Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

Posted by indigodaddy 9/3/2025

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources(github.com)

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tharmas 9/3/2025|

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llbbdd 9/3/2025|

Some music is performance art, some isn't. Some is both.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 9/3/2025||

No Code of Conduct but AGPL and anti-telemetry and anti-CLA is an interesting quadrant on the software political compass

tracker1 9/3/2025||

Works for me. I tend to think of "Code of Conduct" documents as adjacent to HR takeovers by far leftists more often than not. I prefer a standard "don't be an asshole*" stance and letting the leaders/community handle itself.

* Asshole behavior decisions at the sole discretion of administrators and moderators.

asimovfan 9/3/2025|||

far left used to mean communists when i was young.

sweeter 9/3/2025||||

The "Far Left" HR software devs: "don't call community members slurs"

>:(

hedora 9/3/2025||

The only people I’ve worked with that insisted on code of conduct files also were the only ones that routinely harassed colleagues until they quit.

(The victims of harassment were not violating the code of conduct. This had nothing to do with left-or-right, race or gender. Instead the aggressors used their faux-inclusiveness as a shield against escalations of hostile work environment complaints to upper management. They targeted people that were more technically competent than they were.)

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 9/3/2025|||

I like having asshole defined in writing.

That is, saying all rules are made up on the spot by whatever mods are in power means that you don't want anyone to know the rules ahead of time, which is suspicious and seems like you don't want help with the project

account42 9/4/2025||

You either get rules made up on the spot or selective enforcement / creative interpretation of rules.

tracker1 9/5/2025||

Exactly... it's like everyone thinks they're a lawyer and want "clearly defined rules" until they get them and find there's gaping wide holes for interpretation, etc. Just like kids will push boundaries on literal interpretations. Then, as a parent, you clarify with "you know what I meant when X, right?" ... and then holding them to account all the same.

IMO, you're better off with expecting common decency and having leadership act as a judge when people act up. It's not "fair" but it's about as fair as reality is going to get. Most people are mostly good, and mostly reasonable. If you aren't rocking the boat, you aren't likely to have problems.

1gn15 9/4/2025|||

I don't find it particularly unusual. With the caveat that the political compass is a huge oversimplification:

Auth right: proprietary software

Auth left: code of conduct (since it's not particularly anarchist; it clearly defines how power works, instead of aiming for structurelessness)

Lib right: open source (MIT-based, corpo projects)

Lib left: free software (AGPL, anti telemetry, anti CLA, usually no code of conduct, anarchist/hacker in nature)

IlikeKitties 9/3/2025|||

I think the /g/ testimonials are a dead giveaway about where on the compass this software is.

kykat 9/3/2025||

and that is?

tokai 9/3/2025|||

4chan's technology board. They have historically been very pro FSF and Stallman, while mixing in an anarchic attitude to software like cat -v contrarianism.[0]

[0] https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/

account42 9/4/2025||

An interesting one? You mean the best one. Well except for the AI-generated anime art on the website.

dczx 9/4/2025||

This reminds me of John Arnold, who shorted the housing market. There was no tool to short US Housing, until then. So he made 70 billion by shorting Housing and was considered unpatriotic, but it's a free market and would have been done by someone else.

pelagicAustral 9/3/2025|

I don't think anybody can be religiously opposed to Electron any more. It's pervasive.

bigstrat2003 9/3/2025||

I will not use an Electron app unless there is no other alternative (including "don't use any app"). So, I'm not exactly religious about it, but pretty strong. In my opinion, Electron is the downsides of both web and desktop apps with the benefits of neither. So I avoid it like the plague.

avtolik 9/3/2025|||

If I have a choice between two apps that do the same thing and are roughly equal on features, I usually go with the non-Electron one. In this case I use the Wacup music player.

pharrington 9/3/2025|||

These days if a program is made with Electron, I'll either just use the hosted website version (ie discord.gg), or not use the program at all. 120mb+ releases for this program isn't an argument in Electron's favor.

stalfosknight 9/3/2025|||

I wouldn't be "religiously opposed" to Electron if Electron apps gave a damn about respecting platform conventions.

account42 9/4/2025||

Sin always is pervasive.

NoGravitas 9/4/2025||

We live in a fallen world. I find myself using Signal Desktop, and have to say 10 Hail Emacs for every message I send.