Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
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Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him
Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html
A: Farm Island, United States of America
L: Xing Jiang, China
Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand
N: Yapacani River, Bolivia
Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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2d ago
Thanks to @concretedog , @neil & @foosel, I've ended up buying an Xteink X4. Picked it up from ebay from a UK importer, and it came with a screen protector and mag rings, but they didn't have the cases.
I 3D printed one of the slide-on ones but it just doesn't feel nice, so I've made a fold-over magnetic case mostly using some resources I had lying around. Had to buy a small amount of felt for the lining and 3D printed some strengtheners to form the spine and protect the front.
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Apr 12, 2026
@algebraicterror
Thank you - that's better. I'm sad I didn't follow him already - fixed now!
@PhineasX
Thank you - that's better. I'm sad I didn't follow him already - fixed now!
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Apr 11, 2026
@ottaross
Maybe you do, but in several jurisdictions that's illegal, and I don't publicly post about personally doing illegal things.
I mean, I use my new XTEINK X4 to read the many epubs that live on my Calibre-Web server. How they arrived there is my business, but I survive by people buying creative output, so they're paid for!
@Eatsbluecrayon is specifically looking for a method that involves no extra steps though, so lobbying publishers to remove DRM is the only legitimate way forward.
Maybe you do, but in several jurisdictions that's illegal, and I don't publicly post about personally doing illegal things.
I mean, I use my new XTEINK X4 to read the many epubs that live on my Calibre-Web server. How they arrived there is my business, but I survive by people buying creative output, so they're paid for!
@Eatsbluecrayon is specifically looking for a method that involves no extra steps though, so lobbying publishers to remove DRM is the only legitimate way forward.
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Apr 11, 2026
@lennybacon Looks like only Startpage/Brave have indexed the reddit post I went via.
Of course, if I search "Prompting With Hitler!" on Bluesky, several posts with links to the OG source turn up (and indeed the source themselves), but I imagine Liam's spread too thin to search every social media service he's a member of just to give credit to the creative behind it. But he's apologised, so lets move on.
Of course, if I search "Prompting With Hitler!" on Bluesky, several posts with links to the OG source turn up (and indeed the source themselves), but I imagine Liam's spread too thin to search every social media service he's a member of just to give credit to the creative behind it. But he's apologised, so lets move on.
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Apr 11, 2026
@lproven @lennybacon
Honestly, I searched on "You're Prompting With Hitler", and the top link was a reddit post which had a link to the source. I've a SearxNG instance I use, so maybe Google is hiding it given its message.
Honestly, I searched on "You're Prompting With Hitler", and the top link was a reddit post which had a link to the source. I've a SearxNG instance I use, so maybe Google is hiding it given its message.
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Apr 11, 2026
@Eatsbluecrayon @annecavicchi @dnparadice @thomasfuchs
Kobo does allow that IF (and only if) the publisher decides to make the book available without DRM. It's not Kobo who has chosen DRM, but they have supplied the means I suppose.
Source of knowledge: One of my wife's books that got indie published is available on Kobo without DRM - you buy it and download it, you get an ePub.
Kobo does allow that IF (and only if) the publisher decides to make the book available without DRM. It's not Kobo who has chosen DRM, but they have supplied the means I suppose.
Source of knowledge: One of my wife's books that got indie published is available on Kobo without DRM - you buy it and download it, you get an ePub.
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@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Apr 11, 2026
@lennybacon @lproven
This guy - Phineas Jones:
https://bsky.app/profile/phineas.bsky.social/post/3m4qd6xyz5s2l
Available for purchase as a poster:
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/phineas/prompting-with-hitler/poster/
This guy - Phineas Jones:
https://bsky.app/profile/phineas.bsky.social/post/3m4qd6xyz5s2l
Available for purchase as a poster:
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/phineas/prompting-with-hitler/poster/
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Apr 11, 2026
@annecavicchi
I think the Adobe ID is required if you want to read DRM'd books on a computer because it uses Adobe Editions. It's a necessary process to remove that DRM, I understand.
@Eatsbluecrayon @dnparadice @thomasfuchs
I think the Adobe ID is required if you want to read DRM'd books on a computer because it uses Adobe Editions. It's a necessary process to remove that DRM, I understand.
@Eatsbluecrayon @dnparadice @thomasfuchs
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Mar 01, 2026
I wanted to make sure the Fediverse got to see this first - our new short film is out today (this afternoon on commercial sites, right now on the federated ones)
RE: https://social.swordandfiddle.co.uk/notes/ajb224c3m73rb0r0
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Alyn
@alyn@wandering.shop
Into reading, SciFi, musical electronics, and vintage vehicles. Sidelines: gaming (generally chill exploration type and racing sims,) acoustic percussion and post-Roman history. He/Him Header image is from https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html A: Farm Island, United States of America L: Xing Jiang, China Y: Tasman Glacier, New Zealand N: Yapacani River, Bolivia Born @ 336.96ppm CO2
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Feb 17, 2026
@neatnik
Thanks for posting this. I tried setting it up on my homelab, but it really doesn't like sitting behind a reverse proxy. So I gave up and got an account with Hetzner. Sadly, although I used your link, I didn't get offered credit (in fact they charged €20 up front), so I don't think you'll get your €10 either - apologies.
Did get the Discourse server spun up and configured though, so that bit's all good.
Thanks for posting this. I tried setting it up on my homelab, but it really doesn't like sitting behind a reverse proxy. So I gave up and got an account with Hetzner. Sadly, although I used your link, I didn't get offered credit (in fact they charged €20 up front), so I don't think you'll get your €10 either - apologies.
Did get the Discourse server spun up and configured though, so that bit's all good.
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