My Journal
Friday 2 October 2026
12.07pm
Been trying various browsers the past month. I have been really trying to get away from anything Google related, which eliminates quite a few browser options (Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and obviously Chrome) and while I am not a huge fan of Gecko (Firefox) I decided to give a browser based on that a shot.
It’s called LibreWolf. It uses Gecko rather than Chromium and removes/changes a lot of Mozilla telemetry and integration. The install on Debian 13 was simple, it is clean, familiar and so far, renders pretty much every site I use/visit with no issues. Bookmark import from Brave was a piece of cake, installing extensions (so far I have just installed my Proton Pass extension) was smooth sailing, and setting up a default profile (in case I want to sync later) was easy.
So for right now, it is my default browser on my Debian 13 desktop.
Monday 14 September 2026
11.58am
Not sure anyone actually reads this. Probably not. So really, getting wrapped around the axle about how much I post here finds me realizing I need to chill… doesn’t matter.
I have and active, anonymous blog that I can pretty much open myself up to as well as other sites I contribute to that leave posting here pretty much for the ragged refuge left over! 😆
I am also off and running in pursuit of my master’s degree, so I’ll be doing lot’s of reading, lot’s of writing, and spending the free hours I have absorbed with all that.
Seriously considering backing off some of my self-hosted projects. I have decommissioned a few services I really just did not use or need and even took one server completely offline as it was using up space, electricity, and adding to the heat issue in my small apartment. Three existing servers running that I could probably get down to two. Maybe one if I offload onto one of my remote VPS hosts.
Some thing to think about.
Saturday 5 September 2026
6.48pm
Every generation has catch phrases and words associated with them. Currently, the word is “slop.”
I’m just going to be very blunt with my thoughts on this. If you use the word slop in your post, article, blog, whatever, as soon as I see it I will have lost all interest in what you have to say.
Why? Because you are a hypocrite.
You are ranting and raving about something on the premise that it was created without “human thinking.” When you use that word, you are doing exactly what you are ranting about – not thinking by gratuitously using the current rallying cry against AI instead of having a thought of your own.
I scan though posts on bubble.town, Reddit, mastodon.social, indieweb.social, and Lemmy and this word get’s tossed around so much that people using it think they are coming across as being on “team human” when in fact it feels like they can’t think, on their own, of a better word or original thought than slop.
I would rather read “AI slop” that at least has the excuse in that it is only regurgitating human input, but what is the excuse for those humans producing their own “slop?” Every post ranting against AI slop is the same, repetitive, boring as fuck party line. You are not saying anything new. You are not making a case against AI. You are just doing what AI does: repeating what you ingest.
So yeah, ride your high horse and think you have something useful to say.
You don’t.
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