Tech & Privacy Gleanings on Chaitanya

Sun, 03 May 2026 03:04:52 +0530

I was at peace with using WordPress.com for more than a year now after always self-hosting WordPress. I am finally fed up with WordPress.com.

Sat, 02 May 2026 16:53:58 +0530

Any Linux users who will like to test a Micro.blog client? The focus of the app is on writing and posting.

(I can share with you the repo with a Flatkpak download file.)

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:59:04 +0530

“We always said “Writing code is easy, reading code is hard”, we made the easy (and fun) part easier, and the hard part harder… good job.” ~ gambuzzi in YouTube comments.

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:12:14 +0530

“The Blurt theme is not currently available for download."

With how many .wordpress.com subdomains have been used over the last two decades, I do not even want to try and block a new one with a great name to try this.

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:55:50 +0530

About AI being powerful and what its impact will be… “Will it allow wisdom to flourish, or will it allow the powerful to route around wisdom as they tend to do when given the opportunity?”

Intelligence, Wisdom, and the Problems That AI Cannot Solve by Hank Green

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:16:28 +0530

“The most underrated skill isn’t knowing how to use every new tool - it’s knowing which ones to ignore so you can actually get some work done.” ~ Vladimir Savić

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:08:09 +0530

“Libraries and archives are the natural places to create and curate language models. Their tradition of service, and their orientation toward protecting and preserving the public good, embodies an ethos that aligns with the responsible development of language models (a.k.a. “AI”).” ~ R. S. Doiel

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:04:57 +0530

Inspired by Hemispheric Views, here are my app defaults in my privacy-torn world: thefield.blog

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:49:54 +0530

Putting Cloudflare bot challenges on RSS feeds should be considered an internet crime.

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:58:20 +0530

“We can use the internet as it was actually intended to be used: go to the protocol layer to interact with the data at it’s source. Throw off the facade of the modern social platform, and we start to see that freedom of information is within grasp.”

Using the internet like its 1999 by Joshua Blais

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:43:22 +0530

“AI doesn’t have a marketing problem. People experience these tools every single day! … You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. This is a fundamental disconnect between how tech people with software brains see the world and how regular people are living their lives.”

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:27:32 +0530

if it’s not “wherever you get your podcasts,” it’s not a podcast

The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot by Doc Searls

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:34:24 +0530

From Andy Yen’s post on Proton’s blog: “The only way to guarantee that age-verification data will not be stolen, shared, or abused is to not collect it at all.”

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:14:22 +0530

While trying to delete my Instagram account, I discovered another one I had forgotten about. What a mess. Now I have to wait 7 days for it to go.

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:47:07 +0530

Back on micro.blog after 5 years. A lot has changed in this world, I guess.