
‚Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app
Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists
'Artists have long complained about paltry payouts, but this summer the criticism became personal, targeting Spotify’s billionaire co-founder Daniel Ek for his investment in Helsing, a German firm developing AI for military tech. Groups including Massive Attack, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof and Hotline TNT pulled their music from the service in protest....'
For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.
Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.
Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
@EricLawton finding a way to fund the free press is one of the pressing issues of our time
OpenZL https://openzl.org/ looks like baby steps towards a generic "compress data into code that generates the data" system.
The year is 2025
There are five browser cores:
- webkit
- chromium
- gecko
- servo
- youtube-dl, which ended up implementing a full-fledged browser in python to keep successfully downloading videos
My wife's leaving note said I had "the worst case of LinkedIn brain" she'd ever seen.
Here's what that taught me about B2B sales...
Visit the #debian booth at #LinuxDayAT in Dornbirn (Austria)!