Objectives for 2024

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 19, 2023

Also of note: High-Priority Opponents

WITH two hours remaining in the day Tux Machines exceeds 760,000 requests over the Web and 5,200 requests over Gemini. But its traffic levels are similar to this site's and both grow over time (over a million requests per day for the sites combined). Having just paid for hosting a year in advance, as scheduled, we wish to specify the goals for the coming year. Our generous and kind sponsors (appreciative readers, not companies) deserve to know what they support:

1. A better site organisation facility, enabling readers to explore topics through an index of pages with exploratory and explanatory text, elucidating the connection between those pages (not just a long list of links). This is a very time-consuming task and a long, ongoing process (we originally used a wiki for it).
2. About a dozen new pages/articles per day, but the pace depends on many factors including post length, depth, and of course personal life.
3. Better separation between site sections or article types.
4. Improved transparency, including information about malicious and dishonest efforts to deplatform ('dehost') the site.

A lot of this, especially (1), may begin as soon as next week, not next year. It's time to take stock of 17+ years of writing (about 40,300 blog posts), or to make history and present analyses more easily accessible. We hope the Internet Archive will survive for many years to come as we depend a lot on the Wayback Machine. It's by far the most important site on the Web. No wonder it is besieged by oligarchs' interest groups. They want to make the past 'vanish' while they buy and edit Wikipedia [1, 2] - the most hyped-up revisionism money can buy.

Efforts to cancel us (and others) intensified this year. We'll ensure all these efforts backfire badly, lessening the incentive to pursue further smear campaigns as such.

As always, take care of your software freedom. It's not radical an idea.... to wish to controls one's own computing devices. People controlling whatever they buy should be the default. █