Intriguing. I think the link to the Android app is broken?

Thank you! An yes, you're right. I had problems with updates in the play store... have to fix this

I don't know what radio.garden uses but for my radio streaming site I mostly use https://www.radio-browser.info/ that I actually discovered on Hacker News.

Hello I'm the developer of programmes-radio.com (but non-French people should probably use https://www.radio-addict.com instead) (also the website is open source, https://github.com/conradfr/ProgRadio/)

I don't show the streaming links but it's not for lock-in but because I've never got that request :) You can just look them up using developer tools though (same for radio-garden). Not ideal on mobile I guess.

I haven't look at what radio.garden does but I proxy some http only streams that don't work well when requested from an https audio element, maybe that's what you're referring to.

I had YouTube Lite for a couple years. They sent me an email saying it was being discontinued in my country. I had always been watching with an Ad Blocker. The main difference now is that they refuse to accept the money I am willing to pay them.

But there's two actively non-official maintained libs.

Old packages usually still run great in Elixir though.

That's what CapRover uses.

Like when someone says spending $1000 to learn to code effectively using Claude or any other AI is nothing.

"You still say hello!" - Uncle Leo

I agree with the website. It's even worse when you have to do the "how are you?" back and forth before getting to the actual request.

This is actually an area I've been informally studying for several years. Both the "Hi" and the "How are you?" are phatic.

Phatic communication is about establishing social connection rather than conveying explicit information.

Both "Hi" and "How are you?" serve in these cases* to eatablish "this is a friendly, casual interaction" by way of social ritual. If you fail to signal non-aggression in this way then, at least neurotypical people, will be more likely to consider you an aggressor.

I don't struggle or feel bothered by "Hi" or "How are you?". But I do struggle with threading enough phatic praise and appreciation into conversation to maintain the "friendly, casual" status and can get easily start being treated as an aggressor.

* America in particular has "How are you?" as one of these phatic rituals. Different parts of the world have different rituals in different areas of interaction. This can be a cause of friction when moving to a new country and you interpret an unfamiliar ritual literally instead of phatically or misunderstand another's intent because a ritual you expect was missing.

I remember that the grace period was extended one or two times when it was time to pay, and then Facebook bought it.

I remember people being angered and threatening to leave if they had to pay that 1$/€ fee per year. And now here we are with ads.

The average person would rather view 100 adverts than pay 1 cent to get rid of them. We see it time and again.

The average company would rather charge that 1 cent and still show adverts. We see that time and again.

Do we see that? What I see again and again is companies pretending to make that offer and then adding ads anyway. You can only fool people so often.