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I talk about the Internet in general

• Enter the obvious reference - May 2021
  On a whim I installed a decentralized communication platform on a domain that I didn't have any better use for.
  Tagged with: matrix, element, synapse, software, decentralization
• Care and feeding of Internet trolls - May 2021
  I almost engaged with an Internet troll, but then I remembered the Old Advice.
  Tagged with: Internet (with a big 'I'), advice to myself
• Matrix Status Update - June 2021
  It's been about a month since I installed Matrix. I have thoughts.
  Tagged with: matrix, element, synapse, software, decentralization, redux
• I've decided to stop paying attention to my web stats - September 2021
  I historically have spent way too much time obsessing over my website's statistics. I decide to stop.
  Tagged with: statistics, statistical errors
• The Return of the Old Internet - January 2022
  Every once in a while someone tells me that the Old Internet is making a comeback. I thought about it and this is what I came up with.
  Tagged with: social media, two internets
• Mastodon vs. Email - April 2022
  I keep seeing people complain that they can't join Mastodon because of a litany of reasons. Reasons that seem to apply equally to email as they do to the Fediverse.
  Tagged with: social media, fediverse, twitter, mastodon
• Thoughts on the Fediverse - 16 Nov 2022
  Twitter appears to be circling the drain. Now is a great time to jump into the Fediverse. Or is it?
  Tagged with: tortured metaphors, fediverse, twitter not twitter
• Who needs comment sections anyway? - 11 Jan 2023
  Do you need to enable commments to have a blog? Spoilers: no.
  Tagged with: like, share, and subscribe
• No Comment February 2023 - 6 Jun 2023
  In February of 2023 I did an experiment to see what it would be like if I ignored internet comments for a whole month.
  Tagged with: Internet, comments, forums
• The World Wide Web is Almost Unusable - 14 Dec 2023
  It's been a long time coming, but 2023 was the tipping point for me. I no longer consider the World Wide Web to be generally usable.
  Tagged with: Internet, clubhouses, megacorps

I have opinions about things.

I talk about video games

• Skylanders - July 2021
  I accidentally started collecting Skylanders a while back, but what am I going to do with them?
  Tagged with: skylanders, collecting, theory
• Super Console X - July 2021
  I got hold of a small multi-emulator thing for playing games that I already had (of course). Is it worth the pittance I paid for it? Spoiler: kind-of.
  Tagged with: amazon, junk, I'd buy that for $5
• Can video games be art? - August 2021
  In 2005, Roger Ebert said that video games can never be art. Now that he's dead and can't respond, I figured it was time to weigh in.
  Tagged with: commentary, late to the party, why is this an issue?

I get meta and talk about this site

I have thoughts. Sometimes I write them down so you can think them too.

• Technical Obligations - June 2021
  If someone has the means, are they obligated to facilitate the usage of the Internet to those that might not (yet) have similar means?
  Tagged with: software, theory, obligations, rambling
• Software I Use - May 2022
  I compare recommending software to pizza toppings. Don't worry, it's short.
  Tagged with: tortured metaphors, software, oh no - this again
• RSS media - October 2024
  I lay out a hare-brained scheme to replace social media with rss feeds.
  Tagged with: social media, rss, wacky ideas
• Why I'm not on social media - January 2025
  I get asked a lot why I'm not on social media, so I wrote a page that I could point people to.
  Tagged with: social media, explainer

Where I talk about what I'm doing with FreeBSD

• USBugs - April 2021
  I struggled for about a year trying to solve a problem that apparently turned out to be a hardware bug.
  Tagged with: hardware bugs, freebsd, linux, frustration, way too many words

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