Mastodawn

Why? They:

• Don't pay musicians
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/confirmed-next-year-tracks-on-spotify-1000-plays/

• Fund right wing extremist podcasters
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/spotify-paid-100m-to-podcasts-including-joe-rogan-alex-cooper.html

• Harvest gobs of your data
https://bigthink.com/the-present/is-spotify-spying-on-you/

• Fund war crimes in Europe
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-07-31/spotifys-ceo-owns-an-ai-weapons-company-some-musicians-say-its-time-to-leave

• Subject you to racist ICE ads!
https://www.nme.com/news/music/spotify-says-ice-ads-about-dangerous-illegals-dont-violate-advertising-policy-3900838

• Steer listeners to nonexistent AI artists.
https://www.aimusicpreneur.com/ai-music-news/the-velvet-sundown-ai-artist-spotify/

Using Spotify is morally bankrupt at this point.

#SpotifyWrapped #Spotify

Confirmed: From next year, tracks on Spotify will have to be played 1,000 times before they start earning

Spotify has told industry players that it expects the new 1,000-play minimum annual threshold will reallocate tens of millions of dollars per year from 0.5% of its current royalty pool to the other 99.5%.

Music Business Worldwide

jaezu Nov 20

henk ✅Nov 20

"Qualcomm-owned #Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform."

(source: Adafruit https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_opensource-privacy-techpolicy-activity-7396903362237054976-r14H)

Oh boy, that was fast! Somehow we need to find more future-proof models for open-source hardware. Letting the market do its thing is showing its true colors once again. Pure evil! 👿

#opensource #hardware #fablab #makerspace #electronics

jaezu Nov 12

asie Nov 11

New release of the NDS music tracker fork, NitrousTracker! Version 0.5.0 brings theming support and significant stability improvements. Here are a few themes provided by the feature's contributor, prayerie, for this release - with more to come!

https://github.com/NitrousTracker/nitroustracker/releases/latest

jaezu Oct 22

modern thinkpads are surprisingly frustrating to work with, especially because they seemingly don't support freshly installing windows out of the box. yeah no fuck you, you need lenovo's own tool to make a bootstick, and before that you need to register an account and do some bullshit on their website to even be able to select the laptop in the recovery tool, and only then you can reinstall windows. don't wanna do all of this, let alone give your info to lenovo? well go fuck yourself