https://isopod.cool/notes/ 2025-07-05T00:00:00+00:00 Hannah Isopod https://isopod.cool/ ME https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/ 2025-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 2025-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

<p>Very informative read regarding the incredibly obtuse inner workings of digital financial infrastructure, and why every online storefront is so helplessly beholden to these censorious intermediaries.</p>

https://archive.ph/7J6Uw 2025-08-11T00:00:00+00:00 2025-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

<p>Thoroughly unsurprising.</p><p>Now would be a great time to move to <a href="https://codeberg.org/">Codeberg</a>, <a href="https://sr.ht/">Sourcehut</a>, <a href="https://git.gay/">git.gay</a>, or <a href="https://gitlab.com/">GitLab</a>, or do what I did and spin up your own instance of something like Forgejo. Unless you can't because of your job, then maybe see if you can convince them to do the same.</p><p>Honestly at this point I feel like the common thread is just "divest from American tech vendors as much as you can".</p>

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/ 2025-07-05T00:00:00+00:00 2025-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

<p>An excellent expression of everything insufferable about the pervasive push for "AI", as well as the rot at the core of large swathes of the modern internet.</p><p>The irony of the term "Content" is that the actual <em>content</em> of the Content is broadly irrelevant.</p>

https://wololo.net/2023/05/08/crazy-hacks-2-drill-a-hole-in-your-chip-and-find-out/ 2025-06-25T02:00:00+00:00 2025-06-25T02:00:00+00:00

<p>Why don't iPhone repair technicians just do this?</p>

https://theluddite.org/post/google-ads.html 2025-06-23T02:00:00+00:00 2025-06-23T02:00:00+00:00

<p>That explains... a lot.</p>

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys 2025-06-22T02:00:00+00:00 2025-06-22T02:00:00+00:00

<p>inb4 Bluesky's little ~decentralized protocol~ becomes "deprecated" in a few years after they run out of money.</p>

https://axbom.com/the-creepy-sound-of-online-trackers/ 2025-06-22T01:00:00+00:00 2025-06-22T01:00:00+00:00

<p>The second half of the first video is what's really interesting to me. Try as I might, I can't come up with what (even superfluous) purpose some of those pings to Google could possibly be serving, and that's almost the creepiest part.</p><p>Oh wait, it's Chrome. I guess that explains it.</p>

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/notes-dot-jim-nielsen-dot-com/ 2025-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 2025-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

<p>I've wanted to do something like this for almost as long as I've had a blog, but it took seeing this for the idea to properly crystallize in my head. So I'm doing it now. You're looking at it!</p>