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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I don’t mind a cover changing the meaning of a song, but stuff where the cover is just the song again is…lazy as fuck?

    Like Fast Car by (country music guy) is fantastic, but it’s the same as the original, which is also fantastic. Feels cheap or something, I don’t know. Like the whole Weezer cover album was boring as fuck. The songs are technically great, but why listen to that over the originals? Rivers said his goal was to try and reproduce the original sound, which seems like an interesting exercise for the band, but not for the listener. So that wraps back around to respecting the band.

    Anyways, I have a lot of strong feelings about covers. Make it your own, even if you don’t change it that much.




  • There are things called routers that…route traffic. A dumbed down version is routers talk to other routers to find out what they know about.

    If a game server you connect to matches you with someone in Japan, your computer sends a packet with the address in Japan attached to it. Your home router probably has no clue where that is, so it goes to its upstream router and asks if they know, this process repeats until one figures it out and you get a route.

    This all happens very quickly, and it’s why people say the Internet routes around damage.