On Windows, there is a Secure Audio Path API to prevent interception of the audio signal. Not sure if macOS has something similar, though it can prevent screenshotting of DRMed video. On Linux, any such protection is probably impossible unless Spotify requires a kernel module.
Note that the audio quality on Spotify is not very high (256kbps .ogg, I think), so anything thus recorded is going to sound lossy, especially after you recompress it a second time.
If you’re paranoid, you can convert the FLACs to WAV on an isolated computer (or VM), copy them and recompress them to FLAC or other formats. If there is a vulnerability in FLAC, it won’t persist through transcoding.
Telegram is, by all accounts, a privacy garbage fire. They rolled their own crypto, bless them, and as they say, anyone can design a cryptosystem that they themselves can’t break.
Presumably they’ve ruled out prisons in northern European countries perceived to be too humane; imagine the Sun/Daily Mail thundering about “hardworking taxpayers’ money spent to give criminal scum holidays in luxury Finnish prisons”, along with a photo of a cell that looks vastly better than the typical London rental opportunity. So I’m guessing they’ll be asking around, say, Turkey, Morocco and various former Soviet republics. Possibly the US as well, though that may involve leaving the ECHR.
Remove all barriers in the way of science (mander.xyz)
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Recording Spotify to your DAW, can this get your account banned?
Does Spotify have a way to see if your computer is recording with your DAC’s stereo mix? And if so, is there a way around it?
Pitbulls (lemdro.id)
I may have downloaded music from 1337xx.to . is there anything to worry about?
1337xx.to, not the real site. I only downloaded .flacs
Which one do you trust the most for your privacy? (kerala.party)
US says North Korea delivered 1,000 containers of equipment and munitions to Russia for Ukraine war (apnews.com)
UK could rent space in foreign jails to ease shortage of cells (www.theguardian.com)
PI is what (i.imgur.com)
Pakistan resumes issuing 'X' ID cards to transgender people (www.washingtonblade.com)
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Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild (www.theguardian.com)
Comrade Dolly Parton, founder of Marxism? 🤣 (lemmygrad.ml)
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Steampunk (lemmy.world)