It shouldn't be surprising to see people who know Venetian Snares on here!

If you're up for it, trade a music rec?

Try:

Scorpion Mother - Thief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A3113EQvLg

I found Venetian Snares last year and one of their songs made my year-in-review: https://wonger.dev/posts/2025#music

Certain Indian music and metal seems to scratch a similar itch for me. And of course orchestra and drum n bass.

huh that's some pretty decent gothy noises

From the names mentioned in the most recent blog post, they left late 2022.

They won't adopt Acme, as once a customer adopts it, the effort to transition to a new (free) provider is almost zero.

I expect they will introduce new, "more secure", proprietary methods, and ride the vendor lock-in until the paid certificate industries death.

Free providers have limits and this new time limitation will also play into that as there will be many more certificates to renew.

Large companies will keep on using paid providers also for business continuity in case free provider will fail. Also I don’t know what kind of SLA you have on let’s encrypt.

It is more complicated than „oh it is free let’s move on”.

Most every modern "big company" I have worked for is leveraging LetsEncrypt in some capacity where appropriate; some definitely more than others. I don't think you're completely wrong but I also think you're being a bit dismissive.

I find it quite interesting; there seems to be a set of AI enthusiasts who heavily offload thinking onto the LLM. There has to be difference in how they function, as I find as soon as I drift into letting the LLM think for me, productivity plummets.

> Linux lags behind in many areas that matter to me in functionality, performance

I'd be interested to know about the gaps you see? I miss desktop excel, but not a whole lot else.

Ignore all that, people get a wee bit enthusiastic.

I'm on arch, the steps to get playing are:

- Install Steam

- Install Helldivers2

- Launch game

(I just downloaded and launched to confirm!)

Truly, you need to spend time with literally anyone other than the people you currently engage with.

If you object to HN you didn't have to create an account. And I still reckon even a sycophantic AI would still have managed more empathy in its response. They tend to be a bit wordy and attempt to actually engage with the substance of what people say too.

> If you object to HN

They didn't even mention HN. Are you saying the people you associate with are just on HN?

Don't spend all your time on HN or weigh your opinions of humanity on it. People on here are probably the least representative of social society. That's not rejecting it, that's just common sense.

They barely maintain Azure pipeline tasks / actions as well.

We had a critical outage because they deprecated Windows 2019 agents a month earlier than scheduled. MS support had the gall to both blame us for not migrating sooner, and refuse to escalate for 36 hours!

What? No they didn't. They extended the deprecation timeline for Windows 2019 agents from the original EOL date of 30 June 2025 to 31 December 2025; with a well-published brownout period from 2 December to 9 December in addition to the original brownout period from 3 June to 24 June.

The initial banners and warning emails about it went out well ahead of the original EOL timeline; and again as the extended EOL drew close.

If you were caught off guard by the brownout period, it's your devops team that's to blame, not Microsoft; and Microsoft was absolutely right to blame you for not migrating sooner. They gave you an extra 6 months to do it because you should have had all this done back in the first half of the year.

(If you want to blame Microsoft for anything here, blame them for not having a comprehensive tool to identify all your windows-2019 pipelines and instead just relying on "just go look at the latest pipeline runs page and hope everything's run recently enough to be on that".)

Gosh, there was a website, where you submit a PSD + payment, and they spit out a sliced design. Initially tables, later, CSS. Life saver.

Y Combinator funded one such company, MarkupWand.[1] A friend is one of the co-founders.

1. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/markupwand

I recently discovered Scorptec has a "total spend" under Account => Order History. Horrifying! Ublock to the rescue, ##.total-amount.card-title.