You truly know that you're totally out of the loop with some topic when you read "Music discovery on the AT Protocol" and think how the heck did they manage to build such thing with just AT Commands against a GSM modem [^] ^ https://ozeki.hu/p_3653-at-command-guide-for-gsm-modem-netwo...
Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol
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#44I really hate the word scrobble. I'm pretty tolerant of weird language as long as it can be understood, but this can't. Everybody who uses the word seems to think it's a normal word that everybody already knows or can figure out from context (so they never define it), but "scrobble your music" could mean a million things.
It's no worse than things like blog and vlog. Words that took me at least a decade to come to terms with.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought "A decentralized music tracking and discovery platform" and the features list was plenty descriptive. I don't think you have to use Bluesky to use this, I think Bluesky is like the backend, and otherwise it's a Last.fm alternative?
Yeah. I don't know, either. And that's kind of my point: The description of what the thing does is so brief that neither of us can figure it out. Afterward, there's a ton of instruction on how to install it. Including a link to use it on... someone else's sandbox, I guess? Which sure is neat and that may be a platform that I want to play with for my own purposes, but... the point isn't a sandbox, is it? Or is that th…