Christopher

I am…

  • 👽 Owner and operator of the grey.fail ecosystem.
  • ✋ Based in Grand Rapids.
  • 🔥 Bad at computers.

I like…

  • ✅ #python
  • ✅ #docker
  • ✅ #LiminalSpace
  • ✅ #linux
  • ✅ #BlackCats
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  • 55 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
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Cake day: January 6th, 2025

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  • Man, there were so many better names for that team. As I understand it, the Knights name came from the parent holding company that owned the team originally. Uninspired. Tacky.

    And while, yes, the “V” silhouette is “clever,” the logo is of a hoplite helmet?

    Personally, I thought Vegas should have leaned into the weirdness and gone with the area-51-adjacent “Greys”. Though, I believe sport team themes in general should be strange, whimsical, or fun. Everyone’s trying to be so tough.














  • Not a bad recommendation, but I disagree.

    Rocket chat is just as heavy (in fact, it federates to Matrix), uses MongoDB, and has steadily pulled features behind a paywall for years. To me, if I’m hosting the service on my own machines and I’m not using their live support, the idea of paying for the privilege of using it is absurd.

    Matrix has come a long way, including integrated voice and video chats.




  • Man, this kind of sucks.

    I wrote a nifty script a few years ago that pulls the popularity metric of a song, converts that to a star rating, and writes that to a tag with Mutagen. At a glance I can see the hits. If I like the track, I’ll “love” it (side stepping the need for a personal rating). It’s a system that’s been serving me well for a long time.

    Locking down APIs does seem to be the trend. I’m not sure I’ll look to adapt.

    Giving money to Spotify is out of the question, but I may pay for Deezer or something.






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