So, I follow a band. On bandcamp. I got this message from them:

Hello dearest Bandcamp followers,

Just wanted to drop in give you a special wee thank you for following and supporting us through Bandcamp. You lot truly are the realest of the real, directly interacting with our music like this is what makes the difference for a band.

In the age of streaming and social media virality campaigns, it’s fans like you guys that really keep the lights on.

We have just released our new single [...]

I like it. It makes sense to me. Only...

...well, after praising their bandcamp followers and saying how nice it all is, the link to the new single should be pointing to bandcamp, right? No, it's a linkfire pointing to mainstream streaming and digital musical platforms: spotify, youtube and youtube music, apple music and itunes store, amazon music...

So what good is your nice prose to praise your bandcamp followers, if you're just buttering them up to go find your stuff elsewhere? I fell like this message would have felt more honest and genuine if they started straight in the "We have just released our new single" part...

#music #bandcamp

🎸🎤 Hoje é #MusiQuinta, a pauta definida é “Músicas pra deixar tocando de fundo”.

Para este tema escolho o que tenho de escolher, se bem que pode não vos dar muito jeito... é a música "Leroi", uma história ritual de 1332 segundos (22:12) de Merankorii, lançada em CD em 2009 e sem edição digital, já há muito fora de circulação... tenho já pensado que valia bem a pena haver uma re-edição disto, um disco de "dungeon synth" (em certa medida) antes desse termo existir... seja como for, o seu tema cíclico faz deste um disco - e principalmente uma música - que se torna para mim uma escolha óbvia se estou a pensar numa música para deixar a tocar em pano de fundo...

Não vos deixo link para audição, mas ficam com uma foto, e uma review :-)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210419124853/http://www.damned-by-light.com/reviews/352.html

Dear fediverse,

In #Portugal, and several other European countries, new laws are in the making to implement age verification on the internet. On the discussions about it, the topic of EU Digital Identity Wallet, and its age verification scheme, comes up. But the knowledge about it is very low, causing unnecessary and repetitive discussions, noise that prevents more useful discussions.

My question is: do you know (and can you share) good resources about how EUDI - and its age verification - works? Non-tech articles, images, graphics, workflows, videos, anything you think might be helpful, please share in a comment below.

The best conversations are informed conversations: thank you for your help! 🙏

#eu #fedihelp #eudi

#eupol #digital #sovereignty

The following text was amended into a report in the European Parliament:

Reaffirms that the EU must remain sovereign in enforcing its laws, especially in the digital field; firmly condemns and calls for the cancellation of the travel bans imposed by the United States on civil society leaders Imran Ahmed, Clare Melford, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon, whose work contributes to a safer digital environment for all and holds digital platforms accountable, as well as the travel ban imposed by the United States on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who played a key role in establishing EU digital rules; calls on the Commission and the Member States to deliver a firm response to these unprecedented attacks; notes recent enforcement actions taken under the Digital Services Act for breaches of transparency and risk-mitigation obligations, such as the EUR 120 million fine against X; recalls that enforcement of the EU’s digital legislation aims to ensure compliance with EU law and the protection of fundamental rights, and not to regulate political opinions; [...]

All (present) Portuguese MEPs voted in favor, except the members of the far-right party Chega (PfE).

Here are links to the amendment and the vote.

Repeat after me: AWS is no Euro Cloud or provides Digital Sovereignty, no matter what "local zone" you use.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr summing up my thoughts on where the current #DigitalSovereignty conversation is leading us towards:

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

I don't have any advice for how to do that. I'm sorry!

A época de ouro digital morreu. Longa vida ao slop.

Depois da liberdade e democratização sentida na primeira era da globalização da internet, os gigantes digitais decidiram que preferem parar de arriscar a criar produtos e passarem a ser senhorios.

A ler aqui: https://guilhotrina.substack.com/p/a-epoca-de-ouro-digital-morreu-longa