the reposts either?

Not pushing anyone to do anything, it's not a weird corner case, I'm sure the relevant people are aware and it's in the backlog, and a fix will arrive in due time.

@C++ Guy I know Dua Lipa because she was on Barbie. I know Billie Eilish because kid liked one of her songs and because people made parody memes.

Ava Max was in Barbie too (and so was Eilish, but I had already heard her), but she wasn't on this top list.

They're all great, and I've listened to them more since, but I wouldn't have known of them if they didn't reach me in some incidental way.

Taylor Swift is everywhere and impossible to have not heard about. She's even in the news, because men older than me aggressively don't like her for angry old man reasons.

But what I listen to most is Queen, Mike Oldfield and Daft Punk.

I understand why, Roomie is in the music industry and as a youtuber he is even more in the business of knowing what's hot and commenting on it, whereas I'm your typical "stopped listening to new music after college unless a song really forces itself into the zeitgeist", but it's still amazing to me that I have heard less than maybe 25 of these top 100 streamed songs before, and several of the top artists are complete blanks to me, but he has heard 99 of the songs, relates them to other works by the same artist, accurately predicts which artists will show up again closer to the top etc.

Such different bubbles! He's Swedish, but he's also ten years younger than me, but that's likely not what really puts us apart, it's our interests and especially his professional interest.

RoomieOfficial: "Top 100 MOST STREAMED Songs of All Time (Updated 2024)" (21:46)

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=Z1saPUw-PL…

@gunnar Once the soil is stripped of vegetation, it becomes hard and dry, and rain water washes away rather than going into the soil. It's a vicious cycle, but removing the hard, dry layer, building structures that keep water from escaping and adding vegetation that protects the soil, all that together breaks the cycle.

Plants retain water and the soil retains water -- these are plants that have grown in the area for thousands of years and can handle the dry spells, but only if the whole supportive structure is in place.

@Kermode Thanks, it's helpful to see the less rose-tainted view.

It sounds like they have some problem with vandalism and wild animals, but mostly what they're doing really works, they need to do four times as much of it, and the main problem is funding.

"Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of Africa that is harvesting rainwater, increasing food security, and rehabilitating the ecosystem."

"How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL…

#senegal #mauretania #desertification
#sahara #sahel
#UNFP #GreatGreenWall
How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL…

"For the people who built it, for the people who release it, and for the furries who keep all of our clusters online, we present to you Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes, the cutest release to date."

Love to see some furry sysadmin recognition.

stackovercloud.com/2024/04/18/…

Person: *spouts nonsense*
Everyone in the forum: So, you hold this ridicilous position that we all perceive you as holding?
Person: *spots nonsense attempting to explain their actual position*
Everyone: Ok, but that's what you already said, but now with more detail it sounds even worse.
Person: All the people of this place are people of subpar intelligence and reading comprehension skills who cannot see the brilliant point I'm making.

Yeah I'm guiding myself away from there. I have sleep to do.

@FiXato He has worked with or remixed so many people!

(side note: BoyInABand turned out to have done some really seedy stuff and several collabs have taken down their videos they made together with him ... real milkshake duck moment 😬)

The first thing I watched from the last few years of RoomieOfficial was this analysis of "Surface Pressure" from "Encanto".

I must admit that this song has passed me by a bit, because the movie is just so overwhelming and full of bangers and *that context* makes it seem comparatively less sensational.

Roomie's analysis has made me realize that there are many little glorious details in the composition, lyrics and performance that I should have been paying attention to. I will be listening to the song with renewed interest and a deeper appreciation from now on.

"SONGWRITER Reacts to "Surface Pressure" (From "Encanto")"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=QtpQuNG4Vw…

Tonight I saw the lovely Making-Of-video of that song, and that's what made me look him up again:

"The Making of "Good Person" (BTS w/ TheOdd1sOut)"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=6H9IrDn5jG…

He also made "Good Person" together with TheOdd1sOut:

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=MT-Xe-5qpR…

I first knew of him because he made the asdfmovie remix muffin time song:

(muffin suicide mention, other bloody jokes and violent stickfigure visuals)

Roomie: "It's Muffin Time! (Song with samples from asdfmovie8)"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=cGzujGfXrl…

#RoomieOfficial is a Swedish singer (amazing), songwriter (amazing), producer (amazing) etc who is also a youtuber.

I learned of him quite a while back and looked up his channel, and his latest video then was like hey everyone I've been making a video a day for years and it's time for a break ... put up just a few days before I looked him up!

So I didn't follow him back then, but now I found him again and he is definitely active and pumping out videos, but not daily this time around. Still, there's more in there than I'll ever find the time to watch in full.