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My nook was lightly sticky to the touch, I actually wiped it down with some cornstarch on a dish towel, it made a noticeable improvement. I do think if its too far gone though you'…

I almost bought an xteink the other week but held off due to lack of a frontlight option. I instead resurrected my nook simple touch (2011) with this project [1] from XDA forums, i…

+1 on battery life, though it has been improving: my idle battery usage is a lot better than a year ago.

While I agree with the concerns raised in this article, I did not enjoy the writing style of it. Almost all of it feels AI generated, and is written in a very combative tone.

The thought of this didn't even cross my mind until yesterday. I previously figured the hype was primarily around marketing, but after watching this Primagen video, I have the same…

Almost bought cisco shares today, glad I didn't. A workplace that values job security is such a motivating factor for employees that I don't think is recognized enough. At a compan…

If anyone is looking for a tool to actually send traffic to a tool like this, I wrote a Traefik plugin that can block or proxy requests based on useragent. https://github.com/holys…

Looks like the Firefox team is requiring clearer, higher quality security reports, presumably due to AI assisted submissions. Hopefully this will be enough to not require more sign…

I'll plug a similar project that I found last week, its an emulated TV Tuner (HD Homerun) of your Plex/Jellyfin content. Its great having an easy option to throw something on for b…

I'll plug that Chainguard has been maintaining a fork for awhile and seems to have a history with supporting forks like this: https://github.com/chainguard-forks/minio For a web GU…

The Verge had some good coverage about this, but TLDR: probably. Flagship phones may not raise in price to fully reflect it. They might cut costs elsewhere like keeping the same ca…

Yeah this doesnt seem like a unique or new issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40195410

Paywall bypass: Set your user-agent to "Googlebot"

For those curious, the federation roadmap is here: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m... I'm watching this pretty closely, I've been mirroring my GitHub r…

I very much think its possible to use LLMs as a tool in this way. However a lot of folks are not. I see people, both personally and professionally, give it a problem and expect it …

I always say I'm opting out as loudly as possible, many people don't even know that you can opt-out. The signs are often small and out sight.

Fascinating find and investigation. While there isn't a solid conclusion from it, glad it was written up, perhaps someone will be able to connect more dots with it.

The mullvad apps do offer obfuscation options (shadowsocks, etc) but i agree it would be nice if something was baked into wireguard itself. I recently went through setting up shado…

Continuing to add new features for my traefik plugin that manages bot traffic: https://github.com/holysoles/bot-wrangler-traefik-plugin Also working on getting Nix setup on my devi…

In general I have a pretty negative view of private equity. However I did see this awhile back that seems at least partially positive: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/private-equit…

There more sources if you google, but someone leaked a Cellebrite meeting. https://www.androidauthority.com/cellebrite-leak-google-pixe... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/l…

Both my current org and previous org (large) have mentioned it many times as an option, but both ended up choosing other commercial alternatives: HyperV and XenServer. I think the …