oday this blog hits the 3,000-posts milestone. It took 22 years. This year I decided to make better use of this blog, even if just to offload more personal stories and opinions… keeping them out of sites that are technical in nature.

Blogging is still a lot of fun.

“If you love the personal aspect of blogging, sharing your thoughts with the world, no matter the number of views, you will always have someone who loves your blog: you.” -Robert Birming, this week

have just published this article that brings us closer to the 150-part milestone. I am very eager, almost excited, to be exposing this truly nasty and shady (secretive) industry of extortion. We’re going to change the system for the better and help prevent more bloggers being victimised.

N case it’s not obvious, this blog will soon exceed 3,000 posts (after 22 years) because I want to keep personal opinions out of other sites, where authorship should focus on technical matters.

Back in 2004 I was a Ph.D. student and blogging as a term was barely known to anybody. I remember the first time I read that term, seeing the “blog” of someone from Cambridge around 2003, maybe earlier (maybe even 2002).

Seeing what a pile of crap the Web has become (slop, clickbait[*], and TikTok), I am compelled to get back to blogging.

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[*] From IRC moments ago:

<admfubar> https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/11/canadian-airline-cancels-flight-after-child-refuses-to-wear-seatbelt
28-29TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights28- 0606www.theguardian.com | Canadian airline cancels flight after child refuses to wear seatbelt | Airline industry | The Guardian
<schestowitz[TR2]> probably dramatising something
<schestowitz[TR2]> as it is hard to believe
<schestowitz[TR2]> “The child was standing in their chair as the 6 August Porter Airlines flight taxied towards the runway, the airline said. Repeated attempts by an accompanying parent and crew to secure the child in their seat failed, so the crew elected to return to the terminal and have the two passengers disembark as “the aircraft could not take off in this unsafe condition”, it added.”
<schestowitz[TR2]> cancels flight
<schestowitz[TR2]> for who?
<schestowitz[TR2]> “were able to depart on a flight the following day”
<schestowitz[TR2]> big delay
<schestowitz[TR2]> not cancelled
<schestowitz[TR2]> misleading headline
<schestowitz[TR2]> clickbait
<schestowitz[TR2]> one grumpy kid -> fly delay -> international news?

have now been informed by three Tor users (that’s 3 out of 3) that this domain cannot be accessed by Tor users, with failure occurring at DNS level (cannot even reach the server). The webhost claims Tor is not blocked, so there seems to be no room for resolution or compromise here.

Are we mis-communicating the issue?

While disappointing, and I fail to think of a workaround, I’ll probably have to just leave it at that.

AM trying to allow Tor users to access this site again. I’ve only just found out that they’re blocked. The webhost changed something and I’m not sure when this was done, I can guess guess why.

probably broke some personal record by posting 13 blog posts in my personal blog today. Time flies. But in other sites I did in fact post well over 50 posts in one day, I think almost 70 at one point at Techrights.

I spent a lot of time writing about a million “posts” in social control media. What a waste that was! What a giant waste.

I have backups of it all, but good luck making use of that or searching through all that.

The issue isn’t just LLM slop, the issue is that there’s a lot of text out there. A lot of it is largely invisible, un-discoverable. LLM is just another layer of trash on top of that.

think we’ve hit record-high traffic in the Linuxy sites over the weekend. Yesterday Tuxmachines (TM) served over 1.5m hits, with Techights (TR) trailing at 0.66m (TM:1563656, TR:662268) and earlier it was better for TR, as it had published more articles (TM:1335694, TR:882453). The totals are about 2.2m for both.

I’m trying to offload more personal stories to my personal blog these days.