Helped my daughter jailbreak our old Kindle Paperwhite so she can use it as a generic eReader. Got this when researching the process. I could resume after quick reload/restate of question though. In other words: Claude is both consumer-hostile *and* it has paper thin guardrails. *Slow clap*

While I am on about dropping Big/US tech: Kobo instead of Kindle. Digital media is just rental & I do not want to give Bezos one more cent if I can help it. De-DRMed all my 100s of Kindle books last year. Put them in Calibre, which syncs to many eBook readers. Full control of my books again! ❤️

First US tech company/service dropped from my life, long overdue: Backblaze. Lets go for Norwegian company Jottcloud instead. 10 minutes work to change my rclone backup script over to use Jotta instead for backups, and hey - a waaay nicer UX in their web console, to boot 🙂🪄

Finally, finally getting off my butt and getting off all possible US goods and services. Some will just take longer than others! www.goeuropean.org

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Palantir ut av Norge! Sørg for at norske borgere forblir trygge fra selskapet som bistår i folkemord, ulovlige deportasjoner og terroraksjoner. Palantir UT! www.opprop.net/palantir_ut_...

Always used Linux or OSX for dev work, but with fallback Windows box at home for PC gaming. No longer: Steam & Proton on Linux are amazing, every game I have tried so far (including Jedi: Survivor and Cyberpunk 2077) runs well. Valve might well be the greatest thing to happen to Linux this decade. ❤

"Your health records will be on the block chain." "Everyone will live in the Metaverse." "All art will be NFTs." "Generative AI will replace the need for humans." We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.

Looking for a simple, solid and user friendly uptime service, anyone got any hot tips? - Not venture-funded/private equity - Not part of the bigtech/cloud operators - Bonus if european corp! Pingdom was my go-to for a long time but they seem to be sinking into the private equity graveyard. 😢

A very, very good walkthrough about the reasons for software complexity and how we deal with them (or fail to do so) 🛠️

Why Can't We Make Simple Software? - Peter van Hardenberg

YouTube video by Handmade Cities

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Come for the funny realization that publicity-seeking billionaires all want you to think they could've done physics – stay for the vicious take-down of Ayn Rand. 🔥 Angela is great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI...

billionaires want you to know they could have done physics

YouTube video by Angela Collier

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Why isn’t AI doing the tedious shit for creative people instead of doing the creative shit for tedious people

Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal media: should shoplifters be executed?

Equinor you are not fooling us.

“This is the future of human civilization. It is inevitable. There’s nothing you can do to stop it. Get on board now, or be left to starve in the street.” — some of our most prominent celebrities and businesspeople, discussing digital monkey cartoons, two years ago