A new podcast from Adrian Tchaikovsky and Emma Neale called Starship Alexandria reminded me that John Wyndham wrote some pretty good Science Fiction back when I was young. So decided to go back and see how it stood up now. Half way through The Kraken Wakes and thoroughly enjoying it. I should have known that those presenters would have good judgement.
#AmReading #ScienceFiction #scifi #Bookstodon #ClassicSciFi

Anything written before 2023 will have less #enshittification. However, nothing beats the '80s. Probably the peak of #software development, everything was tight and clean. Yeah it might not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it works every time. I turn it on, there's no #AI, there's no asking me to pay a #subscription, there's no internet connection required, no goddamn #advertisements. I open a word processor and I fucking type.

I don't know how recent this change is but I noticed #Firefox removed https:// from the address bar so now every link and every website I visit looks insecure. I know there is a padlock icon next to the address bar but it doesn't seem quite as easily scannable to me.

How bout Project 2029?! Do it!

where we're going, we don't need any xlibre nonsense

Overhead a girl in a cafe tell the group she was with that she'd never follow an influencer that old, after she saw me taking a photo of my lunch. I'm not an influencer, I'd just arranged my lunch into a cock and balls and was sending the pic to my mates. I'm 48.

I was kind of annoyed with how they kept going down but then going right back up again, but buoys will be buoys.