December 5th, 2025

Wrote a post about corporations and “morals”.

This Dropbox alternative seems pretty cool, especially since it can be self-hosted at no cost for the software: Seafile

Another cool self-hostable app, this time for photos: PhotoPrism

RogueAmoeba released SoundSource 6. I’ve been using this utility for years. It’s come in very handy many, many times and RogueAmoeba always has a fair upgrade price.

Reading various blog posts as of late on “dumbing down” of smart phones. Not sure what my thoughts are to be honest. It’s an attractive idea to be sure but seems somewhat pie-in-the-sky.

The people complaining about John O’Nolan announcing his new, not-related-at-all-to-Ghost, RSS reader project are killing me with the “why are you posting about it on Twitter?”.

First off…it’s X now folks. It’s not Twitter anymore. It hasn’t been in years. It was a cesspool before Musk took over. Stop acting like it was some sacred garden until that time.

Secondly, X has like 200 million daily users. Get your heads out of your small bubbles because in the real world real people use X, not Bluesky or snort Mastodon.

Amazon asked me to participate in an Alexa+ survey. I gave up after about 6 pages in. Not sure who thought a survey that long was a good idea.

Ars Technica has an article up about the birth of JavaScript at Netscape. Created by Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave. It’s funny that people still rant about Eich and Brave and anything it touches (Kagi was a target for a bit when they started using Brave’s search engine for some results) yet seem to be fine with using JavaScript. One of the oddities of the Internet I guess.

On the SiriusXM “Holiday Pops” channel they have a bumper that says something along the lines of “some of the greatest music of all time was inspired by the most reverential day of all time”. I’d bet the Jews and Muslims would have something to say about that.