Oh, neat! I had no idea something like this existed!

Hopefully people who use SecureBoot have plans in place

Not with that attitude! /j

Barf. I try hard not to think about it, since it’s shoved in our faces at every turn, but you’re absolutely right that our data is going to these AI corpos.

Hot take: buy your music instead—direct from the artist whenever possible, or start building your collection from whatever you can find at a thrift store.

…the websites that host stuff and do it free and efficiently.

It’s never free. The instance you’re using isn’t free; it’s paid for by donations. ISPs and server hosts don’t just give bandwidth out of charity or for the public good. One way or another, these for-profit companies are getting their pound of flesh, typically by selling targeted ad space.

The fact that these companies are adding chat features means they’re now going to try mining conversations for additional consumer profile data points, which they can then sell to advertisers.

This new change is gross, and I hope nobody uses it.

…For dinner? …In prison? …Take a one-way trip to Mars?

If so, then I agree.

Those worked pretty well by the end, tbh

I just bought a cassette for my favorite band, Mad Routine. I don’t intend to use it, because it’s a special item with a limited run, but I would if I had a spare and a cassette player.

The next level is getting one of those radio tuners, a discman, and explaining to your friends that you use the discman, because the car CD player is broken.

Only downside is it’s based in Italy, the government of which has been somewhat hostile to privacy as of late. Still, AirVPN itself has been a longtime supporter of privacy and projects like Tor.

So the acronym is now AMAMA!

Asking for voluntary tips isn’t enshittification. It’s surviving within the reality of shitty capitalism. I donate to my instance admins, for example, because as much as they probably would love to just run this instance for free, they can’t.

This is probably the most ethical way to ensure creators can continue to eat, especially with generative software models able to produce competing garbage in gigantic volumes.