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..fractured and AI is destroying the indie web and the everyday people setting up their own websites and servers. It has become so commercial and the collaborative promise of that early internet is gone. I honestly think we peaked in 2006 in that pre smartphone/socials era.

As someone who has been connected to some form of internet via a modem right back to 1994 with BBS when I was a kid, I feel like the current era is past peak internet. Social media is making everything a bit shitty, work is now called content and markets furiously, community is..

@retro_gamess Reminds me of days at your house @JonOKeeffe

Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)

Had to get up early this morning to get @LTBeautyBlog to a medical appointment. We have both been running our own business for almost two decades, and we never wake up early or with an alarm; so this is weird. Making the most of it with some NBA Jam TE while I wait. #retrogaming

Who else is watching the NASA Artemis II launch towards the moon? #nasa #artemisii

I absolutely loved my minidisc player. And the process of making discs from CD over optical cable from my stereo. One of the best tech items I ever owned. I even liked the inline controller on the headphones with track skip dial and information screen.

Ok. Cloudflare switched off for 24 hours on my server. Only took the bastards that long to see our open server, and brute force the hell out of it. They didn’t get in, it’s secure, but it was enough to max out resources and effectively DDOS the server for 2 hours. Re-enabled CF.

Love these badges!

It would seem that after the fragmentation to mastodon/bsky/threads - everyone is starting to come back to X due to network effect. I haven’t logged in here consistently for years, but I have missed the community that developed over here and the real time nature/simplicity.

Ok. I really wasn’t comfortable blanket banning countries and ASN via cloudflare. I firmly believe the internet should be open. Rather than disable Cloudflare, I’ve turned off everything except caching, and I’ll let hardened php/modsecurity manage the bad guys. Time to test.

HELLO Monday!

@GromitUnleashed I received my dancing Shaun as a gift from @Duncs61 many years ago, and he is still dancing away here in my home office :)

Want to find something a bit different for your Easter basket this year? Here are some of our favourite treats we’d love to receive instead of the usual chocolate egg.👉 buff.ly/MpoFlDr

The last Nintendo I owned was the Wii. I’m really tempted by the Switch, but I don’t know if I should get a second hand switch 1 and play the compatible titles, or spend the pretty hefty price tag & get the Switch 2. Any advice from those who have played/play both consoles?

I’m seriously tempted by the MacBook Neo after playing with one in store. Serious question, how does it cope with light photoshop work? Nothing major, relatively small designs under 1024x1024 with a maximum of 5 layers? Thinking of replacing my wife’s ageing pro with one.

I’m enjoying the new @lambofgod album and also enjoying the new look music app in iOS 26.4. Finally they seem to have fixed the iOS keyboard issues and I can fast type again.

and this has gone a massive way to relieving the pressure and actually making the site more usable for real users here in the UK. I got tired of the cat and mouse game, always blocking a new crawler or botnet. I hate that it has come to this as the internet should be open.

I’m really not keen on putting my web server behind Cloudflare, but the sheer amount of bots, scrapers & AI crawlers is just hammering my enterprise hosting. I’ve setup a rule for UK only access to our sites, with managed challenge to all other countries with verified bot bypass

Ok. I’ve been off here for a good while, but since coming back, adding some topics I’m interested in and removing may inferred topics I was never interested in, my for you page is phenomenal. It’s all retro gaming, audio equipment, city photography and workspaces. Love it!