By delivering what people seem to want, has Spotify killed the joy of music discovery?

I am a big consumer of dj sets on Youtube and SoundCloud, and discovered a cool radio in Vienna (created in Croatia), Radio Rudina which I highly recommend. There are known for their cool DJ sets, but their online radio is diverse in terms of music genres. https://www.radiorudina.com/

More enshittification coming ... Next time I am looking for a TV, I will definitely look for how enshittified each model is

Dans un récent rapport, Edemilson Paranà questionne la souveraineté numérique européenne et les alternatives aux modèles dominants des GAFAM.

Alors que la souveraineté numérique est de plus en plus associée au potentiel du logiciel libre ou open source, les multinationales et leurs plateformes ont réussi à marginaliser les alternatives communautaires, voire à en épuiser les ressources, avec la complaisance de l'État.

"I don't think AI can do your job (but I do think an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job). However, there is a class of workers whose jobs can be performed perfectly by AI: workers with bullshit jobs:"

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

without paywall here : https://web.archive.org/web/20250807175732/https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/

via Sebsauvage

Blast Info explique très bien le concept d'enshittification ou merdification, terme inventé par Cory Doctorow

And in the meantime, even if some parts of the administration (i.e: "Gendarmerie") are using free software, we are still paying a lot of money to Microsoft and Google ...

I never used Komoot but read great things about it. Following Bending Spoons acquisition, Bending Spoons fired almost the entire staff. This video shows passionate people who built a useful product but were not respected at all ..

Leta, the privacy-focused search engine, by Mullvad.

Il y a un sujet sur cette dépendance aux réseaux sociaux et surtout à Meta pour le domaine de la musique (comme plein d'autres domaines bien entendu). Ayant cofondé un collectif de musiques électroniques, c'est un sujet qui me fait beaucoup réfléchir pour trouver des alternatives

It didn't help.

I just did this tutorial to jailbreak my Kindle Paperwhite from 2015

Quick and easy way to download your entire Amazon library onto your computer from a backup that you can store in Calibre