If you are curious, at all, at why I'm so desperately hard on @masnick.com for staying on BlueSky, and promoting ATProto, as if he had an economic interest, in doing so, as well as leaning into the "followers = money, by way of dopamine" contingent of some of our best and brightest, then go listen to Cory Doctorow on TWiT:

AI couldn't be bothered to give me an accurate timestamp (it gave me a few inaccurate ones, probably because it can only pirate the version with commercials, or some dystopian, off-by-one commercial error 🤷‍♂️ - sucker!), so ya don't get one. :)

Try this link:

https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1074?autostart=false

Make time in your life to watch the whole episode, You will be smarter, for it. ❤️

#notanad :P @leo

I love the small gadgets. My “portable office” is full of them for every occasion.

Latest additions, nvme disk reader and enclosure from dezen.

#notanad #unaffiliated #tech

E não é que o product placement das novelinhas coreanas funciona?

Melhor bala de café que já consumi. #notanad

I actually purchased a subscription to a streaming platform today...

I've canceled all of my streaming and use the following apps to watch series/movies:
- Kanopy (free, no ads, uses library card)
- Hoopla (free, no ads, uses library card)
- Locally hosted Jellyfin (runs off my laptop connected to wifi - I need to move it to an RPi...) loaded with shows downloaded from Internet Archive (no piracy here, I swear)

(note: I'm considering buying bluerays and ripping them to load into Jellyfin - that might be interesting)

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I realized I was still watching Youtube. And their ads / algorithm is killing me. A friend had purchased Youtube Premium and I was not impressed.

I further realized all of my favorite content creators have channels on Nebula. No ads, no meaningful algorithm. Just subscribe to the channels you like and watch them there. $6 a month. And the money goes to the creators. The streaming service is creator-owned.

So I get my youtube fix... without youtube.

#notAnAd #nebula #youtube

https://nebula.tv

I don't do this often, nor am I getting paid to say this. I just really like the product.

If you're looking for a video editor for your iPhone or Android without having any watermarks on the free version...

Try VLLO.

I've used it for years and it works great. The free version covers the basics, but the $7.99 a year subscription is worth every dime. Too many features to list.

Go check it out yourself.

https://www.vllo.io

#PeerTube #video #notanad

These things are seriously tasty: Walking Tamales | Fillos https://www.fillos.com/pages/walking-tamales

#NotAnAd #JustAFan #tamales #vegan