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How AI Chatbots Became State Informants

15 Oct 2026 12 minute read 2 comments Learn With Hatty $0.31

Picture a scene that plays out in millions of bedrooms across the country every single night. It is two o’clock in the morning, the house is pitch black, and the only illumination in the room is the pale blue glow of a smartphone screen reflecting of...

Automated Plate Readers and the Death of Public Anonymity

14 Oct 2026 14 minute read 1 comment Learn With Hatty $0.53

For centuries, the open road stood as the ultimate symbol of human freedom and physical autonomy. In the American imagination, asphalt highways and rural gravel routes represented an escape from the suffocating gaze of institutional authority. If lif...

The Rise of In-Browser Client-Side Apps

28 Sep 2026 15 minute read 6 comments Learn With Hatty $0.37

Somewhere along the way, the tech industry pulled off the greatest heist in human history. They convinced the entire world that you cannot own your own thoughts unless you rent them back from a corporate server farm. Think about how you use a compute...

5 Open-Source and Free ChatGPT Alternatives You Can Support with Crypto Donations

19 Sep 2026 5 minute read 1 comment Obyte DAG $0.31

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and especially Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, have become part of everyday life for millions of people. There are some concerns around them, though, including data privacy and concentration...

I Tried antiX, Puppy and Bodhi on My Old Netbook

13 Sep 2026 3 minute read 1 comment SkyLords $0.01

I have an old netbook and that I wanted to bring back to life instead of leaving it unused. The machine has an Intel Atom N455 running at 1.66 GHz, with 1 core, 2 threads and only 2 GB of RAM. By today's standards, this is extremely limited hardware,...

Your Phone is Now a Supercomputer

2 Sep 2026 7 minute read 4 comments Learn With Hatty $0.37

For the past couple of years, the technology industry worked very hard to convince us of a specific narrative. Artificial intelligence is an unfathomably complex, multi-billion-dollar technology that you can only rent from a corporate cloud provider....

Your Data Built Silicon Valley

1 Sep 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Learn With Hatty $0.19

Silicon Valley loves nothing more than the myth of the brilliant founder working out of a dusty suburban garage. We have been sold that fairy tale for decades in books, documentaries, and glossy magazine profiles. The story always follows the same pr...

Your Digital Footprint is Worth More Than Gold

29 Aug 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Learn With Hatty $0.20

If you take a drive along the outer beltways of almost any growing metropolitan area today, you will notice a surreal change in the landscape. Sprawling across former farmland and industrial parks are massive, windowless concrete fortresses. They are...

Telecoms Want to Privatize the Radio Spectrum

28 Aug 2026 7 minute read 3 comments Learn With Hatty $0.32

If you walk outside on a quiet morning and take a deep breath, the air around you feels completely still. But passing invisibly through that morning air, through the walls of your house, and across every square inch of our planet is one of the most v...

I Built My Own Nostr Signer and Discovered a Different Security Problem

23 Aug 2026 2 minute read 4 comments SkyLords $0.05

I started building my own Nostr signer for a simple reason: I wanted to understand what actually happens between a Nostr client and my private key. I didn't want signing to remain a black box. That small experiment became a browser extension I call...