Links: VPN survey, a generated music startup, Metal Machine Music for Lou’s 75th.

For when you need to ~~hoist the Jolly Roger~~ browse with privacy: TorrentFreak’s 2017 VPN survey.
Amper is a technology startup to sell procedurally generated music. (They use “artificial intelligence” as the buzzword to score venture capital. At least it wasn’t “blockchain”.) This should be interesting in terms of copyright and iterative exploration of the space of all possible melodies.
In honour of Lou Reed’s 75th birthday, Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds reminiscences on Metal Machine Music. (And the 2012 Metal Machine Trio installation.)