This post by Terence Eden seems to me to be a very good prediction of where the Fediverse is headed, should it actually take off:

→ How much decentralisation is too much?

There might be a dozen different phone networks in your country. Yes, they Federate with each other, but they all happen to be running close-to-identical networking gear made by Nokia or Huawei. Yes, you can put your SIM in any device, but chances are it is either Android or iOS.

We’ll be stuck with the illusion of Federation.

Thanks to Евгений Кузнецов for the link!

Today, I’ve released the second Private Citizen episode on the Twitter Files:

→ The Private Citizen 136: The Twitter Files, Part 2

The Twitter Files show how the factually accurate Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed. They also reveal the secret FBI operation targeting social media executives and high-level journalists that led to this suppression.

0°C, Mist, Not a Soul on the Roads Pit Stop Outrun Vibes

I’ve just published a special issue of my newsletter, because there has been a very important announcement yesterday.

→ Henry Cavill, Warhammer Nerd

“Let's Do This!”

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

My latest newsletter is out:

→ Steam is Back, Baby!

I’ve just published today’s issue of my newsletter dealing with The Twitter Files and the anti-AI protests over at ArtStation. It will eventually find its way onto this blog, like all issues of The Sleepy Fox. But if you want to read it now, head over to Substack:

→ The Orange Man Haunts Us to This Day

Did you know that there is a cursed colour in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB colour space? Someone took a stunning picture that includes this cursed colour in a single pixel and if you set that as your wallpaper on Android devices made by Google or Samsung before an August 2020 security update got applied, it would brick your phone. How cool is that?

Here’s a writeup of how it works. Thanks to @mcc for telling me about this; I totally missed this story when it originally broke.

After a partly unplanned two week hiatus, I’ve just released the latest episode of my podcast. It’s the first in what will be a series about what might be the tech story of 2022.

→ The Private Citizen 135: The Twitter Files, Part 1

In a first episode about the Twitter Files disclosures, we look at how Twitter, at the behest of intelligence agencies, catalogued people’s speech and selectively silenced some of them. And then lied about it.

Writing Time Seebär

“First Snow”

First snow of the year in downtown Düsseldorf
iPhone 7, back camera 3.99mm f/1.8 (ISO 100 • 1/4 s • f/1.8)

Sadly, this week was a complete loss for me as far as work was concerned. I’ve been in bed with a cold since Monday. It’s been incredibly persistent. I’m guessing part of the problem is that I haven’t had a cold in a few years, so now my body seems to be at a complete loss of what to do. I could hardly move, much less think, most of the week. I’m now slowly getting back to normal and can at least write, hence I’ve covered the recent Twitter Files disclosures in my newsletter. But since my voice is still shot, podcasting is out of the question for now. I will resume working on The Private Citizen as soon as my voice is back to normal. Thank you for being patient with me here!

I’m a bit under the weather today, so there will be no daily newsletter. If you haven’t read yesterday’s issue yet, it might be worth reading that instead.

I had planned to stream some Darktide with Jonathan tonight, but I don’t think I’m up for it. Sorry about that. I’ll hopefully be back to producing content tomorrow, even though things might be slower for a few days.

I think I am in love…