News that Amazon is changing the way they offer their e-books books in Digital Rights Management (DRM) free formats. DRM is that evil force of enshittification that locks your media to a device or ecosystem as a means of protecting authors and destroying interoperability. Naturally, authors are keen on protecting their works from rampant copying, […]
Over the last few months, I’ve noticed the costs of AWS rising steadily I really hit an inflection point: High cost of AWS hosting, dwindling or nonexistent ad revenue, slower and slower Wordpress, and less blogging period. I’m not deserting this blog by any means, I guess I’m just being pragmatic about it
Last week Amazon announced a new Android-based phone named “Fire Phone”. This ultra-super-secret phone was probably an inevitability, but until it was announced, nobody really knew for sure. If you thought this was shades of Facebook Home, you would be right. I thought I’d take a look at what’s good, and what’s bad about Amazon’s announcement.
All I was looking for in this case was a 45W MagSafe power adapter (commonly used with Macbook Air computers). Join me as I order one off the Internet in an effort to save a little money.
Think about that for a second, Multi Hosted Cloud Storage Interface. That’s quite a mouthful isn’t it? This idea hit me as I was registering for yet another cloud storage solution, what if someone created something novel and different from all of these services? The idea would be to create a (possibly encrypted) set of […]