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So, I changed my site’s theming back to the handrolled version – salmon pink highlights and all – and am happier with what I see. I’ve been pootering about on the fediverse recently, all my filters have made even a US electoral year bearable. I finally, finally broke with WebShit Boy and now I experience the ‘verse using GotoSocial, and just now remembered to start…
In case you’ve been ignoring the news recently (and why wouldn’t you?) the EU has recently begun proceedings against some of the FAANG megacorps on the question of the Digital Marketplace Act. This follows on from a recent announcement of a significant fine for Apple, specifically they were fined €1,800,000,000 for breaking EU competition rules on video streaming. These are all welcome…
Over on the slowly dying corpse of reddit, a conversation took place which sparked my interest. Under the title: “Who won the civil war in Use of Weapons?” a significant number of the respondents stated, quite insitently, that the war was won by Zakalwe’s Royalist/Reactionary side, that Elethiomel had been defeated. This viewpoint is largely instructed by the line, probably the…
Last week, with a surfeit of time on my hands 1, i went and got tailscale set up on my homeserver and movable devices. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s sort of like a VPN system to connect remote devices to a pseudo-intranet. Its based on wireguard, but unlike that venerable software, it is trivial to set up. The details in the documentation are clear and well presented, and i…
If you read this on my site, you’ll already have seen what I’m talking about. Yes, in the infinite sweep of continual yak-shaving, I have decided to change my blog’s theme. For a change, I’m not using a hand-crafted one, as I’ve recently noticed that Hugo has become much more complex, and my personal efforts would have required too much damned time to keep up. I saw…
Last week, as we began our National Holiday in Ireland, I came across this post on fedi. I know #oracle is supposed to be evil and all that, but this free tier is pretty darn good. There’s (not 10x but instead) seemingly 10K times the free bandwidth that #Google cloud gives you. (Oracle = 10 TB, Google = 1 GB). Bit of a difference, no? If Oracle is known evil, and so are Google and Amazon,…
Last few nights we’ve been watching the BBC series “SAS: Rogue Heroes”. It is entertaining enough, and does a decent job in demonstrating just how young these men were, and how much of their fearsome reputation was due to that youth, with all that implies. Two things have annoyed me, though, in that what’s portrayed fits a modern perspective, with modern stereotypes, and…
Spoiler Alert for the Season Finale of Foundation I am genuinely still upset by the fate of Brother Dawn in AppleTV’s “Foundation”. As I mentioned elsewhere, this is almost personal for me, my oldest and Cassian Bilton look incredibly alike, my oldest is colour blind, and left-handed, so as the season went on I probably over invested in the character. It doesn’t help that Bilton,…
(This was originally a thread on mastodon but I thought if was more suited to a blog post) right, so people are doing their end of year confabulations, thought i’d lend my tuppence’orth. this year i read 56 works of sf or fantasy, or 24,106 pages. slightly more works by women or people-identifying-as-such than the converse this year. and what a year of reading it was. i had read all of…
Almost certainly prompted by the acquisition of Twitter by the nameless abomination, there’s been a small explosion of interest in the world of blogging, which has, of course, prompted this latest instalment in my own, sadly neglected, corner of the internet. The title here refers to this nice site something which apparently commits me to writing three blog posts here over the course of…