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Category: Technology

  • mkultra.monster, a Mastodon Instance

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    If you’re seeing this from the Fediverse, it’s because I have my self-hosted WordPress blog using plugins that connect it directly via something of a pseudo instance. Each post on my blog is also a post on the Fediverse, and although I can follow users from WordPress, it’s not exactly bug free, in that I…

  • Anti-Social Media: Corporations Just Don’t Get it

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    I keep trying to like Threads. I know, I know, this is a massively unpopular thing to do on the fediverse, but I tend not to do what other people want me to do until I’ve come to concrete decisions and ideas on my own, through my own experience. There’s a lot of the internet,…

  • As Google Increases Predatory Practices, Should You Switch to Peertube?

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    If you’ve been on the internet for the past five years, or even the past ten years, you might remember that moment on Twitter where someone noted that the people at Google’s headquarters in California took down their “Don’t be evil” sign and/or removed it from their CoC, as if they were cartoon villains getting…

  • *hacker voice* I’m In, the XZ Fiasco

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    As some who visit this blog, and also my Patreon, may know, for the past month or so, I’ve gone headfirst completely into Linux leaving Windows in the dust like the roadrunner escaping the coyote. This was largely due-in-part to Microsoft’s forced “artificial intelligence” injections into every single piece of its software (and possible subscription…

  • The Year is 1995

    The Year is 1995

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    You’re sitting at a wooden desk in front of a mammoth of a PC tower. It’s beige and blocky; the buttons are chunky. Its idling sounds like the low hum of an aircraft taking off, and the hard drive clicks like a woodpecker having a seizure. It’s late November 1995, and you’ve just installed the…