evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I was in conversation with a person that blogs on Facebook. When I said I write on my own website, she was endlessly baffled as to how I have readers. I Explained my RSS fee gets submitted to directories, and people share my stuff in forums and indie social media and she just could not comprehend it. Since my audience is not a built in audience with an algorithm, she doesn't understand how I can maintain an audience. She kept asking me, if there's no algorithm, how do people find out about you and keep up with what you do? I explained that I have a mailing list for the folks that don't use RSS. She asked me how I monetize my content. I said, for the things that's on my website, I don't aggressively monetize it. I ask for donations if people like it. But your work is open for everybody to read it? She asked.

I explained that the reason why I keep my work open access is so that everybody that's in non-privileged countries could access it and read my stuff.

I'm sorely convinced that the Internet has ruined itself.

For the folks that asked, 2 links are below. I use Buttondown. My referral link is below.

https://buttondown.com/refer/weirdwriter

And my tips page is below.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/tip/

#IndieWeb #Blogging

@fribbledom

Companies are *already* quietly hiring people to come in and clean up the digital asbestos that is "AI" slop, or re-hiring the same folk (who did the actual work) that managers and CEOs ditched with surpassing cruelty.

Please, if you're a consultant or getting re-hired, MAKE THEM PAY.

Investigating the Mermaid of Zennor - https://jimmoon.substack.com/p/the-mermaid-of-zennor

#FolkloreThursday #mermaids

One of life’s pleasures. Out for a stroll in the countryside with a cup of tea.

Cloudflare Drop:

"Drop a folder. Or a zip.

Summon your site - HTML, CSS, JS. See it live instantly."

Cloudflare announced their new Exfiltration as a Service app today. Admins, be sure to lock this jackassery down ASAP. https://www.cloudflare.com/drop/

Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.

Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.

If anyone in Ireland is looking for a C++ position, I might know one #getfedihired

Don’t buy climbing walls on Temu
They are not to scale

Very pleasing to look out the window and see a sunset that matches the one I’ve coded into current project for these weather conditions

Today I found out (the hard way) you can only shoot old Sigmas wide open on newer Canons unless you chip them to translate the aperture command
Anyway, bugs!
#macrophotography

#TruthTuesday 👇
This bears repeating till governments do the work to corral unbridled #AI development: 👇

Y'all I'm so proud of my wife's pottery. Take a look at some of her recent work.