Category: Tech
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Digital Music Readers (August 2025 Update)
It’s been few years since I last wrote up my thoughts about the best tablet device if you’re interested in moving away from paper music, so I thought I would update my recommendations for digital music tablets. Important Features to Consider Reading sheet music on a tablet is a relatively small niche for tablets, so…
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Meta Caught in the Cookie Jar
While it’s not a surprise when Meta/Facebook is found to be a little “loose” with users’ privacy and data, a discovery early last month represented a new low for violating users expectations and their explicit attempts to preserve their privacy.Meta is in “good” company with this clever trick, though. Another website that was discovered using…
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Extend Your iPhone’s Life with a New Battery
Getting your iPhone battery replaced can be a great way to improve your phone’s performance and save money instead of buying a new phone!
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Google’s Cookie Crumbles
Google has officially backed off from their planned elimination of cookies from Chrome.
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Spotify Stinks for Classical Music
Spotify may have popularized streaming music, but really doesn’t seem to work well for the entire genre of classical music.
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The Enshittification of…Everything
A few days ago I wrote about the enshittification of the music industry by apps like Spotify. But I neglected to mention what enshittification actually is. Enshittification is a term coined by writer Cory Doctorow in 2022 in this blog post titled “Social Quitting”, and expanded upon the idea in a blog post titled “Tiktok’s…
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Think Twice Before Downloading DeepSeek
If you’re at all into technology, you’ve been bombarded by the release of an incredible open-source AI chatbot by the company DeepSeek. The DeepSeek chatbot has (rightfully)put all the big American AI players (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia, etc.) on the back foot. The DeepSeek models (there are two primary models and six smaller ones) are…
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Ghost Artists – The Enshittification of the Music Business
This article in Harper’s Magazine about the phenomena of “ghost artists” capturing real attention (and taking real money) from already-underpaid artists is both fascinating and disheartening. The general idea of ghost artists is both depressing and fairly simple to understand: Spotify, the rumor had it, was filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed…
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Car Privacy
With all the technology talk about AI over the past year, some of the weirdness in auto technology (and privacy) seems to have fallen by the wayside. Mercedes First, this Mercedes ad essentially brags about how much a father can learn about his daughter only from her car. While these features are marketed as “helpful”…
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Free Apps and Data Breaches
I’ve talked about the danger of “free” apps before. In short, while there are free apps that are great (primarily open-source software), most free apps are only free because the monetize their users in non-obvious ways. Often times this means having an ad platform (or multiple ad platforms) integrated into the app. Often times the…