As Notopoulos writes, the Fediverse is a better, more user-centric social media concept than the one we currently have, where you amass followers on a single platform then lose them if that platform dies or becomes bad and you decide to quit. Federated social media means that you create an account on a server, can…
The advent of AI-powered image generators that can whip up an image in any style from a text prompt has shaken many human artists to their core.In particular, many have griped over their original work being used to train these AI models — a use they never opted into, and for which they’re not compensated.But…
[sc name="responsivevoice" ][/sc] Though I have found much comfort in labels others have bestowed on me, I don’t think I’ve ever sat down and told people what I consider myself. I’ve been described, and described myself as a witch, and I’m comfortable with that, but this doesn’t really say anything about what I believe. In…
[sc name="responsivevoice" ][/sc] Living in a country in active war is a sort of surreal experience, as many people in this violent world have already explained. The realities one has to cope with become almost mundane. Almost. When certain things aren’t available or become rationed, you just deal with it. When you can, you stock…
[sc name="responsivevoice" ][/sc] Once again, we the meat are being ground. Thusfar, I’m in that space between some bones that hasn’t been chewed up yet. If fortune smiles on me again for some reason, I’ll live with the memory of this. I live with the memory of the last big war here. I live with…
Since I’m attempting to inform people as to why they need a website, and offering my help for them to do that, I need to keep my skills up to date. So I’ve been re-studying HTML and CSS to make sure that if need be, I can still build a site from scratch or make…