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kev, 6 months ago to random

Hey folks, I come to you, hat in hand, looking for support. Financial support for #Fosstodon has dropped off recently and I totally get it - inflation is up and #Chistmas is around the corner. We all have more important things to spend our money on.

At the moment our outgoings are larger than our income, so our slush fund is dwindling away. Anything you can do to support us would be GREATLY appreciated. Here’s all the ways you can help:

https://hub.fosstodon.org/support/

kev, 5 months ago to threads

I wrote a thing about #Threads joining the #Fediverse and all the blocking that's ensued as a result.

https://kevquirk.com/threads-and-the-fediverse

Drama in 3...2...1... 😂

kev, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Lots of people throwing #Substack alternatives out there, but I haven’t seen much love for @buttondown. No idea why, because it’s awesome.

With Buttondown you get:

✅ Fully hosted
✅ Newsletter, RSS and public archive (a blog)
✅ Custom CSS for both newsletter and web
✅ Run by a really cool person who’s always adding new features
✅ That warm fuzzy feeling of supporting indie devs

https://buttondown.email

kev, 1 month ago to DuckDuckGo

I just searched for something on #DuckDuckGo and got a “DuckAssist” at the top of the results, right below the ads (of course).

It was basically a ChatGPT like message as if I’d typed the question there.

Stop 👏 putting 👏 #AI 👏 in 👏 every 👏 fucking 👏 thing!

kev, 5 months ago to random

The thing we used to read on the toilet before smartphones…

kev, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I love #RSS. My RSS feed reader is the page I visit most on web, I think. So it's very frustrating when folks update their site, but don't redirect their RSS feed - please remember to do it, people.
https://kevquirk.com/dont-change-your-rss-url

kev, 9 months ago to random

Now that the English only thing is gone (we will update all the various places in the coming days), we’re going to need to grow the mod team quite significantly.

The team, @mike and I will need to come up with a plan on how best to approach this, so keep your eyes peeled on the @fosstodon account if you’re interested in helping out.

kev, 10 months ago to random

Today I learned that the Tesla range of cars are named as such so that they spell out the word “sexy”.

Model S
Model 3
Model X
Model Y

What an utter fucking man child that man is.

kev, 2 months ago to Amazon

Are there any folks here on the fedi that work at #Amazon who can help @gcluley here? This is ridiculous, quite frankly.

https://grahamcluley.com/amazon-refuses-to-refund-me-700-for-iphone-15-it-didnt-deliver/

kev, 27 days ago to tesla

Oldest son: Dad, are there any cars that have auto-pilot?

Me: Only #Tesla, but it doesn’t work very well.

Him: Why not?

Me: Because the man who invented Tesla told everyone it would work, so people tried it, and many crashed. Some even died.

Him: Woah! Is he in jail now then?

Me: Nope.

Him: Why not?!

Me: Because he’s the richest man in the world.

Him: Wow. He should really be in jail in for that.

Me: You’ll go far you, son.

kev, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

My wife will be cutting her hair off for charity today - the charity, Little Princess Trust, use the donated hair to make wigs for young people who have none. Think cancer survivors and alopecia sufferers.

If you’re interested in donating, that would be cool and very much appreciated. 👍

https://www.justgiving.com/page/jenny-quirk-1689314091635

kev, 8 months ago to random

Hey website owners, like @itsfoss, please stop doing this shit. I’m willing to bet not a single person has ever thought “you know what, imma disable my ad blocker because this really fucking annoying popup has made me see the light - I need to turn that shit off and embrace the modern web with all it’s intrusive popups, tracking et al.”

Nope. Folk will either leave, like I did, or turn on reader mode. 😂

Please stop making the internet even more shitty.

kev, 7 months ago to Blog

More people should #blog just for the hell of it.

https://kevquirk.com/blogging-for-the-hell-of-it

kev, 4 months ago to random

You know what I hate about all these cool blogs I’ve been discovering recently? Every single one of them does at least one cool thing with their blog that I’m jealous of, and I want to implement them all on my blog.

Damn you, Internet! 👊🏻

kev, 1 month ago to random

I absolutely fucking HATE it when websites hijack the back button. Like, fuck off. It’s my back button! Pricks.

kev, 7 months ago to random

🤦‍♂️ seeing some complaints about content warnings, so thought I’d provide some context for anyone who’s confused on our position…

It isn’t about human rights, or what’s good or bad; right or wrong. It’s about the fact that a lot of people come here to geek out and escape all the horrendous shit that’s going on in the world. So we politely ask that political or triggering posts be placed behind a CW.

That way, those who don’t want to see it, don’t have to.

kev, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I've been cross-posting using a self-hosted EchoFeed instance for a while, but now @robb has built a managed version, I flipped to that and it's brilliant.

https://kevquirk.com/cross-posting-with-echofeed

kev, 10 months ago to random

…and this is why I don’t post pictures (or details) of my kids on social media. Very powerful video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WZ_k0vUDM

kev, 1 month ago to random

This is why a love the fedi. Folks are like, yanno, polite and stuff. Like they would be in real life. ♥️

Context to @keenan & @jbaty conversation - https://daily.baty.net/posts/2024/04/20/If-you-can-t-say-somethi.html

kev, 3 months ago to random

My first ever blog was hosted on Blogger, and Google loves to delete shit, so I've decided to replicate that site and host it myself.

https://kevquirk.com/building-an-archive-of-my-first-blog

kev, 1 month ago to random

Every time I post a link to my site on Mastodon, it locks up for like 30 seconds or so.

My theory is that because I have a quite a lot of followers (👋 hii!) the post hits a lot of instances and they all poll my site at the same time, effectively DDoS'ing it for a lil bit.

One day I'll run a packet capture and prove this theory…

kev, 30 days ago to random

I recently wrote about how Mastodon is DDoSing me every time I post a link to this site. I've managed to fix the problem...I think.

https://kevquirk.com/i-stopped-mastodon-ddosing-me-i-think

kev, 26 days ago to random

I read a post from Robb Knight recently about his computing origin story. It was an interesting post, so I thought I'd add my own computing history to the mix.

https://kevquirk.com/my-computing-history

kev, 10 days ago to random

Bitcoin and their ilk really aren't my thing, but many talk about the need for a digital currency. But here's the thing - we already have one, don't we?
https://kevquirk.com/we-already-have-a-digital-currency

kev, 29 days ago to random

Unfortunately it’s a bit cloudy here in North Wales tonight, but I did manage to get a couple pics of the #aurora from our back garden.

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