Offgrid Holdout

Been trying various browsers the past month. I have been really trying to get away from anything Google related, which eliminates quite a few browser options (Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and obviously Chrome) and while I am not a huge fan of Gecko (Firefox) I decided to give a browser based on that a shot. It’s called LibreWolf. It uses Gecko rather than Chromium and removes/changes a lot of Mozilla telemetry and integration. The install on Debian 13 was simple, it is clean, familiar and so far,…

Not sure anyone actually reads this. Probably not. So really, getting wrapped around the axle about how much I post here finds me realizing I need to chill… doesn’t matter. I have and active, anonymous blog that I can pretty much open myself up to as well as other sites I contribute to that leave posting here pretty much for the ragged refuge left over! I am also off and running in pursuit of my master’s degree, so I’ll be doing lot’s of reading, lot’s of writing, and spending the free hours I…

Every generation has catch phrases and words associated with them. Currently, the word is “slop.” I’m just going to be very blunt with my thoughts on this. If you use the word slop in your post, article, blog, whatever, as soon as I see it I will have lost all interest in what you have to say. Why? Because you are a hypocrite. You are ranting and raving about something on the premise that it was created without “human thinking.” When you use that word, you are doing exactly what you are ranting…

My brain still thinks I am 30 and my body fights it tooth and nail. I had a band gig last night, old school 9pm to 1am. The gig was over an hour away so I loaded my vehicle at 5pm with all the PA and my gear then drove out there. two hours to unload/setup, four hours of playing, and other hour of tear down and then another hour and 15 minute drive back home put my home at 3:15am. 10 hours for a few days of gas money. It’s a good think I love playing music. But I woke up today around 9am, sore,…

Spend enough time poking around Mastodon instances, looking at who runs the bigger ActivityPub servers, or reading about governments experimenting with decentralized social media, and a pattern starts to show up. A surprising amount of the interesting activity has happened outside the United States. Japan, Germany, India, and even China come up again and again in the history of the fediverse. American institutions, meanwhile, have mostly watched from the sidelines while Silicon Valley platforms…

I really thought that I had found a viable home. A place where I could write to my hearts content and maybe actually have it viewed by someone. The #smallweb is a wonderful thing. But is, at times, it’s like space: cold and lonely. I thought federating my blogs would find life in the universe that is the web. I was wrong. All I have found is snobs. #Gatekeepers who, if it doesn’t meet their narrow-minded standards, belittle, admonish, and even suspend accounts for things they don’t see “fit.” I…

I started GemCities at the beginning of March 2026. A mere five months ago. I had started really getting into the whole Gemini protocol/small-web thing and decided that it would be cool if there was a simple way to test the waters without actually having to stand up a server to publish, while still being in total control of your capsule. The idea came to me from the past, the exact vibe that the small-web encompasses, in the form of the classic GeoCities. Simple, easy to use, no hassles with…