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   2019-03-06                                   /        \/        \/    /   \
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   This   past  Wednesday  I  got   to   see  /        _/         /         /
Deafheaven  live  again,  my third  time.  I  \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_
kinda wasn't feeling it at first, I was in a    /        \/        \/    /   \
mood (when am I not?) and their new album is   /        _/         /_       _/
not really sitting  well with me, I dunno. I  /-        /        _/         /
can't really  say I don't like it,  I'd just  \________/\________/\___/____/
rather listen to anything else they've  done
I guess. It took me a while to spin up but then they announced a new song that
would premiere on streaming services later that night, and that this  show was
the  first time they were playing it live and I got so hype.  Dani very kindly
held the LP I bought and  I  threw myself into the mess in front of the stage,
it was extremely cathartic. Ended up being not too bad a show, some new stuff,
some "hits" - I  was  telling  Danielle, every time I see them live  it really
cements Sunbather as my favorite album, it's so perfect.

   Aside from  that  the tilde.tel  pilot is now live  and pretty lively, some
teething issues and a lot of learning but things are going  much better than I
ever  could  have  dreamt. Got  around  18  users,  excluding  me,  a  working
conference and voicemail, Tildeverse Radio  piping to  music on  hold, all the
good shit. Cobbled together a phone book and FAQ  on  the website  and  gopher
space and  the #tildetel channel  on tilde.chat is pretty lively  too, a  good
community bolting on some pretty interesting stuff.

   Ironing out kinks and squashing bugs aside I'm kinda at  a loss where to go
from  here,  there's a  few things  I want to try  to  build  but they're  big
projects and  I dunno  if I  have  the orgone  for something like  that at the
moment, there's a bunch of other big unfinished things that I should  probably
be doing instead.

   One thing that was  suggested by  one of the ~tel  users is  to open up the
.confs,  via git or  whatever, to users to edit.  I probably couldn't  do that
with  everything because there's some sensitive info in there and even opening
up extensions.conf means  I  can't easily  sneak  in  anything  fun  but I was
thinking of maybe allocating a  block of  extensions that users  can just hack
on,  and putting that  file on  git  somewhere to just  let  anyone contribute
whatever silly thing they'd like. Thoughts? Ideas?



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