Writer, Dabbler In Things
I read on Mastodon a couple of days back that someone I follow has deleted her longtime files of collected notes and reminders, and has experienced a huge weight off her shoulders as a result. And I immediately knew that I could never do that. Her points are quite sound: The ever-growing list of books … Read more
I recently checked out this article that was linked from Mastodon (my sole social media presence) and it’s a pretty quick read, if you’re interested: https://glassalmanac.com/netflix-disney-and-prime-video-are-too-expensive-and-full-of-ads-users-are-turning-back-to-illegal-methods/ Here’s my thing: For decades, I’ve been — and I’m still — not a piracy guy. To me, someone who worked on something and would like to make money … Read more
I’ve changed email service providers. It’s for reasons I won’t bother getting into here, and I didn’t do it lightly, but it was something I felt I had to do. I had expected that change to take some effort, but suffice to say, working to fully make the swap to the new service has been… … Read more
This wasn’t a good week for fans of Neil Gaiman or Protonmail. First and way more importantly, Neil Gaiman, for decades my favourite writer, was outed as a serial woman abuser. Last I read, eight women in total have come forward with varying stories over years of abuse by him. I’ve long believed the victim … Read more
While I’ve written previously about bumps in the road to enjoying audiobooks and my take on that score hasn’t changed, I have to say, when they work for me, they really work. Anyone who’s a regular reader of this site will have been lulled half to sleep lately by my monthly What I Read This … Read more
When I first joined Mastodon in 2019, it was via a server — an instance, as it’s called — named mastodon.social. In part, joining that particular instance was from being a bit overwhelmed with trying to wrap my head around what an “instance” even meant, having only been exposed up to that point to social … Read more
I have a weird name. For those outside my family and group of friends who haven’t known me forever, the first one is pronounced “Ray” and the family name rhymes with “Yes person” (in fact, that’ll just help you pronounce it the way it would be in its native Denmark, and other Nordic countries). But … Read more
Hey, you know how Facebook (now called Meta) makes a fourtune from selling oceans of highly detailed, extremely personal data about each of its users to advertisers? … and how that had for some time included collecting data from its unsuspecting users even when they weren’t using Facebook at the time, reporting on what else … Read more
It’s been… let’s call it an interesting few weeks. Back in mid-February, we were visiting friends in Florida. The day after we arrived, I woke up to a notification on my phone that a lot — a lot — of money had been charged to my credit card by my webhost (the service that you … Read more
A couple of weeks back, at least one of my passwords was hacked. Luckily, I was saved by 2FA. What does that mean? Ok, let me back up. For some time now, I’ve used long, nonsense passwords for my accounts on websites. I’ve recently way upped my game in this respect by starting to use … Read more