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.

am fast approaching the 3,000 blog posts milestone (it took nearly 22 years!) and I really enjoy writing about my personal life, not just GNU/Linux stuff and analysis.

The Seoul World Cup Stadium does not look good for the local team (so far the coach does not impress) and there are 7 days left before they play “for real” (as a contender for the Community Shield). It’s not atrocious (there are bright moments in the match) and the vacation is productive in spite of not writing much (we keep busy doing other things).

One of the birds, Bot’s Friend, has not come today (not yet) and I spent a lot of time maintaining the tanks (shells and fish), seeing that the high temperatures put balance/s at risk. Why travel to Spain when Spain-like weather comes here (again) next week?

If this sort of climate is here to stay, agriculture is doomed.

I can’t help but remember my friend Harvey. In 2004 we both began blogging (using a very new project called WordPress, before it became famous). Here I am doing the same thing I did 22 years ago, even in the exact same address.

The world has changed so much since then, mostly for the worse (climate change being one example).

t is probably not a controversial thing to say (widely known among media people, as they’re among the greater culprits) that many “followers” or “likes” in social control media are fake, paid for, not organic at all. It’s a whole industry of fakes and cheats who try to look important and/or popular.

People who get off this hype train recognise that whatever happens in social control media sites bears little impact on the (rest of the) world. It’s a bubble, a stupid popularity content.

HAVE been getting back to regular blogging in my personal site, which is turning 25 next year and today surpassed 2,900 blog posts. Soon it’ll be over 3,000.

Prior to Techrights this was where I was most active. I sort of neglected this space after participating in Tux Machines as well.

am going to vote in a few hours, and having spent time preparing articles, today turns out to be very good! Yesterday I produced many stories (some short, some very long) and I’m planning to try to do the same today. So far this year has turned out to be by far the best and most productive year since I became an adult.

People who attempt to slow me down or sadden me are failing. I reckon they already realise this and can evidently see this.

I wonder why Bob Cringely has been so quiet lately. Health problems? Threats?

Let’s wait and see.

“Good question,” a friend has opined. “Those pushing AI [sic] are a very dodgy bunch. So I would suspect threats if anything…”

Quoting further: “Bob was on a roll for a while recently. However, what he was saying was going very strongly against the fantasy story that some very powerful, monied interests have been pushing.”

HIS blog is turning 22 this year, unlike the site which is turning 25 next year. With 2,884 blog posts, it’s an average of just over 100 per year though a lot more lately. At this current page it’ll exceed 3,000 by year’s end.

I still remember my first-ever blog post. My aunt commented on it. Weeks later I set up a blog for my friend, who would blog for nearly 20 years until he died in his nineties.

“Blogging” per se started centuries ago, but some people define a blog based on some particular features, especially digital hallmarks.

In some sense, my first site was a bit like a blog and that was in the mid 1990s.