WIP: Migrating from #ChatGPT to #Claude. Better late than sorry.

Anthropic's Claude hits No. 2 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection OpenAI's ChatGPT remains the top free app in the U.S. on Apple's rankings, but Claude has steadily gained traction.

Let's make it #1!

As for ChatGPT....delete, delete, delete

OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

Great time to permanently unsubscribe from ChatGPT.

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

ACAB includes ChatGPT

quitgpt.org

How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...

An interesting read - "How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt"
margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02...

ByeGym - Cancel Your Gym Membership The Smart Way Cancel your gym membership in 4 minutes. Professional cancellation letters via USPS Certified Mail. No phone calls, no confrontation.

Apparently Gym memberships are that difficult to cancel, that there are products who sell you to cancel your gym membership instead of you!? byegym.com

Now - think twice on the NYE whether you really want to join the gym you've been considering :D

AI bubble: ’This is so much worse than the dot-com bubble’ | Ed Zitron YouTube video by Times Radio Tech

One more story telling you why the AI Bubble is bursting soonish ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35b...

They literally don’t give a shit about truth, only power is true.

Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan Proposed plan would apply to tourists of countries not currently required to get a visa to visit the US, including Britain and France

I’d guess a lot of us are not going to the US soon www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You will have to disclose all your social media activity from the past 5 years, as well as all emails used in the last 10 years :). I hope you haven’t joked about Trump or said anything that can hurt his ego.

it's super impressive even in the current form.

Yes, they are a bit cheaper than DigitalOcean and Linode - but that comes with a price. They have worse connectivity and their support is worse compared to others. On top of that, every time you need more resources you need to explicitly ask to be given. You can't just scale your servers up.

The worst part - they've given me 24 hours!!! to react. How does one react in 24h post working hours on a Friday. Holiday season when people are out and about most Fridays.

I was lucky this time, I may not be next. There might be no next time. I'm moving all my servers out of Hetzner.

I'm so disappointed by #Hetzner again and again.

Someone has filed a DMCA notice against one of my websites. Hetzner has sent me an email (that I'm lucking to have noticed), past work-ours and right before the weekend, demanding removal of content or connectivity to my server will be disabled...

Who else is enjoying the BTC fall graph?

Speculative stocks/assets are the first to go in the context of the upcoming big market correction.

The next fall that will bring even more joy would be the fall of TSLA (and Musk).

Just saw an extended version

What an interesting idea - "Scraper protection without javascript" defgsus.github.io/nn-experimen...

p.s. try copying anything from that page above :)

So many smart people have expressed this notion in a variety of ways. Everyone knows it. Yet, we keep chasing tomorrow.

OK, it seems some aggressive crawlers from China have found a way to jump around Cloudflare's captcha. Three ASN have been trashing one of my projects, www.libhunt.com, for about week. At the same time, all three ASNs were included in a rule requiring a captcha. They have a direct block now.

I got bitten by a bull ant, www.google.com/search?sca_e..., on my second day in Australia. It's painful. Yet, the main pain goes away in about 10-15min. The red area on my foot stayed on for about 10 days though.

US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces The Human Rights Reporting Gateway acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government.

The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

2) Their US location is not in the Bay Area. Respectively, if your websites/services are behind Cloudflare (which is based in the Bay Area), you have about 40ms added extra to each request.

Client => CF <- 20ms -> Your Origin <- 20ms -> Cloudflare => Client.

A lot of people have been choosing Hetzner VPS servers these days. Same here. I love how affordable they are. They also offer amongst the best performance. Yet, I have two issues with them.

1) You need to request in advance your resources. Let's say that's OKish with some planning.
2) ...

October heat records broken across Australia as Sydney braces for temperatures ‘way above the norm’ Birdsville sets new high as BoM forecasts more record hot weather, with heatwave warnings in place in some states * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast October heat records have been broken in several states this week, as authorities in New South Wales prepare for “temperatures way above the norm” to hit Sydney and the east coast of Australia. The Queensland outback town of Birdsville broke a new record on Tuesday, hitting 46.1C at 2.28pm local time according to the Bureau of Meteorology, making it the highest temperature ever recorded in the state in October. Continue reading...

October heat records broken across Australia as Sydney braces for temperatures ‘way above the norm’

I did a "quick" domain name ownership reconciliation this weekend. Through the years, names have been flowing from GoDaddy => Namecheap => Porkbun.

Anyhow, my total annual cost is $872. And, I think I won't be able to action the ideas behind all of them.

Anyone interested in hackernewsjobs.com?

Why You Should Go To A Protest Tomorrow No Kings Day: October 18th

No Kings won't gain us any ground, it's true. But No Kings helps us hold the line — a line that is very much at risk

There can be no mass movement if the masses succumb to fear and despair

Well, if you want to market it, you have to give it a name. That's part of the game.

I started reading "Poor Charlie's Almanack" yesterday. Such an inspiring book. I only regret that I hadn't read it earlier in my life. Anyhow, better late than never. #recommendations #books

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