Hacker News: trclst

New comment by trclst in "Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now"

trclst — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:37:40 +0000

Something current: all the albums I bought this weekend have "(pre-order)" in the file name even though it's apparently the complete album.

the headline sounds wrong: If you don't save and archive paid bandcamp downloads, you've lost either way, no matter how the company is doing.

The good thing about bandcamp is that you have the option to do so. More importantly you have the possibility to get lossless music files.

If you download from bandcamp then currently only in flac and backup the results with programs like restic [1] just as you should back up all other data.

You should always make a second copy fo any further changes if you rewrite tags or encode to other formats like mp3.

[1] https://restic.net

New comment by trclst in "Sudo-rs' first security audit"

trclst — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:48:51 +0000

sudoedit would be an example.

New comment by trclst in "2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map"

trclst — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:13:15 +0000

"OVPN acquired by Pango, parent company of Hotspot Shield: what does it mean for users?"

https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/5/ovpn-acquired-by-pango...

Article updated 2023 https://blog.windscribe.com/the-vpn-relationship-map-2023/