This day’s portion – Posts

For the record

The pitfalls of hosted blogging and the challenge of doing-it-yourself.

Social media as dystopia machine

Exploring FOSS RSS readers and Haven, a private, Facebook-like app

If your HTML app doesn’t support alt text it’s a non-starter, even if it is independent

The BBC’s failure to report properly legitimises fascist protests. Local independent news websites do their job for them.

Indie or “punk” publishing is hard because blogging’s a solitary pursuit

It’s not the machine that’s lying

LLMs have no world model, which makes them less intelligent than text adventures written in the 1980s

Notes for a short story set in a UK dystopia

Shania and Town