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Physical Media

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Owning physical media is more important than ever; moreover, DRM is evil.

If you purchase your movies/music through Amazon, Spotify, SiriusXM, AppleTV, &c. you really only purchase a license for use that can be revoked at any time. This makes your media access fragile: your access to the things you have purchased is one inter-corporation lawsuit away from being revoked.

Whether or not you should be consuming mass-produced, copyrighted media is another question, but purchasing (i.e., legally obtaining) DRM-free versions of your media has never been easier. In fact, buying/ripping CDs or downloading music from Qobuz can be cheaper than a spotify subscription. These days, you can even play Blu-ray discs from the command line. (Generally speaking, you can find most Blu-ray disks on eBay for less than the digital asking prices for the same movies!)

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A while back I switched my email to Migadu and then again to Proton Mail. My reasoning for this was because I was a little fed up with managing a mail server and I was increasingly worried that potential employers might not receive my emails.

I can confidently say that my worries were unfounded and I really missed tinkering with my little OpenBSD box in Amsterdam.

So, my mail server is again running on OpenBSD! If I did everything right, nobody should have noticed. I’ll have a new PGP key posted at some point.

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