Welcome. This is my space for thoughts on technology, privacy, digital sovereignty, and whatever else crosses my mind.
It's also about anything that I find to be wonderful.
One of the things which I changed in my life is my schedule. I used to go to bed after dawn on most days. I liked the quiet time of the night. But then, I'd wake up around noon and felt like the entire day had gone by an…
Continue reading →Cory Doctorow has a wonderful piece out today called Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) in which he talks about RSS feeds. RSS, for those who don't know, is one of the best things ever created. I'll …
Continue reading →It's something I decided to do while waiting for my latest restic backup download to my local drive. Seeing as I was up at an ungodly hour (3:45 am), and having solved some issues with restic and automating the download,…
Continue reading →I've recently deleted everything off of Apple Podcasts. Keep in mind - I've used this app for years on a daily basis. It used to be reliably on my home screen - the first one, mind - at the bottom so I could reach it as …
Continue reading →One thing about revamping your entire system and going independent is that it forces you to finally consolidate everything under your own independent means. I forgot how much crap i had over at Google since twenty years …
Continue reading →If there's one thing that is more time consuming than anything when changing your domain, it's changing to your new email address on every single website and service where you had your old one.
Continue reading →I wrote a long and generalized "how to" for getting off of the American Tech Stack as much as possible. I'm putting it in a static pages link so people can use it as reference if they feel like it. I hope it helps. You c…
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