Ayuuuup. Libgen, calibre, and Apple Books for me these days.

I’ve bought around 1000 kindle books over the years, but that shit ended this year when I found out about this stuff. Spent a week stripping the drm from all my purchases (the ones Amazon didn’t burn up in the memory hole, anyway; bout a dozen of the books I paid for are no longer available for download), adding them to calibre, and backing the data up.

Now I use the apple books app on my phone to read them. It’s not as convenient, but fuck Amazon.

That’s why i don’t connect mine to the internet and I black hole suspicious traffic

As if i would buy an American car, anyway.

That’s not very cache money of you

Oh no kidding? Gruber must be getting more open these days!

Daring fireball has always been very pro apple

Give it up, you sound like either a you don’t know what you’re talking about or a you’re a bootlicker for facebook.

You’re never going to win a pro Facebook argument in this community.

While I am very happy to see twitter burn, I’m gonna be that guy:

Suddenly IBM isn’t ok with nazis? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

I’m mostly being facetious, because I know things change and maybe that is why IBM is so zero tolerance.

Oh hell yes, hyperlinks! No more weird kitty alias to inject hyperlinks

Yeah she’s from letterkennt. Same actress.

Holy shit I never made that connection.

Having worked at square (before it became the joke it is now), I saw some people get pipped. One person survived, and this person used it to get diagnosed with adhd, get treatment, and turn shit around. She eventually became a manager, then a director, and is up for a job as Ciso at a different company.

So it’s possible to survive a pip, just fairly rare.

I am so glad I don’t work there now, seeing what it’s become makes me really sad. If you saw the news a couple months ago about the 18h+ outage they had, it was from software I worked on. They subverted guardrails I specifically wrote to prevent them from rolling out 100k iptables rules to every host, which is what happened.

No. Square was first, created cash (or cash app), and bought a bunch of other dumb shit. Eventually cash decided it wanted to be its own company and did their own shit, and jack allowed it because he’s a fucking idiot moron.

I worked there for a decade. Quit in 2020

Get fucked, YouTube.

1000%

Get fucked, USA Today

100% horror, just… in a different kind of way.

She doesn’t mention turning off location services. That shit is granular and used as part of the way companies track us.

And even if you turn it off, your location can still be derived by triangulating via cell towers; I’m not sure if that access is widely available or just for law enforcement…. But it I absolutely would not be surprised if it was for sale.

If I were doing this the phone would be turned off when I’m at home, and only used in public or moving in a car; nowhere near my home.

What man? All I see is majestic, majestic hair.

The paywall is delicious irony. Or whatever makes the story unreadable until I subscribe.