I know it’s not, but the thumbnail for the article looks AI generated.

AI slop made flesh

there’s 4 of them, coincidence or conspiracy?

I am well aware of what soulseek is. sockseek is not soulseek though, it’s a vibe coded app that doesn’t share back to the network and causes issues with legitimate clients.

is sockseek one of those clients that doesn’t share back and just leeches off the network?

If so please don’t use it, people have started putting capatchas on their shares because of these clients and it messes up legitimate clients like slskd

I think streamrip is what you want

https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

and there’s an updated and maintained version of deemix here:

https://github.com/bambanah/deemix

can yt-dlp grab things from deezer?

I take it you didn’t read the article?

also “reef” in preefer.

I dunno, maybe a fibre optic cable rather than an artists’ impression of an underwater power line?

Why is the image for the article from a completely different project on the other side of the world?

bloody cookers. And fuck PHON and the media for egging this shit on.

I think a lot of those regional/remote ones are skewed by FiFo workers in the mining sector.

oh, it’s that time2lose guy. He called me a reddit agent as well.

unpaywalled: https://archive.li/bNGUt

I’m sorry, but I had to downvote this post.

not really, irc is good enough for me