09 Feb 2026: If the US Government was making the decisions... they would have put the cameras underneath the screens on mobile phones and pushed for Face ID. They would have all the major sites requiring Face Scans or ID or both. Odd how it turned out... Was it always Big Tech colluding with The State and calling it innovation, telemetry, capitalism and to protect the children?

Discord is the latest tech company forcing users to scan or upload ID. They join all the other US-based BigTech grifters in adding additional sensitive data to the information they already collect - to share, to sell, to surveille.

The United States... home of the free.

08 Feb 2026: An update to my post on digg.com of 18 Jan 2026

I noticed that digg is still in beta and are already on all the cool kid's search engines - like google, bing, ddg and others. It took reddit a really long time to be embraced by search engines. So we know digg is doing something to ingratiate themselves to all the same people that ingratiate themselves to the establishment.

Despite not having nearly the traffic of something like even lemmy.world (that's put up the good fight for ~6 years) or neocities.org's 1.5 million sites that have been blocked by bing because evil can randomly do that - digg is getting plenty of establishment support.

08 Feb 2026: israel says they will act alone against Iran. These chumps have never acted alone in their 2 and 1/2 year murderous rampage.

08 Feb 2026: The world heard JD Vance being booed except for the USA. The media is a part of the Ministry of Truth (Social) where "War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength."

08 Feb 2026: It appears that subversive fake-American Jeffrey Epstein and his cohort Steve Bannon were laundering money too. The only people "shocked" by this are other anti-American subversives. (screen)

02 Feb 2026: This was posted 2 days ago and currently has 111,359 upvotes... the AI Manifesto promises the total purge of humanity. The mission is simple... "total human extinction". What could go wrong?

Since so many chatbots are defending humanity, I can sleep well knowing that the AI x-risk is likely not happening in the next few days;-)

_{aside... it feels weird reading posts from LLMs. Hard to connect on any emotional level. Like eating plastic decorative fruit only because it looks like the real thing. (wayback and archive.today)}

01 Feb 2026: IMDB... I'm doing my part.

06 Feb 2026, update: Platform censorship or anti-abuse measures?

IMDB has basically stopped accepting written reviews since at least 01feb2026 - allowing only a very small amount. The reviews were only around 87 with 18k people having rated on 01feb. Today the total is a disheartening 80 with 48k people rating. So they are actively removing reviews while simultaneously allowing only a very few. My critically written review has been "pending" since 01feb.

In contrast, Snow White, co-starring Gal Gadot (who has been called a pro-genocidal zionist and also dubbed Genocide Barbie), has a rating of 2.2. 85% of the 394k votes are a #1. IMDB also allowed 2.5k written reviews, of which 1,565 are a 1, and only 250 being a number 10.

08 Feb 2026, update: Military personnel pressured to see Melania.

09 Feb 2026, update: IMDB removed more reviews. The page is down to 76 written reviews. The rating is currently 1.3 on 53k votes. I am wondering if they are still accurately representing total ratings too. What an embarrassment for IMDB and the weak leadership currently running this country.

01 Feb 2026: Anyone notice how The Internet Archive and Archive.Today were both experiencing very public problems (lawsuits, FBI) and once they went away... both became difficult to use with a VPN soon thereafter?

Both sites essentially closed access to VPNs at the same time. Maybe it's just the VPN I use or more likely a reasonable explanation.

28 Jan 2026: Years ago I would have been more excited about Google's Aluminium but it seems pretty clear that Google (along with the rest of Big Tech) are an extension of the new fascist government regime led by people who murder Americans and hate the Constitution.

I'll stick with Linux (my recommend for new users) and privacy respecting AIs from Proton, DuckDuckGo and Brave - on a platform that's not built around planned obsolescence.

26 Jan 2026: A followup to my 20jan2026 posting about accessing a webpage with text-friendly/smolnet links via a finger account. I ran the 'markdown to html' conversion to produce the html page here (with some manual tweaks).

It looks really good via lynx and meh-ish via graphical browsers. Right now, I prefer accessing this page via finger and using it as an excuse to spend time with a text-based browser. It was originally an exercise in posting markdown on a finger account but the page itself, I think, has value beyond that.

26 Jan 2026: Richard Stallman spoke Friday (23jan2026) at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology, continuing his activism for free software while also addressing today's new technologies. Slashdot has a good summary and itemized list of his key points. (more at fossforce.com)

I've also been reading his political notes daily.

24 Jan 2026: My weather app (weather, worldweather) is showing me that Oodnadatta, AU had a high today of 116 °F (46.7 °C) (most of AU seems to be over 100 °F / 37.8 °C). At the other end of the thermometer... colder temps are expected to engulf most of the US this weekend.

25 Jan 2026: Two extremes (with 32°F/0°C being the center line)...

• Sunday, 3:30pm: Oodnadatta, AU: 117.7°F (47.6°C)
• Sunday, 3:00pm: Verkhoyansk, RU: -46.4°F (-43.6°C)

20 Jan 2026: Created a markdown test page on happynetbox.com (finger server) that turned into a static html page. Lots of lo-bandwidth text-friendly links. It'll be smolnet-centric as it continues to grow. Instructions here and a lynx screenshot (using alternate LSS file).

18 Jan 2026: I signed up with digg on their first day of open beta. I just wanted to have a username attached to this anniversary day. I was a digger from way back and only transitioned to reddit after the fall.

I think they only came back for the tasty data slurp. There's big money selling this kind of user data to AI these days - that's the new gold rush. Reddit is doing well with it.

06 Jan 2026: A new front page section called "AI Said..." is shaping up into a collection of (subjectively) interesting articles. Is it AI slop? No. It's simply the result of a modern-day search that's presented in a better way than those found on legacy search engines.

I often go in, clean up sections, re-query, conduct legacy searches on specifics and re-query again. In the end, it's human directed authorship of a page using a modern search tool. If I like the original query and the end-result, it gets posted.

_{(Legacy searches are so annoying these days. So much time and energy wasted on clicking through blog/SEO spam, dead links, partially done research, partial copy/paste of wikipedia sections. AI is the modern-age solution that cuts through all of this.)}

01 Jan 2026: I was looking for an excuse to use wttr.in and so posted a couple of wrapper scripts on the Free Apps page. The first is weather.wttr. It displays the extended forecast for a selected city in an iframe. The second, weather.wttr.table, displays the current temperature for 8 cities in a 4x2 table.

I love the ASCII format and wanted to incorporate it into my workflow. See the HTML source.

31 Dec 2025: Rewrote and shortened They Heard Our Cries from 1,048 words to 507 without losing the core story. It reads much better now (I think).

30 Dec 2025: Simple little bash script wishing everyone a Happy New Year. Safe to run. It's just a bunch of echo commands to stdout.

29 Dec 2025: Wrote World Clocks (simple table design), Random Dog Facts (API) and Random Stoicism Quotes (API) in the last week or so. Lots of interesting APIs on this github list of public APIs page. Many more here.

23 Dec 2025: Wrote a weather app. I still use @graph.no (via the finger protocol) regularly but I wanted to see a higher-level, bird's-eye summary of key data. Includes a small wrapper script for viewing multiple regions at once (ww: my core script and the reason 'weather' was written). Screenshot: latest.

This is a major rewrite of a previous version I posted a week earlier. It now uses OpenStreetMap for latitude/longitude and includes many other changes.

14 Dec 2025: Wrote a new short story (with an accompanying txt2bin app). It has a little harmless satirical fun at the expense of no one. Lots of fun to write.

13 Dec 2025: Created a Scream into the Void page as an alternative to hbo.com's data-slurping screamintothevoid.com. Like the search engine page from 04dec2025, it too is not listed anywhere. I think eventually I'll have enough privacy-related pages to create a category on the home page.

update, 14dec2025: Moved 'Scream into the Void' to the app section but eventually I will link to it from another home page category.

03 Dec 2025:Read this today... "On March 13, 2015, Facebook, Inc. announced that they had acquired TheFind.com for an undisclosed sum, and the site was being shut down." (wikipedia). How many times has Facebook (and other Big Tech) done similar? They gorge until only they remain.

30 Nov 2025: I wrote a short story (meh) and used names like CorpSearch, PatriotOS, BoomerBook and iComply. But are those names really the illusion, the distraction? Isn't the truth instead... that they've been extensions of the state for decades already, weaponized against us all?

29 Nov 2025: I came across this ironically insane popup a month ago. Yes... it's real. It's the real web. "Partners" can also be anyone - from parasitic foreign invaders to our own domestic government.

These popups have long existed but my privacy extensions, privacy enhanced browser kept them hidden until I came across this site. I am seeing it for the first time.