Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • [14] dream diary: mar 21, 2025

    yesterday, i had a bit of trouble remembering my dream. it's really only either that, or i didn't dream at all for the day. anyhoo, the usual stuff...

  • 🔤SpellBinding — TFGIOSA Wordo: EARTH

• Politics and World Events

  • What should leasehold campaign priorities be in 2025?

    A lot of the energy in the room was around individual block-by-block disputes. But I was asked "what should be next?" at the national level. The context was more about research than campaigning. What is it that we need to *work out* now?

• Technology and Free Software

  • London Office of Technology and Innovation

    LOTI is a city-level digital innovation initiative aiming to improve life in the city at a local government level.

  • The world's number one project manager

    I've received an email from a magazine that said they were happy to inform me that they wanted to include me in their top 100 project management influencers list. They continued by saying that it only cost me €2,500. They also gave me the option to pay €7,000 and go to the top 25 list.

  • My-gration

    Sorry about the pun in the title. I am too middle-aged to resist them.

    I logged into my old Bear blog account to update my home page with a URL here. I used Bear obsessively for about a month and a half, but I ultimately left for three quite personal reasons.

    One: Bear's "Discover" feature, which uses upvotes or "toasts" as part of its calculations in determining what's "trending." Closely related are Bear's analytics, which let users learn a lot about when, where, and how visitors are reading their stuff.

    If these features work for you, great! But they tend to work against me. I have spent too many years writing to please The Algorithm. It's become pathological. It is not healthy for me to have access to that information, because I tend to obsess over it. So I'm walking away from it.

    Two: Bear uses Cloudflare. As part of my escape from Big Tech, I included Cloud Firewall in my LibreWolf extensions setup. Cloud Firewall automatically blocks sites from Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • A summary of my bot defence systems

      If you've followed my Butlerian Jihad pages, you know that I'm constantly fiddling with the setup. Each page got written in the middle of an attack as I'm trying to save my sites, documenting as I go along. But if you're looking for an overview, there is nothing to see. It's all over the place. Since the topic has gained some traction in recent days, I'm going to assemble all the things I do on this page.