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 It seems like just yesterday, everyone was using and recommending privacy-friendly and open-source frontends to popular social media sites.
Every major website had one of these: Twitter had Nitter, Reddit had Libreddit and Teddit, YouTube had Invidious and Piped, Instagram had Bibliogram and TikTok had ProxiTok.
Even sites like Medium, Imgur and Quora were no exception,…

 
 
 The creation of Galaxy Garner holds special significance in my life. It was halfway completed when my maternal grandmother, who was like a mother to me, passed away. It was there that I realized that, whether consciously or otherwise, I had written an album fundamentally pertaining to motherhood. 
 1. Classindra 
 Despite being the first track on the album, Classindra was…
Chat and Internet 
 
 List of public XMPP servers open to registration 
 List of public Matrix servers open to registration 
 RSS Endpoints for many popular sites 
 RSSHub, RSS endpoints for those few sites that don’t have them 
 
 Tech 
 
 Tools for generating I2P addresses and hostnames 
 Simple, Libre Android Apps 
 Find leaner, less-bloated…
This list of Catholic rules to maintain proper usage of computer technology was published by Pascua Florida Publications. Credit goes to the St. Thomas More Church and Priory. 
 
 
 
 Almighty and eternal God,
Who created us in Thy image and bade to seek after all that is good,
true and beautiful, especially in the divine person of Thy only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus…
This is a transcription of a homily given by Fr. Jamey Rigi. 
Although I heard it live, this transcription is based off the live recording. 
 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. 
 During my retreat, or, perhaps more fittingly, my walk with Christ in the desert,
I thought. 
 Many ages ago, in a wilderness, a people lived in a foreign land,…
(This article is made in a similar vein to a Luke Smith article about web browsers.) 
 
 
 
 Since the dawn on the internet, people have seeked to use it as an effective way of communicating in real-time with others – even from across the globe! This is where the idea of a chat protocol and associated chat client comes in. This article seeks to act as an effective breakdown…
The second-most recent generation, nicknamed the Millenials, is known for its distinct usage of self-deprecation in humor. Whereas in previous generations it wasn’t as socially acceptable to talk about the shortcomings of one’s life (even rather serious and tragic ones) in such a humorous tone, this generation has been the first to openly practice this and even encourage it. You can…
I have recently made an audiobook of the popular “EasyPeasy” book on quitting pornography. 
 Listen on Odysee 
 Listen on PeerTube 
 Listen on YouTube 
 (Introduction written by me. EasyPeasy written by Allen Carr, “hackauthor” and Fraser Patterson.) 
 (DISCLAIMER: I am not a therapist and I do not have first-hand experience with addiction. This reading…
Some Apis Florea had settled in my backyard a few weeks ago. 
 
 
 
 Initially, my family thought they were wasps. So, we called up the exterminator and sent pictures of the hive. 
 
 
 
 Upon seeing pictures of the hive up-close, the exterminator determined that they weren’t actually wasps, but Arabian bees. The bees couldn’t just be sprayed and…

 


 
 
 What follows is a speech written by my sisters addressed to my grandmother. 
 English 
 Dear Grandma, 
 We’re here today on your birthday in your favorite church, gathered through the profound pain of your absence, to celebrate your life as a woman, wife, mother, and grandma. 
 
 
 
 Seen as there are no words to describe the…
This is a text adaptation of a homily given in 2011 by Fr. John Hollowell about beauty. 
 
 
 
 School plays are for pansies; – Or so I used to think. 
Art is only for people who can paint; – Or so I used to think. 
I could care less about a well-cooked, home-made meal; – Or so I used to think. 
 In high school, I loved to tell everyone that I had no…
(Recently, someone emailed asking me how I formed my quite negative opinions of social media. That very email inspired this article; Thanks!) 
 There is one memory about the internet I’ve never been able to shake from my mind.
It plays back vividly in my head whenever someone asks me about social media addiction. 
The story goes a little bit something like this: 
 I was only…
Recently, I’ve noticed an uptick in personal websites adopting similar features to my website,
whether it’s my two-paned collapsing design or the reply-to links at the bottom of my blog articles.
These include Tom Fasano’s site 
and his webring’s site, 
 Jacob McCormick’s site, 
and Ray Patrick’s site. 
 
 
 
 This is…
There is no doubt in my mind
that the final goal of all Artificial Intelligence,
whether its developers know it or not,
is to resemble God. 
 The definition of God, whether you believe in him or not,
is the exalted creator of all things.
Creator of the Universe,
Creator of humanity,
and Creator of all that was and ever will be.
Artificial Intelligence is a…

 
 
 I have this really vivid memory of when I was planning to take my GCSEs.
I remember being quite stressed about the whole ordeal,
not because I didn’t have faith in my own abilities as a student
but because I was worried about any cataclysmic event that might happen
that would disrupt my exams.
I would be paranoid about something happening to me or…
For anyone who keeps up with my channel and site,
you’d likely already be aware of the DenshiVideo chats. 
These were group chats available on Matrix, XMPP and Discord 
that let users chat across them seamlessly.
Now if you also keep up with the happenings in online group chats (I’m sorry for you)
then you’ll also be aware that they were closed quite recently.…
I’m on vacation for the entirety of July this year. 
I will not be working on any videos the entire month,
although I may relapse and edit my website or work on some self-hosting project here and there. 
 Fun things I’m doing on vacation 
 Since I’m on vacation near the coast,
I go to the beach every single day and get to enjoy a stereo-typically hot and sunny…
Computer development and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. 
You’d probably find this difficult to believe, especially coming from an avid l33t LUNIX h4xxor like me,
but more and more people are waking up to this important truth.
It only takes a short browse through Twitter,
a couple of posts from 4chan and a brief look at Facebook’s practices to…
It’s absolutely no secret that I love self-hosting. 
But something that has been bothering me for a while about the modern self-hosting world is people’s obsessions with over-complicating everything. 
At first I just thought I was stupid, and I didn’t have the knowledge or Reddit karma from my intellectual®® and quaint takes from r/atheism, 
but soon I realized that…
Whenever I talk to my younger siblings and their friends about their future in school,
I often see a lot of confusion regarding the current educational and examination systems. 
In this article, I will list and summarize the most common British qualifications,
alongside some editorial paragraphs giving my opinion on each one. 
 (I)GCSE 
 
 Length: 2-3 years 
 Grades:…
Recently, I’ve been tinkering around with Luke Smith’s ’lb’ script and adding various useful features. 
 The most useful one (which you will notice at the bottom of this entry) is the new (Reply-to) link at the end of all articles. 
This is appended automatically by the script every time I publish a new article,
and it works on RSS as well!
This way, people…
For a very, very long time, musicians all over the world have employed the use of computers to aid them in music production.
 GNU/Linux, being the OS of choice for tinkerers and the technically inclined,
gained a major following in the music and video production scene for it’s speed, reliability and compatibility over the years.
But what does music production on Linux actually…
Ever since I’ve gotten into self-hosting and making videos about it,
I’ve heard people talk about Pleroma, ActivityPub, and other decentralized social media-like protocols. 
It sounds excellent at first, adopting new standards to re-create the centralized social media experience of Twitter, Facebook and other “walled gardens”,
but after a while I realized that…
A lot of people know me for my “Just use” software series. 
But while I try to make as many videos as possible to cover all the “free software” replacements for software many people use daily, I couldn’t make a video on every piece of software. 
 This article simply contains the software I use and recommend; Most of it requires little to no elite® knowledge of…
This is a short fable I wrote when I was 9. 
 Once lived a mouse and a fox.
They both lived in a forest.
During the day, the fox slept: All day, all that the fox did was to sleep.
But the mouse, instead, didn’t sleep all day.
He had fun and enjoyed his life. He worked, but he also had fun. 
 This went on for a long time until one day, while the mouse was running…