This trad metal album I bought recently is great. Just some fun straight-up oldschool metal. Been enjoying the hell out of it.
And this is a terrific oldschool style thrash album:
And this is a terrific classic style death metal album:
I like plenty of modern metal, too, but I love that bands are still putting out stuff like this.
While I'm on the subject of heavy metal: Encyclopaedia Metallum is an absolute treasure. It's a shockingly comprehensive database of detailed info about just about every metal band ever, their discographies, review, info about their members, etc etc. Over 100,000 bands, entirely independent & not for profit.
It's a relic of the golden age of the Internet, when it was a comfortable home for fanatical devotees to fly their freak flags, before the Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Twitichification of everything. It'd probably fail horribly if it was launched in 2021.
Another lost treasure of the internet is the sci.electronics.repair FAQ.
http://www.walshcomptech.com/repairfaq/REPAIR/F_tshoot.html
Just look at this goddamn thing. Thousands and thousands of words, chock-full of battle tested wisdom, enough to help anyone with some motivation solve their problems. Zero monetization, zero bullshit. What ever happened to that Internet? I sure do miss it.
@ieure every once in a while when I take leave of my senses I think about writing an NNTP interface to Reddit, and then categorizing subreddits I to newsgroups.
Then sanity returns and I move on with a "What the hell was I thinking..."
Maybe some day.
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@RoyGreenhilt
well LMI was crazy enough to build gmane :)
@bonifartius @ieure fair! But he also wrote it while NNTP was still something people were tinkering with. It was going downhill to be sure, but was still around...
I actually looked into NNTP a bit when I first had this cockamamie idea. ITS A MESS. Long before XML or YAML or any form of data encapsulation. Email to NNTP is a cinch in that context.
Oh god, if we talk about it too much, IT MIGHT HAPPEN.