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The Wetʼsuwetʼen are a First Nation who live on the Bulkley River and around Burns Lake, Broman Lake, and François Lake in the northwestern Central Interior of British Columbia.

They speak Witsuwitʼen, a dialect of the Babine-Witsuwitʼen language which, like its sister language Carrier, is a member of the Athabaskan family.

Their oral history, called kungax, recounts that their ancestral village, Dizkle or Dzilke, once stood upstream from the Bulkley Canyon. This cluster of cedar houses on both sides of the river is said to have been abandoned because of an omen of impending disaster. The exact location of the village has been lost. The neighbouring Gitxsan people of the Hazelton area have a similar tale, though the village in their version is named Dimlahamid (Temlahan)

The endonym Wetʼsuwetʼen means "People of the Wa Dzun Kwuh River (Bulkley River)"

The Wet’suwet’en First Nation was formerly part of the Omineca Band. However, in 1984 the Omineca Band split into the Broman Lake and Nee-Tahi-Buhn bands. The Skin Tayi band later split off from Nee-Tahi-Buhn. Today, the Skin Tyee Band, Nee Tahi Buhn Band, Wet’suwet’en First Nation, Moricetown Band and Hagwilget Band make up the Wet’suwet’en Nation.

Like most First Nations here, Wet’suwet’en never signed treaties with the Canadian or provincial governments. Nevertheless, the latter took the land and leased forested acreage to logging companies. Today just 20% of British Columbia’s old-growth forests remain.

In 2020, after decades of activist pressure, the province identified about a quarter of the remaining old growth as at high risk for logging and recommended a pause while deciding their fate. Yet today, logging has been deferred in less than half of the high-risk area.

Another conflict with the settler state has been the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which seeks to transport liquefied natural gas from northeast BC to a terminal on the coast near the town of Kitimat.

The 670-kilometre (417-mile) pipeline will cut across traditional Wet’suwet’en lands that cover 22,000sq km across northern BC.

The hereditary chiefs, who under Wet’suwet’en law claim authority over those traditional territories, said they never gave their consent for the project to move forward. They have raised concerns about the pipeline’s potential effects on the land, water, and their community.

In late July, Amnesty International took the extraordinary step in naming Dsta’hyl Canada’s first ever designated prisoner of conscience, and now demanding his immediate and unconditional release.

“The Canadian state has unjustly criminalized and confined Chief Dsta’hyl for defending the land and rights of the Wet’suwet’en people,” Amnesty International’s Ana Piquer stated in a press release. “As a result, Canada joins the shameful list of countries where prisoners of conscience remain under house arrest or behind bars.”

In October 2021, Dsta’hyl was arrested and charged with criminal contempt after confiscating and decommissioning heavy equipment utilized by Coastal GasLink to construct its LNG pipeline on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. Dsta’hyl said he was enforcing Wet’suwet’en laws as the company did not have the free, prior and informed consent of hereditary chiefs to build the pipeline.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Example, FLAC on the left (I don't think Tag 1 is used in FLAC) MP3 on the right. I think the main difference is that ID3 v1 tags have ASCII restrictions as well as character limits (due to fixed field lengths?) vs ID3 v2 tags being more flexible. I remember back in the day struggling with this, because I made MP3 CDs of course (lol). These days I bet it's not a concern as every player should probably just read ID3 v2 but ... I guess you never know? What are you using for tagging?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

because I made MP3 CDs of course (lol).

lets-fucking-go I bet the new Technology Connections video was a treat for you!!!

I use a variety of things, often Kid3 but also mp3tag. I also would not count on players bot getting messed up about id3 v1 lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

It was a decent video! I think he actually had my CD player but i dont remember the specifics that much about what I had in high school, but yeah I made a ton of mp3 cds at the time lol, loved that damn thing, but uh then I got an ipod.

I use a variety of things, often Kid3 but also mp3tag. I also would not count on players bot getting messed up about id3 v1 lol

Kid3 is my primary, my bae, my saviour... it handles mp3 and flac and that's all I need!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Absolutely categorically based. I love to see it, MP3 CDs.

it handles mp3 and flac and that's all I need!

I main this too. I tried fucking with .ape but my Fiio M7 refuses to read their tags, and outright cannot see opus which sucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah I try to flac everything ... I use Finamp on Android currently with offline downloaded albums, but the Fiio players look so cool (I like their cassette player). Why do you like the M7?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I am actually not a fan of the M7, magi got it as a gift for me ages ago. I am hugely appreciative, superb y'know, but the M7 has 768 megabytes of ram and runs the worst android 7 ever. Its software barely works smh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

ah i see! it looks v small at least :3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It is smaller than old phones, running a custom OS it would slap. It's still mostly pretty good...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

if its android i wonder if you can custom rom it...