⚪ the lynne creacher @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space

when you can hear the piano keys being pressed

sit down comedy

ahh time to log on to mastodon for the first time in two days, i wonder what's

ah

i rebooted my server and (eventually) noticed that fedi.lynnesbian.space's webUI was returning 404 on everything

from that, i found out that my ruby installation was rather catastrophically broken and was only working through chance, with several hundreds of obscure bundler errors about mismatched gem versions

none of that was even the issue though, the issue was just that something else was using the port that mastodon-web wanted ​

@half_cambodian_hacker_man oh god oh fuck

@snailerotica yeah i think the only practical way to go about this is a decentralised approach

trying to store an index of The Whole Internet on one server doesn't sound possible to anyone besides the five companies that currently do it

@carbontwelve a search engine that only searches the content you provide it is something that's done before i think

but something that replaces google/ddg/bing and indexes the "whole" internet is much, much harder to do

i've been looking for self-hosted search engines, because i think the way searx works is definitely not the way to go about "replacing google"

so far i've found
- a centralised engine written in C and C++ that has an open source version that hasn't been updated in 3 years, while a closed version is still being developed - gigablast
- a P2P based project that has existed for over a decade but currently barely works because not enough people are using it - yacy
- a blockchain based distributed search engine where you use eurolight tokens to talk to god's brain to let she hear you and answer your requests with IPFS hash codes that sometimes don't work - cyber

i... guess gigablast is the most promising?

@moonbolt "calamity" in particular definitely has some weird time signatures

this video goes into some examples of songs in games with weird time signatures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JRojRIA1ng&t=640s

@draemmli thanks for clearing this up! i managed to find a slightly more recent document mentioning it, but you're right, it seems to have disappeared now