Dear Sony, why are you so bad at this
What should have been a simple transaction on my PS4 instead turns out to be an hour+-long debacle of things going wrong.
Category Archives: Web
How to protect your anonymity online when the services you use could be breached
Twitter is in the news again with another security breach in which 235 million users’ email addresses, phone numbers, and Twitter handles were exposed. These seems like a good opportunity to talk about what you can / should do to protect yourself if you need to maintain anonymity online. The basic rule is this: if… Read More: How to protect your anonymity online when the services you… »
Your data is yours: backing up your Mastodon data to protect against server failures and account suspensions
Long-time readers of my blog will know that I am obsessed with backups and with keeping control over data that belongs to me. For example, in additional to a comprehensive backup system I built myself, I have an archive of (legally obtained) music files and movies because I don’t trust any of the cloud music… Read More: Your data is yours: backing up your Mastodon data to… »
Comics: Funky Winkerbean ceased publication, Crankshaft; Mother Goose & Grimm moved from Comics Kingdom to GoComics
Regarding my comics aggregator, three updates effective January 1, 2023: For those who don’t know what I’m talking about…
“Archiving Your Tweets at Archive.Org” for Dummies
[UPDATE: As of May 26, 2025, I don’t think the instructions on this page work anymore, because I believe Twitter/X has blocked archive.org from archiving tweets.] I’m all done with Twitter, but I also didn’t want to just delete my account and remove over a decade of content that I created from the internet. I’m… Read More: “Archiving Your Tweets at Archive.Org” for Dummies »
Recent addition and changes in the comics aggregator
Several comics have been added, changed, and removed recently in my comics aggregator. Here’s a round-up: Also, I’ve fixed the aggregator so that if a comic is removed in the future, the link you’ve saved to your comics in the aggregator will keep working and just display a warning about the missing comic that’s in… Read More: Recent addition and changes in the comics aggregator »
GoComics is back up
After a four-day outage, GoComics.com is finally back up and therefore once again available in my comics aggregator.
Why I’ve removed “Pearls Before Swine” from my comics aggregator
Today, I removed the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” by Stephan Pastis from my comics aggregator. Here’s why… Over the years, Pastis has run many strips whose basic theme can be summarized as “Both sides in American politics are the same.” He ran one like that just a few weeks ago. Then, yesterday, he ran… Read More: Why I’ve removed “Pearls Before Swine” from my comics aggregator »
GoComics is down, and with it many of the comics in the aggregator
GoComics.com is down, with no word about why or when it will be back up. Any comics in the aggregator—and there are a ton of them—will be unavailable until it comes back up.
“Beware of Toddler” added to comics aggregator
The Comics Kingdom (King Features Syndicate) comic strip Beware of Toddler has been added to the comics aggregator. For information about reading Comics Kingdom strips in the aggregator, see the user guide. If you enjoy the comics aggregator, please consider buying me a beer or helping with the hosting costs.