Author: Yeri Tiete
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Inflation
Three reasons prices are going up. But also most notably massive markups and lack of healthy competition. Source: Kottke
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How vinyl records are made
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Tracking “recycled” shoes with Airtags
U.S. petrochemicals giant Dow Inc and the Singapore government said they were transforming old sneakers into playgrounds and running tracks. Reuters put that promise to the test by planting hidden trackers inside 11 pairs of donated shoes. Most got exported instead. […] t a rundown market on the Indonesian island of Batam, a small location…
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You Are an Impossible Machine
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Why everything you buy is worse now
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NextDNS and NetworkManager
A while back, I wrote about installing NetworkManager if NextDNS activate fails to work. Only… I realised that for some reason on Raspberry Pi (4), WiFi stopped working with the following errors: The WiFi SSID and password (wpa_supplicant) never changed, so I wasn’t sure what it was. However, as most Pi’s are wired I didn’t…
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I tried using AI. It scared me.
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Bunkers
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The Enshittification Lifecycle of SaaS
Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. […] This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they’re…
