I have seen the greatest minds of my generation copied, co-opted, ripped off, written over, memified, stolen, and misapplied whenever they put their best efforts into the work they post on the internet. I have no illusions that my own work has become grist for the mill. I’ve seen it. Most of my readers are …
Category Archives: Technology
Old Kid, New Town
For those who are interested, I have a Mastodon account. There you can follow me, and interact, and engage, and tease, and tempt, and cajole, and love love love. Sweet love. Please be gentle.
Handset Snips Music at the Ankles
A few days ago my Pixel 4a phone, running Android 13, started exhibiting a problem where I can play music in VLC, pause it with my Bluetooth headset, wait a few minutes, and when I unpause with the same headset, I get no response. Crickets. No music plays. So I wake up the screen, see …
Federation
So this weekend has seen some shakeup. I joined Mastodon and started learning about how it works and how that it relies on an open standard called ActivityPub, which allows separate sites to share activity such as posts, comments, etc. This is the nervous system between Mastodon sites, enabling them to federate (just like how …
939
Apparently this is post 939 on this blog. I would’ve rolled 1000 years ago if FecalDook and Shwitter hadn’t stolen my gas. Those platforms have really exhausted me. It’s bad enough that FB has turned into a shit pile of late: 3 posts from friends — only 1 of which is from today — and …