This is a list of the most interesting texts I've read in the past few weeks.
In order of how it resonates with me.
It's moreover completely random topic selection.

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https://levels.io/why-i-am-unreachable

"The most important skill I learnt is how to Google things and figure things out fast. If you always ask other people how to do stuff you'll never learn that skill."

A blog post with well written reasoning why it's good to be closed to most of the incoming channels of communication.

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype

"Once there is time for experts in the relevant fields to examine what happened, a very different story emerges, but one that gets less media attention."
"We echo this call and note that the illusion of speed and urgency promulgated by the tech companies is also a ploy to misdirect both policymakers and the public."

Some grounding thoughts about the super hyped AI.
(I'm not anti-AI at all. Just the hype for some companies and some models is too much.)

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https://www.we12travel.com/best-multi-day-hikes-in-the-world/

Hřebenovka trail mentioned <3

"It’s just over 100 kilometers and absolutely stunning as well as challenging, with many ladders and stairs to be climbed and descended."

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https://areomagazine.com/2019/07/31/towards-a-free-and-open-internet/

Long read.
"So here’s my plea: stop using big tech and venture into the wild."

Nostr almost mentioned, but one had to read between the lines :)

BTC there in right context: "Bitcoin—and certainly not for the swathe of quasi-fraudulent so-called cryptocurrencies that have followed in its wake—but an honest assessment of the profound technical achievement that Bitcoin represents."

But the Telegram/Brave here is just so weird to me: [...] "that open source alternative applications such as Gab, Minds, DuckDuckGo, Telegram and Brave are yet as slick"

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https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/09/reports/the-pangram-paradox/

"It’s never a good idea to outsource your critical thinking and your opinions to others, especially a non-human AI."

Long read. A quite complete profile of the Pangram business to scrutinize the texts being published on the web.

Henry is everywhere: [...] "authored with war criminal Henry Kissinger" + [...] "in other words, to let another AI become the arbiter of our reality."

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https://interseclab.org/research/max/

The Max Messenger
An Analysis of Russia’s State-Mandated Messaging Application

"Two people can run the same version of Max on the same day and be running very different applications, and neither of them can tell. This is the single most important technical fact in the report."

Fcuk this dystopia.

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https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/01/04/passkey-marketing-is-lying-to-you/

Long read.

"If you’ve read all the above and feel like Passkeys are load of proprietary crap from Big Tech Companies, then you’re in the same boat I was until a few days ago. That’s exactly what the marketing is trying to tell you."

"Passkeys are a public/private keypair authentication system. That’s it." - this is what took me a while to understand and the feeling of keeping me on purpose shielded from the underlying principle doesn't fit well with me.

"To be very honest here, you risk having KeePassXC blocked by relying parties" - really I don't like this passive aggressive approach of the Passkey consortium.

Side note: for me, they way to go is with passkeys stored in a HWW.
Therefore transferable, not tied to specific device keystore, with option to copy them to another HWW for backup.
(So the device is already available, in case 1st one cannot be accessed. Can be stored in pswd mngr as well but I'd like to have this separated).
This could be a way to conveniently bypass the vendor lock-in many have problems with for various reasons.

Pity it's not that much of a common knowledge, and I still don't use it fully tbh.

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https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/

A quick digest of how it feels to some, with knowledge of the topic they are searching for, to dig thru the AI assisted overview, being pushed by Google to the search.
"Google, a search engine which does not have human emotions, assumed that I had been spurned by a man in my life named Dario and decided what I wanted was an empathetic digital friend."

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https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/silencing-airtags-enables-stalkers-and-domestic-violence/

"The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the back panel and battery from an AirTag, position the Silencer’s highly engineered pin over the speaker, tap the pin with a hammer, and the AirTag’s speaker is destroyed. This prevents it from emitting an alert in three circumstances, only one of which is triggered by an owner. The other two scenarios aid stalkers and perpetrators of domestic violence, among others."

Nuff sadid.

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https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/meshcore_ai_image_transmission_l1/

Finally, local AI encoder/decoder on both sides makes it possible to transfer pics with MC <3

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https://github.com/Mte90/linus-torvalds-skill

Someone distilled Linus Torvalds emails from Linux kernel mailing list + 67 interview transcripts for use as a SKILL.md.

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https://www.glyphbyte.dev/app/

A nice way how to interpret the npub as series of pictograms.

Hellou, hope y'all keeping @Divine HQ nostr weird

☀ GM & GN 🌒

Interesting, having some typo and wrongly tagged account so deleted and reposted the same note (content) yet again.

First time, note ended on two more relays I haven't specified in client (from where the post is created).
Second only in what I have selected in client.
3rd again two more.

But why?

I've taken some time off for myself, away from online screens of the web.

After returning to Nostr space following roughly some 20 days, I found there's no way to read posts from people I follow.
(Well, without frantically scrolling through the entire feed down to the last note I remember reading at the time.
And dare you to skip this and try to return later - or switch clients - you'll lose the position within the feed.)

I think I figured out a workaround:

1) in Jumble, there's the '24h Pulse' feed with a 'Load earlier' option at the top.

2) clicking it repeatedly until reaching the days I need will load the notes per npub.

3) with double feed view enabled (do this first, the second feed is needed), I have the list of folks and can browse them chronologically, one by one.

There's also a counter (up to a 99+ posts), so I can see, loosely, how much content to expect.

(Still I kept it with no refresh just to contain the counts until reading done for what it shows.)

@Jumble for the win <3

#asknostr - besides doomscrolling, is there any better way to catch up on current events after a break?