Yes, Codeberg/Forgejo or even self-hosting a git server. Git itself is decentralized and self-hostable.

Self-burned discs is just added protection, ideally you should also have the files themselves stored both locally and on some form of external drive as well.

And technically, BD-R HTL discs are chemically similar to M-DISC DVDs in that they use an inorganic composite to store data where BD-R LTH discs are dye-based like CD-Rs and normal DVD-/+Rs, so they should be more robust because of that, not to mention M-DISC DVDs themselves use glassy carbon to store data.

Too bad there was never a CD-R equivalent to M-DISC DVDs because those would've been handy for burning WAV files or even FLAC files as an audio CD for long-term archival.

If you have any FLAC CD rips you downloaded from IA, you might want to burn them to a physical copy in the actual likelihood those rips might get taken down for copyright reasons now, especially if it's long out of print; that's what I did for Ecco: Songs of Time, I burned it as an audio CD recently, that way you'll ideally have a full-quality physical copy you can rip from should the files get corrupted.

Of course that should also be followed up with the FLAC files themselves being stored on some form of external media as well and not just a burned audio CD copy, but yeah.

This also counts for any legally-purchased FLAC albums off 7Digital and the like because there's always the threat of those getting delisted for future download from such sites; I lost half my 7Digital library to exactly that.

If available, if I buy any more music in the future, it's going to be a physical release that I'll rip to FLAC myself so that I can at least still have that album in a physical format it should it get delisted from digital storefronts for any reason.

You could always get binders to stick them in to save space that way.

I'm not so sure I would recommend 7Digital anymore since they've been delisting a lot of stuff lately, meaning even if you already bought it, you can't download it anymore.

Also, if you plan on building up a mainly digital collection, I wouldn't use lossy codecs like MP3 for my main files, instead opting for FLAC or some other lossless codec, which can then be safely transcoded to a lossy copy at will.

I’ve stopped pirating more than a decade ago but streaming and “buying” content is getting worse and worse.

Even when buying physical copies, BD movies have at least one, sometimes two layers of DRM to put up with; AACS and sometimes BD+ on top of that, and even DVDs technically have DRM although that was blown wide open eons ago.

Also, although CDs are DRM-free, for now, there's a 9/10 chance that if you get a new CD album instead of a lossy download through iTunes/Apple Music or wherever or streaming it through Spotify, that it'll be brickwalled to hell; blame Oasis on that one for starting the Loudness Wars, meanwhile if you go to track down an old vinyl album or even a CD pre-1995 or so, it'll likely have been mastered decently; a lot of the time an old vinyl album is mastered better than a new CD album, both because of predating the Loudness Wars by decades typically, and also because a mastering house will have had a 20Hz-20kHz window to work in with vinyl generally.

Yeah it is, and it's their fault that it is.

Google has no right to say the open web is in decline, when they're the main cause of it, this is basically them saying, 'Yeah, we won this stupid war that we started, screw you, peons,' this comes off like if MS broke WINE and then admitted no one uses desktop Linux anymore, it will have been their faults that hypothetical scenario happened, this is what Google saying the open web is in decline when it's largely their fault that it is comes off as to me.

Time for them to at minimum mirror their channel to Odysee and/or PeerTube so that they'll still have a platform just in case their channel gets nuked.

Even if you don't plan on ditching YT outright, it's still a good idea to mirror to Odysee, PeerTube, or both, as a backup because of shit like this.

Anyone who has projects on Github they care about, you might wanna move it to self-hosting or another git host while you still can, because once MS gets tired of killing e-mails, Github repos are probably going to start getting sniped next.

If it's upheld, that's the precursor to full-blown info blackouts, just cut off internet to anyone 'accused' of wrongspeak against the powers that be, which is basically everyone.

This also sounds like SOPA reborn.

One more reason to use Lemmy.

Good thing LibreWolf and other forks exist.