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@astraluma @eclectic oh also https://nickyflowers.bandcamp.com and https://borealnetwork.net/

@astraluma @eclectic a few more:

https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/ (Lena Raine)
https://spiders.bandcamp.com/ (@cq)
https://matchbook.bandcamp.com/
and someday https://electrickeet.bandcamp.com/ will maybe have something on it @ElectricKeet

I finished Regular Show tonight. OMG that ending...

having one of those days where i'm barely capable of doing anything including feeding myself ugh

I'm finally on season 8 of Regular Show, and it's a bit funny how the episodes where they're in outer space are some of the most grounded stories in the whole series.

@zorinlynx last june it made me just constantly on edge http://beesbuzz.biz/comics/journal/7140-Seattle-2020

There's an arborist taking down a tree a couple houses over and Fiona is watching with great intensity. Every time a branch comes off she gets really excited.

I mean one of the things I want to do is start building my own custom cabinets and when I do that I can make something better-suited than what I have now

@porsupah yes, constantly

ugh my living room is still such a disaster Sokoban game. I have no idea where to put my gigantic collection of vidya games, and I'm having trouble finding better furniture for organizing it than what I have. Makes me wonder if I really need to have all these games at the ready anyway, maybe they should go into the basement like my CDs and DVDs all did. What good does it do to have my entire game collection on display?

I mean I guess it's fun to peruse it especially when folks come over, idk

@porsupah yeah, although in this case my bot was actually running into the bot detection, somehow, despite only making one lightweight request per hour. Hopefully switching to the official API fixes it for good.

okay, switching to the YouTube data API wasn't that bad and it turns out they give you like 100 requests per day for free. The developer docs fucking suck though, especially when it comes to using an API key instead of oauth.

oh wait looking further into my logs it looks like YouTUbe has actually actively detected "unusual activity" from my bot... which, y'know, makes one request per hour. Oy.

Oh, huh, turns out YouTube's been having lots of outages where it responds 429 to everyone. https://piunikaweb.com/2021/04/26/youtube-down-and-not-working-for-many-server-throwing-error-429/ Guess there's not a lot I can do about that except continue with the current failure mode of just not providing a video if none comes up.

So it turns out that the overnight gaps in @lofibeats's YouTube thing is YouTube going into HTTP 429 mode. Presumably the problem is other machines from my VPS provider hammering the APIs, because I can't see my one-request-per-hour causing any rate-limiting problems!

Maybe I should look into using the proper search API, just to be a better neighbor. Google charges money for that though. :(

Windows: the “I can’t reboot because this thing is asking if you want to reboot” operating system