[HN Gopher] Rekt.network
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       Rekt.network
        
       Author : willswire
       Score  : 507 points
       Date   : 2023-05-17 04:43 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (rekt.network)
 (TXT) w3m dump (rekt.network)
        
       | niteshade wrote:
       | Any chance of seeing Rekt on Apple Music? Would love to be able
       | to use it as a radio station when I'm driving
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Oh man, would be a no-go for rekt I think. Perhaps with
         | Nightride.FM Bluetooth comms should work with any smartphone
         | though, but definitely works easier on androids
        
           | niteshade wrote:
           | Ah that's a shame, thanks for replying nonetheless :)
        
         | solarkraft wrote:
         | Why wouldn't you be able to? Plays fine in the background on
         | Firefox for iOS for me.
        
       | hardwaresofton wrote:
       | This is amazing. Excellent site, quality music and great for
       | programming.
       | 
       | One thing that would be awesome would be a bandcamp link for the
       | artists that show up -- I know that's something I look for
       | (manually) when I hear a really great track that really fits with
       | what I like to listen to.
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Yep, this is actually on the cards. I've got nowplaying info
         | returning spotify links to artist's tracks. The problem with
         | bandcamp is they closed their API a long time ago, so i gotta
         | manage my records semi-manually
        
           | hardwaresofton wrote:
           | _salute_ Godspeed.
           | 
           | I wonder if it's something you could crowdsource -- if you
           | have a list of your collection, you could just put the titles
           | in a doc or something and let people have at it.
           | 
           | [EDIT] BTW I just started playing with the EQ. WOW that is a
           | fantastic feature. Such a simple thing and I love being able
           | to turn up the low range/high range as I like. Another level,
           | because almost always I want more bass.
           | 
           | [EDIT2] Granted I don't go to music sites _that_ much on the
           | internet, this is happiest I 've been with a site like this
           | since Madeon's Adventure Machine[0].
           | 
           | [0]: https://adventuremachine.4thfloorcreative.co.uk/
        
             | NightrideFM wrote:
             | Yeah have thought about it, we have a fairly large
             | community on discord that could help out too. I didn't want
             | people clipping their signal too hard with the EQ, hence
             | the current limit. I'd probably need to think about adding
             | a limiter for the sake of people's speakers.
             | 
             | You can instead turn ethe other frequencies down and then
             | your volume up, same effect ;)
        
               | hardwaresofton wrote:
               | Oh yeah that's exactly what I did... Put everything down,
               | then turned somethings up (and also found the bass limits
               | of my Sony WH-1000XM2s :)
        
           | rollcat wrote:
           | > The problem with bandcamp is they closed their API a long
           | time ago
           | 
           | Out of curiosity, was this before or after the Epic
           | acquisition?
        
       | omani wrote:
       | someone mentioned nightride.fm the other day (yesterday?) on
       | another thread as a comment and now this pops up. sometimes I
       | wonder if bots read HN and submit related stories/topics.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | dilap wrote:
         | probably just humans -- very natural to see a story or comment
         | and then think of something to submit.
        
         | solarkraft wrote:
         | Yup, I'm one of them :)
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Oh really? Interesting theory
        
       | deegles wrote:
       | For those wondering, the entire top banner is the volume bar.
       | Just drag the volume icon to the left.
        
       | BuzzDegen wrote:
       | This is cool
        
       | Sujeto wrote:
       | Great stuff. Already gave it a fixed spot in my monitor.
        
       | oidar wrote:
       | If you wish to listen without the website popping up, just format
       | the stream url like so:
       | 
       | https://stream.rekt.network/datawave.ogg
       | 
       | https://stream.rekt.network/nightride.ogg
       | 
       | https://stream.rekt.network/chillsynth.ogg
       | 
       | https://stream.rekt.network/rekt.ogg
       | 
       | https://stream.rekt.network/rektory.ogg
        
         | snvzz wrote:
         | My chrome got served mp3, when these streams (which are opus)
         | exist, and chrome is definitely capable of playing them, as
         | they play as I click them.
         | 
         | Why send me mp3?
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | You can also tune into the non-rekt ones via YouTube
        
           | oidar wrote:
           | Any chance of support Amazon's Alexa? I frequently listen to
           | SomaFM on alexa and would love to add your streams to my
           | rotation.
        
             | NightrideFM wrote:
             | oh we looked into that a while back, should do so again
        
       | geekifier wrote:
       | Really cool design, the Milkdrop tab is a nice touch! I found
       | some of the stations to be perfect as background tunes while
       | working.
        
       | mattanimation wrote:
       | I freaking love this
        
       | jusssi wrote:
       | Hijacks the back button.
        
         | CaptainNegative wrote:
         | rekt.browser
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Oh damn, I should probably fix that
        
           | didsomeonesay wrote:
           | another bug report: in chat, after somebody changes their
           | nickname and you try to use tab completion on their name, it
           | will use the original nickname for completion
        
             | NightrideFM wrote:
             | oooh, nice one. I wonder if that was related to me using
             | /sanick commands, or a more general bug.
             | 
             | Rekt is some versions behind the nightride.fm version of
             | the site
        
           | NightrideFM wrote:
           | Found the stray pushState
        
         | razemio wrote:
         | I still do not understand why this is even allowed. It is so
         | annoying. It is not even hard to do. Can happen accidentally.
        
           | atoav wrote:
           | I mean you have to be able to do history manipulation if you
           | want to have history to any meaningful changes you do via JS
           | on a page (and you should make sure to adjust the URL as well
           | so people can go back to that information).
           | 
           | But I agree, it should not be possible to prevent users from
           | leaving back from the site.
        
             | fuzzy2 wrote:
             | You can easily spam the browser history using a redirect
             | slide, effectively preventing users from leaving the page.
             | No need for any JS, works even with active ad blockers.
             | It's relatively common on malicious sites.
        
               | mschuster91 wrote:
               | Even on actually respectable newspapers. Spiegel Online
               | for example has this in place...
        
               | solarkraft wrote:
               | Spegel Online also does "pay or okay" (pay or accept
               | tracking), so maybe at some point it's time to re-
               | evaluate their respectability.
        
               | mschuster91 wrote:
               | Many media do this these days, it's become an industry
               | standard.
               | 
               | And to be fair I do get the point _why_ they are doing
               | that, good journalism has to be financed somehow lest you
               | end up with a situation like in Austria where corruption
               | scandals involving government-paid ads wrecking the
               | entire political establishment and media elites of the
               | country [1].
               | 
               | [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96VP-
               | Korruptionsaff%C3%A4r...
        
               | fuzzy2 wrote:
               | > good journalism
               | 
               | lol
               | 
               | I do agree though, on a more general level: it does take
               | money to produce those articles, authors gotta get paid.
               | 
               | However, IMHO, not at any cost.
        
               | 0l wrote:
               | Modern browsers will rarely store redirecting sites in
               | the history stack AFAIK
        
               | dcow wrote:
               | Which browser does this? Would love to see the feature in
               | action...
        
         | hpeter wrote:
         | I came here to say the same. I don't like it.
        
         | djvu97 wrote:
         | Ban such sites with loud music and hijacking back button
        
       | moffkalast wrote:
       | Rekt network? I swear I didn't touch the router config! Ah ffs,
       | why is DNS ping 20 seconds...
        
       | nih0 wrote:
       | Anyone have a link for the radio station with atc(or was it
       | police radio) in the background ?
        
         | bayindirh wrote:
         | Also, http://youarelistening.to.
         | 
         | New York station mixes live police radio.
        
         | irreducible wrote:
         | https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=klax
        
           | nih0 wrote:
           | thank you :3
        
         | nyx wrote:
         | Are you thinking of SomaFM's SF 10-33?
         | https://somafm.com/sf1033/
        
       | nurettin wrote:
       | Nice, I'm getting slayradio vibes from this.
        
         | codetrotter wrote:
         | https://www.slayradio.org/home.php#news
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAY_Radio
         | 
         | For anyone else wondering what slay radio is.
        
         | sat0ri wrote:
         | This, and Nectarine
        
       | vrglvrglvrgl wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | warkanlock wrote:
       | Does anyone know if an internet radio station like this exists
       | but is not only restricted to a few genres?
        
         | teki_one wrote:
         | Youtube has radio stations too:
         | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=live+radio+stat...
        
         | weedfroglozenge wrote:
         | I really enjoy Soma.FM which has a wider range of genres. The
         | cult classic is "Groove Salad"
         | 
         | Edit: There's also the free-with-ads, or paid subscription
         | option, of digitally imported (Di.FM)
        
           | ciroduran wrote:
           | +1 to Soma.FM, many many years streaming really good music
        
         | RadiozRadioz wrote:
         | +1 for SomaFM. I also like Radio Paradise:
         | https://radioparadise.com/
        
         | joemazerino wrote:
         | SomaFM takes the cake here. Tags Trip, Groove Salad and Space
         | Station are my personal favourites. I regularly donate.
         | 
         | Fun fact: I found SomaFM through Kali Linux. Of all things!
        
           | H1Supreme wrote:
           | I've found so many cool bands through their Indie Pop Rocks
           | station.
        
         | abnercoimbre wrote:
         | Best one is Radio Garden [0]
         | 
         | [0] https://radio.garden
        
         | toofy wrote:
         | i'll echo what others have said: soma.fm
        
       | franky47 wrote:
       | My favourite station on lofi.cafe was the synth space ambiance
       | one, glad to see a web radio dedicated to synthwave and other
       | electronic music genres.
       | 
       | Hopefully it doesn't hoard CPU as lofi.cafe did.
        
         | ukuina wrote:
         | Isn't this basically Soma.fm?
        
           | politelemon wrote:
           | Your comment reminded me of it, I spent years of my life
           | there. Glad to see it's still alive!
        
       | worldmerge wrote:
       | This is awesome!
       | 
       | Wow, that's a Ghost CMS site? It looks really good!
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Yeah... I've been meaning to write something a little more
         | integrated and SEO friendly, rather than just iframing that
         | blog, but I've not gotten around to it
        
       | snowy909 wrote:
       | Fantastic coding music and the winamp retro vibe is awesome. Love
       | the overall design
        
       | nikolay wrote:
       | Freezes my browser.
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | We take retro seriously, now your computer performs like a
         | Pentium II
        
           | nikolay wrote:
           | Kinda slower even...
        
       | echelon wrote:
       | I'd never heard Orson Welles' radio play "War of the Worlds" [1]
       | before.
       | 
       | Just spent the last 40 minutes or so listening to the whole thing
       | on this website. Only at the intermission does it become obvious
       | that this is a radio drama.
       | 
       | That was really good, and I can only imagine it was incredible
       | back in 1938.
       | 
       | [1]
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_ra...
       | 
       | edit: I just went back to the site and it appears to be gone!
       | 
       | edit 2: It's on YouTube, but Rekt's radio dropped me right into
       | the action (~16:30). It felt much more real without the backstory
       | or scene setting. A good way to experience it.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g
        
       | entropie wrote:
       | Any direct links to the stations? I would like to save it in my
       | mp3 playlist directory
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | https://stream.rekt.network/<station_name>.mp3
         | 
         | station_name = rekt | rektory | nightride | chillsynth |
         | datawave | spacesynth | darksynth | horrorsynth | ebsm
        
       | HeckFeck wrote:
       | Finally, something to listen to whilst I read https://rekt.news/
        
         | TheSkyHasEyes wrote:
         | New site to daily read, thanks!
        
           | HeckFeck wrote:
           | Yw. It's the most effective inculcation against cryptoscams
           | known to the internet.
        
       | sgt wrote:
       | Also check out https://scenestream.net/ mostly cool demoscene
       | music
        
       | rychco wrote:
       | I wasn't aware of rekt.network but NightrideFM has been my daily
       | music choice for a few months now. Love the site
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | thats awesome! glad you're enjoying it
        
           | Brometheus wrote:
           | I love it, too.
           | 
           | I had nightride open for month and then the flickering
           | crashed my Dell Monitor :joy:
           | 
           | I rebooted it via hard reset and opened nightride again, but
           | I made sure to stop the flickering. :joy:
        
             | NightrideFM wrote:
             | !! Gotta make that new hardware perform on par with 90s
             | gear
        
       | [deleted]
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | ddtaylor wrote:
       | Milkdrop is awesome. Sadly, I stopped using it back when Winamp
       | went the way of the Dodo =(
       | 
       | Thanks for the trip down memory lane with a shiny new paint job.
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Milkdrop is still one of the best 2D visualisers in my opinion.
         | The version running on the site is a port to JS called
         | butterchurn, but has much better resolution and FPS than the
         | original
        
         | quickthrower2 wrote:
         | It is ahead of modern AI though: Winamp whips a llamas ass.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | daneel_w wrote:
       | https://kohina.com/ is one of my regular waterholes.
        
       | dom96 wrote:
       | Really cool. Love the shout out to Hacker News just now.
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Big ups
        
       | x-complexity wrote:
       | The overall feel is halfway between good & great: Push the output
       | to a CRT & it feels like something that would've been on a well-
       | crafted BBS back in the 90s.
       | 
       | Font size needs to be made adjustable though, IMO. Each
       | character's taking up too much space for my own liking.
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Nice idea, will jot it down on the todo for the next rewrite
        
       | Mistletoe wrote:
       | Oh I love this, thank you.
        
       | jcmontx wrote:
       | Wow, that's something you don't see everyday!
       | 
       | (an use case for SPAs I mean)
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Navigation without music interruption!
        
       | chickenchicken wrote:
       | Is this Related to https://nightride.fm/ ?
        
         | djvu97 wrote:
         | this one too doesnt let you go back if music starts playing
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | shhhh
        
           | Udo wrote:
           | Well, if you're in the habit of making these anyway, I would
           | like to propose one for podsafe/stream-safe music.
        
             | jessmartin wrote:
             | agree this is a huge need. I stream a few hours a week and
             | it's so much more _fun_ with good music. If anyone has a
             | source for good, safe instrumental background music to use
             | on-stream, I'm all ears.
        
               | Udo wrote:
               | Argofox has a huge catalogue on YT, depending on your
               | tastes. Aim To Head also releases some of their
               | electronic mixes as royalty-free.
        
               | NightrideFM wrote:
               | You could try Karl Casey's White Bat Audio on youtube
        
             | dcow wrote:
             | What is podsafe/stream-safe music?
        
               | klooney wrote:
               | Music with appropriate licensing- presumably something
               | like CC0 that allows sharing, remixing, commercial use,
               | and doesn't require attribution...
        
             | NightrideFM wrote:
             | Its so hard to manage, over time songs can transition from
             | being safe to not... Quite a pain. I did already have a
             | stab at it
        
         | npteljes wrote:
         | Must be. It even references Nightride FM in the HTML - although
         | it's commented out.
         | 
         | I wonder what the relationship is. Rekt has all identifying,
         | and social relations removed. Although it exists for longer
         | than the other.
         | 
         | Edit: further investigation reveals that they use the same
         | resources in the background, same radio, same songs at the same
         | time. I really wonder why.
        
           | NightrideFM wrote:
           | Rekt came first, maybe 8 years ago now, Nightride a later
           | iteration catering to a larger community with all the music
           | submitted by artists
        
         | orphea wrote:
         | Also breaks the back button
        
       | wraptile wrote:
       | Given the name I found it poetic that I could not reach the
       | website because of overly-aggressive cloudflare protection.
       | Wrecked network indeed.
        
         | NightrideFM wrote:
         | Ahh, I could always turn it off, maybe I will
        
           | callahad wrote:
           | If you want to stick with Cloudflare, you can ease the pain
           | by going into your zone -> Security -> Settings. Disabling
           | Browser Integrity Check and adjusting "Security Level" down
           | to "Essentially Off" should help.
        
           | goodpoint wrote:
           | Please don't use cloudflare.
        
             | mdp2021 wrote:
             | At least a shard of a justification for the oracular? Maybe
             | a link to some rant-list, maybe a coincise stub? (Reply:
             | "goodpoint".)
        
             | _-____-_ wrote:
             | Why not? Most of the complaints people have with Cloudflare
             | regarding CAPTCHAs and user-hostile behavior are opt-in
             | features that are not enabled by default. A website behind
             | Cloudflare needs to enable extra protection to opt into the
             | CAPTCHAs.
             | 
             | If your issue is more generally with a single provider
             | becoming a global MITM for 10% of the internet, then that's
             | a more understandable argument, albeit a meaninglessly
             | existential one.
        
               | goodpoint wrote:
               | A global MITM is a huge problem for privacy and access to
               | information. Not to mention is anti-competitive.
               | 
               | But, importantly, Cloudflare is also very hostile to Tor.
               | A number of people in the world rely on it for their
               | security and safety.
        
               | _-____-_ wrote:
               | Cloudflare has made demonstrable efforts to accommodate
               | Tor users, and I've personally noticed a reduction in the
               | number of CAPTCHAs I encounter while browsing Cloudflare
               | sites with Tor. They were definitely not required to do
               | this, especially considering that sites like Google give
               | Tor users unsolvable CAPTCHAs or block them altogether.
               | And yet they did, which I took as a gesture of good
               | faith.
               | 
               | Some sites are still annoying to browse with Tor, but
               | it's only those that opted into the strictest security
               | settings with their Cloudflare plan. In my experience,
               | the default Cloudflare behavior is not any more
               | unfriendly to Tor than it is to any VPN (which is not too
               | unfriendly, for the most part).
               | 
               | I do agree with you that the global MITM is a huge
               | problem for privacy and access to information. I'm just
               | pointing out that Cloudflare has made some good-faith
               | effort to reduce the friction encountered by Tor users.
               | If I had to choose an operator of such a global MITM,
               | Cloudflare might be the least bad choice.
        
               | tga_d wrote:
               | Yeah, as annoying as the CAPTCHAs are, at least
               | Cloudflare is aware of and acknowledges the problem, and
               | is actively working on solutions like Privacy Pass. Much
               | more than can be said for many other services that block
               | Tor.
        
         | hammyhavoc wrote:
         | That's _probably_ a PEBKAC in terms of your software choices or
         | behaviour. Works fine for most users, you 're a fringe case for
         | whatever reason.
        
           | reaperducer wrote:
           | _you 're a fringe case for whatever reason_
           | 
           | Everyone is a fringe case eventually. Even you.
        
             | hammyhavoc wrote:
             | Never encountered it once in thirteen years of using
             | CloudFlare. If it did happen to me eventually as a one-off
             | freak occurrence, that's a temporary fringe event.
             | 
             | If it is happening to the commenter continually throughout
             | CF's network then I'd say that's probably their problem.
             | Frequent or consistent? Well, it's _probably_ the user.
        
               | vsnf wrote:
               | Happens to me too. And surely a bunch of others as well,
               | who just don't voice it.
               | 
               | Defending Firefox and adblock as a fringe case worthy of
               | dismissal is a sad reflection of the current state of the
               | internet.
        
               | hammyhavoc wrote:
               | I used Firefox and various ad blockers for years and
               | never had any problems with CloudFlare.
               | 
               | VPN usage seems to be a common one as it's often shared
               | with people who abuse it to attack others.
        
               | aunetx wrote:
               | I have this problem, happens for perplexity.ai too for
               | example... I never had issue until two months ago, and
               | now I'm locked out of some quite interesting websites
        
         | _-____-_ wrote:
         | Note that this behavior is not enabled by default. Websites
         | behind Cloudflare need to opt into it, and they can choose
         | which security level they use (with higher levels necessitating
         | more CAPTCHAs).
         | 
         | Also, as someone who browses 100% of the time with a VPN, I
         | hardly ever encounter Cloudflare CAPTCHAs. I've also been
         | encountering less of them when using Tor; it seems Cloudflare
         | has made progress in their efforts to reduce friction for Tor
         | users. On the other hand, Google search frequently doesn't work
         | at all - it refuses to serve me search results and doesn't even
         | offer me the chance to solve a CATPCHA.
        
         | pulpfictional wrote:
         | I'm locked out of so many sites, I loathe it. Cost of rolling
         | in an everything blocker Firefox. At least it helps me find
         | good old-fashioned text based websites.
        
       | jchook wrote:
       | Would be sick if the music wasn't horrible lol.
        
         | sdbrown wrote:
         | To me it sounds dialed-in even on immediate landing. Different
         | strokes!
        
       | tomaszsobota wrote:
       | been listening for the past few hours, good stuff
        
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